Tappity

History

2020: Attraction of $130 million investments

At the end of December, 2020 Tappity EdTech-startup focused on training of children received initial financing in the amount of $1.3 million. The videoshop of Tappity offers entertaining and interactive videos in real time and also provides compliance of the content to the current educational standards.

The startup of Tappity attracted $1.3 million from Y Combinator fund, the founder of Mystery Science Keith Schacht, the founder of Toca Boca Bjoern Jaffray, Brighter Capital (Jun-Fang Huang), the former technical director of Spotify Andreas Ena, Fairchild Fund, 18 Ventures and also AltaClub and fund with the Russian founders of Altair Capital.

The EdTech-startup of Tappity attracted $130 million investments

The two-year startup is based by the CEO Chad Svensson, his brother and the technical director Tanner Svensson and also the commercial director Lawrence Tran. As of December, 2020 the startup has more than 5 thousand solvent clients and more than 20 thousand active users weekly, in total they passed 30 million lessons.

In Tappity library there are more than 200 lessons of natural sciences for children from 4 to 10 years and thousands of videos. According to Chad Svensson, by the end of 2021 the startup intends to expand the volume of available video content to over 1 thousand hours of video content, and in a year - to more than 4 thousand hours. In the near future Tappity is also going to expand the command and to implement support of access to video lessons through a web format for different devices as meanwhile the Tappity platform is available only to users of IOS OS.

The Tappity command offers users content based on the scientific standards of the next generation (NGSS) developed by consortium of several American states with the purpose to facilitate and make more effective the international scientific education.^[1]

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