Three former Google employees are working on a new AI-powered learning app for kids called Sparkli. The tool uses generative AI to turn kids’ curiosity into interaction-based learning. The platform blends voice, visuals, games, and storytelling to answer children’s questions more engagingly. With the new learning platform, the founders aim to move beyond static texts and traditional learning.
Three former Google founders working on Sparkli: AI-powered learning app for kids
Three former Google employees, Lax Poojary, Lucie Marchand, and Myn Kang, are working on a kids’ learning app, Sparkli . Poojary and Kang, both parents, said existing AI tools often serve long explanations that fail to hold a child’s attention. They say that their experience at Google’s Area 120 incubator taught them how to prototype quickly, but the parenting revealed the actual real-world problem.
Kids do not want to read just answers, but they want to explore ideas. This insight pushed the founders to shape Sparkli as an interactive learning tool, not just an everyday AI chatbot. When a kid asks a question, the platform returns not just with a text answer but with chapters that mix audio, images, short videos, quizzes, and games. Children can choose paths, listen or read, and move forward without pressure to be right.
The platform helps the kids to be engaged and focused
The learning app is said to be designed in such a way that it helps kids stay engaged longer and return daily. It further helps the kid build habits around exploration, subjects, and soft skills. The platform focuses heavily on pedagogy and safety. The startup has also hired an educational researcher and a teacher to shape age-appropriate content for kids aged five to twelve.
To make the learning safe, certain topics have been restricted. The founders add that they’ve already started testing the tool in educational institutes. Using it, the teachers can assign expeditions, track progress, and use in-app features to support discussion-based classes across diverse subjects and topics. They plan to work closely with school partners before opening consumer access to parents later this year.
