Hello, Being a French investor, I have only a few notions about the American educational system. - Is it possible to have some arguments on the superiority of BenchK12 with respect to the following competitors ? HelloSubs currently in reservation on the republic crowdfunding p...

Allo Regis! Je parle un peu français, mais je n'ai pas pratiqué depuis un moment. Grandes questions! HelloSubs and Scoot are similar to staffing agencies like Kelly Education and Swing. BenchK12's customers are State Departments of Education--one of the 27 states that license/credential substitute teachers today. Those indirect competitors you mentioned must either wait for their candidates to get licensed or credentialed by the state before they can then work on placing them in a local educa...

I see Finished in the top 10% of YCombinator’s Startup School, why didnt they invest or did they and if so at what terms?

Hi Walter, Thanks for your question! StartUp School is not the same as the Accelerator, where YC invests. We were ranked by our peers as one of the top companies in our cohort for StartUp School.

Will investors under the $250/$500 range be able to buy some of the perks such as the shirts, or have the opportunity to buy extra ones if we invest at those amounts?

Hi Garrett, Thanks so much for your investment and your question! Our intention with the shirts is to give our "Day One" investors some unique swag just for them, so we aren't planning to sell those shirts outside of the BenchK12 investor perks. If there is demand for shirts or other swag for BenchK12, it is definitely something we can explore. Right now, as you can imagine, we are focused on selling into States and building revenue for our investors, and impacting the teacher shortage for st...

Question no longer relevant.

Can you please delete your question since it has been asked and answered? Thank you.

Which state is finishing their pilot and have they indicated their next steps after the pilot?

Hi Paul, We have three states that we are working on contracting with and 13 more on our waitlist. Every state has already asked us about building out additional modules for them ASAP. I can't provide more specifics beyond that, publicly, at this time.

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I invested in BenchK12 because of their ambitious mission to solve the teacher hiring crisis using the latest Web3 technologies available today. BenchK12 removes unnecessary friction from the hiring process to work for every state and/or district in the US. Instead of taking a month or more to get credentialed and hired, BenchK12’s goal is to make it happen in one day. BenchK12 will dramatically save schools time and money and I believe the trajectory of this organization is promising from a double bottom-line perspective.

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