Knack is a peer-to-peer tutoring platform that connects students with qualified peers for personalized academic support, utilizing a web and mobile application to facilitate in-person and online tutoring sessions. The platform addresses the lack of engagement with traditional academic support services by reaching historically underserved students, resulting in improved academic outcomes and increased campus community connection.
Funding
$14.7M raised to dateRaised to date based on public sources. This may differ from the amount the company actually raised and is based only on what is publicly available on the internet.
Founders
Product
Problem
Many students do not engage with traditional academic support services offered by their institutions. This can lead to missed opportunities for academic improvement and a lack of connection to the campus community, particularly for historically underserved students.
Solution
Knack provides a peer-to-peer learning platform that connects students with qualified peer tutors for personalized academic support. The platform offers a web and mobile application to facilitate both in-person and online tutoring sessions. Knack recruits, trains, and pays qualified students to act as tutors, providing them with flexibility in their schedules. The platform empowers students to choose when and where to meet, and with whom, offering options for 1:1 or group sessions, as well as recurring sessions with the same tutor.
Target Audience
Knack targets 4-year and 2-year institutions, K-12 organizations, and employers seeking to provide modernized peer tutoring to their students and employees.
Features
- Web and mobile application for scheduling and conducting tutoring sessions
- Integrated online classroom with real-time whiteboard functionality, audio, video, and screen sharing
- Tutor recruitment, training, and payment infrastructure
- One-click SSO sign-up for students
- Marketing tactics to build a community of peer tutoring
- Compliance standards