A startup that helps children learn science
“Kide Science” official website
According to Foreign media reported that recently, a Finnish education startup” Kide Science < / a> “received a seed round of 1.5 million euros, which was led by Sparkmind.vc, and some existing investors including Zanichelli Venture participated. Since its inception, this startup’s total financing has reached 2.4 million euros.
In 2017, “Kide Science” was established as an early childhood science learning provider, is designed to help children in In daily life, Increase curiosity about scientific knowledge and the natural world. This platform is for children from 3 to 8 years old, the teaching they use The method was taken from the academic research results of the University of Helsinki, Finland. “Kide Science” provides children with game-based, story and theater art Study skills to help them learn STEAM (science, technical engineering, arts and mathematics), so as to cultivate children ’s scientific thinking.
“Kide Science” will train children’s scientific thinking step by step, and gradually guide children how to master the STEAM learning method. The company hopes that children can gain confidence in learning while exercising their thinking. “Kide Science” will develop a lesson plan to provide children with high-quality course materials, including experimental video guidance, interesting stories, learning skills, and equipment needed for each lesson Checklist.
On the “Kide Science” platform, users can also get help from experts. They Yes Ask and learn from the Kide Science Community and Finnish STEAM experts.
Currently, “Kide Science” provides services to customers in 14 countries and regions, including Finland. The company has a rapidly growing customer base in Finland and attracts the country ’s largest private kindergarten chain, which has opened kindergartens in 200 locations with 10,000 Child customers. The company has also signed agreements with large learning centers in the North Africa region (MENA), the Far East region, and China. In addition, “Kide Science” produced a TV program on the Finnish national public broadcasting company YLE.
” Kide Science “official website
“Kide Science” will use funds from a new round of financing to accelerate international expansion, and seek new opportunities in Asia and major international markets for home education. The company will also develop its products and provide employees with more wages.
CEO SariHurme Mehtälä stated that “Kide Science” can rapidly expand its global sales and marketing activities through this new financing. This will help the company to teach key science skills to more children around the world so they can better understand the world.