Edtech startup Baims has acquired Egypt-based one-to-one tutoring edtech Platform Orcas. With Orcas on board, Baims now proudly offers a comprehensive suite of educational services, including recorded content, live sessions, and personalized 1:1 tutoring, catering to K-12 students.
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This acquisition marks Baims ambitious expansion into new markets including Egypt and the UAE. Following the acquistion, Baims will function in six nations (Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Jordan, Egypt, and the UAE), providing live and pre-recorded programming in addition to one-on-one tutoring for K-12 and higher education.
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“We want to be a one-stop shop solution for K12 and university students in MENA. We believe that the future of learning is personalized and that we should be able to offer most services to students,” Yousef AlHusaini, CEO of Baims, tells Inc. Arabia. “Our vision is to create a 360° overview for the student journey–to be a study companion offering academic content tailored to schools and universities.”
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“We’ve always wanted to create a one-to-one tutoring service, and Orcas has the best product and the best team. There is great synergy between Baims and Orcas. We are building an international company that serves multiple countries,” says Alhusaini.
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“Orcas and Baims share the same vision. We both believe that students have different learning styles and there’s a broad spectrum of learners. So if you want to make an impact and dominate edtech, you have to intelligently integrate different learning techniques so they can complete each other,” Hossam Taher, co-founder and CEO of Orcas, tells. He adds that the product and segment synergy between the two companies will allow the newly consolidated Baims to target every segment of learners, from kindergarteners and high school students to university students and lifelong learners.
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About Baims
Founded in 2018 by Yousef AlHusaini & Bader AlRasheed, Baims is an ed-tech start-up that allows top academic instructors to teach and students to study anytime and anywhere at a fraction of today’s cost. Baims’s courses and platform are specifically focused and organized based on each university’s curriculum, catering down to the specific question students would expect to get on their own class exams.
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