Moi Panda

We have never been so connected, and yet feel so alone. 

In today's hyper-connected world, many feel a profound sense of loneliness.The pandemic significantly impacted social and learning opportunities, particularly for children. During Covid-19, 76% of 5-16-year-olds experienced loneliness. Moreover, research reveals that 66% of Americans who felt lonely daily during childhood continue to feel isolated today. Alarmingly, kids spend 4-6 hours online without interacting with others, exacerbating feelings of isolation. Pandemic apart, globally, 250 million children are not in school, and hundreds of millions are in classrooms that lack adequate access to learning materials or disability-adapted infrastructure.

At the global level, collaboration often falls short, widening the gap in learning and educational opportunities. Although non-academic performance is hard to evaluate, the skills taught — in school or via other informal pathways — may not allow people to thrive in a rapidly changing world. Besides, there is no safe and child-friendly global social platform for children to make new friends and learn; nor is there a family-centered learning service for parents to make family friends worldwide. We need a platform that empowers human skills by leveraging technology ethically.

We are assisting millions of families worldwide, with the initial target group of the 281 million underserved migrants globally, as migrant families have a strong demand to socialize locally and adapt to new environments while staying connected with their roots and cultural heritage; they are bilingual or multilingual, bringing diversity and natural skill sets to the community. Due to parents' and children’s limited time and resources, there is a high demand for a versatile and comprehensive one-size-fits-all solution to bridge the gap among parents, educators, children, and the digital world. We need a revolutionary tool to help expand family social circles, create meaningful connections with diverse new friends around the world, and overcome language/culture barriers to be more confident with global competence! However, our tool can be used by billions of families and educators worldwide, bring more diversity and inclusion to create a more connected, safe, sustainable global community.

Moi Panda is a super app that provides everything a global digital citizen needs with a passport to a connected world for the young minds. Our mission is to help children truly become global digital citizens with competitive multilingual, multicultural and multi-subject skills for children of all ages. It provides a safe, social, and educational app designed to foster meaningful friendships among families, both locally and globally. We raise the digital competence of kids by implementing generative AI and Adaptive AI in Learning to empower them with 21st century skills combined with peer-support learning and learning by practicing methodology. We built Moi Panda so our kids could have a better chance to adapt to new cultures while staying connected to their own cultural heritage, make diverse friends all around the world anytime and anywhere, and learn to build a healthy relationship between individuals and the digital world.

Through trailblazing “socialize to learn to earn (S2L2E)” model with gamified design, and AI & ML, our revolutionary and innovative solution helps users to collaborate globally and learn from each other more efficiently and meaningfully. It combines cooperative games + digital penpal + online playdate to help children to learn, practice and master 21st century skills directly in a dynamic and real environment embracing a fast changing world. 

Moi Panda is committed to creating a solution that not only addresses these pressing concerns but sets a new standard for digital safety. By doing so, Moi Panda is positioned not only as a provider of educational technology but also as a trailblazer in advocating and championing industry-best practices, protocols, and procedures for ensuring the digital safety of young minds. Striving to create a smart, safe and sustainable environment where children can explore, learn, and connect securely, Moi Panda aims to be the driving force in shaping the future of digital safety standards for children globally.

Our ultimate goal is to establish ourselves as the foremost leader in the family market, setting new standards for innovation and positive influence. Moi Panda aims to reach millions of families worldwide, initially focusing on the 281 million migrants globally. Migrant families, with a strong desire to socialize locally and adapt to new environments while staying connected to their roots, find our platform particularly valuable. However, the versatility of our tool extends to billions of families and educators globally, catering to diverse backgrounds and needs.

The World Migration Report 2020 reveals that Europe and Asia each hosted approximately 87 and 86 million international migrants, with North America closely following with nearly 59 million. Notably, these migrants exhibit high purchasing power, contributing to a significant rise in remittances over recent decades—from $126 billion in 2000 to $702 billion in 2020. Despite initial predictions of a substantial decline in international remittances due to COVID-19, the actual decrease in 2020 was a modest 2.4% from the global total in 2019.

