Edwin

company

About

Edwin merged with Buddy.ai to provide affordable EFL tutoring at scale by using a virtual voice-enabled character.

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Details

Last Funding Type
Seed
Last Funding Money Raised
$1.50M
Industries
Artificial Intelligence,EdTech,Education,Language Learning,Machine Learning
Founded date
Jan 1, 2016
Number Of Employee
11 - 50
Operating Status
Active

In early 2020 Edwin merged with Buddy.ai. The resulting company kept the name “Buddy.ai”. Headquartered in San Francisco, it focuses on building a virtual English conversation partner for over 500 million children around the globe who are trying to learn English, but can't reach fluency because they lack genuine practice speaking the language. The company doubled down on its mobile app Buddy, the voice-based English tutor for kids, organically combining solutions developed by Buddy.ai and Edwin.

Edwin built an AI-powered service for learning English as a foreign language. It combines the latest adaptive learning and Natural Language Understanding technology with pedagogical content as well as on-demand human instructors to offer its students affordable, personalized, 1:1 learning. Based in San Francisco, the company was funded by General Catalyst, Y Combinator, Google Assistant Investments Program, and several other investors. Over 800 thousand students have improved their English with Edwin.

Funding Rounds

Number of Funding Rounds
Total Funding Amount
1
$1.50M
Edwin has raised a total of $1.50M in funding over 2 rounds. Their latest funding was raised on Mar 15, 2018 from a Seed round.
Announced Date Round Money Raised Number of Investors Lead Investors Post Valuation
Mar 15, 2018 Seed $1.50M 1 General Catalyst Detail

Investors

Number of Lead Investors
Number of Investors
1
1
Edwin is funded by 1 investors. General Catalyst are the most recent investors.
Investor Name Lead Investor Funding Round
General Catalyst Yes Seed