Number 20 - January 2023 European Edtech Alliance update
News from the world of European Edtech
Hello and welcome to January's European Edtech News!
In this edition, we'll be sharing updates on our next Market Discovery Webinar, the newest reports and the latest event, fundraising and member news. We hope you'll find something of value in the content we've curated for you and we would apprappreciate it if you can help us with 2-3 minutes of your time by filling out a short form about AI for our policy task force. Thanks for joining us, and let's dive in!
UK Market Discovery Webinar
We are excited to announce that our next Market Discovery Webinar takes us to the UK! Join us on the 28th of February from 4-5pm (CET) / 3-4pm (GMT) for a high-level line-up covering everything from an overview of the UK Market followed to a deep dive into the local K12, Higher Education, and Corporate/ Lifelong Learning sectors. The webinar and its recording are free for all EEA Members. Non-members can book a ticket for 99€. Register here!
You haven´t seen the Spanish and German markets? Get all recordings from our Webinars here!
EEA x BETT
The EEA is happy to partner up again with BettGlobal! BettUK is back at the ExCeL, London on 29-31 March 2023 to help spark ideas, create connections and accelerate trade. Don’t miss out on the world’s biggest week in education and our special European sessions on the EdTech Ecosystem, female founders and spotlight innovations. Find out for yourself why BettUK is key in helping shape the future of education and meet many familiar EEA faces in London.
On-time registration for Bett ends on 3rd March 2023, get your FREE ticket here!
CoSN´s Driving K-12 Innovation
We are glad to share with you both CoSN’s Driving K-12 Innovation: 2023 Hurdles + Accelerators and Tech Enablers reports that were formally released yesterday. Our Managing Director Beth Havinga is an Advisory Board Member for this year's Driving K-12 Innovation project, saying that “the Rich Digital Ecosystem approach must be a priority when defining learning and teaching environments, tools and possibilities.” Find out what this means and get more insights by reading the reports.
Is AI really taking over education?
Help the EEA understand the real scope of AI use in education products! Please take 2-3 minutes to complete this very short survey and support our policy work informing suggestions for AI policy.
From idea to scalable AI business in 12 weeks with Campus Founders
AI Founders is a 12-week idea-stage incubator program by Campus Founders and ZFHN Zukunftsfonds Heilbronn that helps aspiring founders with AI-related business ideas launch successful AI businesses. Their mission is to empower talented experts in the field of AI to systematically build scalable businesses that solve real-world problems and help shape a better future. The program includes 25.000€ funding
per team*, 3 months of free accommodation and free co-working space for 3 months. Apply here!
The Open University offers 280k to help Edtech Companies develop new products
The Open University (OU) has launched a new online start-up incubator to support businesses that produce educational technology to enhance the learning experience. The EdTech Foundry will give small to medium-sized businesses access to the expertise of academics from the OU’s renowned Institute of Educational Technology, as well as a proportion of a £280,000 funding pot. Some could receive as much as £50,000 each to help take their business to the next stage. Applications for the EdTech Foundry are open until 1 March 2023. Get more info here!
Reports to read
European Edtech Map Insight Report
Brighteye Ventures annual Funding Report
Driving K-12 Innovation Hurdles + Accelerators and Tech Enablers Reports
NEWS FROM OUR MEMBER ASSOCIATIONS
FUND-RAISING
Hack The Box, a UK-based gamified cybersecurity training platform, raised 50m €
Swedish Sana raised 31m € in their latest Series B funding round
German Startup Sdui secured 25m € in funding to invest in scaling the business
Avallain, a Swiss eLearning solutions provider secured an 8m € funding
Swiss Startup Evulpo raised 7.5m € for their personal tuition platform
German Easy-Tutor raised 4.8m € in Series A funding round
French EvidenceB raised 4m € to fight against school dropout
French startup Simbel raised 4m€ to reinvent the training management of companies
Yeekatee, a Swiss educational social network raised 1.75m €
Melon, a London-based startup that aims to provide upskilling tuition packaged as a social media-style feed that curates relevant content, raised 1.35m €
Acadèmia.tv, the Italian platform for online cooking courses, raised 1.3m €
German Silber Salon raised 1m € in Pre-Seed round for their social learning platform for older adults.
Ufi Ventures invested 500k € in UK-based Data Literacy Academy: providing data literacy skills for businesses and employees and helping close the data skills gap
Finnish Music Fairytales received 400K € funding for the development of musical emotional education content and an application platform
OTHER MEMBER UPDATES
Learnetic, an EdTech company in the sector of technologies and services dedicated to educational publishing prepared a global survey on the Digital Transformation of the K-12 Educational Publishing Business to write a comprehensive report that will help draw a worldwide map of digital transformation and create an educational ePublishing roadmap for the next 5 years.
Moomin Language School has been shortlisted for BETT Awards 2023 in the category "Early Years – Digital Product or Service" and started a collaboration with FORTE kindergarten chain in the Netherlands to introduce English to their 3-4-year-olds.
Finnish Kide Science is a TOP 7 Finalist in the SXSWEdu in Texas
Astrid, a Swedish AI-powered language learning app, signed a deal with the Mongolian Government reaching 400.000 students to boost opportunities for the country’s young population.
Finnish Eduten Ltd, the provider of a globally recognized digital learning platform and the Ministry of Education and Science of Mongolia (MoES) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to improve the state of mathematics education in Mongolia.
Google and Code School Finland bring coding to 15.000 students in Europe by expanding their cooperation in teacher training
Acquisitions
Swedish EdTech company Albert acquired two Swedish EdTech businesses, Film och Skola and Strawbees, along with Holy Owly, a language learning EdTech from France for a total of 14m €
Italian Jakala acquired all 'Consultancy' activities of H-Farm, which focuses on Education, for 38m €
College communication platform Clay has been acquired by Wyblo
Upcoming Events
7th-11th March: Didacta Education Fair is the perfect way into the German market!
Get in touch with our Member EDUvation and get the chance to present yourself to a large audience with little hassle or preparation.
29th-31th March: BettUK in London, United Kingdom
26th-28th April: University Future Festival Heads Up! More info and tickets here!
1st June: EdTech Austria Summit in Salzburg, Austria
12th-13th September: EdTech Next Summit in Bielefeld, Germany
You can find more member-related events here!
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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.