Emerge Education

Emerge Education is a venture capital firm and accelerator based in London, specializing in early-stage investments in education startups and education technology. Founded in 2012, the firm focuses on improving educational outcomes in the United Kingdom and Europe. Emerge Education typically invests between £0.05 million and £0.2 million in startups that show the potential to achieve significant monthly recurring revenue within 12 to 18 months. The firm seeks equity stakes of 3% to 10%, often around 8%, and has the option to participate in subsequent funding rounds at a discounted rate. Emerge Education selects approximately four startups per quarter from around 200 proposals and offers a three-month accelerator program twice a year, focusing on teams with two or more members. The firm's unique position is bolstered by insights from leading education entrepreneurs, enabling it to effectively address the skills gap in the market.

Jan Lynn-Matern

CEO

Jan Reichelt

Director

40 past transactions

FoondaMate

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

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.
Tomorrow’s Education is an ed-tech learning platform.

Zavvy

Seed Round in 2022
Zavvy is an employee enablement platform designed to assist growing companies in onboarding, connecting, and developing their employees. The platform automates learning and development initiatives, significantly reducing onboarding time and minimizing manual processes through interactive journeys. Zavvy also provides customized leadership training to help transform managers into effective leaders. By offering a range of tailored employee development tools, Zavvy aims to enhance engagement, productivity, and overall organizational growth.

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.

Lynx Educate

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Lynx Educate operates as an education-to-employer marketplace focused on upskilling and reskilling the workforce. The company offers a comprehensive suite of employee education services that provide access to accredited and certified programs tailored for adult learners. By enabling organizations to transform their training budgets into meaningful investments, Lynx Educate helps human resources teams retain, engage, and attract talent. The platform aims to bridge the skills gap by equipping employees with the necessary knowledge and expertise to thrive in their roles, aligning workforce development with the evolving needs of businesses.

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®

Engageli

Series A in 2021
Engageli, Inc. is a digital learning platform designed for higher education institutions, founded in 2020 and based in San Mateo, California. The platform focuses on enhancing student success by providing an inclusive environment that accommodates a diverse range of learning needs. Engageli delivers engaging teaching and learning experiences, catering to the evolving demands of higher education. By prioritizing accessibility and interactivity, the company aims to support educators and students alike in achieving their educational goals.

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®

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.
Tomorrow’s Education is an ed-tech learning platform.

Engageli

Seed Round in 2020
Engageli, Inc. is a digital learning platform designed for higher education institutions, founded in 2020 and based in San Mateo, California. The platform focuses on enhancing student success by providing an inclusive environment that accommodates a diverse range of learning needs. Engageli delivers engaging teaching and learning experiences, catering to the evolving demands of higher education. By prioritizing accessibility and interactivity, the company aims to support educators and students alike in achieving their educational goals.

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.

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.

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.

Mentor Collective

Venture Round in 2019
Mentor Collective is a Boston-based company founded in 2013 that specializes in creating mentoring programs for universities. The platform enables educational institutions to design, manage, and assess mentoring initiatives that connect students with near-peer mentors, thereby enhancing student engagement and retention. Mentor Collective works with over 60 partner schools, including notable institutions such as Princeton and UC Davis. The company offers a comprehensive suite of services, including program design, mentorship operations, a content library, and analytics to evaluate program effectiveness. By facilitating one-on-one mentorship, Mentor Collective aims to improve graduation rates and foster a supportive academic environment for all students. Its mission-driven approach has garnered recognition, positioning it as a leader in the education sector.

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.

Kide Science

Seed Round in 2019
Kide Science Oy is an educational service provider based in Helsinki, Finland, dedicated to fostering scientific thinking skills in young children through play-based learning. Established in 2017, the company offers online kindergarten and hobby programs designed for educators and parents, featuring hands-on experiments that address real science problems. The pedagogical approach, developed by Founder Jenni Vartiainen, PhD, is grounded in extensive academic research and aims to enhance learning outcomes for children aged 3 to 8. Kide Science has successfully expanded its reach to 14 global markets, with a notable customer base in Finland, including partnerships with the City of Helsinki and the largest private kindergarten chain. The company also produces a TV show for YLE, Finland's national broadcaster, and has established agreements in regions such as MENA and the Far East, including a significant collaboration with a large chain of learning centers in China.

