We use scientific research and proven teaching methodology, alongside Hollywood-quality animation and state- of-the-art game design, to create books, card games, worksheets, and video games to improve the reading and writing of kids aged 4–11.
Location: United Kingdom, England, London
Employees: 11-50
Total raised: $13.56M
Founded date: 2015
Investors 1
| Date | Name | Website |
| - | Reach Capi... | reachcapit... |
Funding Rounds 2
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 17.10.2018 | Series A | $11M | - |
| 15.06.2017 | Seed | $2.56M | - |
Mentions in press and media 9
| Date | Title | Description |
| 19.10.2018 | Term Sheet — Friday, October 19 | THE BIG BIRD RACE Good morning. Polina is off today and will return next week. In place of this morning’s essay is a brand-new report by Lucinda Shen on the rise of electric scooter chargers—the people behind the multibillion-dollar busines... |
| 17.10.2018 | What’s in a Word? Mrs. Wordsmith Raises $11 Million to Become the ‘Pixar of Literacy.’ | If a picture is worth a thousand words, then some investors are betting that pictures of words could be worth millions of dollars. Specifically, $11 million—which is what Mrs. Wordsmith, a London-based education startup, has raised in its S... |
| 17.10.2018 | Mrs Wordsmith Raises $11M in Series A Funding | Mrs Wordsmith, a London, UK-based provider of illustrated and animated word products for the education industry, raised $11m in Series A funding. The round was led by Trustbridge Partners with participation from returning investors Reach Ca... |
| 17.10.2018 | Daily funding roundup - October 17th, 2018 | Memory raised $1M; NowRx raised $7M; Icon raised $9M; Closed Loop Fund raised $10M Memory: Memory, a startup out of Norway and maker of time tracking app Timely, has raised $5 million in further funding. Leading the round is Concentric, and... |
| 15.06.2017 | Cognitive linguistics tool Mrs. Wordsmith lands £2m seed investment | Mrs. Wordsmith, an education technology (edtech) start-up, has closed £2m in seed funding in a round led by Kindred Capital, alongside Reach Capital, SaatchiNvest, and Ropart Asset Management. Launched in 2016 by Sofia Fenichell in a bid to... |
| 14.06.2017 | Wordsmith Raises £2M in Seed Funding | Mrs. Wordsmith, a London, UK-based edtech startup, raised £2m in seed funding. The round was led by Kindred Capital with participation from Reach Capital, SaatchiNvest, and Ropart Asset Management, amongst others. In conjunction with the fu... |
| 13.06.2017 | Mrs. Wordsmith raises £2M to scale its innovative edtech platform | Something appears to have gone wrong. In our race to create newsfeeds full of angst and bile about Brexit and Trump, or photos full of pouting-teens against which ads can be sold, we’ve forgotten something. Namely, the power of the written ... |
| 13.06.2017 | Term Sheet — Tuesday, June 13 | ET CETERA Good morning, I will try to abstain from covering every tremor in the Uber saga beyond yesterday’s analysis. (But here’s the latest: Emil Michael is out. He blames Uber’s board. Travis Kalanick, unclear. Sidenote, incredibly, Kala... |
| 13.06.2017 | Edtech startup Mrs. Wordsmith raises £2 million to digitise the dictionary for kids | Mrs. Wordsmith, an edtech startup from London, has raised £2 million in a seed round led by Kindred Capital. Reach Capital, SaatchiNvest, and Ropart Asset Management also participated in the round. Launched last year, the startup makes subs... |