Moi Panda has been collaboratively designed and developed with users from its inception, undergoing continuous iterations based on valuable user feedback. Notably, the founding team consists of Moi Panda users themselves, ensuring the product is thoroughly tested with their families and friends, and later expanded to a diverse group of early adopters. The commitment to user involvement extends to the app's ongoing development, where user feedback is actively sought for ideas on improvement, new missions, game features, and other enhancements aligned with our mission statement. This user engagement is facilitated through surveys, feedback reviews, and data analysis of user behavior/engagement, identifying areas for improvement and expansion.

We are a global company with a team of global citizens dedicated to preparing children to become global digital citizens. Our team is deeply committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion, and our mission is deeply personal to each member, as we have all faced and overcome various challenges related to migration. 

The founder Feiya Long started as a solo founder when her son was 3Y and her daughter was 1Y. As a female founder and an immigrant in Finland, nothing is easy. But she built a committed team with strong and complementary skills, made it to global renowned programs, attracted supportive angel investors and received public grants. Most importantly, her kids grew more mentally healthy and happier and they are now multilingual and multicultural due to the positive outcomes of this venture. They are proud of me and Moi Panda.

As citizens from the US, the UK, Finland, China, Vietnam, Spain, UAE, Croacia, South Korea, Russia and Estonia, our team is committed to diversity, equity and inclusion as well as volunteers from all around the world who have been attracted by the same mission.

As future-oriented parents with immigrant backgrounds, we understand the struggles and triumphs of migration at different levels. Every challenge we address is deeply personal to each team member, as we all share the same pain points that fuel our collective determination to find solutions.

Our commitment is unwavering—we will give our absolute best to overcome these challenges, persisting until we succeed, regardless of the effort required. In our hearts, we believe wholeheartedly in the meaningful mission we're on, foreseeing a profoundly positive social impact that will create a better future for both the next generations and ourselves.

Our team is not only deeply passionate but also uniquely qualified, boasting extensive education and years of experience in the consumer business with diverse skill sets. This diverse expertise positions us as a formidable team, ready to achieve our mission and vision.

Our product has been co-designed/developed with users from day one, and has been iterated

continuously based on user feedback. Most importantly, the funding team are the users of Moi Panda themselves, the product has been designed and tested with their families and friends, and later expanded to a wide range of early adopters. As the app continues to develop, we actively seek feedback and involvement from users to help generate ideas for improvement, new missions, new game features, and anything else that may further our mission statement. This is done through survey and feedback review, as well as an analysis of data related to user behaviour/engagement to determine which areas of the app are not realising their full potential, and which are thriving and could be expanded.

The app has been iterated with 4 completed versions and used by thousands of users. The product was piloted in Nordics, and the UK with great success. It has been tested by 3000+ users in the US, Dubai and Asian countries with positive feedback which addressed strong demands.

The app is available on both Apple and Android devices, and accessible to anyone with a wifi connection. Our app knows no geographic bounds or borders, we encourage global citizenship and multicultural learning afterall. With that in mind, our user interface is simple and practical and designed with minimum language barrier as we use visual graphics to engage users. The app is also amenable to different age groups of young learners with different levels of complexity, and has a parental/familial assistant component. The app could also be used proactively, e.g., before the family moves to a new city or country so that the child/children has/have already friends in the new place when moving there.

We believe Solve is the most ideal network for our solution due to its broad vision of creating a positive social impact worldwide and its influence and reputation for credible solutions. We seek support from your network to elevate our mission to the next level and achieve a wider impact.

