Pressto was founded in 2021 by Daniel Stedman, the co-founder of Brooklyn Magazine and Northside Media. Stedman volunteered to launch an elementary school newspaper where his son was a student in Brooklyn and found that many student newspaper programs had been abandoned, which was part of his inspiration for creating Pressto. The SaaS platform's proprietary tools teach straightforward educational skills, along with critical thinking and media literacy, helping kids to differentiate between fact and opinion, leaving young people less susceptible to the manipulations of social media and propaganda. Pressto's newspaper builder gets students doing, the educational skills get students learning, and the cognitive behavior therapy gets students understanding.

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Funding Events

Date	Amount	Type	Investors	Valuation
05/18/22	$1,500,000	Pre-Seed	Alex Rappaport Ann Berry Chris Yeh Copper Wire Ventures Dan Carroll Isa Watson Jacob Zachs Tidal Venture Partners Wray Thorn	undisclosed