For investors & partners
A founder-led platform for a population education technology keeps overlooking.
Nanu was built by someone who saw the gap firsthand and decided to close it. It's grown from a campus project into a full platform — and now into a product line.
The opportunity
An underserved population, an unusually specific insight.
Learners with autism and Down syndrome are chronically underserved by education technology built for neurotypical students and retrofitted with an accessibility setting. Nanu started from the opposite direction: what can this learner already do, and how do we build an entire platform around that? The answer — recognizing and repeating a pattern — turned out to be a foundation broad enough to carry a full school platform, and specific enough to extend into standalone skill-training products.
Where we are
Built, not just pitched.
Nanu isn't a slide deck looking for validation — it's a working platform, and we're honest about the stage we're at.
V1 → V2 → V3
Three built generations: a campus prototype, a full voice-first school platform, and now a standalone Skill Apps product line.
Nine role types
Students, parents, lecturers, heads of department, finance, records, admin, and support roles — a real multi-stakeholder platform, not a single-user app.
One product, extensible model
The core platform (curriculum, submissions, rewards) is now packaged so a second and third Skill App can be built faster than the first.
Pre-pilot
We're actively seeking pilot schools and families to bring Nanu into real classrooms — this is where we're focused next.
“This started as a school project because I needed a grade. It's still going because the gap I found was real, and nobody else was closing it.”
Rita Mnavu (Aaliyah), Founder
We're raising to fund pilot programs and grow the Skill Apps line.
If you back founders who build in underserved spaces, we'd like to walk you through the platform, the roadmap, and where we need support to get to our first pilots.