We hope Solve can help us accelerate global product launch: Leveraging your extensive, powerful network, and investment opportunities to successfully launch our product worldwide. Utilizing the resources and support to finalize the new version of our product. This involves refining features, enhancing user experience, and addressing any feedback or improvements identified during the program.Creating more impact based on your global reach and connections to penetrate new markets. We aim to leverage your network to establish partnerships, secure distribution channels, and execute marketing strategies that will facilitate our expansion into global markets effectively. Your valuable community and resources will also help us assessable a talented and motivated team, as well as a potential advisory board with experienced mentors and advisors. 

The grants will help us enter in marginalized communities in developing countries and emerging markets to help enhance equity in practice and we have always been supporting migrants, refugees, ethnic minorities. By connecting families around the world to learn from each other and leverage education resources through peer support in a social environment, equity is achieved naturally and effectively. We plan to use these grants to support a minimum of 1000 students in South Africa, 1000 refugees and 1000 underserved families with girls.

Moi Panda stands out as a unique cross-functional solution combining social attributes with language learning, social and communication skills, and soft skills for children and parents. We differentiate ourselves by focusing on human-to-human interactions with AI and other technologies, providing online and offline missions to encourage exploration beyond screens, and inviting parents to join the platform to foster relationships and friendships.

We leverage LLMs and ChatGPT to enhance our AI-based educational systems, enabling real-time tracking of users' progress and personalized learning experiences. LLMs contribute to the creation of virtual peers for interactive communication, positively guiding children within the Moi Panda community. Furthermore, these models facilitate the analysis and evaluation of student activities, providing detailed reports for individual and team learning assessments. Continuous monitoring allows for personalized interventions, ensuring adaptive learning systems align with real-time assessments and enabling timely support from educators and parents.

Moi Panda stands as a unique innovator, seamlessly merging three distinct realms—social networking, education technology (Edtech), and gaming. Unlike competitors, we masterfully combine these elements, with a primary focus on activating children's global competence through peer support. Notably, our solution integrates parents seamlessly, setting us apart from any identified competition.

We defy categorization as just another unsafe social network like Facebook or a conventional language app like Duolingo. Moi Panda emerges as a holistic platform, meticulously crafted by forward-thinking parents for their children and their global friends.

Disrupting three markets (Social Network, EdTech and Mobile Gaming) simultaneously, Moi Panda offers a cross-functional solution that blends social dynamics with language learning, social and communication skills, and various soft skills. Our approach is rooted in a bottom-up philosophy, emphasizing 100% learning through peer-to-peer support on a global scale.

Crucially, our focus extends beyond typical human-to-computer interactions, aiming for meaningful human-to-human engagements. By providing a mix of online and offline missions, it motivates children to explore the world beyond screens, fostering an active and proactive learning experience. Parents are integral to our service, facilitating relationship-building between children and parents while offering a platform for parents to connect with each other, creating a supportive community.

Moi Panda uses Large Language Models (LLMs) and ChatGPT to enhance our AI-based educational systems, enabling real-time progress tracking and personalized learning experiences. LLMs analyze student activities, generating detailed reports that improve individual and team learning assessments, seamlessly integrated into weekly progress reports. Continuous monitoring by AI algorithms identifies areas of student interest, allowing for personalized learning experiences. Adaptive learning systems adjust missions and difficulty levels based on real-time assessments, ensuring timely interventions from educators and parents. Moi Panda's commitment to leveraging cutting-edge technology enhances the interactive and educational prowess of our system, fostering a conducive environment for personalized and effective learning.

Moi Panda is rooted in the theory of change and evidence that 1. Motivation is the best teacher 2. Technology plays a supportive role in education, but the most effective learning happens when students learn from and with their peers 3. The best way to learn is through hands-on practice with peers. This philosophy aims to motivate users in a fun and engaging manner, improving learning outcomes through active practice, and sparking proactive creativity driven by inner motivation.