Unibuddy

Seed Round in 2018
Unibuddy Limited is a London-based company founded in 2015 that offers a platform designed to facilitate connections between prospective students and university representatives. The platform focuses on enhancing student engagement through peer interactions, allowing potential applicants to communicate with current student ambassadors and participate in group discussions. By integrating its tools into university websites, Unibuddy enables students to explore their options and gain insights into various institutions, helping them make informed decisions about their education. The company's suite of products includes the Unibuddy platform, Unibuddy Live, and Unibuddy on UCAS, all aimed at improving the recruitment process for universities while providing valuable content and understanding of student motivations.

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.

Causaly

Seed Round in 2018
Causaly Inc. specializes in artificial intelligence solutions for biomedical cause and effect discovery. Established in 2017 and headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware, with additional offices in London and Athens, the company has developed a semantic AI platform that processes large volumes of scientific literature to extract causal relationships. This platform utilizes linguistic and statistical models to validate causal claims while enabling users to input their own data for enhanced analysis. Causaly's offerings include semantic search capabilities, causal analytics, and tools for hypothesis generation and simulation. By transforming unstructured text into causal knowledge graphs, Causaly empowers researchers and decision-makers to efficiently derive insights from extensive document collections, thereby accelerating research timelines and improving the time-to-insight. The company's technology is tailored for the research industry, aiming to facilitate a deeper understanding of biomedical processes.

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.

BibliU

Seed Round in 2017
BibliU is a digital educational service designed to enhance the learning experience for university students. It provides access to a vast library of textbooks and monographs, allowing students to search for relevant materials easily. The platform also facilitates interaction among students and professors, promoting collaborative learning and engagement. By streamlining access to educational content, BibliU aims to make the learning process more efficient and effective.

Aula

Seed Round in 2017
Aula Education Ltd. is a London-based company that develops a social learning platform aimed at enhancing communication between students and educators. Established in 2014, Aula replaces traditional email systems and learning management systems with a digital infrastructure designed to foster conversation and participation. The platform allows users to share various types of educational content, including slides, videos, LaTeX, equations, and code. By creating a digital campus that complements physical institutions, Aula provides new opportunities for teaching, learning, and community building within educational environments.

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 based in Lima, Peru, aimed at creative and digital professionals in Latin America and Spain. Founded in 2015, it offers over 500 courses covering a range of subjects including Design, Coding, Illustration, Photography, and Audiovisuals. The platform focuses on affordable, project-based learning, enabling users to acquire practical skills that align with their professional aspirations. Crehana's mission is to empower individuals to achieve their career goals through accessible online education, thereby redefining traditional learning paradigms in the creative sector.

Lingumi

Seed Round in 2016
Lingumi Ltd is an education technology company based in London, United Kingdom, focused on developing engaging English learning applications for children aged two to five years. Established in 2015, Lingumi offers a mobile-based platform that allows preschoolers to learn English through games and playful methods, facilitating the acquisition of sounds, words, and phrases. In addition to its digital offerings, the company produces physical educational products, such as cards and toys, designed to enhance language learning experiences for young children. These products are available for purchase through its online portal, providing parents with accessible resources to support their children's early language development.

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.

Wonde

Seed Round in 2016
Wonde Ltd. is a Cambridge-based company founded in 2013 that operates a platform designed to help schools manage their data effectively. The platform enables schools to control their data by approving, declining, and monitoring integrations with third-party applications, while also providing monthly reports to assist in data management. Additionally, Wonde's solution offers developers access to view the status of existing integrations and request new data access, enhancing collaboration between schools and application providers. The platform also focuses on improving data security during the transfer of school records, ensuring that student, teacher, and parent information is securely stored in the cloud. By offering these tools, Wonde supports school leadership teams in making informed decisions regarding data management and technology adoption in the classroom.

