2022年6月1日

电子学习的形式,不管是纸质材料的补充或生活经验;或主要的甚至只有所用介质-现在是一个不可磨灭的教育经历的一部分;现在创业的西班牙建立了一个平台,帮助提供电子学习在更多地方宣布一轮增长的资金进一步扩大其业务。Odilo总部启动,已经建立了一个白标签所使用的平台企业或组织构建自己的定制的电子学习产品在B2B2C模型中,已经拿起€6000万(6400万美元)。伦敦投资者Bregal里程碑领导从先前的支持者Swanlaab和CDTI圆与参与。Odilo不披露其估值,但自2012年以来它已经存在,以前提高了不到3000万美元。你可能不熟悉“Odilo这个名字。“罗德里戈·罗德里格斯,创始人兼首席执行官,形容我Odilo“Netflix”教育因其大型目录——到目前为止,公司已经积累了390万种物品的目录,包括一些300万本书还播客,完整的课程和其他材料,从6300年的43种语言——出版商和事实,人们动用内容点播,use-whatever-you-want基础。不像Netflix,然而,它的运作而标签服务,所以你可能从来没有真正看到Odilo品牌。然而,有机会你可以使用教育门户网站之一,它的权力。 Odilo has so far racked up 8,500 customers in 52 countries, covering some 170 million users in all, with the list including government bodies, libraries and education organizations like MIT, but also big corporate customers such as Google and Vodafone. Rodriguez said that the new funding will be used to continue growing that catalogue as well as to expand deeper into more markets, specifically North America and the African continent. The company has grown out of two significant trends in tech. The first is the rise of e-learning, which in its widest view — which can include both school learning as well as professional training and everything in between — was estimated to be worth some $315 billion in 2021 and will grow at a CAGR of 20% for the next six years according to researchers . That whole trend, of course, was accelerated by Covid-19, when schools and other in-person learning experiences were shut down, but it was already big even before the pandemic, and given the economics of virtual experiences is likely to remain in place. The second is the rise of “headless” systems: services that are built as extensible platforms, where customers are given the option of using a variety of APIs and other tools to build out their own customized experiences on top of them. These are very common in other areas of tech that are otherwise very complex to build from the ground up — e-commerce backends (Shopify or Commercetools for example), content management systems (eg Contentful) — and now Odilo is effectively using that same model and applying it to e-learning. (And to point out, there are others also pursuing the idea of building platforms that let others create customizable libraries of e-learning: Perlego in London has described itself as a “Spotify” of e-learning pursuing something similar and also raising money to build that out; the scale of Odilo is very impressive in that regard, though.) It was notable to me that Google is one of Odilo’s customers: the company, one of the world’s undisputed tech giants, has made a big push into education by way of products like its collaborative multi-media Google Classroom ; its Google Scholar academic material search; YouTube of course; its primary search engine and so much more. It uses Odilo to build training and education libraries for its people, Rogriduez told me, but had it ever approached Odilo to build a more consumer-facing offering? No, was the short answer he gave me, but he did note that it’s been talking with very large technology companies, which want to look at this kind of product but might not want to invest in building it themselves — not initially at least — to explore this very idea. That, plus the existing large market, are two reasons why investors have been ready to invest, even at a time when raising momney is getting a little trickier for startups. “Odilo is an innovative player in the high-growth educational content market, with an impressive product range, a vast content catalogue and best-in-class digital infrastructure,” said Francesco Canessa, a principal at Bregal Milestone, in a statement. “There is significant scope for internationalisation and scaling the platform – two value creation levers where Bregal Milestone has significant expertise. As a leader in its field with a strong, sticky customer base and a unique offering, ODILO is exactly the kind of business we look for, and we’re excited about the growth prospects ahead as we work together.”