StayQrious, an edtech company that focuses on essential 21st century skills through live online coding classes, announced that it has raised $2 million in seed funding round led by some of the leading early-stage investors, as per YourStory report.
Investors include Learnstart, the dedicated seed fund of Learn Capital and other global investors such as Draper Associates, Y Combinator, Nitin Sharma (First Principles VC), Lavni Ventures, and Dream Incubator (Japan).
The startup will use the fresh funding to build the product, coach tools, and instructional content that will enable its ‘classroom of the future’, as per the company’s statement,
Founded in 2020 by Aanand Srinivas, StayQrious helps kids in India learn through online group classes, starting with coding. It focuses on coding fundamentals for students in the age group 8-14, with an initial focus on metropolitan cities, Tier-I and select Tier-II cities.
Speaking about the startup, Aanand Srinivas, Founder and CEO, said, “When I was in the US, I saw that while I could solve a physics problem faster than anyone else out there, no one had ever prepared me in my life for a question like, ‘If you had $15 million dollars and two years of time, what ambitious problem will you work on?.’ That’s when I realised our education system trains us from a young age just to be obedient executors of other people’s ideas, not to come up with our own original ideas. I started StayQrious with the vision of using school subjects as a means to teach our next generation the skills and attitudes that will make them ambitious innovators rather than obedient executors.”
Commenting on the investment, Nitin Sharma, angel investor, First Principles VC, added, “I believe StayQrious’s unique approach to social learning will provide students (and parents) the best experience in strengthening STEM foundations.”
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