Boddle Steps Up During Coronavirus Pandemic
With the closure of schools across the country, students, teachers and parents have turned to Boddle for help. Boddle, a Kansas City based startup, provides adaptive math practice & assessments through fun games. Their user base has continued to increase as the Stay at Home orders carry on, but that hasn’t stopped the edtech platform from offering its services for free.
“I think with any business, you’re trying to meet sales but when things are so unprecedented and like nobody expected … we are able to offer this for free and we know it’s something that can help kids, especially in a season with a lot of anxiety,” says Edna Martinson, co-founder of Boddle.
Over the past few weeks, Boddle’s user-base has increased from 1,700 to more than 30,000 users. Martinson says, “It was clear that, with school closures, teachers and parents needed tools to help them keep track of their students’ academic progress remotely while keeping them engaged (and the game interface seems to be really helping to keep kid’s attention).”
As a member of the 2019 AT&T Aspire accelerator cohort, Boddle was among seven alumni of the program awarded with a share of $1.2 million in contributions from AT&T’s Distance Learning and Family Connections fund. “With this investment, Boddle will be free for teachers and parents through the end of the school year,” Martinson said.
The edtech platform is currently running on the web, but Boddle is working to develop an app for mobile and tablet users.
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