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Lingumi

Smart tutoring platform for kids ages 2-7

Lingumi logo
21-100 employees
  • B2C
  • Education
  • Languages
  • Mobile
  • Kids
Holborn, London, UK

Company mission

Their mission is to provide the world's best teaching experience to pre-school children all around the world through technology.

Rocket List 2021
Top investors

50% female employees

-21% employee growth in 12 months

Our take

Lingumi was developed to increase access to learning a second language, based on research that a child’s earliest years present a ‘magic window’ to do so. The learning method is digital and unique, focusing on ‘edutainment’, placing it very favourably in the growing EdTech market.

Lingumi grew significantly over the past few years, and did well to capitalise on the increasing trend for at-home learning. At one point they were top of the Kids section of the App Store in Taiwan, overtaking Peppa Pig. The app delivers a single lesson per day of around 20 minutes designed to be effective even if the parents themselves don’t speak English, opening Lingumi up to the international market.

It already has customers in over 40 countries, but is mainly focused on Western Europe, Taiwan and China, the latter being a potentially huge market which Lingumi hopes to tap into by leveraging its existing learning method and content in Chinese kindergartens.

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Benefits

  • Unlimited holiday (20 days have to be taken as a minimum)
  • Annual learning and development budget
  • We default to working from home, but have regular gatherings in an office to work face to face

Company values

  • We are mission-driven

Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)

Dec 2019

$5.1m

SERIES A

Jan 2018

$1.6m

SEED

Total funding: $7.4m

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Leadership

Toby Mather

(Co-founder & CEO)

Studied modern languages at Oxford University, before becoming an English teacher for children in Russia & Italy, started Lingumi through Entrepreneur First.

Adit Trivedi

(Co-founder)

Previously studied Computer Science at UCL, started Lingumi through Entrepreneur First. Co-founder of Rayday.

People progressing

Ken Lim

Joined as a Full Stack Developer. Promoted to VP Engineering after 2 years.

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Lingumi

  • We are in the early stages of kicking off our D&I initiatives but this is something we are hugely passionate about right across the board as D&I is not simply ‘a numbers game’ as many simplify it as. We have formed the following initiatives in order to start a wider conversation within the company:
  • We have formed a D&I committee who meed every fortnight to discuss our strategy and plans internally. Each team within the company is represented within this and the reps from each team rotate quarterly
  • We have opened up new lines of communication, such as a D&I slack channel to discuss ideas and updates of new things we have learned
  • We have committed to gathering D&I data in early Q1 of 2021 to understand where we are at the moment and where we want to be by the end of the year
  • We have also committed to adding questions relating to feeling included and represented at work to our monthly engagement survey- the happiness index
  • We are also making a conscious effort with our recruitment as well in how we reach people and advertise ourselves

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