Her Highness Sheikha Moza bint Nasser · Nov 2025
Darsel won third place in the 2024-2025 WISE Prize for Education and received $200,000; the writeup highlights its AI-driven math tutoring in low-connectivity settings.
Company research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Jul 29, 2026
Overview
Darsel is an education-technology nonprofit focused on improving K-12 math learning in low-resource settings with an AI-powered, curriculum-aligned chatbot delivered over WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, and SMS; it partners with governments and school systems and provides teacher reporting/support.
Primary product
AI-powered personalized math learning chatbot
Founded
2021
Headquarters
Stanford, California, United States
Team size
11-50
Work style
Remote
Industry
E-learning
Sub-industry
AI-powered K-12 math tutoring
Offices
Stanford, California, United States
Amman, Jordan
Business model
nonprofit
public-sector partnerships
free-to-users
Funding
Stage
pre-seed / accelerator support
Total raised
$1.5M
Latest round
Google.org Accelerator: Generative AI support · Jun 2025
Latest amount
$1M
Google.org Accelerator: Generative AI support
Jun 2025 · Google.org
Mar 2022 · Y Combinator
People & investors
Leadership
Founder & CEO
India Country Director
Lead Backend Engineer
Work & culture
Mission-driven, evidence-based, and impact-oriented; emphasizes low-bandwidth access, experimentation, and serving underserved learners at scale.
Work style
Remote
Compensation
A public YC posting for Lead Engineer (Backend) listed $50K-$75K for a remote, full-time role.
Benefits
remote work from anywhere
flexible schedule
direct collaboration with the founder
small-team ownership
Product & market
Pricing
Free for students and teachers; public-sector deployments have been described at about $1 per student per year.
Differentiators
- —Works over low-bandwidth channels (SMS, WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger)
- —No app downloads or passwords required
- —Curriculum-aligned content
- —Adaptive, personalized learning
- —Teacher reports and homework grading
- —Human teacher support team
- —Works on any phone with little or no data
- —Very low per-student delivery cost
Technology
Python
Python Lambda functions
MySQL
AWS
Google Cloud
WhatsApp
Facebook Messenger
SMS
Airtable
Google Sheets
LaTeX
Stata
Customers
K-12 students in low-resource settings
teachers
public school systems
government education ministries
school administrators and education officials
Competitors
Edoo
Dante in Linea
Tudor Collegiate Strategies
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
≈$1M estimated ARR (public third-party estimate)
Estimated monthly visits
4.8K
Traffic estimate as of Jun 2025
Latest news
Punch · Jul 2025
Punch reported on Darsel’s partnership with Lagos State, where more than 30,000 public junior secondary students used the AI math challenge and the initiative recognized top performers.
Radio Nigeria Lagos · Jul 2025
Radio Nigeria Lagos covered the Lagos State Darsel initiative, noting 30,000 students and 10 million questions solved in the 2024/2025 academic session.
Google Blog · Jun 2025
Google named Darsel to its 2025 Google.org Accelerator cohort; the company’s gen-AI math tutor was described as improving learning rates for K-12 students globally.
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