Daniel Sun
FounderDaniel is the co-founder and CEO of MathDash.
He was a math competition champion in high school, qualifying for the Math Olympiad Summer Program, which opened doors to MIT and Jane Street. Daniel is now creating MathDash to create an online playground for math games and to get students addicted to learning.
Akshaj Kadaveru
FounderAkshaj is the co-founder and CTO of MathDash.
He is a former serial math competition participant (two-time top-12 finisher in the ESPN nationally broadcasted MATHCOUNTS Countdown Round) who spent thousands of hours of his childhood playing an online math game. He studied CS at MIT, and built (with Daniel) a MIT class comparison site with 2000 users, a guess-the-song game with 6000 players, and worked at Gather, Jump Trading, and Wormhole Labs as a software engineer.
Origins
We met online in 2011 because we were two of the biggest players in an online math racing game. After spending a thousands of hours competing on the site, we got really good at math.
We then met in person at the Math Olympiad Summer Program and then at MIT. At MIT, we learned to build webapps and were head instructors in the official web development course. We launched an app that over half the MIT undergrad population used, and realized that we love building and impacting people’s lives.
We realized that people care a lot about getting better at math, and math competitions are extremely fun, but there is no good way to do math. MathDash is the best way to compete in math and have fun while doing so.