The EdTech Founders Podcast
In this podcast Frank interviews startup founders & players supporting early-stage EdTech startups from across Europe. Season 1 focused on the stories from founders, while from season 2 we are also interviewing business angels & investors to understand their investment thesis, what advice they would give startups seeking funding and how founders should approach these types of investors.
We get straight to the point in 20+ minutes and publish new episodes roughly every month. You can listen to and find the transcript from each podcast below.
Music produced by Ehsansation.
Unlocking employee engagement and retention - Mindaugas Petrutis (Coho)
Mindaugas Petrutis is the CEO of Coho, which is enabling companies to curate peer groups at scale.
The 24/7 global primary school - Noam Gerstein (bina School)
Noam Gerstein is the CEO of the bina school a fully online primary transnational school for kids aged 4-12.
Disrupt by being fast and brave - Lula de León (Leemons)
Lula de Leon is a designer, teacher, entrepreneur and mother building an open-source Learning Experience Platform at Leemons.
Build a product for GPT-6 - Nick Hernandez (360Learning)
Nick Hernandez is the CEO of 360Learning, a company building an LMS platform based on collaborative learning (S3 E4).
How do you digitize implicit knowledge? - Michal Hudeček (Levebee)
Michal Hudeček is the CEO of Levebee that makes makes learning easier, more effective and fun for kids in areas such as math, reading and languages. (S3 E3).
Schools need to measure soft skills - Michaela Horvathova (Beyond Education)
Michaela Horvathova is the co-founder and Chief Education Officer at Beyond Education, a company empwering students 10-21 years old with the 21st century competencies (S3 E2).
VR education has crossed the chasm - Christophe Mallet (Bodyswaps)
Christophe Mallet is the CEO & co-founder of Bodyswaps, a VR platform that brings realistic simulations and AI-enabled feedback to soft skills training for educational institutions and corporate clients. (S2 E8)
TikTok learning is superficial - Hanna Celina (Kinnu)
Hanna Celina is the co-founder and Chief Product Officer at Kinnu, developing an app for curious people to learn effectively with the goal of changing the way billions of people learn.(S2 E7)
The level of change in organizations outpaces the level of learning - Thomas Helgø (Society Lab)
Thomas I. Tveteraas Helgø is the founder of Society Lab, a Norwegian digital learning agency that helps increase an organisation's ability to lead transformation. (S2 E6)
95% of e-learning becomes skip factories (zick learn)
Matteo Penzo is the co-founder & CEO at zick learn, which is a startup making enterprise learning fast, efficient and fun through text based micro-learning delivered to any chat client on the market. (S2 E5)
Teachers don’t get feedback on their teaching (Teacherspace)
Jesper Bergmann - Co-founder and CEO at Teacherspace, making it easy for teachers to get quality feedback on their classroom by providing them with mentors and insights. (S2 E4)
For employees not to upskill is professional negligence
Marie Verchère, co-founder and CEO of Upskyld, a personalized learning app that uses audio to plug into downtimes for professionals. They are based in France and focusing on the corporate education market. (S1 E11)
Enable the flipped classroom with an experience for teachers from A to Z
Robin Guerit, the co-founder and Chief Experience Officer of Flowchase, based in Belgium. The company is helping English learners speak confidently through blended-learning tools for pronunciation instruction. (S1 E10)
Employees spend 12 hours per week searching for information because they lack skills
Aleksandra Maravic, founder of Beyond the Box, a subscription based skills platform for enterprises based in Italy. (S1 E9)
Lack of experience can be a superpower to dare taking risks as an entrepreneur
Jack Daly, founder of 8BitCADE & STEM studio, based in the UK. 8bitcade makes fun, DYI, game consoles to teach STEM topics. (S1 E8)
Gamification is failing as a mechanism for long-term learning
Eduardo Nunes, CEO of Kendir Studios, a company based in Porto, Portugal. Kendir Studios is a development studio for educational role playing and adventure games. (S1 E7)
Supporting student well-being and mental health is no longer a luxury
Miska Noponen, CEO of Annie Advisor, a company that proactively finds students in need of support and helps them when it's most impactful, based out of Helsinki, Finland. (S1 E6)
Everything you build should translate into more resources for children’s learning
Alex Tep, founder of Bunsen, a company building a B2B marketplace for school supplies for K12 and Higher Education, based out of London, UK. (S1 E5)
Go to VCs who know EdTech and focus on learning experiences rather than only metrics
Didem Cikse, co-founder & CEO of Hub21, a company building a new way to help kids & teens aged 7-17 to master their technology skills guided by passionate tutors from top universities, based out of Turkey and London. (S1 E4)
Social media is just designed to release dopamine, not for connecting people
Santiago Cabanas Oyarzun, the founder of Loop Media, a company providing unfiltered news for youth, based out of Spain. (S1 E3)