Our Impact

Ripyl Impact Snapshot 2026

Overview

Ripyl exists to help teachers deliver more engaging, authentic and curriculum-aligned business, commerce and financial capability education. Through ready-to-use resources, real-world challenges, innovation competitions and teacher support, Ripyl is designed to build entrepreneurial thinking while reducing barriers for teachers.

Our impact is measured not only by reach, but by changes in teacher practice, student engagement, and the growing adoption of more applied, real-world learning experiences in classrooms.

Reach and Growth

Ripyl has grown from a regional programme in New Zealand into a growing international platform used by teachers across 11 countries.

Current indicators of reach include:

• 750+ teachers engaged globally

• 10,800+ students having completed a Ripyl programme

• 250+ curriculum-aligned modules available

• Expansion of innovation competitions across multiple countries

• 2,000+ students anticipated to participate in competition programmes in 2026 across 3 countries

Growth has also been supported through partnerships with schools, universities, distribution partners and private sector supporters that help extend access, including into underserved and historically under-resourced communities.

Impact for Teachers

Ripyl is designed to improve both what teachers teach and how they teach.

Feedback from educators consistently points to:

• Increased student engagement in business and commerce learning

• Reduced planning burden through ready-to-use resources

• Greater confidence delivering entrepreneurship and financial literacy topics

• Improved classroom participation through authentic, applied challenges

• Access to a growing professional network through Connect & Discuss

Teachers also use Ripyl to bring more project-based and problem-based learning into classrooms, helping move beyond passive content delivery.

Impact for Students

Ripyl is designed to help students learn by doing.

Through Ripyl modules, challenges and competitions, students develop:

• Creativity and idea generation

• Problem-solving and critical thinking

• Teamwork and communication

• Financial capability

• Confidence presenting and testing ideas

• Entrepreneurial thinking through authentic application

Teachers report that students often respond positively to “Ripyl days,” engage more deeply in collaborative learning, and show increased motivation when working on real-world challenges.

Innovation Competitions as Impact Pathways

Ripyl’s innovation competitions have become both a student impact pathway and a teacher adoption pathway.

Competitions allow students to apply learning in authentic contexts, while giving teachers a practical way to trial Ripyl in their classrooms. Increasingly, competition participation is also leading to ongoing teacher adoption and subscription growth.

Monitoring and Evaluation

Ripyl gathers and uses multiple forms of data to monitor impact, including:

• Teacher feedback and surveys

• Platform usage and engagement data

• Student participation metrics

• Competition participation and outcomes

• Subscription and adoption data

• Internal dashboards used to monitor reach and inform improvement

This data is used not only to measure impact, but to improve resources, refine delivery and guide innovation development.

Recognition

External recognition has helped validate both the innovation and its growing impact.

Recent recognition includes:

• Winner, EDUtech Australia 2025 Best EdTech Startup

• Shortlisted, HundrED Global Collection 2025

• Winner, Best Youth Programme New Zealand

Looking Ahead

Our focus now is to deepen impact through expanded curriculum alignment, Teacher Concierge, broader competition participation, and increased access for schools and communities that have historically had fewer opportunities to access high-quality entrepreneurship education.

We are also actively exploring the development of an internal impact dashboard to measure outcomes at a more granular level - not simply over years, but over decades - reflecting our belief that the true impact of entrepreneurial education is often long-term and cumulative.

We see impact not as a fixed result, but as something strengthened through listening, adapting and continuing to improve.