Edtech · San Francisco, United States
Noto
Noto provides AI-native vertical software for after-school businesses—tutoring centers, music and art schools—to reduce administrative tasks like registration, rescheduling, and payments, letting owners focus on teaching. Led by CEO AJ Ding and CTO Steve, with deep AI and engineering experience.
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- Location
- San Francisco, United States
- Team size
- 1-10
- Founded 2024
- Total raised
- $3.8M
About Noto
Noto provides AI-native vertical software for after-school businesses, including tutoring centers, music schools, and art schools. Its mission is to reduce administrative complexity for traditional manual tasks such as registration, rescheduling, and payments, enabling after-school business owners to focus on teaching. AJ Ding serves as CEO and is a second-time founder who previously built an AI recruiting company and has worked as a machine learning engineer and data scientist at Quora, Lyft, and Meta, with a Statistics degree from Yale and roots in a family of small business owners. Steve is the CTO, formerly Head of Engineering at Nitra, studied math at Harvard, and has experience in data science and engineering at Lyft.
Culture & values
Offsite work trip to Mexico City including a hackathon and team bonding.
Karaoke Night hosted with one of our first customers, a music school in Manhattan.
The team fosters a growth mindset and attends industry conferences to learn from users and push the boundaries of their craft.
There is a low-ego, collaborative environment with a flat decision-making structure where great ideas can come from anywhere.
The culture features high camaraderie, with a sense of being in the trenches together and celebrating collective success.
Funding
$3.8Mtotal raised
- Apr 2025 · Series A
- Feb 2025 · Other
- Aug 2021 · Series A
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Great funding - $4M seed round. Strong investors - Base10, South Park Commons. Strong team - Co-founders AJ Ding and Steve Wang. Rapid growth. Innovative technology Key benefits include: The team fosters a growth mindset and attends industry conferences to learn from users and push the boundaries of their craft..
Noto is based in San Francisco, United States.
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