Founders Umesh Kumar, Shaun D’Sa, Dion D’sa and Nishad Menezes pitching Xamplay – an Edtech Startup that offers an AI-powered platform for students that enhances their meta-cognition through unique personalised smart-study plan and actionable insights helping them perform better at exams.
Website : XamPLAY.ai
“Millions of students all across the world share one common deep pain point “How do I crack the entrance exam”. Many educational companies, Websites and apps try to address this problem by giving the students like quality content, mock tests, gamification, and online/offline classes. In spite of the plethora of offerings in the market, the problem of “How do i crack the
entrance exam” still persists,” says Umesh.
The startup has developed a Patent Pending method to collect certain data from the student at the time of answering a test. This unique data is then processed through the Meta-Cognitive Based Proprietary Algorithm and ML tools to give smart-study tips and
actionable insights to students. The Xamplay team believe that they are the first and only Edtech company in the world that considers meta-cognition of students as a key metric to empower students crack entrance exams.
The Startup submits that they have done a test run of 45 days, have 7000 free users and 700 paid users.
TEAM:
Umesh Kumar
Cofounder & CEO
Umesh has 19 years of professional experience in the Design field [at Jaguar Land Rover,UK and Hyundai Kia Motors,USA]. He has a deep passion to mentor and guide students.
Shaun D’Sa
Cofounder & COO
Shaun has 14 years of professional experience in the Design field and has worked in the capacity of Design program manager with General Motors at their advanced design studio at Bangalore. He also shares a deep passion for education.
Dion Dsa
Co-founder & CMO
Dion is an Engineer and holds an MBA with over 10 years of experience with MNC’s and Startups. His forte is Marketing, Branding, Sales and Operations.
Nishad Menezes
Co-Founder, CTO
He is a 24-year-old computer science engineer with 3 years experience in technology and entrepreneurship. He passed out of Christ University with a B.Tech degree in 2015. He founded his first company Interknott (an edTech collaboration tool), along with his engineering batch mates. He is well accustomed to building complex systems due to his strong algorithm knowledge and basics. A good portfolio of projects makes him the right candidate to build and scale systems that serve large audiences.
