UK edugames startup Nightzookeeper has raised 440K in seed funding since June this year. We’ve been following their growth over recent years so it’s great to see this dedicated team achieve greater success. We got the inside scoop from their CEO Josh Davidson, and found out about their plans to enter the Japanese market. Hello Nightzookeeper! […]
For our first African Edugames Q&A, we visited HeHe Mobile, based in The Office co-working space in Kigali, Rwanda. As well as creating apps of their own and for clients, the team at HeHe runs a 6-month-long code club program for secondary school students, at the end of which the students have fully-functional apps of […]
We spoke to Juha Väisänen, CEO of Fantastec, a Finnish edugames company which has just raised 825,000 USD of seed investment. Juha told us about Fantastec and gave some valuable advice to edtech companies looking to raise investment. Hi Juha. You are the CEO of Fantastec. Could you introduce yourself and your company to us? […]
For our first country Q&A from Asia, we talked to Jeremy Mum, from Phnom Penh-based studio SomPom. We asked Jeremy about some of SomPom’s recent titles, and found out why it’s tough for a small Cambodian games studio to get noticed. Hello SomPom! Can you introduce your company and let us know how you got together […]
Edugameshub spoke to Santeri Koivisto, CEO of TeacherGaming, the company behind MinecraftEdu and new game KerbalEdu. We asked Santeri how he decided to make Minecraft more accessible to educators, and where he plans to take his company next. Why did you decide to set up Teacher Gaming? I have a Masters in Education and a background in teaching. In 2010 I […]
Jamie Brooker is Co-founder & Lead Designer of Kahoot! – a game-based classroom response system. Working on any device, it creates an engaging learning space, encouraging both educators and learners to ask great questions, and share their content globally. It’s almost 3 months on from our free public beta launch, and the Kahoot! platform currently […]
News and activity around educational technology and gaming tends overwhelmingly to focus on the USA. But there is another edtech hub which is quietly booming; Israel is the latest edtech success story you haven’t heard of. Edugameshub put on our investigative hats, fired up Skype and began asking questions. A long history My first contact […]
Hi Locatify! Can you tell the edugameshub readers a bit about your company? When were you formed? What sorts of things do you do? How many people are you? Locatify is a privately held Icelandic company founded in 2009. It provides a platform for customers in the educational, event-organizing and tourism industries to publish their own […]
Matt Wasser is the creator of ‘Frosby Apps’ – a fun learning brand for preschool kids, based in London, UK. In this article he details the improvements made to the new Appstore Kids Sections and shares his personal experiences on getting featured, localisation and the Android appstores. The New Appstore Kids Section on iOS7 – First […]
Michał Broda from Duckie Deck, a Krakow-based educational games company, took the time out to answer some of our probing questions about his company and edtech in Poland. Thanks Michał! Hello! Please tell us about Duckie Deck. Who are you? Where are you based? How did you get into making educational games? Why ‘Duckie Deck’ […]
