Nordic EdTech Forum’s member GraphoGame wins the Nordic & Baltic Global Edtech Startups Awards (GESA) semifinal in Helsinki!
GraphoGame took home the regional semifinals in the world’s largest edtech startup competition and received the commendation and prize from Johanna Sumuvuori, State Secretary to the Minister for Foreign Affairs Finland, at Xcited event on November 30th, 2021. GraphoGame will now represent the Nordic & Baltic edtech scene at the GESA Finals at London Bett in January 2022.
“GraphoGame is an academically researched learning app, game and methodology for teaching kindergarten and primary schoolchildren early literacy skills in many languages. GraphoGame combines Finland’s educational and special needs expertise with evidence from cutting-edge research in neuroscience to provide 1-on-1 reading support for millions of children around the world.”
This year’s Nordic & Baltic GESA jury was formed by:
Märt Aro – representing N8 & EdTech Estonia,
Jarkko Elo – an enterprise account manager for education in Nordics at AWS,
Titta Mantila – a managing director at Oppiva Invest,
Keith Fransson – an investor, senior advisor and entrepreneur.
The jury’s motivation for choosing GraphoGame as this year’s winner stemmed from GraphoGames research-based services addressing a clear pain point of an estimated 435 million children globally lacking minimum reading proficiency. Additionally, the jury appreciated the ability of GraphoGame to provide essential data points for countries to understand the concept and their narrow vertical approach with no curriculum requirements making their solutions easily scalable and applicable in any country.
The Nordic-Baltic Semifinals was hosted by xEdu & N8 and co-arranged by Edtech Denmark, Edtech Finland, N8, Edtech Estonia and Swedish Edtech Industry.
About GESA:
Global EdTech Startups Awards is an initiative led by a group of leading education innovation organizations worldwide. The Awards identifies, showcases and recognizes the world’s most promising EdTech startups of the year, with its semifinals taking place all over the world.
Edtech is one of the fastest-growing markets globally, where the need for educational solutions has 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 finalist is an excellent example of this:
Astrid Education (Sweden) – meaningful storytelling with an engaging AI-powered learning journey to help kids and teens around the world become fluent, confident English speakers.
CanopyLab (Denmark) – A social learning platform and community powered by AI.
GraphoGame (Finland) – The early literacy game made by scientists.
Hypocampus (Sweden) – A study platform streamlining the learning process.
iSpeak App (Lithuania) – Learn English with short interactive videos from the best teachers around the globe.
Peaqs (Denmark) – 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.
Skolon (Sweden) – With all your digital resources in one place, Skolon is the easiest way to work digitally at school.
WecoPlay (Denmark) – Play and learn, a collection of learning games and activities for large interactive screens.
About XcitED:
XcitED is a yearly edtech conference that gathers together education professionals, edtech entrepreneurs, impact investors and innovators from all around the world, organised by xEdu. This year’s XcitED was held at Helsinki Education Hub on November 30th.
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