Schoolap Partners with FirstFounders to Expand into the Nigerian Market

Educating Africa, educating the world

When most people hear about edtech startups, the first thing that comes to mind is digital skill acquisition, but this time, we are talking about academics!

Francophone Africa has been experiencing great improvements in the education sector thanks to Edtech companies like Schoolap leading the change. Edtech startups such as Schoolap aim to solve problems in the education sector with technology. They’re pivotal in disrupting the often anemic educational system in nations around the world, especially in developing countries. 

The success of Schoolap can be seen in how much impact they have had across Francophone Africa. Through the support of the government and strategic partnerships with banks and telecom companies like First Bank of Nigeria and Airtel, Schoolap now has over 20,000 free educational content on their digital platform. With this content, Schoolap has reached over 6,000 schools, 105,000 teachers, and impacted the lives of 1.9 million students all over the region. 

It is with great excitement that we announce our plans to replicate this successful re-engineering of the learning system in Nigeria as Schoolap has been adopted into the Nigerian market through one of the biggest venture studios in the country, FirstFounders Inc.

Launching first in Congo, Schoolap has achieved some amazing feats, including recording an impressive $2 million in annual revenue, winning the $50,000 seedstars award prize for the best online educational platform in 2019 alongside other awards, and raising $500,000 in seed funding from the international Eutelsat Group. 

This partnership is coming to Nigeria at the best possible time as the mass failure recorded in this year’s WAEC examination shows the need for quick actions in our academic sector, especially for the students.

With this partnership between FirstFounders and Schoolapp, the goal is to provide Nigerian students with exhaustive academic content according to the approved syllabus which they can access for free.

This content will come loaded on a dedicated solar-powered tablet for learning purposes, thereby eliminating the limitation of electricity and data bundles! These tablets will be distributed through schools to both teachers and students to achieve a robust learning system that can only birth a new era of academic success in Nigeria and subsequently, Africa as a whole.