Tucoola - Exploring Children - Informed Parents

Nurturing children’s skills has been a universal mission for every parent. Identifying and enhancing children's basic skills such as analogies, multidimensional perception, hands eye coordination and memory retention in early childhood will greatly improve children ability to excel and accommodate future challenges. Tucoola developed a platform and monitoring products aimed at enhancing the basic skills of children aged 2-8. Children engaged in playing popular games with Tucoola’s embedded algorithm, are enabling parents the ability to monitor their skills development progress by reviewing parent’s reports. Tucoola’s technology platform and algorithm delivers a new business model and new revenue stream for Websites & game developers, who can now be a magnet for interested parents and their children.

About Us
Tucoola is focused on the development of a platform and monitoring products aimed at enhancing the basic skills of children aged 2-8 by using popular games while at the same time enabling parents to monitor their kid’s development progress by reviewing parent’s reports. Numerous portals & game developers offer many games for children. Parents of young children aged 2–8 act as the "navigator" for their children who are not able to fully operate the complete process on their own. Parents are trying to make the correct choices in selecting appropriate games, expecting that their choice will be beneficial for the development of their children. Advanced monitoring technologies implemented by Tucoola allow parents to recognize individual skills and strengths of their children engaged in playing the Tucoola embedded games. Tucoola provides a technological platform, enabling game developers to integrate Tucoola's algorithm into their existing games without the need to make any changes to the existing code. The Tucoola’s Zone offers Web sites, distributors & game developers a new business model, and new revenue stream - Tucoola's innovative zone provides on-line Flash games for children and an information center for parents. Tucoola is an early Israeli start-up company founded in 2009 and has offices located in Ra'anana (Israel), and San Jose (US).

Founders
Eli Porat began his career in Intel Corp. as Manager of the EPROM Design Group. While at Intel, Eli was appointed as General Manager for Intel's Israeli VLSI design center and later Director of the Microprocessor Engineering Group with teams in the US, Japan, and Israel. During this time, Eli received numerous patents on the VLSI chip designs. Eli served as the CEO & Chairman of the Board of Tvia, from 2001 to April 2009. He also served as the CEO of OpenGrid, President and CEO of the DSP Group, VP Operations at Sytek and VP & GM at Zymos. Eli was also a Director of Starfish Software Inc. and Voxware Inc.
Eli earned his BS and MS degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of California at Berkeley.

Idan Bar has been working in the telecommunication and hi-tech industry for the past 13 years, focusing on products, marketing and sales positions.
Idan worked at Dyuna as the Director of Products & Services. Prior to that he worked for Orange, Internet Gold and Bezeq-call.
Idan earned a graduate degree in business management (MA-MM).

The Tucoola's Zone provides on-line Flash games for children and an information center for pavrents.
Tucoola's Zone is available to license by all portals, as a white label platform.
When combining the Tucoola Zone, the site will be able to target a new market – children aged 2-8 and their parents.
Tucoola's games catalog is based on the content partner's games and contains fun and popular games with Tucoola's embedded algorithm.
The information center offers parents various reports regarding skills development and progress, vocabulary and more. Using Tucoola's service, strengths and weaknesses are easily identified.

The integration of the Tucoola Zone is simple and quick and doesn't require any major changes in your site.
Tucoola offers a licensing option and revenue share model to portals.

Technology
Tucoola’s platform enables partners such as Web sites, distributors & game developers to integrate the Tucoola's Zone and Tucoola algorithm into their sites. Tucoola's platform incorporates the following three elements: Tucoola's Developers' Zone As part of the offering to game developers, Tucoola developed an infrastructure that enables developers to integrate Flash games with Tucoola's platform. Tucoola's Algorithm Tucoola's algorithm monitors child movement and behavior during game playing and enables data collection. The algorithm processes the collected data and utilizes Tucoola's unique method to produce a detailed report of the measured skill set, and a holistic diagnosis of the child's strengths and weaknesses. Information package for parents, based on the collected data will be created and disseminated to interested parents. Tucoola's Zone This zone is offered to portals as a white label solution (your site, your logo). The Tucoola's Zone contains a section for children and a section for parents: Children's section: on-line Flash games for children aged 2-8. Parents Section: Information center which allows the parents to view their child's skill progress. Parent reports are produced primarily by the Tucoola's algorithm and fine tuned by the Tucoola's advisory team.

Content Partners
Tucoola delivers a new concept & business model to the games market. Tucoola provides a value added service to the field of fun games and amusement that combines the existing world with the world of children's development progress. We aim at preserving the fun as experienced by the children and for the first time, offer their parents to be part of this experience using our method that monitors, measures and improves their children's development progress. Tucoola doesn't develop games and doesn't distribute the Tucooa's Zone to end users; instead we collaborate with our partners (games developers and distributors) worldwide. Web Sites & Distributors: Tucoola’s partners can integrate the Tucoola's Zone into their existing Web site and create a new user base comprised of parents and young children. The Tucoola's Zone can be embedded into existing Web sites with minimal effort as a white label solution. Distributors can offer their users a new innovative service, as well as create a new revenue stream. Games Developers: Tucoola offers Flash based games developers a simplified quick process to integrate Tucoola's algorithm into their games via Tucoola’s API (Application Programming Interface). Game integration is quick, simple and only requires the addition of a few lines of code to the selected game. Games developers will be able to enjoy a revenue share based on usage of the games in the Tucoola's Zone.