Kiddom Raises $6.5m in Funding

kiddomKiddom, a San Francisco, CA-based visual collaborative system for K-12 classrooms, raised $6.5m in funding.

The round was led by Khosla Ventures. In conjunction with the funding, Khosla investment partner Keith Rabois joined Kiddom’s board of directors.

The company will use the funds to build additional products and features for its operating system for K-12 education.

Led by Chief Executive Officer Ahsan Rizvi and Chief Academic Officer Abbas Manjee, Kiddom provides a collaborative platform that allows teachers and students to work together featuring a dashboard for teachers to discover content, assess, and analyze student work, and tools for students to stay organized, submit work, and get feedback in a timely manner.
Since inception in 2015, the platform has experienced organic growth across hundreds of thousands of classrooms. Encouraged by this growth, the company enhanced its platform adding:
– Planning: personalized curriculum to meet the changing needs of students
– Reports: visualize progress with analytics that track student performance
– Student Ownership: empower students with the ability to track their own progress
– Customization: customize content, grading, and analytics specific to unique classroom needs
– Collaboration: amplify information sharing amongst teachers, administrators, parents, and the school community at-large
– Design: experience a major redesign focused on functionality and usability, designed with educator feedback

Kiddom 2.0 is available for free for teachers and students and available for use on the web at www.kiddom.co and for iOS at the Apple App Store.

The company also has an office in New York City.

FinSMEs

08/03/2017

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