Edurino receives 3.35 million euros

The money comes from investors like Btov Partners and education expert Verena Pausder. The founders want to use the capital to expand their product.

Munich-based startup Edurino has taken home €3.35 million from a seed funding round. Investor Btov Partners led the round. Venture capitalists Emerge Education and Fabian and Ferry Heilemann through Pirate Impact also invested. Also joining were business angels Verena Pausder of Fox & Sheep and Haba Digital, Ben Drury of Yoto, and Christian Felgenhauer and Maurice Khudhir of Studysmarter.

Irene Klemm and Franziska Meyer founded the start-up Edurino in 2021 in Munich. After a crowdfunding campaign, the two founders launched their first learning app. This is designed to give children a hybrid approach to reading and writing through an ergonomic pen and figures. Before founding the company, Klemm and Meyer worked as management consultants at the Boston Consulting Group.

The two founders plan to use the money from the seed funding this year to bring out more figures and learning areas. Their product is intended to become a "holistic learning system for preschoolers," they explain. In the next step, Edurino also wants to target school children. The founders then want to integrate learning games for creativity, English and coding into the app. The founders also want to launch their products in retail stores. The team is expected to triple from its current ten employees in the next twelve months.

"We want to lay the foundation for responsible digital literacy," says co-founder Klemm. "We were amazed at how few good digital products there were on the market. Together with our strong team of investors from gaming, education and tech, we want to revolutionize the digital education industry in the next few years." Investor Pausder is a firm believer in her investment, "In order for our children to find their way in the digital world of tomorrow, we need to teach them digital skills. And that's exactly what Edurino is training them to do."