Edwin

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/edwin

It combines the latest adaptive learning and Natural Language Understanding technology with pedagogical content as well as on-demand human instructors to offer its students affordable, personalized, 1:1 learning. Based in San Francisco, the company was funded by General Catalyst, Y Combinator, Google Assistant Investments Program, and several other investors. Over 800 thousand students have improved their English with Edwin. In early 2020 Edwin merged with MyBuddy.ai. The resulting company kept the name “Buddy.ai”. Headquartered in San Francisco, it focuses on building a virtual English conversation partner for over 500 million children around the globe who are trying to learn English, but can't reach fluency because they lack genuine practice speaking the language. The company doubled down on its mobile app Buddy, the voice-based English tutor for kids, organically combining solutions developed by Buddy.ai and Edwin.

About

Year Founded: 2017
Number of Founders: 2
HQ: San Francisco, California, United States
Domain: edwin.ai
Email: hello@edwin.ai
Industries: Education, EdTech, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning, Language Learning
Tags: ai-enhanced-learning, education, machine-learning, smart-home-assistants, elearning

Total Funding: 1500000
Number of Funding Rounds: 2.0
Last Funding Round Type: Seed
Last Funding Date: 2018-05-02
Team Size: 14
Founder Names: Dmitry Stavisky, Dmitry Alekseev