Eight Nordic-Baltic Edtech semifinalists in the Global Edtech Startup Awards

Eight companies have been picked to pitch in front of a jury at the Nordic-Baltic Semifinals in the world’s largest edtech startup competition at XcitED event in Helsinki on November 30th 2021.

Edtech is one of the fastest growing markets in the world, where the needs for educational solutions have never been higher. The Nordic and Baltic edtech scene is flourishing and we have many promising and exciting entrepreneurs in our countries, ready to take a position as the best and most competitive in the world. With an internationally renowned education system, good at developing future skills like collaboration, creativity and entrepreneurship, we have all the ingredients needed to be the home for the next edtech supernova. Our finalists are great examples of this.

The Nordic-Baltic Semifinalists:

Astrid Education https://www.astrideducation.com/ - meaningful storytelling with an engaging AI-powered learning journey to help kids and teens around the world become fluent, confident English speakers.(Sweden)

CanopyLab https://canopylab.com/ - A social learning platform and community powered by AI. (Denmark)

Grapho Group https://www.graphogame.com/index.html - The early literacy game made by scientists. (Finland)

Hypocampus https://cortexio.com/ - A study platform streamlining the learning process. (Sweden)

iSpeak App https://www.ispeak.app/ - Learn English with short interactive videos from the best teachers around the globe.(Lithuania)

Peaqs https://peaqs.com/ - a high level learning game platform that combines a project development process with a virtual stock market engine for real-time valuation and peer feedback. (Denmark)

Skolon https://skolon.com/en/landing-page/ - With all your digital resources in one place, Skolon is the easiest way to work digitally at school.(Sweden)

WecoPlay https://wecoplay.com/ - Play and learn, a collection of learning games and activities for large interactive screens. (Denmark)

About GESA:

Global EdTech Startups Awards (GESAwards) is an initiative led by a group of leading education innovation organizations from across the world. The Awards identifies, showcases and recognizes the world's most promising EdTech startups of the year and semifinals take place all over the world. The Global Finals will take place in London in 2022. https://www.globaledtechawards.org/

About XcitED:

XcitED is a yearly edtech conference that gathers together education professionals, edtech entrepreneurs, impact investors and innovators from all around the world. This year’s XcitED will be held on-site on the 30th of November. More info and registration: https://www.xcited.org/