Eedi

Seed Round in 2016
Eedi provides a comprehensive toolkit designed for teachers, students, and parents to enhance the learning experience. The company's offerings include research-based diagnostic questions that help teachers identify student misconceptions and tailor their instruction accordingly. Additionally, Eedi's toolkit keeps parents informed through detailed reports and personalized resources, enabling them to support their children's learning outside of the classroom. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in London, Eedi has impacted millions of educators and learners across over 14,500 schools worldwide. The company's software facilitates automated formative assessments and promotes greater parental involvement, fostering the development of critical thinking skills and content knowledge among students. Eedi aims to ensure that every learner has access to high-quality teaching and personalized learning opportunities.

Lumici

Seed Round in 2016
Lumici Ltd is an educational technology company based in Derby, United Kingdom, founded in 2014. The company specializes in creating solutions that facilitate personalized lessons for teachers and students across various subjects, including Maths, English, Chemistry, Biology, Physics, and Computer Science. Lumici Slate, its flagship product, enables educators to create lesson playlists and share them instantly, while also tracking real-time progress. This innovative platform offers a simpler, more efficient alternative to traditional Learning Management Systems and Virtual Learning Environments, which are often overly complex for everyday use. By merging intuitive functionality with a unique design concept, Lumici Slate enhances the teaching experience and improves the learning journey for students.

Crehana

Seed Round in 2016
Crehana is an online training platform based in Lima, Peru, aimed at creative and digital professionals in Latin America and Spain. Founded in 2015, it offers over 500 courses covering a range of subjects including Design, Coding, Illustration, Photography, and Audiovisuals. The platform focuses on affordable, project-based learning, enabling users to acquire practical skills that align with their professional aspirations. Crehana's mission is to empower individuals to achieve their career goals through accessible online education, thereby redefining traditional learning paradigms in the creative sector.

Easy Peasy

Seed Round in 2016
Easy Peasy Limited is a company based in Walton On The Naze, United Kingdom, that focuses on enhancing early childhood development through play. Incorporated in 2016, the company has developed an application designed to assist parents in engaging their young children, aged two to five, with simple and enjoyable game ideas. These activities aim to foster essential skills that prepare children for school and future challenges. By promoting learning through play, Easy Peasy supports parents in building their children's character and developmental capabilities in a fun and interactive manner.

Edurio

Seed Round in 2015
Edurio Ltd. is a start-up based in Riga, Latvia, that develops web-based educational toolkits designed for schools and educational organizations. Founded in 2014, Edurio's primary focus is on facilitating various ongoing improvement activities within educational institutions. The company offers tools that enable schools to collect student feedback, conduct self-assessments, manage classroom observations, and share best practices among educators. One of its key products, Edurio Feedback, allows students to evaluate their motivation to learn, their understanding of subjects, and the effectiveness of their teachers' approaches. By providing a platform for students to share observations about teaching practices, Edurio empowers educators and school leaders to gain valuable insights into the learning environment, ultimately aiming to enhance the quality of education.

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.

Recurrence

Seed Round in 2015
Recurrence, Inc. is a software company that specializes in developing online multiplayer games aimed at the higher education market. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Bellevue, Washington, Recurrence provides a platform designed to enhance engagement and education for both enterprises and educational organizations. Its proprietary technology enables partners to identify and nurture high-potential talent in various settings, including boardrooms and classrooms. The company's offerings are available in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom, focusing on equipping college students with essential business skills through realistic learning experiences.

Primo Toys

Pre Seed Round in 2014
Primo Toys Ltd. is a London-based company that designs and manufactures educational playsets and toys aimed at helping children aged three and up learn programming logic through hands-on play. Founded in 2013, the company offers products such as the Cubetto playset, which features a robot and a programming board, allowing children to create programs using physical blocks. This approach fosters an engaging learning environment that encourages young girls and boys to explore the digital world without relying on screens. Primo Toys' offerings are Montessori-approved and inspired by the LOGO Turtle concept, making them accessible to schools, parents, and educators globally. By blending play with education, Primo Toys aims to develop children's coding skills in an entertaining and efficient manner.
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