Light of Hope is a social enterprise focused on developing future skills in children. It has developed a framework focusing on creativity, problem-solving, emotional intelligence and values. It provides interconnected services for children, teachers, parents and schools, including products, after-school programs, online courses and technical support. It has grown rapidly, now impacting over 100,000 children and providing training to over 6,000 teachers. Light of Hope is seeking investment to further scale its impact.

1. No matter where they born and which school they go, all children have
capacity to reach the full creative potential. – Wali, CEO, Light of Hope

2. 70% of primary-level children will enter in a job that doesn’t exist today.
Are we preparing our children for future?
70%

3. Light of Hope Ltd. is an uniquely
positioned startup focusing on
future skills of children. We are
currently the largest social
enterprise in Bangladesh directly
impacting over 100,000 children.
We developed our own Global ‘Future Skill Framework’ for children focusing on 4 areas:
Creativity, Problem-solving, Emotional Intelligence and Moral Values.
Every product and service
developed in-house and
interconnected with each other;
making it difficult to replicate and
scale for new competition.

4. BIG Question: How a startup can help millions of children to
acquire future skills?
Market Size
30 Million Children in Bangladesh
2.5 Million Children in Dhaka
1.5 Million Teachers
100,000+ primary schools
1000+ local & international NGOs
The market size calculation is only for Bangladesh. LoH is already offering some of it’s
products and services for international market.

5. Light of Hope Approach
We applied ‘first principles thinking’ to determine the building blocks to our
company. The questions we answered to develop our full solution to provide
future skills to children:
1. What are the most important groups (clients) that need to change?
2. What’s the most efficient method to bring those changes in large scale?
3. Can the solution bring revenue to reinvest to scale?
First Principles Thinking: Popularized by inventors like Elon Musk in recent times, first principles thinking
is basically the practice of actively questioning every assumption you think you ‘know’ about a given
problem or scenario – and then creating new knowledge and solution from scratch.

6. Light of Hope Solution
We developed a range of interconnected
services and solutions to directly impact
4 groups: Children, Teachers, Parents
and Schools.
Our products and services, individually,
can address a particular challenge and
scale throughout the country or
globally. And when put together, they
can give a life changing journey for a
child to acquire the most important
futures skills.
Why teachers: No school or education system is better than it’s teachers. The most
efficient and highest ROI comes when you develop skills of your teachers.
Why parents: Parents are the customers (who pays) and have huge influence on
child’s future. Mindset of parents determines the future education of a country.

7. Light of Hope Customers
From 2016, we’ve developed total 6
Solutions/Services to support children
to develop their future skills.
Our Clients (who benefits): Children,
Parents, Teacher and School
Our Customers (who pays): Parents,
Teachers, School, Govt., INGO, Donor,
Institutions and Organizations.

8. School Development
Program (SDP)
Technical
Support (TS)
Snapshot of 6 Services/Solutions that we are currently offering to our customers and
clients. Brief description of each service is covered in the next slides.
B2C Product/Services
B2B Services
All of the services and solutions mentioned above are already developed, tested and now
scaling up gradually. LoH has been reinvesting its revenue from 2016 to build all of these
services and now growing their impact and revenue.

9. Goofi is a global brand of Light of Hope that develops and delivers
products and contents for children to improve of child’s creativity,
problem-solving and emotional intelligence. Through it’s global
platform, it charges parents and teachers based on their country of
origin. (differentiation pricing model)
B2C Products & Services
Kids Time is the after-school program for 3-12 years old children offering
courses to improve future skills. There are 5 centers operating in Dhaka.
Besides, Kids Time works with other brands and organize events for
children on a regular basis.
www.kidstimebd.com
www.teacherstimebd.com
www.goofiworld.com
Teachers Time in the only platform in Bangladesh that offers both online
and offline courses for teachers and parents. It’s mission is to develop
skill to 1.5 million teachers and educate 30 million parents in
Bangladesh.

