Stop Surviving
the Classroom.
Start Building the Future of Ed.
Leap Foundr turns experienced educators into technical co-founders. In 8 weeks, you'll build your own AI tutoring app — then we place you inside an EdTech startup where your classroom insight becomes an unfair advantage.
Applications open for Cohort 2 · 8-week intensive · Remote-first
Three steps from burnout to breakthrough.
We Find You
We seek out exceptional teachers who have the pedagogical instincts no engineer can learn in a bootcamp — then show them a different path.
We Build You
Intensive, cohort-based program. You ship a real AI tutoring app from scratch. Curriculum covers full-stack dev, LLM integration, product design, and go-to-market fundamentals.
We Place You
We match you with a vetted EdTech startup that needs exactly what you have: deep pedagogical expertise plus fresh technical skills. You join as co-founder.
Every EdTech startup needs what you already have.
Engineers building education software have never taught a class. They prototype in the dark — guessing at how students actually learn, what makes teachers trust a tool, or why classroom dynamics break the best-designed UX.
You have 10,000 hours of tacit pedagogical knowledge. That's not a soft skill — it's the hardest thing to fake in EdTech. We give you the technical toolkit; you bring the domain depth no engineer can buy.
- ✓You know how students actually process new concepts
- ✓You know why most ed-tech tools fail in real classrooms
- ✓You know the workflows teachers need to trust new software
- ✓You know curriculum gaps no product manager will ever see
Teachers understand learning better than any engineer alive. That's not a head start — that's a moat.
Your next lesson is building a company.
Applications for Cohort 2 are open now. Spots are limited — we only accept teachers who are ready to build.
No coding experience required · 8-week remote program · Placement or your money back