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Scaling India’s ‘Learning to Earning’ Calibre through Improved User Engagement

With over 980 million mobile subscribers in India, mobile devices offer the prospect of high penetration and access to affordable and quality education and earning opportunities at scale.

The GMC Calibrator is a Six-Month Blended Zero Equity Accelerator Program launched by Gray Matters Capital in April 2018 with a specific focus on enhancing User Engagement through product optimization of mobile based platforms based on understanding and implementing end-user ‘Behavioral Design’.

It is for organizations imparting education, skill building, facilitating opportunities at economic activity and bridging gender gaps in education and workforce participation.

Objectives

With ‘Self Learning to Self Earning’ as its guiding theme, the GMC Calibrator looks to offer one-on-one customized expertise for scalable edtech enterprises that address the following challenges that currently plague India’s education system:

The User Engagement Conundrum of Self Learning Apps

As one of the biggest problems confounding the edtech industry, course completion rates stand at under 15%

Teacher Shortage

18% positions of teachers in government-run primary schools and 15% in secondary schools are vacant nationwide

Poor Learning Outcomes

In 14-18 years age group, only 43% able to do a simple division correctly, while 47% of 14-year-olds could not read a simple sentence in English (Source: ASER study 2018)

Skilling for Jobs of the future

Only 4.69% of the total workforce in India has undergone formal skill training as compared to more than 50% across the developed countries in the world.

Demographic Dividend or Liability?

An estimated 250 million youth will enter the Indian workforce. But how employable will they be?

Gender Gap in Education and Workforce Participation

The number of girls dropping out of formal education increases as they grow older.

Indian women above the age of 15 employed in our workforce is only 25 per cent.

Our Vision

The selected cohort of the GMC Calibrator in 2018 will endeavor to achieve

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    Scale

    Achieve user base of 1 million with 50% comprising female gender

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    Effectiveness

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Program Timeline

GMC Calibrator 2018 Program

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The GMC Calibrator
Advantage

The GMC Calibrator is tailored for those mobile app based edtech ventures that are looking to overcome challenges with respect to:

  • Poor retention rates and learning outcomes owing to sub-par user experience and engagement
  • Defining a sustainable mobile app based monetization strategy
  • Identifying a product market fit

 

Every enterprise in the cohort will get
Growth Vouchers upto $ 35,000 which can be used to avail

  • Mentorship in
    User Engagement Strategy

    Enterprises will be mentored to improve content stickiness and content design to improve learning experience on the apps

  • Mentorship in
    Mobile Product Strategy

    Enterprises will be mentored on Product Market Fit Refinement, User Acquisition and Product Performance Optimization

"At the end of the program, the best performing enterprise in the cohort will get prize money of $ 30,000 while the runner up will get $ 20,000"

We do not charge any Program Fees
What’s more?
We do not take any
Equity stake

Our Partners

ANCHOR KNOWLEDGE PARTNER
EXPERTISE PARTNER
Angel Investor Partner
TECHNOLOGY PARTNER
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Our Jury

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Archana Priyadarshini

Partner, Unicorn India Ventures

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Erika Norwood

Executive Director, Gray Matters Capital

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Parag Dhol

Managing Director, Inventus

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Ragini Chaudhary

India CEO, Gray Matters Capital

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Savitha Singh

Global IT leader and Retail technologist

Our Mentors

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Anurag Vaish

Co-Founder, Final Mile Consulting

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Bhanu Potta

Founding Partner, ZingerLabs

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Arjun Thomas

Founding Partner, ZingerLabs

Who Can Apply?

  • Applicants can be Education Start-Ups/ NGOs with a Mobile App offering imparting Pre-KG, K12, 21st Century Skills, Vocational Skills, Life Learning, Skills for Gig Economy, Future of Work, etc.
  • The product should have an existing user base of an average 30-40k and the potential and aspiration to scale in order to cater to the mass market

“The GMC Calibrator is aimed at those mobile based edtech enterprises which have the disruptive potential to change the paradigm of education and skilling in the country. We are also looking to bridge the gender gap that exists in education and workforce participation with this.”

Ragini Chaudhary

Ragini Chaudhary,

India CEO, Gray Matters Capital

“Designing for User Engagement is a deliberate endeavour that can increase both Impact and Value of Products and Services. Journey beyond user acquisition to User Engagement with GMC Calibrator.”

Bhanu Potta

Bhanu Potta,

Founding Partner, ZingerLabs

“The GMC Calibrator is an accelerator with the uniqueness of being focused on applying behavioral science to enhance user engagement on mobile education platforms”

Anurag Vaish

Anurag Vaish,

Co-Founder & Partner, Final Mile Consulting

Apply for the GMC Calibrator

Get One-on-One Customized Expertise worth upto $35,000

Solve a specific Product Problem within 6 months!

Enhance user engagement through behavioral insights driven product tweaks

Get your mobile product strategy in place to scale your business, reach millions and create meaningful impact.

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In case of any queries, write to gmccalibrator@graymatterscap.com