How Panshul, Jad, and Yueqi Founded a Platform for Educational Accessibility

Three students, one shared problem

Panshul was in India, Jad was in Lebanon, and Yueqi was in China — but all three had noticed the same gap: students in under-resourced schools had almost no access to quality study materials in their own languages. When they were matched together in an Ámaxa cohort, the problem felt obvious. The solution took longer to find.

Over twelve weeks, the team built EduBridge — a lightweight web platform that aggregates free, open-licensed educational content and organizes it by subject, grade level, and language. No account required. No ads. Just resources.

Building across borders

The hardest part, Jad says, wasn't the technology — it was the coordination. With a 10-hour time difference between team members, every decision required advance planning. "We learned to leave very detailed notes for each other," he says. "It made us better communicators than any class ever did."

EduBridge launched in its beta form at the end of the cohort with content in four languages and resources for grades 6 through 12. In the month after launch, it received over 800 unique visitors — most of them from regions the team had specifically tried to reach.