Lyfta is an interactive platform that provides immersive storyworlds featuring 360° media and documentaries, designed to enhance primary and secondary education by fostering empathy and global awareness. The platform addresses the lack of engaging, culturally diverse educational content, enabling teachers to enrich their curriculum and improve student engagement across various subjects.
Funding
$3M 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
Traditional educational resources often lack diverse cultural representation and engaging content, hindering students' ability to develop empathy, global awareness, and critical thinking skills. This can limit their understanding of different perspectives and lived experiences, impacting their personal development and cultural capital.
Solution
Lyfta provides an interactive platform featuring immersive storyworlds with 360° media and documentary films, designed to enhance primary and secondary education. These storyworlds offer students transformative opportunities to explore diverse countries, languages, cultures, and human experiences. By interacting with 360° spaces, rich media, soundscapes, and powerful documentaries, students gain a deeper understanding of global topics and develop crucial skills such as empathy and critical thinking. The platform's resources are designed to link with all curriculum subjects, making it easy for teachers to integrate into their lesson plans and foster a sense of belonging within the classroom.
Target Audience
Lyfta's primary audience includes teachers and school leaders in primary and secondary education seeking to enrich their curriculum with engaging, culturally diverse content and promote personal development among students.
Features
- Immersive storyworlds featuring 360° spaces, rich media, soundscapes, and documentary films
- Content aligned with curriculum subjects to facilitate integration into existing lesson plans
- Focus on diverse cultures and lived human experiences from around the world
- Interactive resources designed to promote empathy, global awareness, and critical thinking
- Multimedia resources, including themed collections and instant lessons
- Professional development resources for teachers to support effective implementation
- Content designed to bring to life the 17 United Nations Global Goals