Prisms raised funding from A16z to teach kids STEM in virtual reality

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'Kids should be able to experience something spatially through doing and moving, but we haven't had the tools to scale it even though teachers want to do it.' This premium story was unlocked by Verizon.

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"Kids should be able to experience something spatially through doing and moving, but we haven't had the tools to scale it even though teachers want to do it," she said. Now, Prisms has raised $4.25 million in a seed round led by A16z to expand its algebra and geometry curriculum into schools across the US. Additional investors in the round include WXR Fund, Anorak Ventures, Avalanche VC; Nate Mitchell, the cofounder of Oculus; Andrew Sutherland, the founder of Quizlet; Hans Tung, the managing director of GGV Ventures; and Zahir Dossa, the founder of Function of Beauty, among others.

 

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