Moi Panda seamlessly integrates co-played games, digital penpals, and online playdates to empower students to become multilingual, multicultural, and multitalented, cultivating friendships worldwide and mastering 21st-century skills in a dynamic, real environment. The platform facilitates global connections and in-depth peer support, promoting meaningful friendships that transcend borders.

Our innovative "socialize to learn to earn" model, supported by the Finnish pedagogy of play-based learning, and inspired by OECD Framework and the international Baccalaureate unfolds in five transformative steps:

• 1. Find Friends: Utilize our specially designed match-making system to discover like-minded peers.

• 2. Make Friends: Through shared learning experience, engaging in multimedia communication, including ChatGPT, video calls, or text, to establish meaningful connections.

• 3. Maintain Friendships: Enjoy the flexibility to nurture friendships anytime, anywhere through our gamified design.

• 4. Complete Multi-Subject Missions: Participate in missions crafted by pedagogical experts, users themselves powered by AI and earn incentives.

• 5. Play Collaborative and Educational Games: Accumulate incentives to unlock new features:These games include activities like growing a friendship tree, co-parenting digital pets, playing math/science/coding/AI games, creating literacy games, and exploring various academic and non-academic games.

With a creative and personalized design, we support students in developing life-ready skills, from early childhood to career development focusing on instilling competitive 21st-century skills. By completing missions online and offline, students gain knowledge in various subjects, uch as reading, writing, math, science, coding, and AI at any time and from anywhere. These missions play a crucial role in fostering problem-solving skills, technical and information literacy, critical thinking, and collaboration. Whether undertaken individually, in pairs, or groups, missions can also be self-created, adding a creative and enjoyable element to the learning process. Moreover, educators have the opportunity to design missions that challenge users, further enhancing the overall learning outcome.

From making friends to tackling challenging missions, engaging in debates with ChatGPT, and maintaining meaningful friendships, Moi Panda provides a comprehensive learning experience. Students learn new languages, explore diverse cultures, and hone social and communication skills in multiple languages, fostering cultural competence, emotional intelligence, global awareness, adaptability, and creativity.

Yes, sustainability and positive social impact are crucial components of our business. We concentrate on addressing Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 1, 3, 4, 5, 10, 11, 16, and 17, which cover no poverty, good health and well-being, quality education, gender equality, reduced inequalities, sustainable cities and communities, peace, justice, and strong institutions, and partnerships for the goals, respectively. Our primary social objective is to support migrant families worldwide in maintaining their cultural identity while adapting to their new environments. By connecting underserved immigrant communities with like-minded and diverse families, we aim to enhance their overall well-being, facilitate the preservation of mother languages and cultures, and foster a sense of belonging. Moi Panda is dedicated to improving the quality of home learning environments and nurturing children to become global citizens, contributing to a more sustainable, diverse, and inclusive future.

Social emotional well-being is also promoted through users gaining and applying coping skills, practicing gratitude and self care as well as engaging in safe online socialisation with peer support. Children will interact with other children as well as their own families, while adults will interact with each. In addition, cultural and language exchanges will occur as well, which enhances a person's well-being and educational aptitude at any age. The ultimate goal of creating global multicultural digital citizens affords people a greater chance of being able to take advantage of opportunities within their life, especially if they acquire one or more additional languages along the way.

 The poverty gap and inequality gap are bridged through free and affordable solutions that will bring a positive impact to marginal areas and beyond on both a personal and educational level. On the educational front, schools can engage students within the classroom to develop a wide variety of skills in any language by creating their own missions; therefore students and teacher both have the opportunity to develop multiple 21st century skills. Parents can make missions as well which will enhance their skills as well. This skill development is essential in the modern day. Effective communication skills for example are needed irregardless of age and location.

The online community created will consist of creative, smart, and sustainable values where everyone has an input. The community circles will be global in scope as well as potentially local as well, which allows for a varied focus. The AI capabilities enable for financial barriers to be minimalised while at the same time enhancing the capabilities for bold changes to occur through positive cross cultural interactions. Leveraging transformational data sciences can also help bring about change as well. The collaborations of the online community will also help in achieving the overall UN goals for 2030, in order to create a thriving, equitable, sustainable and peaceful future for all.

