# Educapital

> Educapital is a VC fund in Paris backing Education and EdTech. See 55 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, France
- Total investments: 55
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 40%
- Fund size: $55M
- Last fund: Oct 2017
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/11168244/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/Educapital_vc
- Website: https://www.educapital.fr/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/educapitalvc

Educapital is a VC fund in Paris focused on Education and EdTech. Educapital invest in innovative European companies with the highest potential to scale and become European and global leaders.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.9M–$11M |
| Series A | $4.2M–$16M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Education | 24 | 44% |
| EdTech | 13 | 24% |
| E-Learning | 13 | 24% |
| Software | 9 | 16% |
| Internet | 5 | 9% |

51 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 15 | 27% |
| Funding Round | 13 | 24% |
| Seed | 10 | 18% |
| Series B | 7 | 13% |
| Series C | 3 | 5% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| France | 22 | 40% |
| United States | 6 | 11% |
| Germany | 4 | 7% |
| United Kingdom | 3 | 5% |
| Denmark | 2 | 4% |

8 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Alexandre Glaser | VC Investor | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alexandre-glaser |
| Charles Madon | Investment Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/charles-madon |
| Gary Cige | Investment Committee | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gary-cige |
| Litzie Maarek | Founding Partner | 7 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/litzie-maarek |
| Marie-Christine Levet | Founder and Partner | 4 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/marie-christine-levet |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Rocapine | Rocapine AI-native venture studio focused on developing mobile apps within the digital health and self-care sectors. Utilizing a high-velocity model, the company tests hundreds of minimal app prototypes annually in partnership with independent developers. Their strategy emphasizes a "hold instead of hook" philosophy, focusing on fosteringhealthy user habits rather than maximizing screen time. | $13M | Series A | Jun 16, 2026 |  |
| Mendo | Mendo helps large companies embed AI into their workflows and drives adoption by helping teams apply AI to their real-world use cases, without losing the human element.We operate directly in the tools and day-to-day workflows to trigger the right habits at the right moment.The result? Teams that confidently use generative AI in their daily workand a transformation that is concrete, guided, and sustainable. | $13.9M | Series A | Jun 11, 2026 |  |
| Preply | Preply is a provider of an online tutoring marketplace intended to promote faster learning with one-on-one online tutors. The company's marketplace helps to find and book professional private tutors online from over 185 countries, enabling users to achieve their goals and speak confidently. | $150M | Series D | Jan 21, 2026 |  |
| MuchBetter | MuchBetter offer realistic field simulations with AI-generated clients with individual feedback & performance tracking. | $4.6M | Seed | Nov 19, 2025 |  |
| Edflex | Edflex offers content for businesses such as articles, videos, podcasts, online courses, and books. It is a SaaS solution that connects companies to access online corporate training content. Edflex is working to improve everyone's training by making it more understandable. The company's goal is to be the innovator in bringing togetherparticipants in online training by developing an easy-to-follow learning route. The teams at Edflex strive every day to locate and offer instructional content in a way that makes learning seem natural and effortless, rather than like an extra effort. | $18M |  | Oct 01, 2025 |  |
| MyEdSpace | MyEdSpace provides affordable, high-quality Maths teaching for KS3, GCSE and A-level students across the UK. We teach through our unique award winning platform to provide an engaging and modern approach to education for our students. We combine live online lessons from world-class teachers with personal mentors, homework, revision materials andprofessionally designed workbooks. Our teachers are fully qualified, and are subject experts with a huge amount of previous experience teaching in schools across the country | $15M | Series A | Sep 29, 2025 |  |
| Vocal Image | AI-driven SaaS solution to improve diction, articulation, and get a beautiful and confident voice. Based on the analysis of the training performed, the regularity of the exercises, and the voice recording's spectral analysis, AI builds a personal training plan that is extremely effective.People do not like their voice and want to improve it.Their only available choice so far is personal coaching but this is too expensive and they do not have the time for this | $3.6M | Seed | Aug 31, 2025 |  |
| Knowunity | Knowunity is the digital learning platform with summaries, study notes, presentations, answers, and more in one app. | $31.2M | Series B | Jun 13, 2025 |  |
| Buddy.ai | Buddy.ai teaches over a million children worldwide to speak English with our voice-based virtual tutor. With proprietary speech and virtual human technologies, the company is solving conversational AI for language learning. Buddy provides a month of learning for the cost of one live tutoring session. That means 500 million children worldwide willsoon have access to affordable 1:1 English speaking practice. Buddy works for native Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Turkish, and Polish speakers, with more languages coming soon. The company raised $3M of venture capital, generated over $4.5M in sales, and is entering the scaling stage. Our mobile holds the Top 10 positions on the App Store’s Kids and Education charts in several major countries throughout Latin America and Europe.Buddy.ai holds multiple international awards and nominations, including GESA (Global Edtech Startup Awards) in London, EnlightEd in Madrid, and Voice Summit Awards in New York, among others. Headquartered in Mountain View, California we are a growing international team combining expertise in voice and virtual human technologies, education, and game design. | $11M | Seed | Oct 31, 2024 |  |
| Cyber Guru | Cyber Guru operates as a cybersecurity awareness training platform. Cyber Guru serves to educate employees around the dangers and pitfalls of information security. The solutions use stimulating and educational learning paths to cater to those who do not hold specialist roles in the field of Cyber Security. | $24.9M | Series B | Oct 24, 2024 |  |

10 of 55 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Educapital invest in?

Educapital invests primarily in Education, EdTech and E-Learning startups, most often at Series A and Funding Round stage. Most of the 55 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in France. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Educapital's check size?

Educapital typically joins rounds of $1.9M–$11M at Seed and $4.2M–$16M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Educapital participates in.

### How do I contact Educapital?

Public channels for Educapital include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at Educapital?

The team at Educapital includes Alexandre Glaser (VC Investor), Charles Madon (Investment Director) and Gary Cige (Investment Committee), among 7 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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