Kidato operates a live online school for K-12 students, using video-first classes (built around Zoom early on) with an average 1:5 teacher-student ratio and international curriculum. The product includes after-school offerings such as robotics, chess, art, coding and debate, plus monthly offline field trips arranged with corporate partners to support socialization. The company trains a 300+ teacher pool on interactive, game-informed teaching methods and pays teachers a 70/30 revenue split, with teachers paid at least 1.5x typical private-school rates and the potential to earn about $2,000 per month. Kidato charges students roughly $5 per lesson and reports more than 700 registered students, over 50 students onboarded since Y Combinator and 100% quarter-on-quarter growth. The startup avoids real-estate costs, which it says allows more revenue to flow to teachers, and is running in pilot mode while scaling. Leadership says the platform can scale teacher supply (a 3,000-teacher waitlist) to meet demand and potentially support 15,000 students. The company aims to replace brick-and-mortar schools and become the largest online K-12 school in the next couple of years.

Total raised

$1M

Funding rounds

1

Latest round

Seed

Latest activity

Apr 2021