Trinket

Coding tools for every classroom.

  • Stage Full Product Ready
  • Industry Education
  • Location Durham, NC, USA
  • Currency USD
  • Founded May 2013
  • Employees 3
  • Website trinket.io

Company Summary

We're the fastest way to get students coding.

Trinket is an in-browser coding environment for teachers and students that lets them make and share real coding projects like games and data visualizations. High School and Middle School CS, Math, and Science teachers are our key users, signing up their students.

One day all students will code in school every day. They will do this on Trinket.

Team

  • Elliott Hauser
    CEO

    Before taking leave to run Trinket, Elliott was a Royster Teaching Fellow at UNC Chapel Hill, where he taught Intro to Programming. This experience gave him the idea that has evolved into trinket.

  • Brian Marks
    CTO

    Brian co-founded Raleigh, NC based WebAssign and helped bootstrap the company to $30m in annual revenue and over 170 employees. An ed tech angel investor himself, Brian is a respected leader in the space.

  • Benjamin Wheeler
    Lead Engineer

    Ben is a senior engineer who has worked at early stage Ed Tech and gaming companies for over a decade. Previous companies include Sapling Learning (acquired by MacMillan), Challenge Games (acquired by Zynga) and WebAssign.

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