as part of graduation requirements, but there was a problem. Teachers in these schools had never taught computer science before, and many were new to learning coding skills themselves.
After a few days of doing additional research into the market opportunity, Pasinetti decided to start building what would eventually become Kira Learning, a teaching platform and video-based curriculum for teachers and students in K-12 schools. He and Ng brought on Jagriti Agrawal, a former AI developer and product manager at NASA, as a cofounder to lead their AI development team. Series A round
On Kira Learning's platform, teachers can instruct online courses with a pre-set curriculum for each class, which they can modify and customize as they see fit. Kira Learning also offersthat immediately checks students' assignments for coding errors and can either correct or offer suggestions on how students could solve the problems themselves.
, which helps get tools for STEM education into Tennessee public schools. The partnership made perfect sense for Kira Learning, since Tennessee was one of the newest states requiring that all students take a computer science course as a graduation requirement. The partnership will make Kira Learning's computer science courses available to all public middle and high schools in the state, at no cost to schools, Pasinetti said.