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Uptime

Curated video learning app

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21-100 employees
  • B2C
  • Education
  • Publishing
  • Learning
Battersea, London, UK

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Company mission

Uptime's mission is to build a platform that makes knowledge accessible, affordable, and fun, while also being free from negativity, doom-scrolling and advertising.

Our take

The internet is a seemingly endless source of information, providing endless resources for education and self-improvement. However, many of these resources such as documentaries, eBooks, and courses require hours of attention, and this raises the question of whether one could refine the way that we learn certain information.

Uptime provides a platform for microlearning, a process in which the company extracts information from documentaries, courses, and books and presents them as short pieces of educational content. These self-claimed “knowledge hacks” are presented as freebies to users of the app, with the full content being suggested for purchase at the end of the content.

Considering how day-to-day life is becoming increasingly on demand and optimized, Uptime has taken a similar approach to online education by preserving information whilst reducing the time it takes to learn it. The platform also provides a unique platform for educational content creators to showcase their products.

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Benefits

  • Flexible work environment
  • 34 days holiday (including bank & public holidays)
  • A contributory pension scheme

Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)

May 2021

$3m

SEED

Feb 2021

$16m

SEED

Total funding: $20m

Leadership

Jamie True

(Founder)

Was Founder & CEO of Monitise Create and LifeWorks. Served as CDO of Morneau Shepell, and was Lead Investor at HERO, which was acquired by Klarna.

Jack Bekhor

(Co-Founder)

Studied Civil Engineering at Imperial College London. Served as CFO of LifeWorks.

Patrick Walker

(Co-Founder)

Studied Journalism at USC, and Administration at Harvard. Was a Producer/Director at NHK, and a Senior Broadcast Journalist at the BBC. Worked as Deputy General Manager of IMG Media, and Senior Director of YouTube Music. Was a Director of Media Partnerships at Facebook.