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Blinkist
Nonfiction learning app
- 201-500 employees
- B2C
- B2B
- Lifestyle
- Education
- Productivity
- Content
- Subscription
- Learning
- Entertainment
- SaaS
- Mobile
- Neukölln, Berlin, Germany
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Company mission
To spark understanding by offering key insights from non-fiction books and podcasts in a light, digestible format.
54% female employees
Our take
Reading is a huge part of being successful. In fact, numerous studies have found it to be one of top predictors of life success, with superstars like Elon Musk, Barack Obama and Richard Branson all stating that it is a key part of their lives. But with work, studying, or just normal everyday business, it can be difficult to sneak in even a few pages into our already hectic schedules.
This is where Blinkist comes in. In a nutshell, their app takes the ideas contained in nonfiction books and summarises them, creating bite-sized, memorable and easy-to-understand insights. Allowing users to get the benefits of books in a way that fits into a busy lifestyle, Blinkist has massively disrupted traditional learning.
Following major funding and an acquisition by Australian education platform Go1, Blinkist is focused on expansion across the board, from adding content in new languages to exploring new delivery formats beyond text and audio. With over 13 million users across over 200 territories, Blinkist has a strong existing user base and its acquisition by Go1 will greatly increase its global presence.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Benefits
- 📚 4 Days of Learning & Innovation
- 🤓 Learning & Development Budget
- 🏡 Unlimited Home Office
- 📈 Virtual stock options plan
- 🚃 Public transportation allowance
- 🎊 A day off for you birthday
- ☀️ Fridays off during summer 2022
- 🛋 Monthly home-office / co-working space allowance
- 🧘♀️ 4 Well-Being days
Company values
- 💪 Champion Accountability - Supporting and maintaining accountability means more than just sticking to a to-do list: it means taking ownership for the outcomes
- 📢 Default to Transparency - We share information freely with our colleagues to ensure clarity and alignment
- 💬 Communicate Directly - We know that whatever the question, communication is the answer.
- 🌱 Strive to Learn and Grow - We relish the chance to continuously grow and share what we’ve learned so that others can evolve, too
- 🤝 Support Each Other - We help our colleagues, treat them with respect, and celebrate their achievements
- 🎯 Optimise for Outcomes - We focus on the why and what, instead of how. We seek opportunities to simplify and fixate on the right outcome
- ⛰ Take Risks - In order to learn quickly, foster innovation, and create impact, we dare to take informed risks
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Jun 2018
$18.8m
SERIES C
Jan 2017
$9m
SERIES B
Total funding: $34.2m
This company has top investors
Leadership
Sebastian Klein
(Co-founder)Also a co-founder of Neue Narrative.
Tobias Balling
(Co-CTO)Ex-managing director at PodcastU.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Blinkist
Mertcan Uzun (Culture & Community Lead & DEI Expert)
- At Blinkist, we strongly believe that diversity powers innovation, thus we celebrate and support our differences, providing equal opportunities for employment.
- We are aware that the system is tweaked against counter-stereotypical individuals and groups. As an employer, we want to lead by example and make a lasting impact on the society. We acknowledge that to achieve equality we need to take affirmative actions and tackle discrimination that has been going on for generations.
- We are committed to enriching and diversifying our hiring funnels and removing systemic biases from every aspect of the organisational behaviour.
- We run engagement and diversity surveys to measure the sense of belonging and track progress of our DEI initiatives.
- We offer a minority coaching budget to our employees from minority groups. In this way, we hope to support individuals coming from under-represented communities in overcoming obstacles that might be blocking them from further growth and career development.