About

Built by Shivaj Raman

Divendo gives every student a genuine, hands-on financial education — before the real-world stakes begin.

Divendo was designed and built by Shivaj Raman, a student developer from Washington, DC, who builds tools for things that are hard to measure: financial literacy, rare-disease research, competition robotics and biological sensing.

Recognition

Congressional App Challenge logo

Winner — District of Columbia

Congressional App Challenge

For Divendo.

Presidential AI Challenge logo

Winner — District of Columbia

Presidential AI Challenge

For CrowdLeaf AI, which reads a Mimosa pudica plant as a living crowd sensor.

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Why Divendo exists

Students graduate able to dissect a poem or balance a chemical equation, yet most have never read a balance sheet, opened a brokerage account, or understood what compound interest will do to their lives. Trading simulators have no place for a teacher, and finance courses have no live market. Divendo puts both on one platform, and treats financial literacy with the seriousness it deserves.

What we believe

Rigor over gimmicks

Real curriculum, real data, real prestige. We treat financial literacy as the serious discipline it is.

Access for everyone

Free forever for students. A working knowledge of money should never depend on what you can afford.

Learning by doing

You don't learn to swim from a textbook. You learn markets by trading them — safely, with paper money.

Where we're headed

We're expanding the curriculum, deepening teacher analytics, and bringing Divendo to more schools every term. The goal is unchanged: a generation that graduates fluent in the language of money.