We are passionate about addressing the childcare opportunity with a unique combination of high-growth startup experience and educational expertise. Our team is comprised of talented individuals who bring a diverse range of skills, backgrounds, and perspectives to the table. We are united by our shared commitment to improving access to quality childcare for families and communities.
Join us today and discover the future of childcare.
Graduated from the University of Cambridge with a Masters in Information Engineering. Straight after moved to San Francisco to start KRISTALIC. Took part in TechStars Seattle and consecutively raised $2MM in VC capital from KPCB, Sequoia and others.
His academic and personal journey (traveled to 85 countries by age 25) enabled him to master a diverse set of skills from research and coding to leading a team in a crisis.
Linda Nathan is the Executive Director of the Center for Artistry and Scholarship (CAS) which develops and supports innovative and tenacious leaders in education to build more equitable, collaborative and creative communities. Dr. Nathan is co-founder of CAS's Perrone-Sizer Institute for Creative Leadership (PSi), a year-long graduate certificate program that develops innovative leaders who integrate education, artistic, and community-based resources to transform the lives of youth and families. She works closely with the Conservatory Lab Charter School in Dorchester, MA to support its development as a national model of project-based learning and arts immersed education.
Dr. Nathan is also a lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, where she teaches two courses focused on school design and practice. As an experienced leader in education, she actively mentors teachers and principals, and consults nationally and internationally on issues of educational reform, leadership, teaching with a commitment to racial justice and equity, and the critical role of arts and creativity in schools.
Tina Grotzer is a cognitive scientist whose research identifies ways in which understandings about the nature of causality impact our ability to deal with complexity in our world. Her work has important implications for how we deal with global and ecological issues and is concerned with the environmental injustices that result from our inability to reason well about complexity.
Her work leverages classroom settings and technology to teach students about ecosystems and causal complexity. Grotzer directs the Causal Learning in a Complex World Research Lab.
Her work is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). She received a Career Award from NSF in 2009 and a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers in 2011, one of the highest honors given by the United States government to researchers at this stage in their careers.
Marina Boni is a program director in the department of early childhood (P-2) of the Boston Public Schools.
Her work encompasses coaching teachers, facilitating professional development and collaborating on the development of the Focus curricula used in BPS. Previously,
Marina taught children ages 15 months to 6 years in Cambridge. Marina was a collaborating teacher on the Making Learning Visible Project at Project Zero, Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE.)
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