US Online Education Company Piper has obtained $ 2.1 million in seed round financing, investors include Princeton University, Reach Capital, 500 Startups and FoundersxFund, etc., and some personal investors, such as Skype Joint Founder, Tarian Jay Silver, Jaan Tallinn and Makey Makey.
Piper was founded in 2014, headquartered in San Francisco, USA. Piper is a children's game "Minecraft" DIY Toolbox to teach children to assemble their own computers and learn programming in the process of playing Minecraft games.
PIPER plans to use this financing for the launch of Piperedu. PiperedU is another Piper version developed for K-12 students. Each PIPER toolbox contains a Raspberry PI 3 mini computer, an LCD display, a mobile power, a microphone and a wooden box. In addition, another educational version of Piper Piper Block provides students with additional parts to ensure that some parts can be complemented by children. Piper also hires courses to develop professional courses and activities to ensure that students' computer level reach "Next Generation Science Standards".
Piper provides discounts for Piperedu. The normal price of Piperedu is $ 300. If a school purchases four pieces, each price will drop to $ 250. If this price is still expensive, the teacher can choose the monthly rental PiPeredu.
In the past year and a half, PIPER has developed rapidly. At the end of 2014, Piper graduated from the US Education Incubator Co.Lab. By April 2015, Piper successfully raised $ 2.80,000 on the Kickstarter of the crowdfunding website. During hatching and crowdfunding, the company launched the first generation of Piper toolbox, and sold approximately 3,000 pieces in 2015. Piper's joint founder Mark Pavlyukovskyy is expected that Piper's sales will reach 10,000 to 15,000 in 2016.
The founding of Piper is related to the education and life experience of Mark Pavlyukovskyy. In 2012, PAVLUIKOSVSKYY studied a medical course in Ghana, unfortunately suffering from the doctor who was suspected of cerebral malaia (Cerebral Malaria), followed by returning to the UK. In a fever night, he re-examined his life and realized that if he was not a medical staff but a programmer, he could have a greater impact on the world. After the disease, he began to program.
For Mark Pavlyukovskyy, the next step is to bring this opportunity to the children. He said: "If I can learn from school, others can also!" Initially, he used the popular Raspberry PC Raspberry Pi 3 to program educational experiments in India, Ghana and Kenya, but because the price is too high.
He turned his attention to the United States, and he met another difficulties: the children are more interested in the Minecraft game, rather than assembling computers or learning programming. The creator of Raspberry Pi walked in his front: they launched Minecraft PI-Raspberry Pi-specific MineCraft servers in 2012. Therefore, PAVLUIKOSVSKYY has all the tools he need, and then created PIPER.
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