Joy Sprouts

With our vision in educational technology, Joy Sprouts achieved the Top20 position in the US App Store(Education),named as Silicon Valley's TiE50 Award Winner.

  • Stage Full Product Ready
  • Industry Education
  • Location Sunnyvale, CA, USA
  • Currency USD
  • Founded October 2011
  • Employees 6
  • Website joysprouts.com

Company Summary

At Joy Sprouts, we believe that every child can achieve their full potential with a balanced approach to learning. We call this approach "Total Development". Total Development benefits lifelong development intellectually, socially and academically. Joy Sprouts is the pioneer in Education Intelligence helping parents to help with their child's Total Development. Via our tech, we help parents better understand their child’s educational needs.

Team

  • Leo Lau
    Co-Founder

    Leo lived 20 years in Toronto, and worked over 14 years at IBM Research Lab there with 19 patents filed.
    Leo has earned First Honor in his Bachelor of Science Degree (Software Engineering) and a MBA & MScFA from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, which ranks #8 in the world.
    Leo has got a license to kill from George Brown College. When Leo is not working he spends his time doing the chopping and slicing on the cutting board.

  • Suzanne So
    Co-Founder

    Suz loves kids and has been in the kids business for over 10 years.
    Suz has served in the capacity of the Brand and Licensing Manager of the hugely popular Angry Birds and the Smurfs. Earlier, Suz held project management roles leading in the development of over 40 campaigns for McDonald's at its exclusive promotional marketing agency.
    Suz is a Chartered Accountant and has a MBA from HKUST.

  • Cindy Chan
    Chief Education Officer

    Cindy has over 30 years of experience in early childhood education and is never short of ideas about how children can learn better.
    Leveraging her hands-on experience with children, Cindy produces over 20 children's songs and nursery rhymes aiming to improve phonemic awareness and vocabulary. Cindy holds a Bachelor of Education degree from McGill's University and received the University Scholar Award for her outstanding result.

  • Ricky Lui
    Chief Operation Officer

    Ricky possesses a solid blend of experience in operation and technology.

    Ricky lived in Toronto for over 20 years. After graduating from the University of Toronto with a Bachelor of Science (Engineering Science and Japan Internship), Ricky worked over 12 years at IBM, Broadcom and Nortel.

    Ricky has also Co-Founded and led the operation efforts at Joy Aether, a 4 years old mobile technology company and has successfully grew the team from 2 t

Advisors

  • Gunderson Dettmer
    Lawyer
    Unconfirmed

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