10. Sputnique is a solar-run multimedia solution fits inside a backpack
to connect children, parents, teachers and community members
located in rural off-grid areas. Sputnique can connect with Goofi and
Teachers Time to bring contents and solutionsanywhere, anytime at
a low-cost.
B2B Services
Through SDP, Light of Hope directly works with schools to set up
library, science lab, multimedia classroom and provide teacher
training to improve learning outcomes for children. 300+ schools
in Bangladesh are under this program.
Light of Hope design, pilot and implement innovativeeducation
projects with Govt., INGOs, NGOs and Donors in schools or organization’s
own children centers. Organizationslike Sesame Workshop, Save the
Children, DFAT, A2I, UNESCO etc. are some of our clients.
www.sputnique.xyz
School Development
Program (SDP)
Technical
Support (TS)

11. Products for Children
Light of Hope develops products for children that are now availablein Bangladesh and Globally.
We recently published our first Goofi Alphabet Series and Crafting Packages for children. There are
20 more series and 2 more Science Boxes are under production.
Currently the products are availableon major e-commerce platforms and in showroom, libraries
etc. The products are also available to purchase globally.

12. Product & Service Distribution
Model
One of the most innovative aspects of LoH is
it’s product and service distribution model
that takes a mix of online and offline delivery
channel.
This allows us to scale fast and efficiently,
get real feedback from customers and
improve.

13. Online Distribution Model of LoH Products/Services
LoH distributes through it’s own platform of Goofi, Kids Time and
Teachers Time directly to clients and customers.
Teachers Time offers it’s courses through other partner’s platform.
Muktopaath of A2I (Govt.) and Repto are two current partners who hosts
our online courses to reach more teachers and parents.
Own Platform Partner Platform Partner Channel
Own Platform
Partner Platform
Partner Channel
Contents and products are distributed through partner e-commerce
channellike Togumogu.com and rokomari.
Client

14. Physical Distribution Model of LoH Products/Services
LoH distributes through it’s own platform of Goofi, Kids Time and
Teachers Time directly to clients and customers.
Services like Teachers Time, School Development Program, Technical
Support, Sputnique and Goofi contents are directly contributing to
schools and NGO-run children centers.
Kids Time
Centers Schools Partner
Kids Time Centers
Schools
Showroom All Light of Hope products are available in library, showroom, supermarket
etc.
Showroom
Client
Partner
LoH distribute it’s services through various partner organizations
includingNGOs, INGOs etc.

15. Growth Matrix
From 2016-2018, we are focusing on the following growth matrix for the company. Since LoH
is not a typical app-based or tech-based startup, our growth matrix is diverse.
Financial Growth: Revenue & Asset
We determine both revenue and asset growth for the startup. Fix and current assets are vital for future
growth of the company like Light of Hope.
Service Growth
Number of services and solutionsadded to the portfolio to ensure the whole journey for children is
important for us. For example, Teachers Time was offering only physical courses till end of 2017, but
launchedit’s online platform on Oct, 2018.
Client Growth/Impact Growth: Children, Teachers, Schools
Number of children directly impacted, teachers received training and schools take our services are the
most important matrix that we focus. Since we consider Parents as Customers, we didn’t show that here.
Employee Growth
Quality human resource is a critical component for us to grow. Employee growth is an important matrix
that we focus now and will continue to do so in future.

16. Financial Growth
8.4X growth in 3 years. 33X growth in 3 years.
$40,178
$104,490
$ 337377
2016 2017 2018
REVENUE ($)
$ 1830
$ 32317
$ 60975
2016 2017 2018
Asset ($)

17. Client/Impact Growth
13.3X growth in 3 years.
13X growth in 3 years.
7500
30000
10000
0
2016 2017 2018
Children Impacted
23
115
302
2016 2017 2018
Schools Impacted
50
535
6154
2016 2017 2018
Teacher Trained

18. Employee & Service Growth
1
3
6
2016 2017 2018
Services/Solutions
2
20
46
2016 2017 2018
Employee

19. School Impact Map
The map is showing location of the
schools who are currently or was
part of our School Development
Program (SDP).

