XPrep, an ed-tech startup which provides a tutor enablement platform, has become yet another Indian startup to be backed by Facebook. The firm has been selected by the social media giant for its FBStart programme, which is designed to help early stage mobile startups.
Under the programme, the company has received $40,000 worth of credits and services from Facebook and its partners like AWS, Dropbox, Adobe and MailChimp. It will also get access to an exclusive community of developers and mentorship from the Menlo Park headquartered team of FB engineers.
The company was founded by Mukul Rustagi and Bhaswat Agarwal in September 2015. XPrep serves as a platform to fill the gap within the tutor-parent community. It also enables parents to monitor their child’s progress during the course of tuition while helping tutors serve their batches efficiently and scale their business.
XPrep equips its tutors with a mobile app to assist them in conducting their classroom and communicating with the parents in a transparent manner, all on their fingertips. The mobile app lets tutors perform daily tasks like sending out announcements, conducting their quizzes and notifying their classes using the app’s automation techniques. Since the inception of company, it claims to have acquired a base of 100+ tutors and 6,000+ students across Delhi NCR and plans to expand to other cities soon.
Mukul Rustagi , CEO of XPrep, said,
There lies a huge opportunity in supplementing the assistance based offline education system using online technologies. We have to provide the kids with the best of both worlds. Paying customers are a testimony to our product and we aim to build better going ahead. FBStart is going to help us achieve this goal faster.
FBStart will help us bring down our technology costs considerably.This money can then be redirected to our marketing and team building activities which will, in turn,help us embark on a higher growth trajectory.
A couple of weeks ago, fashion platform CoutLoot was selected for the FbStart programme and received benefits worth $40,000, along with few other benefits. Earlier this month, education technology startup Knudge.me got selected. Prior to that, the company selected Videovive and Partiko, both bootstrapped and based in New Delhi.
