Hello Friends ☀️,
This week, our Founding Partner Ben reflected a little on how European Edtech is having a bit of a moment, with large (~€100M) rounds announced by Sdui and Lingokids, companies like Ornikar and Yoto now well over €100M in revenue and, of course, the $1.1B acquisition of Sana by Workday announced on Tuesday. It turns out there is a lot of value in using tech to help people learn and grow!
Launched in 2017, we have been an early believer in this sector, investing in Ornikar and Sdui, among others that are seeing great traction at scale. That said, as a society, we believe we're still very much in the early innings of leveraging technology to help people learn. AI is making it possible to dramatically personalise education, identify and enhance talent and connect learning and productivity seamlessly. It's also increasing labour volatility and necessitating changes in educational and career pathways, creating opportunities to reinvent the way we find work and augment human capital on the job.
We can’t wait to keep these conversations going, alongside diving into operational areas of building great companies, when we get our Founders together for our annual Portfolio Summit just outside London next week. And we’ll keep them running also across the two days of our online Learning + Work Festival 2025 in early October – all the details on that below ⬇️.
Thanks for your support, this update includes:
Investment Update – who’s raising?
Insights – Solving Construction’s Memory and Compliance Problem
Events – Festival, Festival, Festival
Selected News from the Portfolio – Twenix launching new languages
Have a good read!
Best,
🟢 The Brighteye Team
👀 We will be announcing a new member of the Brighteye portfolio Family very soon!
🔍 And we have room for more fabulous Founders! We invest early in tech that helps people learn, work and thrive and are looking for European entrepreneurs who are building the next great companies in this space. If that's you or someone you know, please do reach out!
🚧 Solving Construction’s Memory and Compliance Problem…
We recently published Part 2 of our Heavy Industries Series: Construction – Solving the Sector’s Memory and Compliance Problem.
Each new construction project brings new teams, tools, and expectations - but leaves behind the lessons learned.
What's the result❓
Repeated mistakes, spiralling costs, and growing compliance risks. 'Re-work' already costs the industry ~€1.6T annually, and regulatory demands are rising.
🌊 But a new wave of startups is changing that, embedding intelligence into workflows, preserving knowledge across projects, and turning compliance from a roadblock into a competitive edge. From smart QA systems and embedded learning to AI-powered code checks, a new construction tech stack is emerging—one that’s finally designed around the people doing the work. They enable:
Real-time knowledge capture
Workflow standardisation
Regulatory foresight
Field-to-design communication
Scalable team training
💡 ICYMI, here’s Part 1 of the Heavy Industries series, too - The $1 Trillion Manufacturing Skills Gap, where we explore how manufacturing is being transformed by workforce enablement.
👉🏻 Sidekick Product Collection 👈🏽
👀 And arriving on our Sidekick resource hub soon, we will cover i) Balancing Speed and Quality, ii) Product Development Process and iii) Using Data in your Product Function.
🔎 Mentor Guide – Client Review Meetings
Forming your Business Review Process in a repeatable, impactful way is key to maintaining healthy relationships with your customers.
In this new guide, our 🌟 Customer Success Mentor Andrea Spillmann-Gajek (Success Accelerators) gives you practical tips on:
📍 Preparing for the review
📍 What to do during the review
📍 How to follow up for max impact
▶️ Check out the full guide! ◀️
🟢 Festival, Festival, Festival
Our annual Learning + Work Festival is fast approaching, with 7-8 October shaping up to be a couple of days full of great content. We really hope to see you for one or more of the 6 online sessions, and/or the bonus Brighteye Update session.
The operational areas we’ll cover are:
You can register to attend the individual sessions via the links above 👆
A selection of the Speakers - we’re announcing more by the day, keep up to date on our LinkedIn here!
‼️ Aspiring Female Partners Back to the Office – New Date
Our Isabella Vahdati and Kirsten Meehan of Omnea are building a vibrant community for ✨ Aspiring Female Partners, and they recently had to shift their latest event - featuring Anne Boden, Founder of Starling Bank - to Tuesday, 4 November.
Anne built one of the UK’s most successful challenger banks 🏦 from the ground up, and she’s joining us in person to share the highs, the challenges, and the lessons learned along the way.
A huge thank you 🙏🏻 to Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati for hosting us - we can’t wait to fill the room with great conversations and connections.
Register your interest to attend here now – spaces are limited!
🛤️ Let’s Meet on Tour?
On the Big, In-Person Event Circuit we will in the coming few weeks be in Munich during Bits & Pretzels, Barcelona for norrsken’s Impact/Week, Paris at the Unlock VC Summit and Dublin for SaaStock. Please hit us up if you’d like to meet!!
🌎 More Languages on Twenix
Exciting announcement from Twenix, offering personalised lessons for business language learning, who are pre-launching new languages alongside English for companies. Spanish, French and Portuguese will be on the learning menu moving forward, find out how to get involved here!
🎤 Skiller Whale key role at CTO Craft Con in Berlin
Next Week, our portfolio company Skiller Whale, a leading provider of online training and learning solutions for tech teams and individuals, will be active on stage, floor and side events during CTO Craft Con in Berlin. Catch the team on 23-24 September to learn more!
🍏 Expansion grant for sAInaptic
Congrats to sAInaptic, providing AI assisted real-time evaluation of professional knowledge & skills, on winning a Ufi grant to expand their technology's capabilities to assess images and videos. Upwards, team – we can’t wait to see the results!
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