Manikandan Krishnan — Co-Founder

An entrepreneur for more than 20 years, with experience in early childhood education, toy design and manufacturing. Passionate about early learning, strongly believe that good quality foundational early learning can eradicate the learning poverty in the country. I am the Co-Founder of Kreedo Early Childhood Solutions and a Director in Kido Enterprises Private Limited. Kreedo is a brand / product offering under the ambit of Kido. Kido is a 30 year old organization with vast experience in the Early Education space. We are one of the largest manufacturers of premium Montessori materials supplying educational materials that has directly impacted 500000+ children in 10000+ schools. In 2012, we launched Kreedo to help women entrepreneurs set up and run preschools under their own brand name. At the core of Kreedo is what we call the 6T framework that drives high learning outcomes. Kreedo has been immensely successful, and widely accepted in every part of India. We have 2200+ preschools who have adopted the Kreedo solution in 340+ cities & towns. We have impacted 300,000+ children and trained 15000+ teachers in the preschool segment this far. Kreedo is now working to make an impact in the Affordable Private Schools (APS) sector to improve learning outcomes in early years. Kreedo is already tied up with 700+ APSs & is looking to scale to 7000+ APS schools within 3-4 years. We are partnered with FSG, a Boston based NGO, as one of its PIPE (Program to Improve Private Early Education) partners in improving the learning outcomes in early education. We have proven learning outcomes which is 50% higher than the market benchmarks based on an independent study done by FSG. With the COVID pandemic resulting in shut down of schools, we have added elements of home learning to the 6T program to ensure learning is going home and children don’t lose out on the entire year. The center piece of the Home Learning Solution is our “Practivity” toy boxes that comprises of 16+ toys and 100+ activities / games. These boxes are ensuring that children in the Kreedo program continue to learn through activity based learning at home.

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Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Experience: 26 yrs 7 mos