Making learning fun & rewarding

Worried about children spending too much time on gadgets? Well, you won't mind giving them a tablet, which packs in loads of learning.

ConveGenius, an EdTech start-up, offers tablet-based solutions to fulfil the educational needs for students across all ages, by making learning fun and rewarding.

Last week, The Michael & Susan Dell Foundation invested Rs 6 crore. In November last year, it had raised Rs 2 crore from angel investors, including Ashish Gupta, founder of Ashoka University.

The company curates content according to the NCERT curriculum from KG to Class X with the help of multiple firms such as Mexus Education (Iken), StoryWeaver from Pratham Books, and Chipper Sage.

Founded in 2013 by Jairaj Bhattacharya and Shashank Pandey, the start-up plans to use the funds to upgrade technology and double the number of content providers across various languages.

Revenues will come from selling the platform, packaged with the tablet. Children, based on how well they learn, get access to the funzone, which provides various entertainment options. It will charge entertainment providers, which will be the second revenue stream.

"Getting a kid to learn by only providing him with a tablet is not enough and one has to deal with a lot of technological problems," says Bhattacharya.

In June, the company partnered with Lenovo to launch the first learning tablet from KG to Grade V, which is available on Flipkart. The company also has a tie-up with Samsung, iBall and Lava.