{"id":5229,"date":"2016-07-02T14:55:01","date_gmt":"2016-07-02T09:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/startup-buzz.com\/?p=5229"},"modified":"2016-07-02T14:55:01","modified_gmt":"2016-07-02T09:25:01","slug":"ai-enabled-eckovation-provides-open-school-platform-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/startup-buzz.com\/?p=5229","title":{"rendered":"AI-Enabled Eckovation Provides Open-School Platform To Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"modern-quote full\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Eckovation\u2019s Mobile App Aims At Bringing Students And Teachers Together<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Startups are contributing their fair share towards education too. A new startup from IIT graduates Ritesh Singh and Akshat Goel called Eckovation is doing just that. Eckovation is a knowledge imparting app that\u00a0 marries AI with its mainframe to provide an open-school platform to the students.<\/p>\n<p>Started last year, it is a social learning platform that connects students, teachers and parents to interact using the mobile app. The app uses AI to provide easy interaction. According to Ritesh Singh, AI holds a bright future for advancing education in all parts of the world.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Something More Than Just Business<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Through its new campaign, I Teach India, the startup is aiming at taking digital literacy to a wider section of population and enlist volunteering teachers from all regions.<\/p>\n<p>Eckovation also aims at helping students in choosing and applying to colleges. It is unarguably the most pressurizing time in a student\u2019s life. The app, through specially designed plugin, aims at providing students with information, thus enabling them to make well thought-out decisions. The app offers teachers specific analytics tools which they use to provide insights to the students.<\/p>\n<p>The startup had secured initial funding from Mihir Somaiya, Surface Commercial Channel Lead \u2013 Asia; Microsoft; Chandigarh Angels Network; and Rohit Chadha, Head &#8211; Global Consulting Services Practice Center of Excellence at Bain &amp; Company.<\/p>\n<p>Presently, Eckovation has around 4000 teachers contributing through the app from all over the world, and 57,000 users. It registers 15 lac messages being exchanged between the user base every month.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Takeaways:-<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Eckovation is a knowledge imparting app that marries AI with its mainframe to provide an open-school platform to the students.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Eckovation has around 4000 teachers contributing through the app from all over the world<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>It registers 15 lac messages being exchanged between the user base every month.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eckovation\u2019s Mobile App Aims At Bringing Students And Teachers Together Startups are contributing their fair share towards education too. A new startup from IIT graduates Ritesh Singh and Akshat Goel called Eckovation is doing just that. 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