Teachmint partners with Dhaka-based ed-tech startup Shikho

We are elated to announce our partnership with Shikho, a Bangladesh-based ed-tech startup, to deliver classroom solutions to 42 million students in Bangladesh through Teachmint’s live teaching technology. This partnership comes as a part of our Education Video-as-a-Service (EVaaS) offering for ed-tech organizations across the globe to enable them with our state-of-the-art plug-and-play live classes solutions.

Teachmint has helped over 10,00,000 teachers in India digitize their classrooms over the last year. Our proprietary video technology, built entirely in-house, is highly optimized for low bandwidth use and customized for educators with a host of features like live classes, recording and storing lectures, automated attendance, polls, automated notes creation, etc. At Teachmint, we are building the infrastructure for education globally and our EVaaS offering is specifically enabling ed-tech organizations to deliver a distinctive online learning experience to their students.

The offering will also significantly reduce the go-to-market time for ed-tech players by providing them plug and play state-of-the-art live classroom solutions.

“In the last two years, Shikho has put Bangladesh’s ed-tech ecosystem on the global map. We are delighted to partner with them to support their mission of making education more accessible and affordable in Bangladesh. At Teachmint, we have built our own proprietary video technology platform to reimagine the infrastructure for education around the world. Teachmint’s LIVE class platform is functioning at an unprecedented scale by powering 1 million live learning hours every Day. Through our robust proprietary technology stack, we are empowering all education providers - teachers, schools, universities, and now even ed-techs - to transform the learning impact of their students across the globe.” -Mihir Gupta, Co-Founder & CEO, Teachmint.

Shikho is a Bangladesh-based ed-tech startup building a hyper-localized digital learning ecosystem for Bangladesh and is dedicated to democratizing access to high-quality education in the country. Shikho’s Learning App is approaching 100,000 downloads on the Google PlayStore and provides students with Bengali academic courses that include affordable digital resources and tools to help them succeed in national board exams. This includes the ability to understand material visually by engaging with on-demand animated video lessons; practicing learning by solving a large bank of in-app questions with detailed solutions; reviewing summarized ‘smart notes’ that include definitions, formulae, proofs, and ‘hacks’; tracking performance and progress using data analytics on a real-time basis; and finally, by attending live classes with expert educators who have years of teaching experience.

“Teachmint has had a phenomenal year of growth, transforming the ed-tech landscape in India. We are excited and look forward to forging a long-term partnership by leveraging their live class infrastructure to launch a new dimension of learning opportunities for students in Bangladesh. It has been a humbling journey for us to see such positive feedback for our learning product from customers in Bangladesh as well as great support from investors globally. The growth of the ed-tech industry in India has always been an inspiration and we are now actively looking for great tech, product, and sales talent from India, to bring their experience and expertise into building a state-of-the-art ed-tech for Bangladesh.” - Shahir Chowdhury, Co-founder & CEO, Shikho.