Kinnu, a London-based generative AI EdTech company, has raised $6.5 million in a fresh funding round led by LocalGlobe (a member of the Phoenix Group) and Cavalry Ventures. The startup is currently focusing on adult enthusiast learners. Its app, which has over 100,000 downloads, uses artificial intelligence to generate tailored learning content for science, history and psychology.
Co-founded by Christopher Kahler, Abraham Muller, and Hanna Celina in 2021, Kinnu works with the mission to give everyone the power to learn anything they want to. The platform uses generative AI in a “three-pronged content creation approach” to create content. They are human experts, large language models and community feedback. Human experts create the course outline or pathway. This is fed into the startup’s “Learning Engine”, which uses large language models like those powering ChatGPT to pick out the main ideas of a subject and turn out relevant revision questions in different formats, such as multiple choice. It can also repackage that information to prevent learners from spotting patterns.
Speaking about the company, Co-founder & CEO of Kinnu, Christopher Kahler, said:
There’s a huge opportunity for AI-powered learning that focuses on accelerating the pace of human learning itself. 10 years ago, online learning experienced a boom because it democratised access to content. The next frontier is democratising access to the mechanism of how we learn, from quantum mechanics and Chaucer to idioms and soft skills adapted to the learner’s own pace and ability. It’s this that excites us.
Adding further about the platform, Co-founder of Kinnu, Hanna Celina, said:
Our backgrounds are perfectly complementary. I worked at Google, Futurelearn and Deliveroo and studied at Harvard, so we all bring a unique perspective on the future of learning and how to build it.
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