TL;DR: Launchpad Toys is a Y Combinator Summer 2011 startup Creativity at Play. Tablet toys. Acquired by Google, 2015., currently acquired with a team of 2.
Creativity at Play. Tablet toys. Acquired by Google, 2015.
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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 disciplin…
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Yes. Launchpad Toys was funded by Y Combinator in the Summer 2011 batch. 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. In both art and dramatic play, children construct settings, create fictio…
Launchpad Toys was part of Y Combinator's Summer 2011 batch.
Launchpad Toys has a team of 2 people according to Y Combinator's directory.
Launchpad Toys is currently listed as Acquired with a team of 2 in Y Combinator's directory.
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