20. Our Partners & Customers

21. Waliullah Bhuiyan
Co-Founder& CEO
Founding Team Members
Prior starting Light of Hope, Wali worked in BRAC for 5 years designing,
piloting innovative social projects to managing up to $10 million project.
Started LoH while pursuing Masters on Renewable Energy Management in
Germany with 3 long-term friends. Quit BRAC to start working full time for
LoH in 2015. Received various National & International Awards including
Unilever Young Entrepreneur Award 2018 as the first Bangladeshi
entrepreneur.
Zillul Karim
COO
Fakhrul Alam
VP, Branding
One of the 6 Founding Members of LoH. Volunteered his time for LoH for 2
years during pre-company stage, while working as Supply Chain In-Charge
at Padma Group. Left his job in 2016 to start full time in LoH. Did his MBA
with major in Marketing from Stamford University.
Founding Member and VP, Branding. Started own event management
company at age 22. Working from the beginning of LoH and managing
company branding, marketing and corporate relations (B2B). Helped LoH to
become one of the most trusted corporate partners in education space.

22. Nazmul Arefin
Co-Founder& CTO
Founding Team Members
Co-Founded LoH and acting CTO. Asst. Professor at AIUB in EEE Dept.
Completed PhD. from Swinburne University, Australia on Data Processing
and Machine Learning Algorithm. Studied EEE from IUT with other Co-
founders. Nazmul has been instrumental in building the whole technology
background for all LoH platforms. His academic and professional
background on Data Processing and Machine Learning made LoH the top
data-driven education startup in Bangladesh.
Ahmed Ur Rahman
VP, Supply Chain
Nasimul Islam
Co-Founder
Founding Members and VP, Supply Chain. Graduated from IUT from EEE
Dept. with other co-founders. Head of AGNEE ICX. He closely work with COO
to maintain the whole supply chain of the company.
Co-Founded LoH. Recently took 3-year leave from LoH for completing PhD
from Germany. Played critical role as Head of Products to develop
Sputnique and Goofi. IUT-Graduate with other co-founders. Did Masters on
Renewable Energy with Erasmus Mundus from Europe. Currently providing
growth strategy for the company working remotely.

23. Iftikhar Ul Karim, Head, Goofi
With demonstrated education research background on 21-st century skills,
pedagogy, ECD & Learning Assessment, Iftikhar brings an unique mix to the
team. Besides heading Goofi he is also responsible for LoH’s internal research
dept. – EduLab. Prior joining LoH, he worked in Ministry of Education, BRAC
RED, British Council and English in Action. He completed his B.Ed and M.Ed
from IER, University of Dhaka.
Tahmina Rahman, Head, Kids Time
Developed Kids Time from ideation to become the first Bangladeshi after-
school program brand. Expert on content development, author and creator of
some of the Goofi’s most popular products. Started as intern, but eventually
went on to create Kids Time.
Tijul Islam, Head, Sputnique
Another intrapreneur inside LoH. Started as intern during his B.Sc in EEE and
later went on to develop Sputnique from scratch. Working under CTO, besides
leading Sputnique, Tijul is responsible for building tech-infrastructure of the
company.
The Team Leads

24. Investment Opportunity
From 2016-2018, we developed all the services and
solutions completely from scratch, built strong value
proposition for clients and sustainable business model.
We are now planning to bring significant growth and
create large-scale impact in next 3 years inside and
outside of Bangladesh. And for the first time, we are
giving opportunity to interested investors to join with us.
You can reach out to us to discuss and explore possible
opportunities.
Contact Person
Waliullah Bhuiyan
CEO, Light of Hope
Email: wali@lohbd.org, bhuiyan.waliullah@gmail.com
Mobile: +8801777800866