Emerge Education

Emerge Education is a European seed fund investing in founders solving the $8.5tn skills gap. Emerge provides founders with unrivalled education sector insights, as they're the only fund backed by the world’s foremost education entrepreneurs.
JL

Jan Lynn-Matern

CEO

Jan Reichelt

Director

79 past transactions

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

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Tomorrow’s Education is an ed-tech learning platform.

Fourthrev Pty Ltd

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.

Enroly Ltd

Seed Round in 2017
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.

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.

StudentFunder

Seed Round in 2014
StudentFunder Limited operates an online crowd funding platform for students. Its platform enables individuals and institutions pool funds to support education campaigns initiated by students. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Wonda VR

Seed Round in 2018
Wonda VR designs and develops a mobile and desktop application for creators and brands to share 360° photos and videos in virtual reality (VR) on all platforms. Its platform offers one-click upload; adaptive streaming; staging support; and preview and sharing. The company allows users to upload their VR experiences to the cloud and share them with teams, clients, and targeted audiences with a URL or QR code. It also provides a white label app export package. Wonda VR was founded in 2016 and is based in Paris, France with an additional office in New York.

Kide Science Oy

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.

Meducation

Seed Round in 2014
Meducation is an online social networking service and educational website for medical students and doctors. It was launched in 2008 and is based in Colchester, Essex, United Kingdom.

MakerClub

Seed Round in 2016
MakerClub Ltd. develops application that allows users to learn code and electronics with its 3D printed bots for inventors. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Hove, United Kingdom.

Engageli, Inc.

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.

A Tale Unfolds Ltd

Seed Round in 2014
A Tale Unfolds Ltd. operates a literacy project for producing short films. The company focuses on improving writing skills. It offers the content and support to bring video creation projects to life in the classroom. A Tale Unfolds Ltd. was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in London, United Kingdom.

Enroly Ltd

Pre Seed Round in 2017
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.

Mentor Collective

Seed 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.

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.

Tomorrow’s Education

Seed Round in 2022
Tomorrow’s Education is an ed-tech learning platform.

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.

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®

eSplice

Seed Round in 2014
eSplice

Sixth Domain Ltd

Seed Round in 2014
Sixth Domain offers an online reward management system for primary and secondary schools. It includes web-based applications for student tracking, teacher collaboration, information sharing, and decision-making. Sixth Domain was incorporated in 2012 and is based in Ashford, United Kingdom.

traincamp.me

Seed Round in 2015
Everyone that is or wants to be part of the digital game. TrainCamp.me is the ultimate educational solution, crafted for anyone who deals with code, design, marketing in the digital age. TrainCamp.me finds and recommends you the best available resources across the web and beyond , based on your personal needs, community wisdom and super smart artificial intelligence. Basically complex technology making things simple for you.

Unibuddy Limited

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 Pty Ltd

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.

Open Simulation Ltd.

Seed Round in 2016
Open Simulation Ltd. develops a suite of simulation tools for surgeons and trainees to learn and practice surgical skills. It offers laparoscopic simulator that runs on mobile. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

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.

Linqapp

Seed Round in 2016
Linqapp is committed to helping people all over the world overcome their language barriers. Linqapp is an ambitious attempt to change how people learn languages and get in touch with each other doing so.

Surgery Academy

Seed Round in 2015
Surgery Academy is an online service used for watching broadcasting live and prerecorded videos of surgeries through a 360 degree immersive operating theatre experience. Surgery Academy plans to industrialize, socialize and collect a curation of surgical interventions. The learning program (MOOC-like) is developed for head mounted displays such as the Oculus Rift and Samsung Gear VR. It’s also available on PCs and mobile devices. Surgery Academy uses Meta (AR side) and GoPro (VR side) cameras then renders the video themselves in order to create an augmented and virtual reality experience for medical students and professionals who are watching surgical procedures. It helps med students to integrate their studies and improve their knowledge by accessing to extra informations (such as patient’s vital signs, patient’s medical imaging and so on) A student can then watch this footage with a virtual reality headset: the stereoscopic 3D and the wide field of view create a striking immersive effect. The student can then replay the surgery in detail and watch it through the eyes of the surgeon (POV), empowering his experience with the 3D Imagery.

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.

