Capybara: school coexistence, bullying prevention, and Ley 21.809 compliance
Capybara is a school coexistence startup focused on conflict prevention, bullying prevention, and the promotion of healthy classroom relationships. It uses a brief, age-appropriate interaction to map classroom relationships and transform those interactions into evidence about cooperation, reciprocity, integration, leadership, isolation, and group fragmentation.
The platform supports school teams by identifying early relational signals, prioritizing preventive action, and providing clearer evidence for follow-up. In Chile, this work is especially relevant for the new school coexistence framework introduced by Ley N° 21.809, published on April 1, 2026, with provisions scheduled to enter into force on July 1, 2026. The law strengthens duties around good treatment, wellbeing, and the prevention and eradication of bullying, discrimination, and violence in educational communities.
Capybara builds on CRiSS-LAB research in experimental game theory, social networks, cooperation, and learning environments, translating those methods into a practical tool for school teams, sostenedores, and education decision-makers.
Cristian Candia
Associate Professor, Data Science Institute, School of Engineering, Universidad del Desarrollo, Chile. Head of CRiSS-LAB.
Cristian Candia studies how societies transform information into collective relevance through attention, memory, preferences, and coordination. His work combines computational social science, network science, AI, and large-scale behavioral data to understand how groups, institutions, and societies decide what matters.
