Lingua.ly, an Israeli educational tech startup, secured $1m in funding.
The backers remained undisclosed.
The company intends to use the funds to expand operations internationally and to other platforms and add new features to the service for both classroom oriented and independent learners.
Led by Dr. Jan Ihmels, CEO and Co-founder, Lingua.ly provides a language-focused learning platform which now counts with over half a million worldwide users. The platform is cloud synced and operable via desktop or mobile, supports 18+ dictionary languages (English, French, Spanish, Arabic, Hebrew, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese, German and Russian, etc.) and can be used as a stand-alone product or to complement language classes and self-study. It applies a Facebook-like news feed, encourages students to search out news and apply their language learning experience to current events. A user can read a news article on their feed in a foreign language anywhere and at anytime, highlight a word they do not understand and look it up through the app.
FinSMEs
12/03/2015