Provision Tracker

Seed Round in 2016
Provision Tracker – Track the cost and impact of Provisions and Resources. Provision Tracker is a web-based tool that enables educational establishments to Identify, Allocate, Track and Report the cost and impact of provisions and resources on the progress and attainment of young people simply and effectively.

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.

Lexicum

Seed Round in 2014
Lexicum is foreign language vocabulary acquisition tool that blends in the learner's language context. They are a team of passionate individuals who founded a London-based startup in order to realise their dream - to help the 1.5 billion learners around the world with mastering foreign language vocabulary. They have been there, they are all multi-lingual and they know how hard it is to build vocabulary; grammar can be crammed in a month, total immersion can boost confidence in speaking in a few but there is simply no way to acquire rich vocabulary without spending years - if not decades.

Funda

Seed Round in 2015
Early on they realised that training and development wasn't delivered in a Fun, Easy and Reliable manner. As people who had just left University they were quite eager to transmit the fun nature of Higher Education to training and development. So they set off working on eLearning & mLearning for high-schools and gradually migrated to eLearning for Higher Education and now their reach spans schools, Higher Education institutes and corporate training.

Kinderly

Seed Round in 2015
Kinderly develops software for early years’ education to help childcare professionals comply with government regulation, to improve communication with parents, and to encourage a fun learning environment at home. It is based in London, England.

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, Inc.

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.

UNIspotter

Funding Round in 2017
UNIspotter GmbH designs and develops an application that helps students to find right study program, courses, and university. It offers UNIspotter Buddy, that guide through the process, help to create curriculum vitae, cover letter, and application documents, provide visa and accommodation support, and assist with financing for studies. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Vienna, Austria with additional offices in Europe, Australia, and India.

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.

OceanBrowser

Seed Round in 2015
OceanBrowser Ltd provides software and services for online medical and executive education. Since 2004, it has worked with leading universities and organizations in Australia, New Zealand and the Middle East, focusing on understanding the needs of, and providing solutions for, the high-end distance education market. OceanBrowserâ€:tm:s flagship web application, OB3 (and which recently has won the 2010 Otago Business Excellence Awards, Research and Innovation Prize) will revolutionise how online content is delivered in postgraduate education, with an entirely new way to create, manage, and interact with online documents. For a sneak preview, and to sign-up for the beta, go to http://oceanbrowser.com Update (May 2011) our new site is up! This now includes information on OB3, news feed, and a preview video. Check it out - and we'd love to hear from you, sign-up on the site, or connect with us on: Facebook (http://on.fb.me/fUrn1U), Linked-in (http://linkd.in/eoeM6B), or Twitter “ocnb3”

Linguese

Seed Round in 2014
Linguese is an academy fully dedicated to divulgate the Chinese language and culture. We design Their curriculum around the needs and learning goals of Their students. Linguese offers you the 4 key ingredients to succeed in learning Chinese: - Qualified Cinese teachers - High quality and entertraining teaching mterial - Higly motivated student community - Assessment test to certify your progress

Learned By Me

Seed Round in 2014
Learned By Me (www.learnedbyme.com) is a global education technology company committed to make learning better. By better, we mean more fun, more effective, more engaging, and less expensive. We are headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area with team members around the world.

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.

Bibliotech

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.

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.

Fourthrev Pty Ltd

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.

Ellumia Limited

Seed Round in 2014
Ellumia Limited designs and develops mobile application that enables delivery of learning content. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Peergrade ApS

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.

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.

Drum Roll

Seed Round in 2014
Drum Roll is an online platform that creates educational games for its users. Its first game, Erase All Kittens, is an open source platform game to teach kids to code. Drum Roll is based in London, England.

CourseDot

Seed Round in 2016
CourseDot is an online marketplace for IT training courses.

Kinderly

Seed Round in 2014
Kinderly develops software for early years’ education to help childcare professionals comply with government regulation, to improve communication with parents, and to encourage a fun learning environment at home. It is based in London, England.

MakerClub

Seed Round in 2017
MakerClub Ltd. develops application that allows users to learn code and electronics with its 3D printed bots for inventors. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Hove, United Kingdom.

Datazar

Seed Round in 2017
Datazar is an effort to bring all the experimental and statistical data available and put it in one place. This allows scientists, students, researchers, educators, and all curious minds to access vast amounts of data and uncover trends and relationships that have never been seen before. Any kind of data is useful to somebody at some point.

