Hello, good evening and welcome to the European Edtech News!
This month marks an exciting time in the our history with the building of the European Edtech Map.
With this publicly available map, European Edtech companies will be more visible to an audience of investors, policy makers, education institutions and other Edtech buyers who will be able to filter the companies that are most interesting to them on the map directly.
You’ll have a clear view of who is operating on which verticals in Europe, it will allow Edtech companies to have a better understanding of their competitive landscape and build cross-border partnerships with other European players they would have discovered on the map.
Last but not least, this map will help us gather data for pan-European market studies, which are both important for the EEA’s public policy work with European Institutions and market sizing for private investors to understand how attractive our market is becoming.
Get on board by filling in this form before May 5th, 2022, if you want to be on the map when we launch it 🚀
Launch of the Edtech MOOC by Supercharger Ventures and EDHEC Business School.
With the launch of the world's 1st Edtech MOOC you will learn from leading academics and global experts who will share real-life examples about the innovations, technology and policies driving the transformation of education.
This course is designed to explore EdTech fundamentals and build the foundational knowledge for educators, institutions, entrepreneurs and governments to appreciate the impact and potential of new tools, technologies, business models and learning methods in education. In this course, through a series of video lectures, expert interviews, case studies, and assessments you will learn about the major areas of EdTech including Alternative & Digital Education, Hybrid Learning, Challenger Universities, Learning Apps, How Institutions can apply EdTech, as well as, the core technologies driving EdTech including Artificial Intelligence (AI), Data and AR/VR.
Join the Edtech Next Summit in October !
The European Edtech Alliance is a partner of the Edtech Next Summit, Europe’s coolest Edtech Startup event, taking place this coming October in Bielefeld, Germany!
This is your chance to meet hundreds of startups, investors, policy makers and truly inspirational people from more than 20 European countries!
Want to join us? Sign up here and get all the infos soon.
NEWS FROM OUR MEMBER ASSOCIATIONS
FUND-RAISING
Labster the world's leading platform for virtual labs and interactive science, has raised $47M in additional funding to support massive growth opportunities worldwide.
UK-based Sales Impact Academy, offering ongoing education and professional development covering sales, customer success, marketing, management, and operations, raised $22M to develop more curriculum.
French startup Skillup announced a $8.4M round to scale its talent management platform.
Emerge Education invested in FutureFit AI’s $4.5M round to empower workers with a “GPS for their career”.
Funzi closed $3.2M to bring digitalisation and lifelong learning to traditional education and accelerate its growth into new markets
Oneday, a platform helping aspiring entrepreneurs turn their passion into a business through expert-led coaching, community & content, has raised a $3.2M seed round led by Brighteye and Outward VC.
SchoolTalent, a dutch platform making high-quality tutoring accessible to every student, raised $890k to further expand in the Netherlands and Germany.
May raised $3.2M to scale their parenting support app in France and beyond.
K-12
Kide Science from Finland has partnered with DreamWorks Animation and its hit Netflix series Gabby’s Dollhouse.
Code School Finland partnered up with Mexico-based Knotion to boost future skills learning for 50.000+ students in five countries.
Dynamilis, an EPFL spin-off that helps children improve their handwriting, has been awarded with Swiss Venture Kick's first stage of financial and entrepreneurial support of $10k.
Epic and LEGO teamed up to create safe space for kids in the metaverse. This happens right after Epic Games announced its $2 billion raise from Sony and Kirkbi, the parent company of the Lego Group, with both companies investing $1 billion each.
CORPORATE & ADULT LEARNING
Coorpacademy, an innovative e-learning platform and content library with a international customer base, has been acquired by Australian company Go1, one of the world’s largest corporate education content hubs.
Alpha Test acquires Scuole Viggiani in Italy: the operation marks the birth of Law Camp, a digital school dedicated to the legal professions.
OTHER MEMBER UPDATES
If you’re in Estonia, don’t miss the Edtech Estonia event with our Chair, Svenia Busson this week. It will take place on May 5th and you can sign up here.
From June 7th-11th, Didacta, the biggest education exhibition in Germany, is taking place in Cologne. There are still a few booths available in the Startup-Area managed by Eduvation. Click here for more infos.
Brighteye Ventures put together a high-level guide on how to build a customer success function. Download it here.
UNOWHY is launching an Edtech acceleration program dedicated to EdTech start-ups who want to launch on the French market.
Join the ForumEduca Higher Education on May 11th-12th in Tarragona, near Barcelona, Spain to explore how higher education is transforming in Spain and beyond.
This newsletter is written and produced by the European Edtech Alliance. The European Edtech Alliance is a consortium of national trade associations and clusters working with founders and providers of education technology (Edtech), to support the domestic and international growth of these businesses and the innovations they represent.