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TeachTown Started With Autism Software. The Bigger Business Was the Whole Classroom.
The Woburn-born edtech company found its real market by moving beyond screen time: scripted lessons, physical books, teacher training and automatic data for the students general-ed publishers tend to overlook.
The Three Moms Who Built a Projector to Un-Glue Kids From Tablets
Three mothers, one pandemic, and a stubborn belief that kids deserve stories on the ceiling instead of screens in their hands. Tikino turned that idea into a profitable hardware company - without spending a euro on ads.
Maka Kids
Maka Kids is a Detroit-based children's media company building an ad-free, algorithm-free streaming app for kids ages 0 to 6. Founded in 2023 by Isabel Sheinman and Tanyella Leta, the company designs screen time around child well-being rather than engagement. Every piece of content is scored against Maka Imprint, a patent-pending developmental framework built over two years of research with the Yale Child Study Center that maps seven domains of early childhood development across more than 650 indicators. Maka raised $3 million in seed funding led by Michigan Rise in May 2026.