Nairobi · Nairobi County, Kenya; Remote · founded 2021 · https://www.kidato.com
Diligence memoA one-page analyst read on Kidato — recommendation, valuation, rhythm, risks.→Kidato has raised $1.4M over 1 round; too few niche peers to rank its valuation yet.
Synthesized from the figures below est. — every claim rests on a number shown on this page.
AI analyst read est. — model-extracted from this company's public description, not a verified fact. 30%
operates a technology-led product inferred from public copy
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Online school for K12 education in Africa
Parents in Africa face either public schools with student-teacher ratios as high as 50:1 or private schools with tuition fees as high as $7500 per year, per child. Kidato classes have student-teacher ratios of 5:1 and teach the same rigorous international curriculum as other private schools — but at a fraction of the price. In our second semester, Kidato has enrolled more than 30 students into our learning-from-home program as a replacement for brick-and-mortar schools. We expect to triple this enrollment by our third semester.
As reported in public records reported — not modeled.
Solid bars are reported offering amounts reported; hatched bars are the modeled post-money valuation est. — both on one shared scale so you can read raise-vs-worth at each round directly. Use the toggles to overlay data labels and the niche-peer / market average value lines.
The line shows cumulative reported funding over the period; + labels show new capital added between points when there is room. Toggle on-bar figures, plus the niche-peer and market averages, to read this company against its cohort. Benchmarks are modeled medians.
Stages are modeled from round size (public records carry no series label). No record for: Pre-Seed — the company may have raised it under a different exemption, merged it into an adjacent record, or skipped it. Sequence completeness: 50%.
Round size and date are reported; the stage label is inferred from round size (latest is Seed — a $1.0M–$4.0M round). Valuation is modeled from stage benchmarks. Directional, not a quoted figure.
Not enough modeled valuation points to chart a trajectory.
Benchmarked against 8525 companies in this sector. Each bar is a median (the middle company, not an average — outliers don't skew it). Two yardsticks: real money raised (reported on Form D) and modeled value (our estimate est.). These are whole-sector medians across all stages, except the per-stage row.
Raised more than 98% of sector peers (real $). Modeled value above 98% of peers (estimate).
Stage is inferred from round size est., not reported on the filing — a round's dollar size maps to a bucket: Pre-Seed <$1.0M · Seed $1.0M–$4.0M · Series A $4.0M–$15M · Series B $15M–$40M · Series C $40M–$100M · Series D+ $100M–$400M · Growth/Late >$400M.
| Stage | Amount · real | Announced | Post-money · est | Value · est | Conf. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seed | $1.4M | 2021-04-26 | $7.0M | $19.2M | 45% |
Step-up, pace versus the sector's normal cadence, and revenue/exemption moves — read straight from the reported round facts reported.
Predictive signals are modeled est. from this company's own cadence and step-up, plus sector benchmarks — directional, not advice. Peer set and a CSV export live in your analyst workspace.
Kidato is an official record sourced from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). U.S. data is aggregated from SEC Form D filings.
Matched by meaning, not labels — a local language model reads each company's name, sector and description and ranks the closest in that learned space. This catches look-alikes that cross sector boundaries; the structured list above explains its matches, this one trusts the text. Directional, like every modeled signal here.
| Company | Sector | Stage | Value · est | Match |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Schoolable Tuition collection service for K-12 private schools in Africa | Fintech | — | — | 72% |
| Fingo Africa A neobank for Africa's 500 million youth | Fintech | — | — | 69% |
| ClassDojo Communication app for K-8 teachers, kids, and families | — | — | — | 66% |
| Mozper A debit card and app designed for kids and parents in Latin America | Fintech | — | — | 66% |
| Poliglota Inc. The online language school for Latam, with groups led by an instructor | Other Technology | Pre-Seed | $20.7M | 66% |
| Prendea Live afterschool classes for Spanish-speaking kids ages 4 to 15. | — | — | — | 65% |
| PayHippo, Inc. Loans to Nigeria's SMEs in under 3 hours | Fintech | Seed | $24.6M | 65% |
| Scrimba We turn people into hireable devs for 1% of the price of code… | Sports & Fitness | — | — | 65% |
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