Emerge Education

Emerge Education is a European seed fund focused on investing in founders who are addressing the $8.5tn skills gap. With a unique backing from leading education entrepreneurs, Emerge provides unparalleled insights to founders in the education sector. The firm seeks to make direct investments in early-stage education startups, typically taking an equity stake between 3% and 10%. Emerge aims to improve educational outcomes in the UK and beyond by investing in companies that have significant market share in their respective markets. The firm typically selects and invests in approximately four startups per quarter and offers a three-month program twice a year. Based in London, Emerge Education was founded in 2012 and primarily invests in the European Union region.

Jan Lynn-Matern

CEO

Jan Reichelt

Director

54 past transactions

Tailor-ED

Private Placement in 2019
Tailor-ED allows teachers to provide an engaging and effective learning experiences for students. It creates learning experiences to the needs of the teacher and each and every student. For us, creating engaging and effective learning experiences is about first seeing and supporting the whole learner. The company builds learning experiences that merge proficiency with collaboration, creativity and other SEL skills to meet the needs of the student. Tailor-ED is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Yoto

Seed Round in 2021
The screen-free audio platform. Play music, stories and more with our audio player that children control with physical cards. Welcome to Audiotime®
Tomorrow’s Education is an ed-tech learning platform.

FourthRev

Series A in 2022
FourthRev is working to bridge the digital skills gap by connecting leading companies and universities to enable the delivery of up-to-date, industry relevant programs, ranging from micro-credentials through to degree courses. We do this by co-creating content and curriculum with leading technology companies, such as AWS, Salesforce and Tableau, which is delivered to learners by our university partners, either as stand-alone courses or as part of existing offerings. FourthRev then connects learners to employers in our partners ecosystems.

Academy

Seed Round in 2021
Academy is a London-based startup that trains talent and leadership roles for the UK tech industry.

Kide Science

Seed Round in 2019
Kide Science Oy provides educational services to kids to learn about natural sciences through play-based learning. The company offers kindergarten and hobby programs for educators and parents online. Kide Science Oy was incorporated in 2017 and is headquartered in Helsinki, Finland.

Zavvy

Seed Round in 2022
Zavvy is the employee enablement platform that helps growing companies onboard, connect, and develop their employees.

Engageli

Series A in 2021
Engageli operates as an inclusive digital learning platform optimized for student success and that delivers engaging teaching and learning experiences across a broad spectrum of needs for higher education.

Sales Impact Academy

Convertible Note in 2022
Sales Impact Academy Ltd. owns and operates a community and live learning platform for sales and marketing teams. The company offers peer-to-peer learning and support coupled with live classes that will ensure users to create and execute a go-to-market strategy, developing killer messaging, and building an inbound and outbound lead generation machine. Sales Impact Academy Ltd. was founded in 2019 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

FutureFit AI

Seed Round in 2022
FutureFit AI is an AI-powered intelligence platform for the future of work. Described as the 'Google Maps for your Career'​, it draws on over a billion data points to identify future skills, assess current capabilities, and map upskilling & reskilling pathways for individuals, enterprises, and governments. Having won awards from the US Government, Google AI, and TD Bank, FutureFit Ai is currently partnering with both Fortune 1000 companies, national governments, and foundations on 3 continents around AI, automation, and the future of work.

Edurino

Venture Round in 2022
Developer of an online learning platform designed to introduce digital learning to children in a playful and responsible manner. The company's platform works closely with educators and experts to make digital education tangible for children and its hybrid learning application offers educational games with suitable figures for each topic, enabling preschool children to get a story-based learning experience.

