Onion Academy

“130 million cumulative registered students (1/3 of all Chinese K-12 students), 4 million registered teachers, 2,000+ deeply served schools annually”

“We can see every second of every video — for example, student pause rate, including dropout rate, rewind rate. Based on these peaks, the system will alert teachers to pay attention.”

“Our first investor, strictly speaking, should be Chen Xinmorningside's Founder, Chen Lezong, Jara Chan — he used a family foundation to invest the first sum of money in us.”

“Computer science graduate of Harvard. Started doing rural education charity work in 2010 before founding the company in 2013.”

“Good learning methods can lower the threshold of autonomous learning — it's just that in the overseas environment versus the domestic environment there are some differences. One very important reason is that China's learning content is genuinely harder than overseas content.”

“A US private school (mentioned in passing) where students only attend formal instruction for 2 hours/day, with AI assistance and heavy active output in the afternoon. Annual tuition: $60,000 USD.”