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Launchpad Toys (YC S11) — Creativity at Play. tablet toys. acquired by Google, 2015

We're creating digital toys and tools that empower kids to create, learn & share their ideas through play. Give a young child a couple of toys or a box of crayons and he or she is likely to play for hours, deeply engrossed in an imaginary world.

Launchpad Toys is a Y Combinator company in the Summer 2011 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: Creativity at Play. Tablet toys. Acquired by Google, 2015. The founders listed are Thushan Amarasiriwardena (Founder), Andy Russell (Founder) (Y Combinator directory entry, January 17, 2012).

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Launchpad Toys

New accelerator entry · 2012-01-17 · the record

Summer 2011
batch
2
people
Early
stage
United States of America
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What the record says

BatchSummer 2011
Announced2012-01-17
StageEarly
StatusAcquired
Team size2
IndustryConsumer
Sub-industryConsumer -> Gaming
SectorsEducation, Gaming
RegionsUnited States of America, America / Canada
BasedSan Francisco, CA, USA
HiringNo
Sitehttp://launchpadtoys.com
Founded2010

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We're creating digital toys and tools that empower kids to create, learn & share their ideas through play. Give a young child a couple of toys or a box of crayons and he or she is likely to play for hours, deeply engrossed in an imaginary world. In both art and dramatic play, children construct settings, create fictional characters, and act out fantastic storylines that would be the envy of many Hollywood scriptwriters. Yet, ask that same child to write out a story in a blank notebook or a word processor and you would be lucky to capture a fraction of the depth and splendor of his or her imagination. Play inspires and scaffolds the creative process from an early age, but there is a persistent gap between the origins of imaginative play (ages 4-5) and kids' adoption of the formal discipline of creative writing (ages 8-10). At Launchpad Toys, we're using mobile devices like the iPad to bridge this gap between informal and formal learning, to harness the power of play to help children capture and share their ideas with other kids around the world. Our first product, Toontastic an app for the iPad, is a creative learning tool that blends constructionist and social development theories to empower young children to create, learn, and share their ideas through play.

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