Ncite Neuromedia

Seed Round in 2015
Ncite Neuromedia develops leadership games that bridge the gap between understanding, and real and lasting behavior change. Its games range from allegorical simulation games to complex systems simulations. The company also provides game consulting services. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in the United States.

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.

Doodle Maths

Seed Round in 2015
DoodleMaths is a personalized learning application to improve math skills. It works by identifying a child’s level, strengths and weaknesses, and gradually progressing them at the rate that’s right for them. The application is available for download on the App Store and Google Play.

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.

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.

Fire Tech Camp

Venture Round in 2017
Fire Tech Camp is a specialist tech camp provider in the UK, bringing holiday activities into the 21st century. Kids want to create, not just consume, technology. Fire Tech Camp provides them with the skills to do just that, with short, creative courses in programming, media, and making. Fire Tech’s mission is to be the go-to resource for families who are preparing for the future - by offering courses in digital skills, helping young people develop other 21st century skills like communication, collaboration, creativity and critical thinking. We’ll also be a resource to parents who need help to support their kids as they grow into the digital future, and are looking for how to best understand what their children will need, and learn together.

Howdo

Seed Round in 2016
Howdo is a marketplace for everyday education. People who want to learn something can find face-to-face classes, courses, and workshops in the platform.

Easy Peasy Limited

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.

ET Discovery

Seed Round in 2015
Eco Talent Discovery (ET Discovery) is revolutionising the way student recruitment takes place in the higher education sector. ET Discovery was founded by entrepreneur Becky Stephens. After spending a few years travelling the world, visiting countless fairs, Becky always found herself asking the same question. Is face to face always the most cost effective and useful way for institutions to recruit? Is there a way universities, schools and recruiters can attract students in a way that costs less in terms of time and money? The answer is yes! The answer is Eco Talent Discovery! ET Discovery is a leader in the online marketing and business community. Their team has decades of experience in helping individuals and large corporations maximise their potential with cost effective and dynamic solutions. They know that their long-term success depends on us helping every client achieve their goals. Technology and excellent business tools are wonderful but their focus is on building long term relationships built on confidence and trust. Putting your interests before theirs, offering customised solutions and providing superior client service is the core of their operational values.

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.

Schema Ltd.

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Schema is a beautiful note taking tool combined with a reliable knowledge database. Discover the best learning materials in the world and organise your own knowledge in a clean structure.

Unitu

Seed Round in 2015
Unitu Ltd. provides a platform that connects students, university staff, and the student course representatives online. Its platform allows students to connect directly to students in their institution, department, and in course modules with ready-made online groups; enables university staff to collect, represent, and act upon student feedback; and encourages student debates, study groups, question-answering, and peer-to-peer review. Unitu Ltd. was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in London, United Kingdom.

Eggbun Education

Seed Round in 2017
Eggbun Education develops a mobile chat application to learn languages, such as Korean, Chinese, and Japanese. It offers Eggbun, an automated language tutor that helps to learn foreign languages using step-by-step method from characters to real life conversations. The company is based in Ansan, South Korea.

Eggbun Education

Seed Round in 2016
Eggbun Education develops a mobile chat application to learn languages, such as Korean, Chinese, and Japanese. It offers Eggbun, an automated language tutor that helps to learn foreign languages using step-by-step method from characters to real life conversations. The company is based in Ansan, South Korea.

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.

GamePlan Learning, Inc.

Seed Round in 2015
GamePlan maps personalized path to new career through online learning. They offer a free and easy-to-navigate online portal and app that connects students, career explorer and job seekers with assessment tools to gauge the best career selections. They will open up access to the best online and blended courses and tools to prepare for one of over 1100 careers. GamePlan offers a sage and sane solution to showcase person’s unique strengths and to find the ideal fit for targeted career.

Learn Forward

Seed Round in 2015
Learn Forward Limited designs and develops an open source tool for creating context-aware digital textbooks and platforms. It offers LearnFwd Author, an authoring tool for everyone to try; LearnFwd Classroom, which adds powerful exercises and collaborative features for in-classroom use; and LearnFwd Pro, a hosted platform for universities that provide on-line and real-time courses. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in the 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.

Peergrade ApS

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.