EdTech Foundry

We build edtech startups

  • Stage Prototype Ready
  • Industry Education
  • Location Oslo, Norway
  • Currency EUR
  • Founded January 2015
  • Employees 6
  • Incorporation Type Other
  • Website edtechfoundry.com

Company Summary

EdTech Foundry is a startup factory that builds products for higher education.

We collaborate with universities to
solve problems, validate solutions and
build, run and scale our own edtech startups.

NOW: differ.chat - the course communication app.
- Jun 15: Value prop validated with 92 % sign-up rate
- Spring 16: Pilots. 4 Unis, 2.000 students
- Fall 16: Closed beta. 5.000 students
- Best startup at Tøyen Startup Summer Camp.
- "Top perfomer" Startup Sauna Oslo
- Validated business model

€0,5 funding May 2016

Team

  • Serial entrepreneur.
    "Founder of the Decade" - Norwegian School of Entrepreneurship.
    Blogger for Innovation Norway and Nettavisen.
    Previously founded a software that now has been sold to more than 1.000 schools in Norway and Sweden.

  • Entrepreneurship teacher turned startup founder within educational technology.
    Teaching entrepreneurship at master level in university for 7 years.
    9 years consulting experience in digital media and innovation.
    Former founder of GründerTV and Moonwalk Norway.

  • Senior Developer

    Full-stack senior developer. (speciality: angular, node)
    Previously co-created the student portal together with Are.

  • Senior Developer

    Full-stack senior developer. (speciality: angular, node)
    Previously co-created the student portal together with Kenneth.

  • Senior UX/UI designer

    UX and UI design. Experience from diverse design projects: websites, exhibitions, professional tools, and applications for mobile, desktop and interactive TV.
    Designed a learning platform for youth with low computer literacy in rural Uganda.

Advisors

  • Anne B Swanberg
    Advisor and head of Learning Lab BI Norwegian Business School
    Unconfirmed
    Advisor, brain training

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