The Spanish startup specialized in english learning for kids, Lingokids, continues to reach record numbers. Due to its progress in global positioning, it already exceeds 60 million families using its app around the worldbeing today one of the reference edTech in the field of language learning.
During 2022 the company has added 20 million new families who have installed the application, which represents a business growth of 50% compared to the previous year.
In Spain there are already 1.1 million user families, of which 330,000 have joined in 2022. Its priority market is the United States and Mexico, where last year it gained 3.4 million new users, and 11 million families have already chosen the Lingokids app to help their children learn academic and socio-emotional skills in English.
A recognized and awarded trajectory
Lingokids is one of the benchmark startups in the Spanish entrepreneurship ecosystem. His current team is made up of 160 peoplebeing the areas of Engineering and Marketing the ones that have grown the most in 2022.
It has maintained a uniform and continuous progression since its inception in 2016, and has raised 65 million dollars from investors such as Ravensburger and funds such as Holtzbrinck Ventures, JME Venture Capital, Sabadell Ventures, BigSur, Reach Capital, and business angels such as Gwynne Shotwell, president and COO of SpaceX, Elon Musk’s company. Last year, the company Viva Technology included Lingokids in its annual list of the next 100 unicorns.
In addition, in 2022 it obtained important recognition: in its 19th edition, the Kidscreen Awards, the main awards of the world children’s entertainment industry, awarded it the Award for Best Original Learning Application. And it was a finalist for the UNICEF edTech Awards in the category of Best Educational Solution.
Another milestone to highlight was the agreement reached with Amazon to be one of the skills available on Echo devices through the Amazon Kids service on Alexa. Simply by saying “Alexa, open Lingokids”, the little ones can access 240 educational activities in English for free, in the form of songs and podcasts on different themes, with which, in addition to having fun, they can learn not only English, but “ in English”, both academic skills and education in values and social skills.
