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Covid accelerates edtech boom in Pakistan
Startup raises $320,000 in pre-seed money to connect teachers with student
PHOTO: REUTERS
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.
Edkasa, a Lahore based education technology startup has managed to raise pre-seed funding of $320,000 to help launch a new mobile application for exam preparation. Photo courtesy Edkasa FB
Edkasa, a Lahore-based education technology startup has managed to raise pre-seed funding of $320,000 to help launch a new mobile application for exam preparation, the company said on Tuesday.
The new app will leverage and make use of Edkasa s existing userbase of 55,000 students and more than 40 schools throughout Pakistan which currently avail its services, according to a statement from the startup.
The company says it has already helped thousands of students, and recorded over 1.3 million hours of viewing time with over 250,000 queries answered by its teachers in 2020.