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Why the education system isn't working (and nobody's fixing it) | The Innovamat Case - Andreu Dotti

2026-04-29 · 2 company · 5 thematic
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andreu dotti

Civil engineer turned entrepreneur who founded Innovamat in 2017 after running a university math tutoring academy. Partnered with PhD math-education researchers to build a research-backed, teacher-centric K-12 math program now serving 600k students in 9 countries.

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Education Technologytailwindscore 8/10andreu dotti
Teacher-centric model beats student-facing apps in K-12 math adoption
Innovamat's core insight is that improving math outcomes requires empowering teachers with pedagogical content knowledge and classroom management tools, not giving students adaptive softwar…
Education Technologytailwindscore 9/10andreu dotti
RCT evidence with 0.22 effect size creates defensible moat in evidence-based procurement era
Independent randomized controlled trials (WestEd in US, Germina in LatAm) showing 0.22 standard-deviation gains — well above the 0.10 education benchmark — give Innovamat a credible proof p…
Education Technologymixedscore 7/10jesús
EdTech sales cycles are annual, budget-replacement driven, and highly seasonal
Schools buy once per year (March–June) from fixed budgets; new vendors must replace an existing line item (textbooks) rather than ask for incremental spend, making distribution a substituti…
Education Technologytailwindscore 8/10andreu dotti
Parallel multi-country launch with local-founder pairs accelerates international PMF discovery
Innovamat launched six countries simultaneously in 2021 using paired teams (one internal operator, one local hire) to plant seeds and learn which markets would scale, accepting 2–3 year fee…
Education Technologytailwindscore 7/10andreu dotti
Operational complexity (print + manipulatives + software + PD + logistics) is a replicable but hard-to-copy moat
Innovamat ships physical kits, runs teacher PD, manages supply chains across continents, and provides ongoing coaching — a full-stack service model that pure software or pure publishers str…