{"id":48726,"date":"2018-05-21T00:11:51","date_gmt":"2018-05-20T23:11:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/startups-100\/?p=48726"},"modified":"2018-05-21T16:01:06","modified_gmt":"2018-05-21T15:01:06","slug":"37-hownow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/startups-100\/2018\/37-hownow\/","title":{"rendered":"37. HowNow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Founder:&nbsp;<\/strong>Nelson Sivalingam<br>\n<strong>Founded:&nbsp;<\/strong>June 2015 (Launched January 2016)<br>\n<strong>Website:&nbsp;<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/learnhownow.com\/\">www.learnhownow.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>HowNow is the brainchild of Sri Lankan-born award-winning filmmaker and entrepreneur Nelson Sivalingam.<\/p>\n<p>As well as <a href=\"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/startups-100\/2017\/73-hownow\/\">two previous appearances in the Startups 100<\/a>, Sivalingam has been recognised by Virgin Media Business as one of the top 30 young innovative founders in the country, and featured in North American magazine <em>Anokhi<\/em>&rsquo;s annual list of noteworthy South Asians from around the world, alongside the managing editor of <em>Huffington Post<\/em> and Miss America.<\/p>\n<p>His latest venture HowNow is a cloud-based platform that allows those with expertise and skills (&lsquo;educators&rsquo;) to teach what they know. The platform equips users with the tools needed to create, deliver and monetise digital learning through their own websites.<\/p>\n<p>Educators pay a monthly or annual subscription to licence the HowNow software, which gives them the ability to post interactive videos, broadcast webinars to up to 1,000 learners, teach one-to-one or group virtual classes, create articles and audio content, and create smart assessments to track the progress of their learners.<\/p>\n<p>Prices start at &pound;29 per month plus 10% commission for the starter plan, &pound;79 per month plus 5% commission for the essentials plan, and &pound;299 per month with no commission for the growth plan.<\/p>\n<p>Since launch in January 2016, over 600 educators from 30 countries have turned their &ldquo;passion into profit&rdquo; by joining the platform.<\/p>\n<p>Users include teachers, social media influencers, universities and corporates, with the software being used to create online schools for everything from singing to photography.<\/p>\n<p>Not satisfied with 600 customers, HowNow will use the next year to grow the number of educators on its platform and develop the platform further to &ldquo;build an ecosystem of apps that help deliver the best teaching and learning experience online&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<p>In 12 to 18 months, Sivalingam expects to be able to raise growth funding and fulfil his mission to &ldquo;empower educators everywhere to educate anyone anywhere&rdquo;.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Founder:&nbsp;Nelson Sivalingam Founded:&nbsp;June 2015 (Launched January 2016) Website:&nbsp;www.learnhownow.com HowNow is the brainchild of Sri Lankan-born award-winning filmmaker and entrepreneur Nelson Sivalingam. 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