Astrid named one of the most promising EdTech startups by HolonIQ
When leading market intelligence firm, HolonIQ today announced the 50 most promising EdTech startups from the Nordic and Baltic region, Astrid was named one of four Language Learning companies, making a significant impact on global markets.
STOCKHOLM, 26 October 2021 — Education Technology company Astrid Education (Astrid) today made the list of HolonIQ’s annual Nordic & Baltic EdTech 50 covering EdTech startups based in the Nordic and Baltic countries of Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Sweden.
Using the HolonIQ platform, the HolonIQ Intelligence Unit team and market experts selected 50 digital education companies out of almost 1500+ EdTech startups, based on HolonIQ’s scoring fingerprint that includes capital, team, market, product and momentum.
John Kristensen, Founder and CFO/COO at Astrid says “We are thrilled to be recognised by the leading source for global investment research in education, especially at a time of unprecedented growth for the EdTech sector. To be included among a small group of globally established companies and amazing new startups like Labster and Sana is humbling, incredibly inspirational and a real boost to the team.”
In 2021 Astrid launched with the mission to give everyone access to the global talent market by helping young learners become fluent, confident English speakers. Built as a next-generation language learning platform, Astrid is a voice-based language tutor powered by proprietary AI and state of the art speech recognition technology. Astrid is available for download on both iOS and Android and is designed to give easy and affordable access to the gold standard of language learning.
HolonIQ 2021 Nordic & Baltic EdTech 50
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About Astrid Education
Astrid is an EdTech company building a next-generation language learning platform. It combines storytelling with a fun and engaging AI-powered language tutor, to help young learners around the world become fluent, confident English speakers. Voice-based and personalised at the core, Astrid provides a new way to practice English independently at your own pace. The team consists of experienced engineers, academics, and company builders with backgrounds ranging from EF, Spotify, King and Kry. Astrid is located in Stockholm, Sweden, and Oxford, UK, and is backed by a global group of renowned tech entrepreneurs, investors, and advisers.
About HolonIQ
HolonIQ is an industry-leading market intelligence platform that provides data and analysis of developments in the global education market, providing updates and commentary on companies, countries and industries and how their innovation activities form patterns and trends in the market.
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Linnéa Lindberg, linnea@astrideducation.com
