Seneca Learning
Engaging way to learn for free
- 21-100 employees
- B2C
- Education
- Learning
- Victoria, London, UK
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Company mission
Seneca’s mission is to give all children access to free, engaging and effective online courses.
1% employee growth in 12 months
Our take
Since being founded, Seneca has been driven by the goal of making free online learning more effective and enjoyable. Rather than asking for subscriptions from students, it supports schools which use both its free and premium offerings for their pupils.
To modernise the education industry, Seneca provides videos, summaries, notes, and lots of practice questions on its online interactive revision guides. Unlike traditional tutoring services, it is fully adaptive to students' learning experience, and tailored to suit their unique educational needs. This approach has been developed in collaboration with Oxford neuroscientists, and offers a statistically significant improvement in learners' test scores.
The rise of homeschooling due to the COVID-19 pandemic has massively increased the size and the demand of the market, with Seneca having up to 50,000 students signing up daily during lockdown. Seneca is currently used by over 6 million people across the UK, as well as millions across the world - including Brazil, Mexico, the UAE, and the USA.
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Benefits
- Remote working with the option of coming into the office if you like
- Holiday progressively increases with tenure. Starting at 25 days a year before eventually rising to 33 days
- Weekly "Knowledge shares" to learn best practices and new skills
- Monthly "Dev labs" hackathons to work on something experimental of your choice
- Quarterly socials with a full day of activities, food and drinks
- Opportunity to work with talented people all over Europe
Leadership
Matthew Read
(CTO)Matthew joined Seneca as their first software engineer in 2017, and have since been helping the team and the product grow to serve over 10 million users. He transitioned into the CTO role in 2024.
Jack Holmes
(CEO)Jack started as an intern working on Seneca's content in 2017 before spending 5 years as COO working across Content, Ops, Growth & Product. He took on the CEO role starting in December 2023.