# Grey Software Startup Accelerator Content ###### tags: `Revenue` `Growth` ### What is the founder's background? Tell us a little bit about yourself. (500 chars) I'm Arsala, a technological problem solver from Kohat who is passionate about building an open-source society oriented towards freedom, beauty, and meaning. I studied Computer Science at UTM, where I discovered my passion for teaching and building technology. I'm a curious and open-minded man who doesn't believe fear is a valid reason to not pursue an aim. I have interned at Google and Vida Health, and I coordinated the Hacklab at UTM. I founded Grey Software where I am currently president. ### Short bio in bullet points detailing the experience and accomplishments of you and any other co-founding team members. (500 chars) I have interned at Google and Vida Health as a software developer. I worked with academics from UofT and NE on a paper presented at VLDB 2019 https://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol12/p1842-choi.pdf I worked with a team of students to create an OSS WEBRTC-based audio & video streaming app. https://toonin.grey.software I built an OSS Android app to help users get better at Mental Math. https://youtu.be/ceACiAdXSDc It is now a web app https://material-math.grey.software ### If you started or worked in a startup previously, please explain what happened - did the company exit, fail, or did you separate? I previously interned at Vida Health, a health-tech start-up where I was an android developer. ### Describe your Company/Idea #### In 100 characters or less We're democratizing education through open-source software that you can trust, love, & learn from. #### In 150 characters or less We are increasing access to open and affordable education by creating software that people can trust, love, and learn from. ### How far along are you and how long have you been working on this company? I formally started working on the company full-time in May 2020 by joining the Pioneer global startup tournament. Since then, we have collaborated with students around the world to build our infrastructure and products. We currently generate revenue through: - Github sponsors from individuals who we reward with premium features in our app collection apps - OpenCollective sponsors from companies who we reward with To date, we have received close to 3000 dollars in funding from individuals and angel investors. We have laid out our current and future objectives as Gitlab epics https://gitlab.com/groups/grey-software/-/epics ### What year did you start the Company? 2020 ### Briefly describe how the company generates, or will generate revenue? (500 chars) We currently receive sponsorships by individuals on Github Sponsors. https://github.com/sponsors/grey-software Our hope is to build products and infrastructure so that our sponsors receive premium versions of our suite of software for as little as $5 / month. We also plan to generate revenue by offering advertising space throughout our ecosystem. https://gitlab.com/groups/grey-software/-/epics/17 ### List the company's accomplishments, traction to-date, social proof, and if you have press releases please include them in bullets: - Our founder's approach of teaching software engineering with practical open source development has received great feedback from students https://org.grey.software/feedback/ - We partnered with a prominent engineering and technology university in Pakistan to run an open source apprenticeship program https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6776955647046025216 - We appeared twice during the Code for Cause Spring of cold video series. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNWd6fBPo1k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDU4aW6oNrE - We received 2 grants totalling INR 130,000 (~1700 USD) from @malpani and @catoverse - We received a 1000 USD donation from Joseph Jacks of the OpenCore summit - We were invited to speak at the University of Azad Jammu and Kashmir https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6731928808527601664 - We released a browser extension on the chrome and Mozilla marketplaces. https://org.grey.software/focused-browsing/#try-focused-browsing-today ### List some of the exciting things your company plans to do in the near future: - We plan to create EdTech apps for our open-source software collection by collaborating with @catoverse. The primary apps we will be focusing on are: - Material Math https://material-math.grey.software/ - Physics Hub https://physicshub.herokuapp.com/ - We plan to continue researching and developing our open source university student apprenticeship program so that we can effectively scale it to more universities around the world - We plan to partner with open source contributors and open source organizations to tackle more exciting and challenging problems https://hackmd.io/@grey-software/partership-strategy-brainstorming
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