Mindstone
Online education platform
- 21-100 employees
- B2C
- B2B
- Artificial Intelligence
- Education
- Learning
- Mobile
- London, UK
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Company mission
To accelerate the progress of humanity by removing barriers to learning.
Our take
Mindstone is a learning platform that helps people turn their "everyday learning" into skills that can advance their career. The idea of the platform is to help people combat information overload, and instead ensure they absorb key, bite sized insights every day. This learning streak can then be shown to future employers, demonstrating passion and expertise in particular areas.
The platform delivers this vision by allowing users to save content such as podcasts, articles, and videos, as well as set learning goals that help to build good habits. Their "Mindstone Skill Profile" then allows them to visualize their progress as well as share it with future and prospective employers. On top of this service for individuals, businesses can leverage Mindstone to build the skills they need within their existing workforces.
Having attracted funding back in 2021, the company has been working to build out its offerings and reach a broader audience. It also launched "AI Mastery for Teams", a business product specifically designed to support AI upskilling in the workplace, showcasing that it is capable of keeping up with its clients evolving education needs.
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Benefits
- Pension contribution
- Highly flexible autonomous environment (remote)
- A meta quest headset
- Regular company retreats (quarterly)
- Generous holiday (25 + bank holidays and time in between Xmas and NY)
Company values
- Empathy - put the learner first
- Learning - learn every day
- Winning - we function as an elite (sports) team
- Feedback - challenge and be challenged
- Precision - follow the evidence, speak the truth
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Nov 2021
$1.9m
SEED
Feb 2021
$2m
SEED
Total funding: $4.1m
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Leadership
Joshua Wöhle
(CEO)Previously Co-Founder and Chief Product / Technology Officer at SuperAwesome (sold to Epic Games in 2020). Josh is an active Angel Investor and Scottish Innkeeper.
Florian Zysset
(CTO)Entrepreneur and Software Engineer who joined Mindstone from Monzo, where they helped to improve the referral system that scaled the bank from 1M to 3.5M users.
Stefan Keranov
(Software Engineer)Developer and small company enthusiast, who holds a Computer Science and Mathematics degree from Glasgow University. Is also a Limited Partner at Creator Fund.
People progressing
Melinda is Mindstone's CPO, a geeky nerd who found a way to combine her love of games and her fascination with people's behaviour into an award-winning expertise. She frequently gives workshops on gamification.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Mindstone
Romanie Thomas (COO)
- 65% of our leadership team is female.
- Only 20% of the team is non-white, we have work to do here.
- Our COO previously founded a startup in the DEI space.
- Our Chief Product Officer is an LGBTQ STEM organiser in Berlin.
- 10 employees, 7 nationalities! We are committed to building a remote and inclusive environment.
- We think about inclusion before diversity. Is our environment inclusive? If the environment isn't right, it doesn't matter how intentional the hiring is, we'll never build a world class diverse team.
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Everyone at Mindstone is a domain expert in their respective fields, meaning that there's a lot of knowledge in the same (virtual, remote first) room. Folks don't keep this knowledge to themselves either - they're all super keen to share any progress/idea/thought they have and start a conversation around any given topic. This helps us all to develop better, get better/wider context and to expand our comfort zones on each new challenge.
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Intelligent people
Nov 2022
Working with people that are passionate about their craft gives an extra boost of motivation to the complex problems we are looking to solve each day - and at Mindstone this is very clear throughout the company.
Other Engineering
Hard working team
Nov 2022
We are currently working with native mobile at Mindstone and using new/well established patterns and tools from the industry - things like MVVM and LiveData (on the Android side) have been thought from the ground up so that we can iterate on things fast and keeping at the same time a solid architecture on our product.
Other Engineering
Tech & tools
Nov 2022