Schoolin1 - The All-in-One App for Guardians, Teachers and Schools for K-12 Schools
Summary
Now, he has left Mana and is applying these years of experience and best practices to enable a major Chilean EdTech startup to launch stateside.In Chile, the 45-person company is known as Appoderado with an ARR of around $2 million, on top of more than 700,000 users across 120 cities and 650 schools.Barbero told Refresh Miami that he first came into contact with the Appoderado team as part of a Mana Tech program. He counseled the company to put its exit plans on hold to realize their longtime dream of expanding into the US market, with Barbero as co-founder and COO.I loved the team and felt very aligned with their intentions, he said. I wanted to support them in developing the US market, so I proposed we do a spinoff.And so the American iteration, Schoolin1, was born launching early this year with a $500,000 pre-seed angel investment.The platform is designed as a digital port of call for teachers and parents. Informed decision making is a key feature of the platform, with various statistics and prevention tools to help enable teachers and administrators to monitor attendance, identify high-risk students, and ultimately reduce absenteeism and dropout rates.While the product is already active, Schoolin1 is in the process of signing its first US partners. Well start working on non-scalable things, showing our flexibility before achieving scalability.He added that teachers and administrators have told him that most of the tech they use in their schools has not been updated in 10-15 years.