8. 14
days
adapted from the
most effective
schools in India
Lesson
Plans +
Effective
Teachers
Our secret sauce:
of upfront training
and 12 days of
training and mentoring
through the year
10. Indian public school 3rd graders Hippocampus Kindergarteners
62%
84%
Reads words in
mother tongue
63%
94%
Math – works
with numbers
37%
87%
Reads words
in English
and the children
11. An asset light
partnership model
Partner provides
infrastructure, and
handles regulation
Hippocampus recruits
principal and teachers
Hippocampus manages
school completely
Built around an existing
cluster of preschools
16. …and replicated to Mexico
1 centre
operational
$600K
fundraised
B2B Model
4 centres by
end 2017
100 centres
by 2021
17. Experienced Management Team
Umesh Malhotra,
Founder CEO
12 years
experience in IT
and 15 years
experience in
education
Ashoka Fellow,
Serial
Entrepreneur
Gayatri R
Prashanth,
COO -
Preschools
15+ years of
work
experience,
many years in
education
6+ years at
Hippocampus
Mahendra,
COO – Managed
Schools
20+ years in IT
Industry, many
years in Sr.
Management
2 years of
teaching
engineering
students
Amitava Pal,
COO - License
Partners
MBA, Teach For
India Fellow
Worked in
banking industry
prior to TFI
3 + years in
education
industry
Chitra Rao, VP -
Academics and
Training
Teacher/School
Head with 20
years experience
in India and
Europe.
Ran one of the
TOP 10 schools
of India
Sesha Sayanam,
VP – IT and
People
25 years in IT
industry, with
many years in Sr.
Management
19. Supporting SDG2030 in
4.C.1
INCREASED SUPPLY OF
QUALIFIED TEACHERS
4.1.1
QUALITY PRIMARY EDUCATION
4.2.1/ 4.2.2
EARLY CHILDHOOD
DEVELOPMENT
4.7.1
PROMOTE SUSTAINABLE
DEVELOPMENT
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