{"id":46354,"date":"2016-05-16T01:31:19","date_gmt":"2016-05-16T00:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/startups.co.uk\/startups-100\/?p=46354"},"modified":"2021-06-25T11:40:02","modified_gmt":"2021-06-25T10:40:02","slug":"92-schoop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/startups.co.uk\/startups-100\/2016\/92-schoop\/","title":{"rendered":"92. Schoop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Founders: <\/strong>Paul Smith and Chris Hamblin<br>\n<strong>Founded: <\/strong>February 2013 (Launched October 2014)<br>\n<strong>Website: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.schoop.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.schoop.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s a familiar conversation: &ldquo;How was school?&rdquo; &ndash; to which the only reply is, &ldquo;fine&rdquo;, or worse, &ldquo;boring&rdquo;. Kids can be unforthcoming about their education, leaving parents in the dark about how their child is performing.<\/p>\n<p>As a father of two, Paul Smith was only too aware of this problem and decided to do something about it. Using his 19 years of experience as a tech entrepreneur working with the likes of Richard Branson, he launched Schoop: a multilingual, online communication platform giving teachers a way to tell parents about what their children have been learning in school. The company claims that, because kids are aware that there is now a direct line between parent and teacher, they perform and behave better and are more likely to ask for help when needed. Customers (schools) pay an annual fee, equating to around &pound;1.95 per child, per year, to receive a unique Schoop ID, which they pass on to subscribers (parents).<\/p>\n<p>Since launch in October 2014, 350 UK schools have signed up to the service, as well as a host of businesses, charities, community groups, sports clubs, health services and even a choir. And Smith and co-founder Chris Hamblin don&rsquo;t plan to stop there. After consolidating its expansion plans in the UK, Schoop will take advantage of strategic partnerships to expand across the US, Australia, the EU and beyond&hellip;<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Founders: Paul Smith and Chris Hamblin Founded: February 2013 (Launched October 2014) Website: www.schoop.co.uk It&rsquo;s a familiar conversation: &ldquo;How was school?&rdquo; &ndash; to which the only reply is, &ldquo;fine&rdquo;, or worse, &ldquo;boring&rdquo;. Kids can be unforthcoming about their education, leaving parents in the dark about how their child is performing. As a father of two, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91469,"featured_media":46355,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[180],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-180"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n<title>92. Schoop - Startups 100 by Startups.co.uk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/startups.co.uk\/startups-100\/2016\/92-schoop\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"92. 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