Revyze, a Paris-based social studying app designed for GenZ and GenAlpha, has raised $6 million in a seed spherical led by Speedinvest (which lately backed ContextSDK and Haaven) and Moonfire (which backed Healthtech 1 and Stanhope AI), with participation from Motier Ventures, Station F, the world’s largest startup incubator, Illka Paananen (Cofounder of Supercell), Riccardo Zacconni & Sebastian Knusson (Cofounders of King / Candycrush) and Nickey Skarstad (Director of Product, Duolingo).
Revyze was based in 2022 by Guillaume Perrot, Anatole Blanc, and Florent Sciberras to democratize entry to high-quality schooling on a world scale. The corporate’s cell app helps college students study by scrolling by verified brief type Tiktok-like movies & quizzes made by their friends, together with excessive schoolers, college college students, and even lecturers. It presents a cell app the place college students study by brief movies and quizzes created by their friends, with all content material verified earlier than posting. The corporate goals to reshape the educational expertise, making it accessible, personalised, and social.
Guillaume Perrot, CofounderCofounder of Revyze, shared in regards to the platform:
You possibly can consider Revyze as Duolingo meets TikTok—Duolingo for the gamified studying construction & Tiktok for the short-form video format & social interplay. We’re transferring from a world the place you study passively in class with lecturers to a world of lively lifelong studying together with your friends. We expect people study higher from different people as a result of they’ll relate. That’s the reason we don’t suppose siloed AI tutoring is the best way. As an alternative, we imagine creators ought to be within the driver’s seat, supported by AI, which Revyze makes use of to assist them create extra high-quality, partaking, personalised content material.
Since its inception, Revyze has reached over 1 million customers. Over one-third of all ninth graders in France have already used the platform to organize for his or her center faculty certificates, pushing the app to #1 within the App Retailer final June. Over 2000 creators have additionally contributed over 20,000 movies, leading to over 150 million views, an equal of 100 years of sensible scrolling on Revyze as a substitute of doom scrolling on TikTok.
Including additional in regards to the improvement, the Co-founder of Revyze mentioned:
We’re constructing a small, various workforce of worldwide expertise with very excessive company, so we’re in search of one world-class designer and two software program engineers obsessed with our mission to hitch us.
With this funding, Revyze intends to gamify the educational expertise by introducing new options comparable to each day duties, foreign money, badges, and standing studying from Duolingo and cell video games. It plans to create a extra social platform the place college students can add their classmates to the app, talk with them over instructional content material, and tailor suggestions.
Jeroen Arts, Companion at Speedinvest, additionally commented:
By combining social engagement with verified, peer-generated content material, Revyze is not only filling a spot—it’s redefining your entire studying expertise. We’re thrilled to assist a workforce obsessed with democratizing schooling and empowering college students to study in ways in which resonate with them.
Past France, Revyze goals to increase to america in 2025, the place it already has a small pilot and an early neighborhood of creators.