WhiteHat Jr is arming kids with coding skills and making their bright ides shine

If there’s anything I can tell you about kids today, it is that they’re full of potential and pick up things like coding a lot more naturally than perhaps people from an earlier generation,” Karan Bajaj, founder and CEO of WhiteHat Jr, tells The Telegraph.

Founded in 2018 by the former Discovery Networks CEO, WhiteHat Jr. teaches children to code. The online platform has seen over 250,000 student trials, over 500,000 student projects created, over 1,000 teachers onboarded and 100 per cent month-on-month student and revenue growth. And it has translated into the company’s Silicon Valley Programme, which has chosen 12 Indian kids aged between six and 16 years from across India and — if the coronavirus situation gets tackled — they would soon visit Silicon Valley to pitch their ideas to noted VCs there. Here’s what Karan Bajaj told us.