Unibuddy

Seed Round in 2018
Unibuddy Limited provides a platform to connect students to the recruiters in various universities. The platform enables students to talk to each other to see which university is a better fit for them. The products offered are, unibuddy platform, unibuddy live, and unibuddy on UCAS. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

Tailor-ED

Seed Round in 2019
Tailor-ED allows teachers to provide an engaging and effective learning experiences for students. It creates learning experiences to the needs of the teacher and each and every student. For us, creating engaging and effective learning experiences is about first seeing and supporting the whole learner. The company builds learning experiences that merge proficiency with collaboration, creativity and other SEL skills to meet the needs of the student. Tailor-ED is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

FourthRev

Pre Seed Round in 2020
FourthRev is working to bridge the digital skills gap by connecting leading companies and universities to enable the delivery of up-to-date, industry relevant programs, ranging from micro-credentials through to degree courses. We do this by co-creating content and curriculum with leading technology companies, such as AWS, Salesforce and Tableau, which is delivered to learners by our university partners, either as stand-alone courses or as part of existing offerings. FourthRev then connects learners to employers in our partners ecosystems.

Primo Toys

Pre Seed Round in 2014
Primo Toys Ltd. designs and manufactures playsets and toys that help children of various ages learn and create programming logic. The company offers Cubetto playset with a robot and programming board that allows children to write programs using the blocks. It serves schools, parents, and educators worldwide. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Aula

Private Placement in 2018
Aula is a social learning platform built for education. Aula replaces emails and learning management systems (e.g. Moodle, Canvas, Blackboard, D2L) with digital infrastructure designed to encourage conversation and participation. A digital campus that complements an institution’s physical campus, Aula enables new ways to teach, learn, and create community.

Eedi

Seed Round in 2016
EEDI LTD. provides a toolkit for teachers, students, and parents to make learning and understanding easier for everyone. The company’s toolkit offers a set of research-based diagnostic questions, which is used by teachers to receive insights into student misconceptions and deliver targeted instruction. Its toolkit also keeps parents informed with reports and gives them personalized resources to support students outside of the classroom. EEDI LTD. was incorporated in 2015 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

OpenCampus

Seed Round in 2018
OpenCampus is an online research and campus management platform that provides its users with educational tools and solutions. The platform features cloud-based courses, examinations, applications, course evaluations, payments, reports, academic records, authoring systems, attendance monitoring, shibboleth, and facility management systems. In addition, it offers IT and BP consulting, project management, training, and support services to its users. OpenCampus provides a novel concept for educational institutions to manage their processes and service their students. Its patented open adoption software (OAS) technology allows institutions and contributors from all over the world to design and add features, content and to collaborate within the OpenCampus network. Their mission is to make education easier and provide access to education for everybody, everywhere.

Blackbullion

Private Placement in 2019
Blackbullion Limited, a digital education company, develops Software-as-a Service (SaaS) subscription model that works with universities to provide financial literacy programs for students. The company offers a learning platform for people who want to get in control of their money. It also offers money boot camp that provides knowledge, skills, and access to the latest FinTech tools. The company serves students and universities. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is headquartered in London, United Kingdom.

Aula

Seed Round in 2017
Aula is a social learning platform built for education. Aula replaces emails and learning management systems (e.g. Moodle, Canvas, Blackboard, D2L) with digital infrastructure designed to encourage conversation and participation. A digital campus that complements an institution’s physical campus, Aula enables new ways to teach, learn, and create community.

BibliU

Seed Round in 2017
BibliU is a digital educational service that enables university students to search across thousands of textbooks and monographs, engage with each other and their professors, making learning far more effective.

FourthRev

Seed Round in 2021
FourthRev is working to bridge the digital skills gap by connecting leading companies and universities to enable the delivery of up-to-date, industry relevant programs, ranging from micro-credentials through to degree courses. We do this by co-creating content and curriculum with leading technology companies, such as AWS, Salesforce and Tableau, which is delivered to learners by our university partners, either as stand-alone courses or as part of existing offerings. FourthRev then connects learners to employers in our partners ecosystems.

