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Knowunity
Digital learning platform for students
- 21-100 employees
- B2C
- Education
- Tutoring
- Learning
- SaaS
- Old Spandau, Berlin, Germany
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Company mission
To provide every student everywhere with access to high-quality school education.
39% employee growth in 12 months
Our take
Demands on the education system are changing at a rapid rate, and Knowunity is one of a wave of EdTechs looking to revolutionise education and meet the demands of Gen Z.
Knowunity sets itself apart from most online education platforms, that tend to offer traditional tutoring/teaching systems, by being a completely peer-to-peer platform. The site relies on student creators (called "Knowers"), who share their notes and guidance with their followings. This flatter and more collaborative system has proven popular, with the platform now boasting millions of users.
After establishing a strong user-base in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France and Poland, the company went on to launch into the UK and Italian markets. Fresh funding will see Knowunity eye up further expansion into the US, alongside Spain and possibly further continents in the near future.
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Benefits
- 100% Flexibility - Work from where you want! Whether in our new office in Berlin Mitte or remotely from anywhere in Europe!
- Workshops - We offer you exciting workshops with great experts
- We grant each employee a membership either at Become1 or Urban Sports Club
- Personal Development - Once per quarter we offer exciting personal development courses, you can choose from singing lessons to design workshops, whatever you would like to improve in
- Fresh fruits, cold drinks, coffee and snacks
- On Fridays we enjoy after work drinks together
- We offer each department a quarterly event budget to give everyone the opportunity to get to know each other
- Regular team events - These vary from sport activities to parties in our office in Berlin
Company values
- Put the students first - at the end of the day we serve students and their needs, this is why we measure our success through the impact we have for students
- Roll up your sleeves - we have such big ambitions that everyone needs to contribute through ownership and fast execution
- Act like a knower - we all have the power to make Knowunity better, we take full ownership, commit to our tasks and dig deep where needed to create maximum impact
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Feb 2023
$9.5m
SERIES A
May 2022
$10.6m
SERIES A
Total funding: $22.2m
Leadership
Benedict Kurz
(CEO)Co-founded Knowunity in 2019.
Lucas Hild
(CTO)Previously Software Engineer & Co-Founder of schoolsen.
Gregor Weber
(VP Mobile & Head of Product)Previously Software Engineer & Co-Founder of schoolsen.
Yannik Prigl
(Head of Backend)Software Engineer and Head of Backend.