🗂️ Our November Update: Introducing the new Jobs Board
Dear friends,
☂️ We hope you are doing well, as we are approaching the end of November!
Here at team Brighteye we are very happy with our jobs, working with an amazing ecosystem of people in the Edtech space 🪄. That is not to say that there are not some very exciting job opportunities in this industry. With many of our portfolio companies always searching for the best talent 🫵🏽, we are proud to have launched an easy-to-navigate Jobs Board, where you can find all the opportunities in one place. It’s live now, updated daily – and hopefully helpful both for those of you hiring and for those of you who are hunting!
📣 This month’s other updates include:
Investment Update – Shakers joins the family in €6M Seed round
Selected News from the Portfolio – Company collaboration and Zen Educate and KOMI on impressive lists
Insights – Our new Portfolio Jobs Board and the Digital Tools for Teachers report
Events – Edtech Evening in Berlin and packing for Slush
We hope you’ll enjoy and wish you a Happy Wednesday!
🧤 Team Brighteye
💰 INVESTMENT UPDATE
🆕 Shakers €6M Seed
We are super happy to have welcomed Shakers, the platform helping companies solve their tech challenges, to our portfolio family, leading their €6M Seed round alongside Adevinta Ventures and Athos Capital, and with the participation of Wayra (Telefonica) and current investors 👏.
The Spanish 🇪🇸 startup is transforming the way companies relate to independent workers and yield better value for both workers and companies through hybrid teams in which in-house workers and freelancers collaborate in an agile way. Since 2021, Shakers has helped more than 450 companies and attracted more than 3000 professionals to the platform. 🚀🚀 Way to go, Héctor, Nico, Adrian, Jaime and team!!
🗞️ To read more, here are some of the media coverage from the announcement: EU-Startups, Tech Funding News, TechNews180, Tech.eu
🙋🏽 Who else is raising?
We are always keen to learn about promising edtechs to invest in out there. Please let us know of any companies we should speak with, by emailing Hannes at ha@brighteyevc.com or Izzy at iv@brighteyevc.com - or share your deck now!
📣 SELECTED NEWS FROM THE PORTFOLIO
🖇️ Twenix and Genially collaboration
We love to see our portfolio companies collaborate, and this example of Genially using Twenix for their staff's English 🇬🇧 language learning is exactly what makes us happy.
🎉 KOMI among 14 most promising creator economy brands
Congrats to KOMI on being featured as one of the 14 most promising creator economy brands of 2023, named by top investors for Business Insider! A testament to the hard work of the amazing Komi team - well done!
Sven Ahrens, who is the director of global growth at Spotify and one of the investors to select KOMI for the prestigious list, said to Business Insider that the company enables creators to "unify fan data and revenues in a simple way that is platform agnostic. If there's one thing that I have learned over my nearly eight years at Spotify, this is where most aspiring and even professional creators fail to create lasting impact on their business.”
🇬🇧 Zen among Deloitte’s UK Fast 50
Great to discover that also Zen Educate has been recognised in a very respected ranking of well-performing businesses. Deloitte has been running their UK Fast 50 award programme for 26 years, with results based on revenue growth over the past four years. Well done, team Zen, for grabbing the spot!!
🇪🇸 New podcast from Shakers
We enjoyed our listen to Charlando con Shakers, a new podcast launched by, correct, Shakers. They explore how “the most vibrant minds” are breaking the rules, challenging the norms and shaping the future. In Spanish.
🔎 INSIGHTS
💪🏾 Check out our new Jobs Board
Looking for a job in Edtech? Many of our portfolio companies are hiring, and we are very proud to have launched our brand-new Job Board this week. Updated a few times every day, there are right now more than 140 job opportunities at all levels, posted by 40+ members of the Brighteye portfolio family. The place to start when it comes to careers in Edtech!
💻 AI and the surge of digital tools for teachers
In the past few years, we have seen massive shifts in digital infrastructure employed by schools, as well as a rise in digital tools for teachers to support them with administrative and educational tasks. Recent AI developments have further led to an explosion in new tools focused on supporting teachers and school administrators.
In this report and market map we systematise the variety of players in the field and shed some light on recent developments as well as potential opportunities for the future. We have looked closely at and mapped ~400 different K12 companies, focusing on European actors targeting teachers/schools that are active in the fields of Administration, Lesson Preparation, Communications & Organisation as well as Assessment & Feedback.
We explore:
🎓 Teacher shortages across Europe
🚰 Teacher workloads and the make-up of their schedules
🚀 The many opportunities in the space...
🎪 EVENTS
🎈 Edtech Evening in Berlin
Last night we were delighted to co-host an Edtech Founders & Investors evening with our portco Tandem at their office in Berlin 🇩🇪 – thanks team Tandem. 25 people joined us to make it a lovely session of nice conversations, food and drinks.
🇫🇮 See you in Helsinki?
Our Founding Partner Ben, Principal David, Associate Izzy and Head of Community Hege are wrapping up warm 🧣 and heading to Helsinki for Slush next week. It will be a busy one, partnering with great colleagues on co-hosting the InvestED and attending the XcitED Edtech side events, and many more events and meetings. But we like busy and would love to catch up if you are around, too – please let us know!