Guru-G

Quick Description of the Business

While all studies agree that teachers are the most important component of any education system, we are facing a global shortage of 8 million teachers. The only way to truly democratize education is to democratize access to quality teachers. Train a teacher and you will transform the lives of hundreds of students. This belief has led Vita Beans to create a gamified teaching, teacher training & open certification platform called Guru-G. At the heart of the solution is a simple and powerful pedagogy that is embedded within an engaging environment that enables easy and intuitive adoption by teachers, schools, and governments.

Major Milestones

• Commercial adoption of their teacher solutions by schools across 10 states in India.
• Partnerships with foundations & companies that directly support over 3,000 schools and reach over 2.5 million students.
• Helped several education companies build their K-12 products/business (including one of India’s top classroom technologies company & India’s largest assessment company).
• Talks/Demos at TEDxMcGill, EDGEx, Borderless World, Bangalore IT.biz.
• Launch slot for Guru-G at SGSC-2012 Conference in Singapore.
• Featured in major national newspapers (Indian Express, Economic Times), MSN India homepage, EduTech & many more.
• Other recognition: Star Young Entrepreneur Award-2011, featured in “Making India Proud” book by Intel, Sauvé Scholars Fellowship 2010, Student Award @SBP09 Conference (Phoenix), Global Student Entrepreneur Award – India, Winners of Bplan contests & incubation offers from IITB, BITS Pilani, IIMA, IIMB.