Education Technology Innovator; Founder & CEO of Mentava
Niels Hoven Biography
*Niels Hoven is the founder and CEO of Mentava, an education technology company focused on helping children learn at their own pace—particularly students who are ready to move faster than the traditional education system allows.
Hoven’s interest in accelerated learning is deeply personal. As a child, he was given opportunities for independent study that allowed him to progress well ahead of the standard curriculum, including studying independently during elementary-school math classes and reaching precalculus in seventh grade. He credits that experience with fostering a lifelong love of learning and shaping his belief that children should not be constrained by an arbitrary pace simply because it is the pace of the classroom.
Before founding Mentava, Hoven spent much of his career in technology and gaming, working at companies including Cloudflare, ClassDojo and Pocket Gems. At Pocket Gems, he led product development for a mobile game that became the highest-grossing mobile game in the world in 2011. He holds a graduate degree in electrical engineering from UC Berkeley.
Mentava grew out of Hoven’s experience as a father during the pandemic, when he and his wife were raising young children while working without childcare or access to their usual schools and activities. Trying to help his children learn independently exposed him to the shortcomings of existing educational software—and ultimately led him to create Mentava in 2021.
Today, Hoven is focused on building educational software that gives children greater control over the pace and depth of their learning.
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