Three former Googlers are building Sparkli, an AI-powered learning app for kids ages 5–12. In about two minutes, Sparkli creates interactive “expeditions” around a topic—mixing audio, video, quizzes, and choose-your-own-adventure paths instead of long blocks of text. The team has raised a $5M pre-seed round led by Founderful and is already piloting the product with a school network that reaches more than 100,000 students. There’s also a teacher dashboard that helps track progress and assign homework.

If Sparkli works as intended, schools won’t see it as a replacement for teachers, but as a kind of homework co-pilot. That distinction matters, especially as AI tools for kids face growing legal pressure around safety, privacy, and learning quality. The company plans to grow through school pilots first, then open consumer access in mid-2026, though adoption will depend heavily on slow school procurement and data reviews. Long term, retention may come down to whether Sparkli can build habit-forming engagement loops—Duolingo-style—in an increasingly crowded AI-for-kids market.

💡 Investors want startups to lose money again. After 2023 punished unprofitable companies, the script has flipped. In this episode, Caya breaks down why profitability suddenly matters less — and how AI has reshaped fundraising so that more money is flowing to fewer startups.

We explain the current funding cycle, why milestones matter more than burn right now, how seed and pre-seed rounds quietly ballooned into old-school Series A sizes, and what founders actually need to optimize for if they plan to raise again.

If you’re fundraising this year, this video is about knowing which currency investors care about — and when that inevitably changes.

Bezos’ space company just introduced TeraWave, a satellite communications network designed for enterprises, governments, and data centers—not everyday consumers. The idea is a multi-orbit backbone: low-Earth-orbit satellites handling up to 144 Gbps via radio frequency links, paired with a medium-Earth-orbit layer that aims to move data at massive scale using optical links, eventually reaching 6 terabits per second. The first satellites aren’t expected to launch until late 2027, which leaves plenty of room for the usual rocket-schedule delays.

TeraWave isn’t about stealing home internet customers. It’s positioned as infrastructure insurance for AI workloads, national networks, and remote industrial operations—essentially “space as a disaster recovery site”. If it works, it could put pressure on Starlink’s enterprise offerings and blur lines with Amazon’s own LEO ambitions. The real questions will be around capital spending, terminal availability, spectrum approvals, and whether the service-level agreements can actually deliver when things go wrong on Earth, like fiber cuts or connectivity in contested regions.