Toot provides on-demand homework help by connecting students to vetted tutors through simple SMS—students text 424-292-TOOT and are connected to a tutor via a chatbot. Sessions cost $0.50 per minute or $49 per month for unlimited tutoring. The service typically yields 28-minute sessions, and an initial Instagram ad generated 1,000 questions; the company’s first web-based iteration scaled to 2,000 tutors in its first year. Tutors undergo background checks, interviews, testing, and are rated by students; sessions are monitored for inappropriate chats. Founders Sophia Parsa, Shakib Zabihian and Randy Horowitz aim to expand reach by enabling remote tutoring and to use aggregated data to inform educators and publishers. The product targets everyday, on-demand problems students face rather than infrequent in-person sessions.

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$1M

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Mar 2017