LEGO Ventures
VC Fund
Billund, Denmark
LEGO Ventures is a VC fund in Billund focused on Education and EdTech. LEGO Ventures is the LEGO® Brand's corporate venture capital arm, investing in the future of Education & Digital Play.
- Total investments:
- 14
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 43%
Last updated:
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Industries LEGO Ventures invests in
Stages LEGO Ventures invests in
Countries LEGO Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $329k–$4.3M
- Series C
- $50M–$50M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Education 6 (43%)
- EdTech 5 (36%)
- Android 3 (21%)
- E-Learning 3 (21%)
- iOS 2 (14%)
Stage
- Seed 4 (29%)
- Series B 3 (21%)
- Series C 3 (21%)
- Series A 2 (14%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 1 (7%)
Country
- United States 7 (50%)
- United Kingdom 2 (14%)
- China 1 (7%)
- Canada 1 (7%)
- Germany 1 (7%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Anders Søndergaard
Venture Architect
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Venture Architect | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Cecilia Qvist
Head of LEGO Ventures
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Head of LEGO Ventures | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Matthias Hansen
Founder In Residence
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Founder In Residence | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Michael Stahl
Chief Operating Officer
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Chief Operating Officer | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Rob Lowe
Managing Director, Digital Play
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Managing Director, Digital Play | Total investments: 3 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
mod.io
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mod.io is cross-platform mod support and user-generated content (UGC) service created by the team behind ModDB. It’s designed for studios that want to enable their community’s creativity on PC, console, and mobile. Since its launch in 2019, it has been used by more than 50 games to power their mod and creator communities, with 400,000 usersaccessing the platform daily. Together they have created 600,000 pieces of content, with over 100 million mods installed total. mod.io offers an automated, scalable, easy to implement a way to tap into the goodwill and growth UGC can drive and is designed for the modern game that values long-term user engagement and creator economies. | $26M / Series A / Nov 08, 2021 | |
Jam.gg
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Piepacker is a free cloud gaming platform to hangout and plays premium retro games with your friends online. Piepacker combines the video with a series of licensed popular retro-style games that friends can easily play together. It is simpler than organizing a discordant group but more interactive than just streaming. So far, the platform has seenlong sessions and participation. It was selected by TechCrunch in their top 12 favorite startups of the YC20 batch. | $12M / Series A / Oct 21, 2021 | |
Area9 Lyceum
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Area9 is a Danish-owned group, which has two main business areas: Learning Technology, and High-Technology Computer Science for optimizing the humans value for companies in call centers, legacy systems migration and process optimization. Area9 Innovation, the computer science company, supplies technology globally to large companies such as banks,insurance companies and drug manufacturers in close collaboration with their strategic partner Cognizant. The new learning company, Area9 Lyceum, brings together all of the Group’s learning activities and IP rights including Area9’s majority shareholding in Area9 Learning, which is the adaptive learning company in the business segment. | $22.5M / Venture - Series Unknown / Apr 13, 2021 | |
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Area9 Lyceum
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Area9 is a Danish-owned group, which has two main business areas: Learning Technology, and High-Technology Computer Science for optimizing the humans value for companies in call centers, legacy systems migration and process optimization. Area9 Innovation, the computer science company, supplies technology globally to large companies such as banks,insurance companies and drug manufacturers in close collaboration with their strategic partner Cognizant. The new learning company, Area9 Lyceum, brings together all of the Group’s learning activities and IP rights including Area9’s majority shareholding in Area9 Learning, which is the adaptive learning company in the business segment. | $22.5M / Venture - Series Unknown / Apr 13, 2021 | |
HOMER
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HOMER is the essential early learning program for kids. Through a learning program personalized to their age, interests, and level, HOMER helps kids build skills for school and life in the 21st century. HOMER delivers academic skills such as literacy and math in addition to personal skills like problem-solving and social-emotional awareness.The HOMER program is based on our proprietary learning framework—the HOMER Method—a four-step, research-based approach that goes beyond rote memorization to teach essential skills and how to apply them in new contexts, promoting confidence, problem-solving and a lifelong love of learning. HOMER has been honored by Mom’s Choice Award, Parents’ Choice Award, and Common Sense Media, featured in The New York Times, Forbes, and USA Today, and named by Fast Company one of “The 10 most innovative education companies of 2021.” | $50M / Series C / Sep 30, 2020 | |
BEGiN
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BEGiN is an education technology company that creates learning products to bring children quality education. The company leverages talents in technology, education, and entertainment to create learning programs that cultivate the critical skills children need to succeed in the future. BEGiN’s all-inclusive offering includes HOMER, KidPass, andcodeSpark Academy. BEGiN is backed by recognized names in early childhood development, including LEGO Ventures, Sesame Workshop, and Gymboree Play & Music. BEGiN was co-founded by Neal Shenoy, Noelle Millholt, and Stephanie Dua and is one of Crain’s 100 Best Places to Work in New York City. | $50M / Series C / Sep 30, 2020 | |
Caper
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Caper they provides outdoor play, nature crafts, book recommendations, and more. | $354K / Seed / Aug 23, 2020 | |
Eedi
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We're scaling teaching to make the world smarter.1:1 tutoring is highly effective. If it was affordable every child would have their own tutor.But tutoring is not scalable. It would take 215 million more teachers just to achieve a ratio of 1:5, and very few schools or families could afford it.Eedi is an intelligent adaptive learningplatform with 1:1 tutoring for £1 per week, that maximises teacher time, motivates students and improves results.Like INTERCOM we use a blend of AI developed in collaboration with Microsoft Research, digital content and expert tutors to augment classroom needs. We are outperforming digital learning tools by 35% and are on par with 1:1 tutoring in ability to close knowledge gaps (95%).We're scaling teachers to build the world’s largest and most impactful tutoring business. | $4.3M / Seed / Mar 23, 2020 | |
FreshGrade
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In collaboration with teachers, parents, and students FreshGrade was created for the classroom as an all-inclusive assessment, documentation and communications platform for teachers. FreshGrade facilitates greater parental engagement and student development in a way that mirrors how people communicate and use technology today. | Series B / Feb 27, 2020 | |
OK Play
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OK is a company that helps families establish a day-to-day practice of bonding and sharing with an app that sparks the creation, conversation, and connection between parents and their children. OKCO, Inc. is based in Los Angeles, CA and was co-founded by JJ, Chris, Colleen, Ken, and Travis in 2019. | $2.2M / Seed / Dec 01, 2019 | |
| See all 14 investments → | |||
Co-Investors
Makers Fund
4 deals together
3one4 Capital
2 deals together
European Investment Bank
2 deals together
Interlock Partners
2 deals together
Sesame Workshop
2 deals together
Trustbridge Partners
2 deals together
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FAQ
What does LEGO Ventures invest in?
LEGO Ventures invests primarily in Education, EdTech and Android startups, most often at Seed and Series B stage. Most of the 14 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is LEGO Ventures's check size?
LEGO Ventures typically joins rounds of $329k–$4.3M at Seed and $50M–$50M at Series C. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds LEGO Ventures participates in.
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Who are the partners at LEGO Ventures?
The team at LEGO Ventures includes Anders Søndergaard (Venture Architect), Cecilia Qvist (Head of LEGO Ventures) and Matthias Hansen (Founder In Residence). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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