# Darsel

> Darsel is an education-technology nonprofit that teaches K-12 math over the messaging apps students already have. Instead of an app or a laptop, students practice curriculum-aligned questions through SMS, WhatsApp, and Facebook Messenger, and an AI-powered chatbot delivers hints, explanations, and personalized practice while auto-grading homework and reporting progress to teachers. Founded by Stanford MBA and MIT alum Abdulhamid Haidar during the COVID-19 lockdowns, Darsel has grown from a spring-break prototype to a platform used across Jordan, India, and Nigeria, reaching hundreds of thousands of students who have answered hundreds of millions of math questions.

- **Founded:** 2021
- **Headquarters:** Stanford, California, United States (operations in Amman, Jordan)
- **Founders:** Abdulhamid Haidar (Founder & CEO)
- **Team size:** ~5-32 (5 reported by Y Combinator; up to 32 listed in aggregated data sources, including a Jordan-based teacher support team)
- **Products:** Darsel Math Chatbot, Question Library, Teacher Dashboard & Auto-Grading
- **Notable:** Grew from 100 schools in Jordan (2022) to 2,700+ schools across Jordan, India, and Nigeria (2025)., Students have answered 269,000,000+ math questions on the platform (as of July 2025)., Selected for the 2025 Google.org Accelerator: Generative AI - one of only 20 organizations worldwide.

## Products & services

- **Darsel Math Chatbot** — An AI-powered tutor that delivers curriculum-aligned math practice, hints, and explanations to students through SMS, WhatsApp, and Facebook Messenger, using adaptive algorithms to personalize learning and target knowledge gaps.
- **Question Library** — A library of 500,000+ curriculum-aligned math questions with hints and step-by-step explanations, spanning multiple grade levels and languages.
- **Teacher Dashboard & Auto-Grading** — Tools that let teachers assign homework the platform auto-grades, and receive data reports on individual and classroom student progress and skill assessment.

## Achievements

- Grew from 100 schools in Jordan (2022) to 2,700+ schools across Jordan, India, and Nigeria (2025).
- Students have answered 269,000,000+ math questions on the platform (as of July 2025).
- Selected for the 2025 Google.org Accelerator: Generative AI - one of only 20 organizations worldwide.
- Winner of The Tools Competition for AI-driven math tutoring in low-connectivity settings.
- Y Combinator Winter 2022 batch company.
- Backed by Mulago Foundation and DRK Foundation, and won Stanford's Social Innovation Fellowship (2021).

## Latest updates

- **2025-06** — Selected for the 2025 Google.org Accelerator: Generative AI cohort (one of 20 organizations).
- **2025-07** — Reported reaching 264,000+ students and 269,000,000+ math questions answered across Jordan, India, and Nigeria.
- **2025** — Partnered with the Lagos State Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education to reach 15,000+ Grade 9 students, delivering 5 million personalized answers.

## Links

- Website: https://darsel.tech
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/darsel
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/darseltech
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/DarselTech

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Last updated: 2026-07-06