Covid accelerates edtech boom in Pakistan
Startup raises $320,000 in pre-seed money to connect teachers with student
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KARACHI:
A group of graduates from renowned Pakistani and global schools LUMS and Harvard are running an education-technology startup Edkasa to help students learn science subjects online.
It provides learning solutions mostly to the students unable to find teachers at schools and in their neighbourhood.
The startup founders launched a mobile app on Wednesday ahead of exams for classes 9-12 tentatively scheduled for May amid the Covid-19 pandemic.
“Technology remains the best tool available to gauge students’ intellectual abilities and suggest to them what to study next accordingly,” Edkasa CEO Muhammad Fahad Tanveer said while talking to The Express Tribune.