German EdTech startup EDURINO has accomplished its Sequence B financing spherical totaling €17 million to turn out to be Europe’s main platform for academic gaming for youngsters.
The spherical was led by Ravensburger Subsequent Ventures, the enterprise arm of Ravensburger AG. Additionally collaborating have been Summiteer, the funding firm of serial entrepreneur and Akasol founder Sven Schulz; DN Capital; Tengelmann Ventures; b2venture; Emerge; FJ Labs; G-FUND and Jens Begemann. Enterprise angels Stefan Winners and Frederik Vollert additionally invested.
“We’re not simply creating studying merchandise, we’re constructing a platform that can accompany kids for the long run, providing sturdy content material, characters and experiences. EDURINO goals to set the usual for digital studying at pre-school and first college age,” says Co-founder Franziska Meyer.
EDURINO was based in 2021 by Irene Klemm and Franziska Meyer to present kids a accountable, playful entry into the world of digital schooling. The platform unites academic video games, ergonomic enter instruments and animated characters that educate traditional college and future expertise corresponding to studying, logical pondering, coding and environmental information.
They’ve an interdisciplinary staff of over 40 educators, recreation designers, psychologists and scientists. Along with the College of Cambridge, the training results are scientifically evaluated and optimised.
EDURINO has already offered over a million merchandise and is in use at greater than 1,500 academic establishments.
EDURINO represents a brand new technology of studying: the platform combines playful studying content material with digital innovation and creates interactive studying experiences which might be intuitive, age-appropriate and educationally worthwhile.
Thomas Bleyer, Managing Director at Ravensburger, says: “EDURINO excels at aligning analogue play with digital schooling. With its clear academic idea and child-orientated design, the staff not solely wins over kids and fogeys, but additionally us as a accomplice. We imagine EDURINO has the potential to make a long-term impression on digital early childhood schooling worldwide.“
EDURINO’s technique centres on creating an interactive studying world for youngsters aged 4 to eight. The corporate takes a holistic strategy: studying and taking part in are seamlessly intertwined and oriented in the direction of kids’s pure curiosity. The idea combines educationally based mostly content material with rigorously developed characters, digital storytelling and bodily components corresponding to figures and an ergonomic pen.
EDURINO is now planning new content material corresponding to video codecs and different hybrid merchandise that mix digital and analogue studying. On the identical time, the platform is opening as much as fashionable kids’s manufacturers which might be built-in into its academic idea.
The purpose is to create a brand new class that evokes households and makes schooling an emotional expertise.
“By scaling up, we need to attain much more households with EDURINO – digitally, stationary and cross-media networked. In Ravensburger, we’ve got discovered the perfect accomplice who desires to actively form our imaginative and prescient of playful studying. Proximity to retailers and the experience to develop merchandise collectively are essential for us,” explains EDURINO Co-founder Irene Klemm.
The Sequence B funding shall be allotted to 3 key areas of development:
Platform improvement: growth of the digital ecosystem with new content material codecs, studying content material and product classes
Worldwide scaling: rollout within the UK and market entry in different nations
Retail & visibility: doubling presence in bricks-and-mortar retail by the top of 2025
A technological centrepiece is the corporate’s personal low-code system, with which studying content material can quickly be created fully with out handbook programming.
“EDURINO unites pedagogical experience with state-of-the-art expertise to create a studying platform that captivates kids and earns mother and father’ belief. We see nice potential in EDURINO to make an enduring impression on the academic panorama and stay up for actively shaping this journey as a accomplice,” says serial entrepreneur and Akasol Founder Sven Schulz.