Peergrade

Seed Round in 2016
Peergrade ApS offers Peergrade, an online software application that allows teachers to create peer assessment sessions, monitor student performance, and create a better learning experience for students. Its application enables teachers to get data-driven insights into student performance. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Crehana

Seed Round in 2016
Crehana is an online training platform for creative and digital professionals in Latam and Spain. With more than 500 courses from Design to Coding, they redefining education through affordable and project-based learning. The platform also offers online courses in Design, Illustration, Photography, and Audiovisuals. Their mission is to make everyone's professional dream possible through online education. Crehana was founded on April 7, 2015, and is based in Lima, Peru.

Sales Impact Academy

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Sales Impact Academy Ltd. owns and operates a community and live learning platform for sales and marketing teams. The company offers peer-to-peer learning and support coupled with live classes that will ensure users to create and execute a go-to-market strategy, developing killer messaging, and building an inbound and outbound lead generation machine. Sales Impact Academy Ltd. was founded in 2019 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Mentor Collective

Venture Round in 2019
Mentor Collective provides a platform that helps universities run mentoring programs. It offers services in the areas of program design and management, mentorship operations, content library, research team, software, and assessment and analytics. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

Colossyan

Series A in 2024
Colossyan develops synthetic media generation technology to maximize conversions by personalizing and giving a face to your communication.

Edurino

Series A in 2023
Developer of an online learning platform designed to introduce digital learning to children in a playful and responsible manner. The company's platform works closely with educators and experts to make digital education tangible for children and its hybrid learning application offers educational games with suitable figures for each topic, enabling preschool children to get a story-based learning experience.

Mentor Collective

Private Placement in 2019
Mentor Collective provides a platform that helps universities run mentoring programs. It offers services in the areas of program design and management, mentorship operations, content library, research team, software, and assessment and analytics. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

FoondaMate

Seed Round in 2022
FoondaMate is a chatbot that makes education accessible to students in developing countries using Facebook and WhatsApp.

Crehana

Seed Round in 2016
Crehana is an online training platform for creative and digital professionals in Latam and Spain. With more than 500 courses from Design to Coding, they redefining education through affordable and project-based learning. The platform also offers online courses in Design, Illustration, Photography, and Audiovisuals. Their mission is to make everyone's professional dream possible through online education. Crehana was founded on April 7, 2015, and is based in Lima, Peru.

Lynx Educate

Pre Seed Round in 2021
An education to employer marketplace to upskill and reskill your workforce
Tomorrow’s Education is an ed-tech learning platform.

Wonde

Seed Round in 2016
Wonde operates a platform that provides schools with the tools to manage their school data. Its solution allows schools to control their school data; approve, decline, and monitor those who integrate with their data; and receive monthly reports and manage the application. The company’s solution also allows developers to view the status of existing integrations and request access to new school data, as well as school data integration. In addition, it offers reporting tools to the school senior leadership team. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Cambridge, United Kingdom.

Yoto

Series A in 2021
The screen-free audio platform. Play music, stories and more with our audio player that children control with physical cards. Welcome to Audiotime®

Enroly

Private Placement in 2018
Enroly Ltd develops a peer to peer international student recruitment and agent aggregation platform. It provides impartial guidance, application assistance, and visa help to prospective international students. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Morressier

Seed Round in 2017
Morressier provides professional and academic organizations with comprehensive virtual and hybrid conference solutions, powerful data and analytics, and new revenue opportunities. Since 2014, more than 200 societies, institutions, and corporations around the world trust Morressier to support their meetings, engage their users, and amplify their research. Partners use Morressier’s powerful suite of tools and custom integrations to host, share, and fully integrate traditionally hidden conference content, including abstracts, posters, presentations, video, and datasets. At the same time, by increasing the dissemination of this early-stage research and providing valuable aggregate insights, Morressier facilitates scholarly discourse and accelerates scientific breakthroughs.

Engageli

Seed Round in 2020
Engageli operates as an inclusive digital learning platform optimized for student success and that delivers engaging teaching and learning experiences across a broad spectrum of needs for higher education.

