EdTech StartUp Watobe Aims To Provide Solutions That Can Overcome The Systematic Challenges In The Education Sector
EdTech StartUp Watobe Aims To Provide Solutions That Can Overcome The Systematic Challenges In The Education Sector. Africa is in the midst of an education crisis – a perfect storm of population growth, teacher shortages, under-resourced schools, and a global pandemic working to curtail the life chances of learners across the continent. Watobe offers online mathematics lessons for African learners in the form of live lessons and on-demand content. Launched in South Africa in 2019 and expanding to other markets across the continent, it is an affordable, high quality alternative to in-person tutoring.
Watobe’s founders Erik Lönnroth and Henry Warren have spent their careers working to broaden access to education in Africa, managing private, government, and non-profit initiatives across South Africa, Zambia, Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, and Ghana. They’re passionate about building technology solutions that can overcome the systemic challenges facing the education sector, bringing world-class teaching and digital content to learners who have previously been denied access to such opportunities.
Too often, online education is synonymous with tediously studying on one’s own. Watobe knows that most children crave a social learning environment where instruction is live, human-led, interactive and stimulating. That’s why Watobe hires the most friendly, innovative and all-round awesome teachers. Its live classes provide enough engagement, challenge, competition, and socialising to keep learners motivated throughout the school year. All at a fraction of the cost of in-person tutoring.
Watobe has raised a total of $1.1M in funding over 2 rounds. Their latest funding was raised on May 25, 2021 from a Seed round. The company is funded by 2 investors, Twinkl and MPA Education are the most recent investors.
