Youtopia
Engage your students. Youtopia's digital rewards system will get your students to go the extra mile, or ten.
- Stage Full Product Ready
- Industry Internet / Web Services
- Location Chicago, IL, USA
- Currency USD
- Founded June 2011
- Employees 3
- Website youtopia.com
Company Summary
Youtopia is an engagement platform that uses points, badges, and leaderboards to make education immersive and fun. Gamificaiton, utilizing badging as a tool to increase student engagement is our foundation. Behavioral studies reveal that a core set of intrinsic motivators exists in all of us. Youtopia’s proven, outcome-driven learning experience provides a new way for students' success rates to climb both in and out of the classroom.
Team
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CEO
Mr. Schnapper, 41, has built success across industries including disruptive technology, green manufacturing, strategic consulting, and 501c3s. As Youtopia’s CEO, he brings natural leadership and a passion for creatively solving the important problems of the world. He is humbled to be working among seasoned Youtopians to translate profitability into real-world impact.
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Jacqueline EdelbergDirector of Strategic Partnerships
Ms. Edelberg, 39, is the Director of Strategic Partnerships and has been a driving force behind school reform in Chicago for many years. A featured blogger (HuffingtonPost.com) and co-author of “How to Walk to School: Blueprint for a Neighborhood School Renaissance”. Ms. Edelberg has been a consulted for numerous school districts, civic groups, foundations, universities and parent organizations on how public schools and reformers can galvanize co
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COO
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Rayna Yaker
Previous Investors
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Shawn Reigsecker, Howard Tullman (G23TV), Mayor Richard Daley (Tur Partners), Lori T. Healey, Alan Matthew (Tribal Ventures), Jay Livingston, Kevin Saedi, Stelios Valavanis.Unconfirmed
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