Sololearn, a Yerevan, Armenia-based community-driven edtech platform provider, raised $24M in Series B funding.
The round was led by Drive Capital with participation from, Learn Capital and Prosus Ventures.
The company, which has raised a total of $30.8m, intends to use the funds to:
- build out its content to new languages and technical skills,
- launch an enterprise learning management system to help companies train employees on specific development environments, and
- expand secondary and post-secondary education partnerships in which the system complements classroom instruction.
Led by Yeva Hyusyan, Sololearn provides a mobile-first coding instruction and community app used by 21 million users globally to learn Python, JavaScript, Java, C++, HTML, SQL, C#, Swift for Apple iOS, Kotlin for Android, and Go for Google cloud computing.
Sololearn offers instructional content, practice challenges, and community support, all within a gamified experience where users and community members can earn points that reflect their progress and contributions. Students can also subscribe to Sololearn PRO, which offers real life coding challenges they will face during interviews or at work. PRO also eliminates all ads.
Sololearn has offices across the United States and Europe with 100 employees as of July 2021 and expects to double headcount in the next 12 months.
FinSMEs
26/07/2021