{"id":42107,"date":"2013-11-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-07T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techma.bakertilly.es\/el-venture-capital-espanol-invierte-en-tics-educativas\/"},"modified":"2025-03-12T11:25:30","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T10:25:30","slug":"el-venture-capital-espanol-invierte-en-tics-educativas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techma.bakertilly.es\/en\/el-venture-capital-espanol-invierte-en-tics-educativas\/","title":{"rendered":"Spanish venture capital invests in educational ICTs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>El sector educativo espa\u00f1ol ha sido capaz de formar profesionales de prestigio. La actividad del venture capital muestra signos de un buen desarrollo futuro del sector unida a entidades educativas online como\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">UNIR<\/span>\u00a0e\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iebschool.com\/\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/www.iebschool.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">IEBS\u00a0<\/a><\/span>which augur well for opportunities.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Study2gether and Digital Didactics, technologies for schools<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Study2gether<\/span>\u00a0is a knowledge management platform for the education sector, especially for schools where it facilitates communication between teachers, parents and students. In 2012, it raised its first round of funding with the incorporation of incubator company\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mola.com\/\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/www.mola.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mola.com<\/a><\/span>\u00a0and with the financial support of\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.extremaduraavante.es\/\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/www.extremaduraavante.es\/\u200e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Avante Extremadura\u00a0<\/a><\/span>through an equity loan.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/www.universaldidactics.com\/\">Digital Didactics\u00a0<\/span><\/span>produces and markets online educational material for primary school subjects to more than 200 schools, with the technology company's business model consisting of direct sales to schools, which in turn sell it to schoolchildren. The didactic package for grades one to six in primary school costs around 80 euros. Didactica competes with publishers and in 2012 attracted \u20ac200k from the company.\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Interalios<\/span>\u00a0in the framework of a financing round organised by the business angel network\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eixtechnova.org\/\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/www.eixtechnova.org\/\u200e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">EIX Technova<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Uspeak and Bussu, technology for language learning<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It is common to read in the press about the lack of foreign language learning in Spain. These technology companies have made this task easier and easier.\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uspeaklanguages.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">uSpeak Languages<\/a><\/span>\u00a0uLAS uses a replay algorithm to create personalised learning experiences in the form of interactive games that are unique to each user at any given moment. at the end of 2012, it received \u20ac500k in investment from several business angels and the US fund\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greatoaksvc.com\/\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/www.greatoaksvc.com\/\" data-cke-saved- target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Great Oaks<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.busuu.com\/es\/\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/www.busuu.com\/es\/\" data-cke-saved- target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Busuu<\/a><\/span>\u00a0is the world's largest social network for language learning with more than 35 million users from over 200 different countries.users can access audio-visual courses in 12 languages (English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Turkish, Polish, Arabic, Japanese and Chinese). They can practice their language skills with native speakers from the community through an integrated video-chat application and peer-to-peer text corrections.The Madrid-born, London-based company received $4.7M in funding from\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Profounders Capital\u00a0<\/span>and business angels.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Floqqq, an example of rapid international growth<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Floqq\u00a0<\/span>es una plataforma de formaci\u00f3n a la carta que a finales del 2012 reibi\u00f3 una ronda de financiaci\u00f3n liderada por el venture capital Cabiedes &amp; Partners y apoyada por ENISA por un total de \u20ac405K. \u00abEs un ejemplo de internacionalizaci\u00f3n acelerada para una startup de menos de 2 a\u00f1os de vida ha conseguido en el mercado latinoamericano con el apoyo del gobierno de Chile a trav\u00e9s del programa Start-Up Chile y este a\u00f1o 2013 ha conseguido el compromiso de la incubadora americana\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/500.co\/\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/500.co\/\u200e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">500 Startups<\/a><\/span>\u00a0(uno de los fondos m\u00e1s prestigiosos de Silicon Valley) de invertir unos $75k en su desembarco estadounidense\u00bb comenta Diego Gutierrez experto en financiaci\u00f3n de pymes en A<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/abra-invest.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bra Invest.<\/a><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Spanish education sector has been able to train prestigious professionals. Venture capital activity shows signs of a good future development of the sector together with online educational entities such as UNIR and IEBS that augur good opportunities.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1750],"tags":[172],"sectores":[],"tipo-contenido":[2260],"class_list":["post-42107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-financiacion-sectorial","tag-venture-capital","tipo-contenido-noticias"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techma.bakertilly.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techma.bakertilly.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techma.bakertilly.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techma.bakertilly.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techma.bakertilly.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/techma.bakertilly.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techma.bakertilly.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techma.bakertilly.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techma.bakertilly.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42107"},{"taxonomy":"sectores","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techma.bakertilly.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sectores?post=42107"},{"taxonomy":"tipo-contenido","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techma.bakertilly.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tipo-contenido?post=42107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}