Bookopolis, Inc

The online community that gets 2nd-8th graders excited about reading for fun. It's like a souped up Goodreads for kids with built in teacher tools.

  • Stage Prototype Ready
  • Industry Education
  • Location Menlo Park, CA, USA
  • Currency USD
  • Founded May 2013
  • Employees 1
  • Website bookopolis.com

Company Summary

Bookopolis is a kid-friendly social network and book discovery tool that lets 7-12 year olds connect with friends to share and discover new books to ignite their love of reading. Think Goodreads.com made for kids with gamification and built in teacher tools. We are a C-corp with a strong social mission. Revenue sources are sponsored ads, affiliate book sales, and fees for aggregated and personalized data analytics.

Team

  • Kari Riedel
    Founder/CEO

    Kari is an experienced social entrepreneur, brand marketer, and strategy consultant. She has worked for large for-profit companies (Nestle, Sara Lee, Monitor Group) and small organizations. She led Rubicon Bakery, an award winning social enterprise, into profitability and helped to sell it to a for-profit entrepreneur. She holds a CFA and an MBA from Kellogg GSM, a BBA in Finance from William & Mary and is the mom of 2 elementary school boys.

Advisors

  • John R. Horn
    Lawyer
    Unconfirmed
    Debbie Stauffer
    Advisor
    Cressida Hanson
    Advisor
    Unconfirmed
  • Laura Mancuso
    Advisor
    Valerie Threlfall
    Advisor
    Unconfirmed
    Vanja Josifovski
    Advisor
    Unconfirmed
  • Lance Riedel
    Advisor
    Unconfirmed

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