Moi Panda is an app supported on both Apple and Android devices. We use social network tech with multimedia solutions, and mobile game development tech. We are data-driven and have been designing AI and ML algorithms which will improve as users grow. We have been implementing generative AI and Adaptive AI in Learning and ChatGPT to help children form critical thinking and empower them with human skills.

We leverage Large Language Models (LLMs) and ChatGPT to enhance our AI-based educational systems, enabling real-time tracking of users' progress and personalized learning experiences. LLMs contribute to the creation of virtual peers for interactive communication, positively guiding children within our community. Furthermore, these models facilitate the analysis and evaluation of student activities, providing detailed reports for individual and team learning assessments. Continuous monitoring allows for personalized interventions, ensuring adaptive learning systems align with real-time assessments and enabling timely support from educators and parents.

Moi Panda stands as a unique innovator, seamlessly merging three distinct realms—social networking, Edtech and gaming. Unlike competitors, we masterfully combine these elements, with a primary focus on activating children's global competence through peer support. Notably, our solution integrates parents seamlessly, setting us apart from any identified competition.

We are a dedicated team of 12 global citizens, with 7 working full-time and 4 part-time, representing 11 nationalities and speaking 10 native languages. United by a shared vision as forward-thinking parents and driven to address challenges close to our hearts, we bring strong academic backgrounds from leading universities such as Stanford, Cambridge, Harvard, and UCL, coupled with world-class industry experience from companies like Spotify, Facebook, TikTok, Busuu, Lego, Finnair, and Supercell.

2 years full-time, started from April 2022.

We are a global company with a team of global citizens dedicated to preparing children to become global digital citizens. Our team is deeply committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion, and our mission is deeply personal to each member, as we have all faced and overcome various challenges related to migration. 

As citizens from the US, the UK, Finland, China, Vietnam, Spain, UAE, Croacia, South Korea, Russia and Estonia, our team is committed to diversity, equity and inclusion as well as volunteers from all around the world who have been attracted by the same mission.

As future-oriented parents with immigrant backgrounds, we understand the struggles and triumphs of migration at different levels. Every challenge we address is deeply personal to each team member, as we all share the same pain points that fuel our collective determination to find solutions.

Our commitment is unwavering—we will give our absolute best to overcome these challenges, persisting until we succeed, regardless of the effort required. In our hearts, we believe wholeheartedly in the meaningful mission we're on, foreseeing a profoundly positive social impact that will create a better future for both the next generations and ourselves.

Our team is not only deeply passionate but also uniquely qualified, boasting extensive education and years of experience in the consumer business with diverse skill sets. This diverse expertise positions us as a formidable team, ready to achieve our mission and vision.

Our leadership team is reflective of the global community we serve, bringing together individuals from various backgrounds, cultures, and identities. We believe that diversity is not just about representation but about actively creating an environment where every voice is heard, respected, and valued.

We bring strong cross-continent academic backgrounds from leading universities such as Stanford, Cambridge, Harvard, and UCL, coupled with world-class industry experience from companies like Spotify, Facebook, TikTok, Busuu, Lego, Finnair, and Supercell.Our team comprises top-notch talent, including senior tech engineers with a proven track record in developing world-class mobile applications; an AI/ML expert with AI/ML in learning; education innovators with over 20 years experience in pedagogical design and community building; agile and innovative designers specializing in gamification; and an award winning marketer. Anchoring the team is a seasoned business leader with over a decade of experience, fostering growth at Fortune 500 and listed companies, and possessing a Design and Innovation background from Stanford University. Backed by esteemed advisors like an Ed.D. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a Senior Education Specialist at the World Bank, as well as an MBE and board member of UKRI, venture partner, and former British Consul General to San Francisco; and successfully exited founders. Together, we bring a diverse set of skills and expertise to tackle challenges and innovate solutions to make the world better.

