KangaDo

Uber for After School (500 Startups Batch 9)
KangaDo is Uber for After School! It’s an easy-to-use mobile service that provides trustworthy help for Moms on the go. In SF : Generating revenue from premium services (private beta): trusted Rides and Sitters for kids! Nationwide : The KangaDo app (live ...

Kinderloop

Secure Instagram for child care providers & parents
A web, and mobile application that brings the simplicity of instagram to the lives of child care providers worldwide. Carers use the app to quickly and securely post video, photos and news. Providers save $1,200 in consumables. Parents are updated immediately. ...

Yogome

Learning Games Platform for Kids
Education is going Mobile and Learning can happen anywhere. We are building a Mobile Learning Games Platform so kids can practice Math, Languages, know about Recycling and the Environment, Nutrition, discover Science, Geography and History in a fun way that they ...

Grockit

Remind

Connecting teachers, students and parents
Remind is an education startup connecting teachers with students & parents through our messaging app. One out of every five teachers in the U.S. use Remind. We want to be the place for the best engineers who have a passion for social good.

Piggybackr

Crowdfunding for Teams
Piggybackr is a crowdfunding platform for teams of all ages and experience levels.  We help sports teams and schools fundraise better by mobilizing their members online.  It works, we've helped teams in all 50 states raise an average donation of $78.   We are ...

ClassDojo

Building understanding between teachers, parents, and students
ClassDojo is a feedback platform used by over 40 million teachers, students & parents in more than 150 countries to help students develop the character skills and behaviors they need for success in life - things like persistence, resilience and curiosity. ClassDojo ...

DIY

The school we wish we had when we were kids.
DIY is a platform for kids and teens to learn anything and everything. Members use our app or site to discover new skills, try challenges, capture what they do, and meet others that share their passions. Members earn embroidered patches for the skills they master. 400,000 ...

Launchpad Toys

Adobe Creative Suite for Kids
At Launchpad Toys we're going to be the Lego of Digital Play. The $15B Creative Toy market is ripe for digitization and mobile is going to do to those toys what it did to the GPS and Point & Shoot cameras. Toontastic, our first app is an animation toy that lets ...

Lully

We Fix Sleep
Lully is developing smart technology to improve sleep for all ages. Our technology enables us to monitor sleep, and precisely and safely adjust sleep stages in order to avoid the troublesome parts of sleep. Our first product, the Sleep Guardian, helps children ...

Deeno

Pandora for Children's Media
Our personalized discovery engine helps kids and parents find out about great new content, keeping them coming back for more. We start with the industry's best authoring tool for interactive children's books, then add educational activities and parent-curated ...

Sproutling

Grow Happy Families
Sproutling is a family-technology company that creates thoughtfully-designed products to help make parents more effective. Our first product, The Sproutling Baby Monitor, is really the first-of-its-kind baby monitor that not only monitors a baby and their environment, ...

Bubble Gum Interactive

Mobile Games and virtual worlds
Bubble Gum Interactive is an independent game studio that creates compelling and engaging multi-platform gaming experiences including casual mobile games and virtual worlds. Our first game for mobile, Jetpack Jinx is available for Google Play and Apple iOS with ...

Camperoo

Monthly Membership for Kids Activities in Technology and Creativity (Classpass for Kids)
Every weekend, 70 Million parents wake up and wonder, what am I going to do with my kids? Camperoo solves that problem with Weekend Workshops Memberships ( $29/session or $99/mo unlimited ) which are 2 hour mini-camps held on Saturdays and Sundays that feature ...

Fight My Monster

The fastest growing online game directed at boys aged 8-12 yrs (3M users)
Fight My Monster is Pixar meets Pokemon meets furious player vs player competition. We're the fastest growing online game for boys in the UK and increasingly the US. During 2012 we grew to more than 2M 8-12yr boys who have created over 10M virtual trading card ...

hopscout

Community driven content-rich mommy Woot.
hopscout is a deal-a-day social commerce site for timeless and classic children’s products. hopscout removes the hassle of discovering the next great product for children through Strict Procurement Standards (products must meet set criteria to be the deal-of-the-day), ...

StorkBrokers

Etsy for Parents!
We're a marketplace of moms buying & selling pre-loved kid gear. 49.5MM kids under 8YO in the US + Avg parent spends $1,700/yr on resaleable kid gear __________________________________________________ = $84BN ...

UrbanSitter

Find and book a trusted sitter online
For millions of busy parents across the US, finding a reliable babysitter is a daunting task. UrbanSitter is the first all-in-one solution—a hyper efficient childcare marketplace where parents meet and book sitters. Our premise is simple, when it comes to finding ...

Kidlandia

Virtual playground on mobile & online, with branded "rides" to reduce IP & discovery risk.