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Lyfta

Interactive digital learning platform

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21-100 employees
  • B2B
  • Education
  • Learning
  • SaaS
  • Virtual Reality
Highbury, London, UK

Company mission

To have an immersive story from every single country in the world on our platform, accessible to a global audience.

Led by a woman

60% female employees

52% employee growth in 12 months

Our take

Founded by Finnish filmmakers with a desire to communicate the experiences of people worldwide, Lyfta is a subscription-based digital platform where teachers and pupils can access immersive storyworlds through 360-degree interactive films featuring real people and their stories.

Lyfta’s theme-based learning experiences are used to teach Literacy, Personal Social and Health Education, Global Citizenship and Art, as well as fostering values and skills such as empathy, self-direction and critical thinking. Viewers can “visit” an Ethiopian village or become a virtual guest at the dinner table of families from different cultures. The background of the founding team as filmmakers ensures the highest quality of the film content and its diversity.

Going forward, Lyfta will continue to seek out education content in a virtual reality format that is intuitive and memorable for learners. It will work to its goal of creating these experiences to help broaden the horizons of children and young people by providing opportunities to see beyond their everyday realities.

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Steph

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Benefits

  • High spec work laptop
  • Annual team retreats and regular team events
  • Lovely, bright office space in leafy Islington with great coffee
  • £10 lunch allowance on office days
  • Flexible working (a mixture of office and remote work)
  • Private Healthcare
  • Company pension
  • 24 days holiday (excl. bank holidays)
  • Work from home opportunities
  • Health insurance

Company values

  • Authenticity
  • Community
  • Diversity
  • Empathy
  • Empowerment
  • Innovation
  • Integrity
  • Learning

Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)

Apr 2022

$3m

EARLY VC

Feb 2021

$1m

EARLY VC

Total funding: $5.3m

Leadership

Paulina Tervo

(Chief Content Officer)

Award-winning documentary filmmaker, journalist and co-founder of Write This Down, a creative storytelling agency.

Award-winning fiction, non-fiction and commercial filmmaker and lecturer on virtual reality filmmaking.