Welcome to Season 2 of AI Unveiled! I’m excited for you to hear from some exceptional founders and dive into business building, advice for founders, and, of course, AI.
In this episode, I speak with Deepanshu Arora, Co-Founder and CEO of Toddle, an AI-powered teaching and learning platform for progressive K-12 schools. We cover Deepanshu’s journey of building a global SaaS platform from India, his impact on education, and how AI is transforming the way teachers and students interact in the classroom.
Before founding Toddle, Deepanshu worked as a consultant at McKinsey and ran preschools in India. His personal experience managing a K-12 school led him to start Toddle. What began as a passion project aimed at improving workflow for his own teachers soon scaled into a global SaaS platform. Today, Toddle supports over 150,000 teachers and more than 1.5 million students worldwide.
The main focus of this conversation is AI’s role in education and how it can ease the workload of teachers so they can focus more on what truly matters—engaging with their students and inspiring curiosity. Deepanshu also discusses how AI is helping us get closer to 1:1 personalization, which is considered to be this holy grail in education where you are able to meet each child where they are in terms of their interest, passions, and learning abilities.
We also cover the challenges of running a global SaaS platform from India and how Toddle scaled to over 100 countries, with 70% of their users based outside of India. Toddle’s global appeal is grounded in a deep understanding of teacher workflows, which are remarkably similar across the world. By maintaining a “teachers-first” culture—where every non-engineering and design role, from customer success to marketing, is filled by former educators—Toddle has built an empathetic and highly specialized team that truly understands the needs of its users.
I hope you enjoy this episode!
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Timestamps:
* 3:08 - How to build a niche, global community
* 11:45 - Can AI solve the biggest challenges teachers face?
* 19:48 - Toddle’s approach to personalization
* 35:26 - Building a global SaaS company from India
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