We operate on a subscription-based model catering to both individual customers (B2C) and businesses (B2B2C). Our subscribers unlock access to an exclusive VIP club through monthly subscriptions and can opt for premium features to enhance their experience. The freemium model helps bridge the gap between marginal groups and provides free access to fundamental services.

We initially launched with a B2C model, where 'C' signifies community, offering a free trial + subscription model. Our B2C clientele comprises single-culture families living abroad, open-minded local families seeking international connections, and multicultural, multilingual families. Simultaneously, we're strategically expanding into the B2B sector, collaborating with IB international schools and global corporations to enhance employee engagement. On the B2B front, we target local schools/daycares providing second language programs and international schools/daycares interested in fostering global friendships with institutions worldwide. Our revenue streams are diversified, including premium subscriptions and gamification monetization.

To achieve scalable growth, we're actively seeking funding from investors and grants/awards. Our freemium model facilitates user onboarding, providing a seamless transition to premium plans at €9.99/month for enhanced services. This approach not only expands our user base but also positions us to convert users into paying customers, creating a positive revenue pipeline.

The freemium model plays a pivotal role in our machine and AI algorithm training. As our user base grows, so does the efficacy of our technology. Leveraging a B2B2C model, we are targeting international schools to further broaden our reach. In our evolution, we envision transitioning into an ecosystem platform by offering an open API to collaborate with other service providers, enriching users' learning opportunities.

To achieve scalable growth, we're actively seeking funding from investors and grants/awards. Our freemium model facilitates user onboarding, providing a seamless transition to premium plans at €9.99/month for enhanced services. This approach not only expands our user base but also positions us to convert users into paying customers, creating a positive revenue pipeline.

The freemium model plays a pivotal role in our machine and AI algorithm training. As our user base grows, so does the efficacy of our technology. Leveraging a B2B2C model, we are targeting international schools to further broaden our reach. In our evolution, we envision transitioning into an ecosystem platform by offering an open API to collaborate with other service providers, enriching users' learning opportunities.

We forecast reaching a break-even point and achieving profitability in April 2025, with a target of 6000 paying customers and three successful deals with international schools.

To catalyze our growth, we're aiming to leverage this prize to reach 200,000 free users over the next 12 months, anticipating a 5% conversion rate to paying customers. If we achieve this target, with 10,000 paying users, our annual revenue is projected to exceed €1 million. This strategic approach not only expands our user base significantly but also positions us for substantial revenue growth in the near future

As we scale up, our growth strategy is aligned with the support of global leading universities and their community network. Our current focus is on B2C (Community) organic growth, engaging families, and initiating collaborations with IB schools and global corporations for employee family relocation and engagement. Additionally, our versatile solution is well-suited for B2G initiatives, offering the potential for rapid scaling with broader coverage. Participating in this competition is not only an opportunity to showcase our innovation but also a means to acquire valuable knowledge and networking resources that will contribute to our enhanced scalability.

The Moi Panda app is accessible on both Apple and Android devices, ensuring a global reach for anyone with a WiFi connection. Our commitment to fostering global citizenship and multicultural learning is reflected in the app's design, which transcends geographic boundaries. The user interface is intentionally simple, practical, and minimizes language barriers through visual graphics. Catering to different age groups, the app offers varying levels of complexity and includes a parental/familial assistant component.

Operated on a freemium model, the app encourages easy access, facilitating a growing user base that enhances machine learning and AI algorithms. Looking forward, we envision the evolution of Moi Panda into an ecosystem platform. Our goal is to provide an open API, fostering collaborations with other service providers and expanding learning opportunities for users. Moreover, the app's proactive utility shines as families can utilize it before relocating to a new city or country, allowing children to establish friendships in advance.