EDUGILD continues its global advents with announcement of its third batch
Six world-class Edtech startups on boarded
Mumbai, 3rd March, 2017: EDUGILD has opened gates for the 3rd
batch of its accelerator programme and will now mentor six edtech
startups (3 from India & 3 from USA) from March 2017. The uniqueness
of this batch is the diversity of the startups – ranging from Augmented
Reality, Gamification, K-12 Store Front Management, Skill Assessment,
Student Motivation Management, Pre-school Holistic program on tech
solutions, to name a few.
In the
last 18 months, EDUGILD has successfully scaled up 10 Edtech companies,
7 from India, 2 from USA and 1 Russia. EDUGILD’s program spans across
multi-disciplinary engagements, customized for each startup. From the
cohorts edtech startups Simulanis, Gradopedia and Classboat have already
raised funds and Ahhaa.com has received angel funding commitment. Over
the last 6 months, EDUGILD also expanded its partnership horizons to
cross borders with EPG UK, Edtech Israel, JMD EDU China and strategic
alliances in USA and Australia. Overall EDUGILD’s promise
of tangibility and global scale up opportunities are coming true for the
startups.
Rishi Kapal, Global Strategist and CEO of EDUGILD has
a firm belief that “Speed of creating and executing the strategies is a
key differentiator for our companies to scale up fast. We are here to
create the right conditions for bringing out the best out of our
startups. The founders have way more potential than they know and we are
here to make them exploit the capabilities to their full potential”.
The
third batch of startups were selected from an application long tail of
300+ companies. Of the third batch, there is one company each from
Bangalore, Mumbai and Delhi, the other three being from USA (New York,
Boston and San Francisco). All the companies are aligned to EDUGILD’s
thought (Vision) of “Revenue first and Funding Later”. The third batch
will go through a diagnostic boot camp on 3rd and 4th March 2017 in
Pune. Subject matter experts in relevant domains will work 1:1 with the
companies to figure out their needs and action plans.
Here is a brief about each startup:
Skillzot (Mumbai/Pune, India)
Founded by Sandeep and Rommel, Skillzot strives to enable proven behavioral science ideas,
through technology (and some magic), to help teachers, teaching
institutes, trainers and instructors, teaching any skill or subject, to
engage better with their learners. Thereby helping more and more
learners stay motivated right through the requisite learning period and
become ‘zots’ (masters) at whatever they are learning.
Skillsoniq (New York, USA)
Founded by Abhinav Verma with Hemant’s technical advisory, they bring alive the power of Adaptive Testing. Their
platform measures key skill areas centered on analytical, graphical,
general awareness and agility. Tests being adaptive means that as you
crack a question, the platform throws harder questions at you, and as
you get questions wrong, you are downgraded to a lower difficulty level.
The questions are never repeated, and that the skill score matches
users' true skill set.
Yoscholar (Bangalore, India)
Founded
by Gaurav Mehta and Amit Mishra, Yoscholar is an innovative platform
that offers entire gamut of products and services be a school’s store front. Aiming to be a trusted partner for parents when it comes to making right choice for education and development of a child.
ChangeMyPath (San Francisco, USA)
Founded by David Mandel and Zack Karlsson, Change My Path provides a co-operative gaming framework to deliver interactive education and
job skills training content. It has built a system of configurable game
modules for job skills training. ChangeMyPath allows organizations to
break their training content into components, and then quickly and
easily plug those course components into customizable game modules.
Kids Triangle (Boston, USA)
Founded by Amit Kumar Yadav. Kids Triangle offers scientific child development through technology,
which focus on 360 holistic development of child including healthcare,
family care and education. Company enables personalized learning along
with child healthcare including nutrition diet, hygiene which
significantly boost child development
Study Marvel (New Delhi, India)
Founded by Yash Bodane and Soma Sharma. Study Marvel is an augmented reality platform for K-12 Segment
which lets users to explore, visualize and save digital models, Image,
Video, Hyperlinks in the physical space and superimpose storyboards and
lessons practically anywhere on any object.
Here’s a link to the video on EDUGILD’s Global Edtech Accelerator Program https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Jk9kNFZc5XU
About EDUGILD –
EDUGILD
is a Global Edtech startup accelerator based in India that was launched
in June 2015. An initiative of Maharashtra Institute of Technology
(MIT) Pune, India’s leading technology and engineering institution. With
a vision to empower learning, Edugild offers a 12 to 18 months of
intensive mentorship and product realization program to any Edtech
startup in the world. With two batches every year Edugild has been able
to scale up 10 startups from India
& overseas in a span of one year with its network of mentors and
subject matter experts, in-residence mentorship program based in Pune.
For further details, please contact:
Akash Gosavi
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Nidhi Jobanputra
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