Munich-based EDURINO raises €17 million to give children a responsible, playful entry into the world of digital education

German EdTech startup EDURINO has completed its Series B financing round totaling €17 million to become Europe’s leading platform for educational gaming for children.

The round was led by Ravensburger Next Ventures, the venture arm of Ravensburger AG. Also participating were Summiteer, the investment company of serial entrepreneur and Akasol founder Sven Schulz; DN Capital; Tengelmann Ventures; b2venture; Emerge; FJ Labs; G-FUND and Jens Begemann. Business angels Stefan Winners and Frederik Vollert also invested.

“We are not just creating learning products, we are building a platform that will accompany children for the long term, offering strong content, characters and experiences. EDURINO aims to set the standard for digital learning at pre-school and primary school age,” says Co-founder Franziska Meyer.

EDURINO was founded in 2021 by Irene Klemm and Franziska Meyer to give children a responsible, playful entry into the world of digital education. The platform unites educational games, ergonomic input tools and animated characters that teach classic school and future skills such as reading, logical thinking, coding and environmental knowledge.

They have an interdisciplinary team of over 40 educators, game designers, psychologists and scientists. Together with the University of Cambridge, the learning effects are scientifically evaluated and optimised.

EDURINO has already sold over one million products and is in use at more than 1,500 educational institutions.

EDURINO represents a new generation of learning: the platform combines playful learning content with digital innovation and creates interactive learning experiences that are intuitive, age-appropriate and educationally valuable.

Thomas Bleyer, Managing Director at Ravensburger, says: “EDURINO excels at aligning analogue play with digital education. With its clear educational concept and child-orientated design, the team not only wins over children and parents, but also us as a partner. We believe EDURINO has the potential to make a long-term impact on digital early childhood education worldwide.“

EDURINO’s strategy centres on creating an interactive learning world for children aged four to eight. The company takes a holistic approach: learning and playing are seamlessly intertwined and orientated towards children’s natural curiosity. The concept combines educationally based content with carefully developed characters, digital storytelling and physical elements such as figures and an ergonomic pen.

EDURINO is now planning new content such as video formats and other hybrid products that combine digital and analogue learning. At the same time, the platform is opening up to popular children’s brands that are integrated into its educational concept.

The aim is to create a new category that inspires families and makes education an emotional experience.

“By scaling up, we want to reach even more families with EDURINO – digitally, stationary and cross-media networked. In Ravensburger, we have found the ideal partner who wants to actively shape our vision of playful learning. Proximity to retailers and the expertise to develop products together are crucial for us,” explains EDURINO Co-founder Irene Klemm. 

The Series B funding will be allocated to three key areas of growth:

• Platform development: expansion of the digital ecosystem with new content formats, learning content and product categories
• International scaling: rollout in the UK and market entry in other countries
• Retail & visibility: doubling presence in bricks-and-mortar retail by the end of 2025

A technological centrepiece is the company’s own low-code system, with which learning content can soon be created completely without manual programming.

“EDURINO unites pedagogical expertise with state-of-the-art technology to create a learning platform that captivates children and earns parents’ trust. We see great potential in EDURINO to make a lasting impact on the educational landscape and look forward to actively shaping this journey as a partner,” says serial entrepreneur and Akasol Founder Sven Schulz.

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