Our one-line pitch is…
Ucha.se is a platform with educational videos and exercises in every subject, which help pupils learn more efficiently and improve their results at school.
Introduce your team, and tell us one interesting thing about each member. We are…
Darin Madzharov is the founder and CEO. He quit working on his Ph.D. in order to start Ucha.se.
Nikolay Zheynov is a co-founder and is responsible for Product Development. He came back home to Bulgaria after 10 years abroad in order to work for Ucha.se and other small creative projects.
Maria Nikolova used to be a chemistry teacher. She quit her job after 21 years of teaching experience. She used the videos in the classroom and witnessed the success of Ucha.se’s educational videos. She believes that online education is more efficient and thus now works for Ucha.se.
Branded – it’s easy to spot the Ucha.se gang Photo credit: Ucha.se
We received our initial capital through…
LAUNCHub, a Bulgarian seed and acceleration fund. We received 30K euros.
The real pain about starting a business in Bulgaria is…
The small and conservative market.
The people that inspire us are…
Our users because they share extraordinary success stories every day. The positive feedback they send us about our product gives us confidence.
The one app/service that we couldn’t live without is…
Gmail. A lot of our organisational flow goes through email and Gmail helps a lot.
The one thing we would save from our burning office is…
Dale Carnegie’s book “How to win friends and influence people”. Although we can buy it again from the store, we’d like to stick with the original. It has helped us so much in our work that we have a lot of respect for it.
The worst piece of advice we ever got was…
That no one would care about Ucha.se. Now, a year later, we have close to 3 million watched videos – just through word of mouth.
The one thing that will make us quit is…
If we lose our passion. There is no point in doing something you aren’t passionate about.
Our inside joke is…
That we create a sensitive product for pupils and their parents, and enjoy parties at the same time…sometimes even too much 🙂
You might not believe it, but we…
Are often told that we are the main hope for a positive change in the field of education in Bulgaria. People write us encouraging letters and tell us that they would vote for us if we were politicians.
We’ll call ourselves successful when…
The business becomes sustainable and we can enter other markets.
The startup we really want to see on inventures’ Startup Pick is…
Playground Energy.
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