Recurrence

Seed Round in 2015
Recurrence offers a software platform that allows both enterprises and educational organizations to engage and educate users. Its propriety technology allows its partners to take the next logical jump forward to identify and develop high potential talent in boardrooms and classrooms. It was founded in 2013 and headquartered in Bellevue, Washington.

Lingumi

Seed Round in 2016
Lingumi Ltd develops playful English learning applications for children aged two to five years. It also develops physical products to help children begin to learn English. The company's products include Club Lingumi Ersatzwurfel, Club Lingumi Jumbo Word Cards, Club Lingumi Stage 2 Pack, Lingumi Paly Wurfel, Lingumi Pluschtiere - Boo, Hush, Ym and Peek, Modul 1 Fortschrittsposter & Aufkleber, and Modul 2 Fortschrittsposter & Aufklebe. It sells products through its online portal. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Lumici

Seed Round in 2016
Lumici Ltd, an educational technologies company, develops solution for teachers and students for personalized lessons. It allows teachers to plan their lessons on subjects, including Maths, English, Chemistry, Biology, Physics, and Computer Science. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Derby, United Kingdom.

Blackbullion

Seed Round in 2019
Blackbullion Limited, a digital education company, develops Software-as-a Service (SaaS) subscription model that works with universities to provide financial literacy programs for students. The company offers a learning platform for people who want to get in control of their money. It also offers money boot camp that provides knowledge, skills, and access to the latest FinTech tools. The company serves students and universities. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is headquartered in London, United Kingdom.

Pi-Top

Seed Round in 2015
Pi-Top is an education technology company. Pi-Top enables users to build and understand their own Raspberry Pi powered laptops. Pi-top is the only STEM platform to be endorsed by a national exam awarding body (OCR) for use in the Computer Science curriculum in the UK. Through delivering the best of the maker world in an easy to deploy solution pi-top aims to be the future of STEM learning in the classroom. Pi-Top is operated from London, United Kingdom and distributed to over 60 countries world wide with 30+ distributors including Best Buy, RS Components, BT and Adafruit.

Easy Peasy

Seed Round in 2016
EasyPeasy is an app that sends game ideas to parents of young children, to help develop the skills that will prepare children for school, and beyond. The app provides parents with simple, fun games to play with their children, aged two to five, helping them build their character.

Edurio

Seed Round in 2015
Edurio is a start-up building web-based tools to improve our schools. Edurio aims to digitize quality management to allow deeper insights at a fraction of the effort. Edurio's first product is a tool for schools and universities to collect and analyze student feedback online in a way that minimizes student biases.

Causaly

Seed Round in 2018
Causaly is an AI for Biomedical Cause & Effect discovery, empowering researchers and decision makers to quickly find causal evidence and generate insights from vast amounts of documents. The company is developing a machine-reading platform that turns free-flow text into causal knowledge graphs and applies machine learning to surface new knowledge. This helps users to accelerate their research schedules and improve time-to-insight significantly.

Peergrade

Seed Round in 2016
Peergrade ApS offers Peergrade, an online software application that allows teachers to create peer assessment sessions, monitor student performance, and create a better learning experience for students. Its application enables teachers to get data-driven insights into student performance. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Algor Education

Seed Round in 2023
Algor Lab is a company that provides tools and materials needed for teaching through artificial intelligence.

Mattilda

Seed Round in 2022
Mattilda is a Mexican company dedicated to resolving financial issues in schools throughout Mexico and Latin America. It has access to automated collection management products, guaranteed income, and medium and long-term credits to help them solve their financial problems while focusing on providing high-quality education.

Colossyan

Series A in 2023
Colossyan develops synthetic media generation technology to maximize conversions by personalizing and giving a face to your communication.

Vericus

Venture Round in 2023
Vericus develops a teaching and learning software tool that assures authenticity in written assessment called Cadmus.