Bussiness Ideas

STEP IO is the marketplace for educators and students — one AI-powered platform to launch, manage, and monetize digital education in India. Independent teachers today are forced to juggle five or more disconnected tools just to run an online class — a website, an LMS, a payment gateway, a test creator, and a marketing stack. STEP IO replaces all of it with a single unified platform built specifically for the Indian education ecosystem. On one side, teachers can create and publish courses, manage enrolled students, track revenue, and use AI-powered tools to generate tests, structure lessons, and build content — all without any technical expertise. On the other side, students get a trusted discovery marketplace to find, compare, and enrol with verified educators. The AI layer is what sets STEP IO apart. It generates board-aligned questions, converts raw notes into structured lessons, and builds practice exams in seconds — putting capabilities previously available only to large EdTech companies directly in the hands of every independent teacher. Founded by Prateik Sharma, an educator from Uttar Pradesh with experience teaching thousands of students, STEP IO is built by someone who lived the problem. Starting with North India, the vision is to become the global digital infrastructure for educators worldwide.

Startup Teams

• 1 Prashant Sharma (Director)
• 2 Prateik Sharma (Director)

Incubation Details

• Incubator Name
  AIC-GBU Incubation Centre
• Incubator Host Institution
  Gautam Buddha University
• State
  Uttar Pradesh
• City
  Gautam Buddha Nagar