Our last edtech list ranked the region by how much money it had raised. This one goes the other way, to the early end — the pre-seed and seed teams quietly building things worth paying attention to. Here are five CEE edtech startups to watch before everybody else catches on.
Brainly turned homework help into a $150 million business. Prezi rebuilt the slide deck. Lingvist trained its AI on particle physics data. These are the ten top-funded edtech companies in CEE.
The Budapest-based platform, already used by more than 600,000 students in over 30 countries, plans to expand across Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and the Americas.
Can Games Fix Our Broken Education? 📚 In this powerful episode of The Recursive Podcast, recorded at ViennaUp Festival, we sit down with Yane Frenski, former United Nations innovation expert turned EdTech entrepreneur. Yane is the founder of Vizipedia, a startup using AI and game-based learning to transform how students...
In 2020, classrooms worldwide fell silent almost overnight. Teachers scrambled to adapt, parents became unofficial tutors, and students struggled to keep up. In Romania, the challenge was especially stark—finding a reliable tutor had always been tough, but the pandemic turned it into an urgent problem. We didn’t set...
When I started working with teenagers in Ukraine, I expected to meet a generation shaped by war — cautious, demotivated, and perhaps disillusioned. But what I found instead were bright-eyed young people with a practical approach to everything: teenagers who are already working on their future, not waiting for someone...
Next stop for The Recursive Podcast – Bucharest, where we meet with Lavinia Mehedintu. She has dipped her toes in different educational programs as a student before embarking on an entrepreneurial journey of her own, in the learning and developing pool with the social learning platform Offbeat. With a diverse background...
