Revyze, coined as the “Tiktok of education”, announced the closing of a €5.4 million seed round to build a global social learning app for GenZ and GenAlpha. The round is led by Speedinvest and Moonfire, with participation from Motier Ventures, Station F, Illka Paananen (cofounder of Supercell), Riccardo Zacconni & Sebastian Knusson (cofounders of King / Candycrush) & Nickey Skarstad (Director of Product, Duolingo).
This latest fundinglatest funding follows a €2 million pre-seed in 2022 with notable investors including co-founders of Airbnb, Alan, Front, Ledger and MistralAI.
Revyze was founded in 2022 by Guillaume Perrot (ex-Alan), Anatole Blanc (ex-Auto1) and Florent Sciberras (ex-Airbnb) with the mission of democratizing access to high-quality education at the global scale.
The startup’s mobile app helps students learn by scrolling through verified short form “Tiktok-like” videos & quizzes made by their peers – high schoolers, university students and even teachers.
“You can think of Revyze as Duolingo meets TikTok. Duolingo for the gamified learning structure & Tiktok for the short-form video format & social interaction,” cofounder Guillaume Perrot said.
Since its launch in August 2022, Revyze has reached 1M+ users, and over one-third of all 9th graders in France have already used Revyze to prepare for their middle school certificate (“brevet des collèges”), pushing the app to #1 of the App Store last June. Over 2000 creators have also contributed over 20,000 videos, resulting in over 150M views, an equivalent of 100 years of smart scrolling on Revyze instead of doom scrolling on Tiktok.
“We’re moving from a world where you learn passively in school with teachers to a world of active lifelong learning with your peers. We think humans learn better from other humans because they can relate. That is why we don’t think siloed AI tutoring is the way to go. Instead we believe creators should be in the driver’s seat, supported by AI, which Revyze uses to help them create more high quality, engaging, personalized content,” added Guillaume Perrot, cofounder of Revyze. “There are 30 students in a classroom and 30 different ways to learn, yet there is only one teacher. We want to recognize the diversity of ways of learning and meet our users where they are: on Tiktok, Snap or Brawl Stars.”
Revyze has observed a rising trend of users engaging with the app daily. Many of these users start their mornings by checking Instagram and Revyze while still in bed, even during summer vacation. Revyze’s goal is to focus on this increasing usage so that learners consistently return to Revyze to play and learn, even when there is no test around the corner.
Revyze intends to do so by gamifying the learning experience, through new features such as daily quests, coins, badges and status – learning from Duolingo & mobile games. Additionally, the aim is to build a more social platform so that students can add their classmates on the app to engage with them over educational content, & personalize recommendations further.
Beyond France, Revyze plans to expand in the US in 2025, where it already has a small pilot and an early community of creators.
“By combining social engagement with verified, peer-generated content, Revyze is not just filling a gap—it’s redefining the entire learning experience. We’re thrilled to support a team that is passionate about democratizing education and empowering students to learn in ways that resonate with them,” commented Jeroen Arts, Partner at Speedinvest, leading the round alongside Moonfire.
Mattias Ljungman, founder of Moonfire (former Atomico founder) added: “Decentralizing creation by empowering creators to create content opens a scalable path to the content personalization we see on Tiktok, but applied to learning thanks to AI. We’re incredibly excited by the opportunities this opens for Revyze globally.“
Read the orginal article: https://www.eu-startups.com/2024/10/paris-based-revyze-raises-e5-4-million-to-build-social-learning-app-for-genz-and-genalpha/
