Seesaw -- December 24, 2020

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For remote learners in north Texas, there are three major tech components: an iPad (Apple, Inc); WebEx (Cisco); and Seesaw.

Let's do a few minutes of sleuthing -- from where did Seesaw come?

Link here.

• founded by Adrian Graham and Carl Sjogreen, San Francisco, CA, 2013
• well before the pandemic

From the Seesaw site:

The Seesaw platform allows students to learn and engage in creative educational activities while giving teachers and parents insight to each students progress and thinking. 

Students are able to annotate & draw, record captions with text or voice, create collages, add labels & text, and add shapes & backgrounds to their learning materials. 

Seesaw offers their platform to students from pre-kindergarten to grade 12 for all standard subjects such as art, computer science, drama, digital citizenship, English language arts, English language learning, health, higher education, history, math, music, physical education, reading, religion, science, social emotional learning, social studies, special education, STEAM, world languages, and writing. 

Funding:

• 2013: seed funding, $5 million from Greylock Partners, Wayee Chu, Ethan Beard, and Dan Rose
• 2018: series A funding, $8 million from Wayee Chu, Jeff Weiner, Ethan Beard, and Bubba Murarka

Now, who is that Jeff Weiner character. His name sounds familiar.

From wiki:

Jeffrey "Jeff" Weiner, born February 21, 1970 in New York City, New York, is an American businessman. He was the chief executive officer of LinkedIn. He started with LinkedIn on December 15, 2008, as Interim President.Weiner played an instrumental role in LinkedIn's acquisition by Microsoft for $26 billion in June 2016.

Others:

• Wayee Chu: LinkedIn; focus -- education;
• Ethan Beard: crunchbase; San Francisco, learner; Ripple; blockchain;
• Bubba Murarka, LinkedIn:  

Bubba helped Facebook pivot to mobile, built product teams at Microsoft, started two non-profits, and founded four startups. 

Across those roles Bubba did hundreds of millions of dollars of strategic deals, was awarded multiple patents for his innovations, and built products used by more than a billion people. 

His favorite side hustle has been consulting for HBO's Silicon Valley. 

Along the way Bubba has invested and/or advised 50+ early stage startups including Udemy, Smule, Marco Polo, CircleCI, Periscope Data, Kettle & Fire, Running Tide, Seesaw, and Clubhouse.

Seesaw is simply amazing: