Clever caught a pain point for educators. Manual data entry

Can grasp the pain point to seize the opportunity, clever caught the educator's a pain point-manual data entry. The start-up, which provides an education API, has just won a $10.3 million trillion in a-round financing.

Clever was founded in 2012 by Tyler Bosmeny and Harvard students Dan Carroll and Rafael Garcia, which currently has 18 employees. Its entrepreneurial inspiration stems from the lack of standardized K-12 student data management and update tools found in Carroll schools. So they developed a unified API linking schools and educational development products (currently integrated education software, services already over 100, including Amplify, Imagine Learning and Google). Clever's products can help teachers easily register students ' various materials and track students ' learning. Students can use a single sign-on to read online resources from multiple vendors, and teachers can record students ' scores in multiple classrooms. The key is that teachers only need to input a student information.

Considering the number of students and the frequency of work, manual entry is definitely a teacher's pain point. So the YC incubation enterprise, which solves the teacher's pain point, has been performing very well in customer cultivation. Paul Graham has given them the task of winning 40 clients before demo day, and finally signed up to 1000 schools! So far, the company has signed up to 18,000 schools in the United States, the equivalent of 1/7 of the number of American schools. Now the company has positioned itself further as an online learning platform.

The venture is funded by Sequoia Capital, and Y Combinator founder Paul Graham and YC's new president, Sam Altman, are also involved. The proceeds of financing will be used to recruit more development and sales staff to further expand the market.