Learning company pi-top™ has secured $16 million in funding led by Hambro Perks and Committed Capital, bringing pi-top’s total funding to $22.5 million to date. Founded in 2014, pi-top’s mission is to give every learner the opportunity to be inspired by making. Through its pi-top
Mondly, a popular language-learning platform with 30 million users, has released MondlyAR -- a language-learning app powered by augmented reality and chatbots with speech recognition. According to the company, it has worked in close collaboration with Google to launch MondlyAR as part of the first
PandaTree, an edtech startup, announced it has raised $1.5 million in seed financing. Four investors contributed to the round: Harrison Metal Capital, UP2398, Precursor Ventures, and Nanjing Sunflower. PandaTree offers live foreign language conversation practice for kids through one-on-one video sessions with tutors. Pricing starts at
Fluany is a Chrome extension that allows users to memorize and study anything while surfing the Internet. Users create customized study lists of questions, terms, or expressions they want to memorize, and choose the interval at which a question or term should appear for them
Blue Canoe Learning announced the completion of $1.4 million in financing from Kernel Capital. Blue Canoe Learning has created mobile games based on established curriculum and machine learning to help non-native English speakers improve their pronunciation and English communications skills. Users simply speak into the mobile
Progate is an education web service where everyone can learn to code. It offers a fully equipped coding environment to get users started, along with a total of nine courses and 36 lessons, including HTML & CSS, Javascript, jQuery, Ruby, and Python. The Tokyo-based company
Keychn is an iPhone lifestyle app that allows users to learn from chefs in a live-streaming video format. It offers 800 yearly live masterclasses that allow users to cook and interact in real time with chefs, and learn from the best sommeliers and influencers with
Flashcards + AR is an iPhone AI app that allows users to learn anywhere with AR flashcards. Users can import or create their flashcards on the computer by using an xls or Anki, or using decks downloaded from Ankiweb, and then place their flashcards anywhere
Skillied is an app that connects people to unique local learning experiences at every price point, time, and location. With a growing community of users, Skillied allows people to monetize their classes and showcase them to an audience of thousands, including Photography: Capture the Everglades
Created by SplitMetrics, an A/B testing tool that helps app developers increase conversion rates on app download pages, AppGrowthLab provides 55 app growth lessons handcrafted by 30 app marketing experts from SplitMetrics, AppsFlyer, Buffer, Rovio, Google, Chartboost and other companies. Users can study progressively with