Media-sharing app for early education catches on nationwide
As an MIT Sloan Fellow in 2011, Kin Lo MBA ’12 felt disconnected from his daughter, who had just started preschool in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Soon, the 3-year-old would be learning a host of things there, such as numbers or the alphabet, and Lo would never get to see. Then he had an epiphany. “Quickly I realized that, in preschool, educators want to share and document important developmental milestones, but they lack good tools to do it,” he says. “Teachers try to bridge that gap with text messaging and blogs and paper … but there was a disconnect with the way schools connect with the new generation of young, ‘digital-native’ parents.” Tapping MIT’s entrepreneurial resources, Lo created Kaymbu, an app and iPad system for preschools and elementary classrooms (K-5) that records and securely shares video and images of a child’s learning experiences with parents. Today, more than 3,000 teachers, who teach around 25,000...