Gredu Introduces School Digitization Application

One more startup edutech officially introduced, this time carrying the B2B business model. Named “Gredu”, they provide SaaS-based services for digitizing information systems in schools. The services provided are quite varied, ranging from scheduling, attendance, making lesson plans to learning evaluation platforms.

“Gredu is a solution for digitizing schools. We identify the needs and problems that arise for the stakeholders in the school such as teachers, parents and students; and try to provide a platform according to the needs of each of these roles,” said Co-Founder & COO Gredu Ricky Putra.

Product package Grade consists of 4 categories, namely School Management System, Learning Management System, Literacy and Full Version. Each can be subscribed separately as needed.

For media access, currently Gredu provides different applications that can be used by teachers, parents and students.

From the student's point of view, through the application they can access various learning resources and personal input provided by the teacher. For example, the schedule and study materials are prepared according to the curriculum.

While in the teacher application, you can create competency test questions, conduct developmental analysis and provide feedback for each student's progress. While in the parent application, there is a special dashboard with a feature of analyzing the learning outcomes of their children.

"Not only that, there is also a platform for schools where the administrative process can now go through the Gredu platform," added Ricky.

Book pre-series A . funding

Last Monday (20/01) coincided with grand launch service, Gredu announced the acquisition of a pre-series A funding round. No amount was stated, this funding was obtained from Vertex Venture. Previously they had obtained seed funding from angel investors and Global Waqf Corporation.

The startup, which has been initiated since mid-2016, has an office in Jakarta. Founded by three people founder, namely Mohammad Fachri (CTO), Rizky Anies (CEO) and Ricky Putra (COO).

"Gredu is currently collaborating with 200 schools located in Jakarta, Dharmasraya, Tangerang and Bangka Belitung," added Ricky.

For a realistic target in 2020, they want to be able to expand to new cities in Indonesia and reach up to 600 schools. From the product side, several new features will soon be launched in accordance with the development of the curriculum and the current education system.

Expect collaboration between players

In Indonesia edutech growing well. For services similar to Gredu, previously there was also a platform paint, class, Sikad up to ZumiApp; Of course with different advantages. There are more and more players with B2C business models, those who offer learning applications for students or the general public, such as Ruangguru, Zenius, Quipper and others.

Responding to the many players in the same sector, Ricky said, “We are very grateful for the many partners edutech that emerged, because Gredu always thought that the burden of educational progress would not be borne by only one or two parties. Gredu hopes that in the future he can collaborate with colleagues at edutech and government for the betterment of the nation.”

Gredu started from the anxiety of the founder about the lack of technology absorption in the current education system. In addition, the role of the teacher who should be teaching has been preoccupied with data entry rather than data processing. By using digital applications, teachers should be able to focus more on material delivery, evaluation and character building.