USA – Mindstone, a London, UK-based edtech platform, raised £1.45m through a crowdfunding campaign on Seedrs.
Commitments to the campaign came from Moonfire Ventures founder Mattias Ljungman, impact investment fund Mustard Seed Maze, Techstars managing director Eamonn Carey, US VC Scout Fund, Zanichelli Venture and Andrew Gault, founding partner of 7percent Ventures. the crowdfunding will support an increased focus on mobile, as well as further research and development, hiring, and commercial partnerships.Founded in 2020 by CEO Joshua Wohle, Mindstone has built an edtech platform that allows experts to create engaging courses, built using pre-existing online articles, podcasts, and videos, helping people learn and remember more about a wide range of topics, from Astrophysics to Zoology. Several organisations and individuals are already using the platform to create courses, including The Bitcoin Association (Bitcoin Basics), Landscape VC (How To Raise Funding For Your Startup), Flown (How To Do Deep Work) Radix (An Overview of Radix DLT), The Body Collective (Women’s Health: How To Live Your Best Life After 40) . In addition, several online influencers have contributed courses, including Jack Edwards, a lifestyle, travel, and literature blogger (How To Be A Better Reader), “studytuber” Unjaded Jade (How to Self Study), Vix Meldrew (How to Build Your Personal Brand on Instagram), and Eleanor Neale (How to Research a True Crime Case).03/12/2021
