Smart Education

company

About

Smart Education is a developer of apps for children's education.

  • Tokyo,Tokyo,Japan
  • 51 - 100

Details

Last Funding Type
Series B
Last Funding Money Raised
¥150.32M
Industries
E-Learning,Education,Training
Founded date
Jan 1, 2011
Number Of Employee
51 - 100
Operating Status
Active
Legal Name
Smart Education,LTD.

Smart Education, Ltd. (located in Tokyo, Japan, President Daigo Ikeya) launched it’s kid’s music app “Rhythm Book” for smartphones and tablets. It’s in the App Store as an universal app for iPhone, iPad and iTouch. With Rhythm book, kids can learn and feel the rhythm by tapping instruments along with their favorite songs. There are more than 100 kid’s songs from TV, cartoons, to choose from and nursery rhymes in English and in Japanese. Stimulate the young mind with genuine and real studio recorded music and sounds. This app is designed to co-play between parents and child. You can purchase more songs via internet and the songs you’ve purchased can be co-owned by the same Apple ID through iCloud.

Funding Rounds

Number of Funding Rounds
Total Funding Amount
6
¥1B $12.08M
Smart Education has raised a total of ¥1B $12.08M in funding over 2 rounds. Their latest funding was raised on Jan 24, 2020 from a Series Unknown round.
Announced Date Round Money Raised Number of Investors Lead Investors Post Valuation
Jan 24, 2020 Series Unknown 1 MIMAMORUME Detail
Feb 17, 2014 Series Unknown ¥550M 2 CyberAgent Detail
Jun 3, 2013 Series B ¥150.32M 3 Shinsei Corporate Investment Detail
Dec 28, 2012 Series B ¥200M 2 Detail
May 29, 2012 Series A $12.08M Detail

Investors

Number of Lead Investors
Number of Investors
4
6
Smart Education is funded by 6 investors. MIMAMORUME and CyberAgent are the most recent investors.
Investor Name Lead Investor Funding Round
MIMAMORUME Yes Series Unknown
CyberAgent Yes Series Unknown
Shinsei Corporate Investment Yes Series B
Headline Asia (formerly Infinity Ventures) Series Unknown
Fuji Startup Ventures Series B
Mitsubishi UFJ Capital Series B

Employee Profiles

Number of Employee Profiles
5
Smart Education has 5 current employee profiles, including Executive Yusuke Kusakabe
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