Alieo Games
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
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01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
Alieo Games was an Edmonton-based educational technology startup founded by University of Alberta computer science PhD students Neesha Desai and Kit Chen, together with former teacher Chris McMahen and artist Joel Koop. Its product, COW (Creative Online Writing), was a web app that used game mechanics — prompts, incentives, and customizable avatars — to motivate students in grades 3-9 to practice long-form writing and improve writing fluency, while giving teachers analytics on vocabulary, grammar, and verb tenses. The company licensed COW to more than 30 schools reaching over 1,000 students, and Desai and Chen received the Mitacs Entrepreneur Award.
02 / FAILURE REASONS
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03 / EVENT HISTORY
Events in the structured record
- Liquidation
Corporations Canada record for Alieo Games Inc. (#8863423, Edmonton) shows voluntary dissolution under Canada Business Corporations Act s.210(2) effective 10 Jan 2017, after incorporation 22 Apr 2014. Directors Kit Chen and Neesha Desai.
04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT
Difficulty of rebuilding this project today
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05 / CAUSAL CHAIN
How the factors connect
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Alieo Games Inc. (corporation number 8863423) was incorporated under the Canada Business Corporations Act on April 22, 2014, with a registered office in Edmonton, Alberta.
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On January 10, 2017, the corporation was dissolved, ending the company.