Kano Brings In $28 Million

Edtech startup Kano completed $28 million in Series B financing led by Thames Trust and Breyer Capital. Index Ventures, LocalGlobe, Collaborative Fund, TriplePoint Capital, Barclays, and Stanford University also participated in the offering.

Kano is a London-based company that empowers people of all ages to make PCs, screens, radios, artwork, music, games, and Minecraft hacks with its system of kits, free apps, and open coding platform. According to the company, its first “computer anyone can make” has shipped to 86 countries around the world, and 30 million lines of code have been shared in its online community, Kano World.

Kano recently announced a mass North American rollout into more than 4,500 retail stores, including Best Buy, Target, and select Walmart stores.