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Read Bean

Learn language with real-world content, at your level

Y CombinatorSummer 2023ActiveConsumerAI-Enhanced LearningEducationeLearning

What they do

Problem

Intermediate-to-advanced language learners struggle to improve reading literacy with authentic content that is appropriately leveled and reinforces vocabulary over time.

Solution

Read Bean is an app that assesses a user's reading level and automatically converts real-world texts into personalized, bite-sized lessons that adapt as the user progresses.

Who it's for

Intermediate-to-advanced language learners and heritage speakers who want to improve literacy using real-world content.

Founders

Maggie Zhang
Founder

CEO at Read Bean. Studied CS @ MIT and previously bootstrapped an e-comm business to 200k followers, quant traded at virtu, built software at bloomberg, and was in management consulting at bain.

Savannah Liu
Founder

COO at Read Bean. Built a payment pipeline at Amazon that did $2B in TPV and made a security layer at Flatiron health.

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