Praktika.ai
Language learning app with GenAI avatars
- 21-100 employees
- B2C
- Artificial Intelligence
- Education
- Languages
- Mobile
- Wilmington, DE
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Company mission
To deliver efficient and engaging learning experiences for billions of people worldwide by bridging the gap between learning apps and human tutors.
Our take
Learning a new language is no mean feat, but the era of learning apps has certainly made it simpler and more accessible than ever before. Praktika hopes to improve the experience even more. It employs GenAI avatars to make the language learning experience feel more natural.
Through the Praktika app, users can access 1-to-1 tutorship powered by these avatars, which have individualized backgrounds and a range of accents. The company's aim is to combine the precision of a tutor with the fun of an app, supplying lessons, practice and feedback through a colourful UI.
Aiming to compete with tutorship rather than other learning apps, Praktika stands out as a cost-effective way for individuals to access 1-to-1 learning on their own schedule. This approach resulted in its 2024 fundraising of $35.5M, which is being used to heighten the app experience, improve avatar accuracy and add new languages.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Funding (2 rounds)
May 2024
$35.5m
SERIES A
Dec 2021
$0.5m
SEED
Total funding: $36m
Leadership
Adam Turaev
(Co-Founder & CEO)Prior to co-founding Praktika in 2021, Adam co-founded Cleverbots where they served as the Strategy Director for nearly 3 years. Before that, they were a Global Media & CRM Manager at SPLAT and a Digital Manager at RB.
Anton Marin
(Co-Founder & CTO)Anton previously served as a Senior Cloud Engineer at TWAICE, as a Backend Engineer at relayr, and as a Big Data Engineer at Rakuten.
Ilya Chernyakov
(Co-Founder & COO)Previously co-founded Cleverbots alongside Adam where they worked in Operations & Product. Before that, they worked at Sanofi in various Product Management roles.