PlanetSpark, a Gurugram-based ed-tech start-up on a mission to make traditional tuitions obsolete through powerful and gamified learn-tech products and certified teachers in K8 segment, has been infused with funds worth Rs 1.6 crore by FIIT-JEE. The start-up will use the funds to rapidly grow its existing 200-plus home based tuition centers by close to 350 per cent to 750-plus home-based tuition centers across Delhi-NCR and beyond. The funds will also be used to develop powerful, heuristic, gamified learn-tech products for an integrated instructional learning experience.
With a blended learning approach to teaching school subjects to preteens, the startup combines face to face classroom learning and tech-based learning. The company develops gamified learning content such as mobile based learning games, educational cartoons, learning activity boxes, workbooks and board games and partners with qualified homemakers and helps them start their home based tech enabled tuition centres using the start-ups gamified teaching content, technology and training.
The team is also gearing-up for the release of its learning tablet which has been developed as a series of story-based learning adventures designed by Russian game design experts. The company plans to scale-up to five more cities in the next academic year.
