Investment
Capital and strategic investors who understand education, consumer learning products, trust, and the patience required to build durable products.
LearnAstra founder. Technology executive. Product builder.
Anup Rai
Building LearnAstra into a portfolio of learning, literacy, memory, and reasoning products.
LearnAstra is open to aligned investment conversations, distribution partnerships, school and library relationships, education partners, and product collaborations. The portfolio is live, active, and grounded in a long operating background at Goldman Sachs and Consumer Reports.
20+
years leading web, product, and platform work
30+
apps and digital properties across Goldman Sachs client platforms
$12M
revenue line built at Consumer Reports from a $200K initiative
10k+
organic users in the first month for LearnAstra products
Investment and partnerships
LearnAstra is open for aligned business relationships.
The company is building a focused product family across literacy, vocabulary, memory, logic, and professional AI training. I am interested in conversations that bring capital, distribution, institutional access, content relationships, or operating leverage to the portfolio.
Schools and libraries
School districts, libraries, literacy organizations, and program leaders interested in KRKB reading programs, challenges, and reporting.
Education partners
Tutoring companies, test-prep groups, curriculum teams, and language-learning partners that can extend Word Genie or LearnAstra Academy.
Product relationships
Business development, distribution, content, licensing, and product partnerships that help the portfolio reach more learners.
Portfolio
LearnAstra products create several ways to work together.
Each product has a different market surface, but they share the same operating thesis: learning should feel useful, personal, and trustworthy. The portfolio gives LearnAstra room for direct-to-consumer growth, institutional partnerships, and professional training.
Consumer products with organic early traction and clear habit loops
School, library, tutoring, and professional education partnership paths
Mobile and web products built with React Native, TypeScript, Laravel, Supabase, and cloud services
AI features with moderation, review loops, and privacy in mind
Literacy platform
KRKB
A reading engagement platform for kids, families, schools, and libraries, with a clear path into pilots, literacy programs, and institutional relationships.
- Kid-led reviews, stories, quizzes, clubs, badges, and reading challenges
- Teacher, school librarian, public librarian, parent, and student workflows
- School/library plan, moderation, age-safe discovery, and reporting groundwork
Language learning
Word Genie
A vocabulary and language mastery app with partnership paths for tutoring groups, test-prep programs, schools, and consumer distribution.
- React Native mobile app with local SQLite and sync-first architecture
- Voice grading, deck generation, reading passages, and writing feedback
- Organic traction and premium learning model without ad-driven monetization
Executive education
LearnAstra Academy
A professional training product for engineers and leaders who need working fluency in agents, RAG systems, evaluation, and production-grade delivery.
- Live intensive training for agent and RAG architecture
- Capstone-oriented learning tied to portfolio-grade systems
- Partner fit for corporate training, bootcamps, agencies, and consulting teams
Logic game
Agency
A logic game concept with room for premium mobile, puzzle content partnerships, and a differentiated audience beyond casual play.
- Constraint-based gameplay with explicit logic validation
- React Native and Skia direction for mobile-first delivery
- Product philosophy: no filler, no pay-to-win mechanics
Memory product
Memvoy
A personal memory product for families, creators, and communities that want digital history to become prompts, quizzes, stories, and reflection.
- AI-assisted memory surfacing and narrative generation
- Designed around personal archives, nostalgia, and family connection
- Potential fit for family media, genealogy, creator, and photo/archive partnerships
KRKB
KRKB is the clearest school and library partnership path.
KRKB brings together book discovery, reviews, story publishing, quizzes, reading programs, educator tools, parent flows, moderation, reporting, and admin operations in one Laravel platform. It is built for conversations with schools, libraries, literacy organizations, and funders who care about reading engagement.
Reader experience
Kids can review books, record reactions, write and publish stories, take quizzes, follow activity, earn badges, and join clubs or reading challenges.
School and library tools
The platform includes classrooms, roster imports, student join paths, Reading Programs, curated shelves, setup checklists, and impact-report direction.
Safety and trust
KRKB has AI moderation queues, age classification auditing, COPPA/FERPA/privacy pages, adult review patterns, and admin workflows for child-facing content.
Back-office systems
The platform uses queue-based AI jobs for moderation, author/book enrichment, image restoration, demo-data generation, and reviewable admin approvals.
Career
A career spent shipping consequential platforms.
2022 - 2025
Goldman Sachs
Digital Transformation and Technology Lead, Client Apps
Led global teams across goldmansachs.com and related digital platforms, overseeing 30+ applications for executive office, marketing, analytics, Salesforce, Qualtrics, Braze, Algolia, Figma, and related ecosystems.
- Modernized legacy CMS platforms toward scalable AEM headless architecture with React and Next.js
- Aligned engineering, marketing, analytics, compliance, accessibility, and cybersecurity goals
- Delivered 30% organic traffic lift, faster content delivery, and 99.9% uptime patterns
2006 - 2022
Consumer Reports
Senior Director of Web Engineering
Progressed from Java developer to senior engineering leader while modernizing digital platforms, commerce workflows, CMS architecture, APIs, performance, QA automation, and team development.
- Scaled a shopping initiative from $200K to $12M in annual revenue
- Reduced content delivery time from 12 hours to minutes through headless CMS and microservices
- Built training and advancement systems that converted QA talent into engineers and leaders
2025 - Present
LearnAstra
Founder & Principal
Building a portfolio of products across literacy, vocabulary, logic, memory, and professional AI education while staying close to product, architecture, and delivery.
- Built a portfolio spanning EdTech, literacy, logic games, memory, and professional AI education
- Created production patterns for RAG, agents, vector search, mobile AI, and moderation
- Combined enterprise governance with founder-speed product execution
How I work
Calm architecture. Fast execution. Clear ownership.
Scale without theater
Make the architecture clear enough to last, the roadmap concrete enough to move, and the work visible enough to trust.
Use AI where it helps
Put AI inside practical workflows: feedback, search, moderation, learning, and operations. Keep human review where judgment matters.
Own the outcome
Strategy, code, systems, teams, launch, reliability, and the awkward details after launch. The whole thing counts.
Contact
Investment, partnerships, and business relationships.
Reach out for LearnAstra investment conversations, KRKB school and library partnerships, Word Genie education partnerships, Academy training relationships, or product and distribution opportunities across the portfolio.