# Nicolas Gautier

> Nicolas Gautier is a seed investor at EDUKO Education (London) backing MOOC and EdTech. See 3 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [EDUKO Education](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eduko-education)
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 3
- Last investment: Oct 2013
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/nicgautier
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/nicgautier
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/nicolas.gautier

Nicolas Gautier is a seed investor at EDUKO Education in London focused on MOOC and EdTech. Nic is the founder of EDUKO and ran the group as CEO from 2015 until late 2018 before becoming group chairman. Nic is a serial entrepreneur and investor who has built and invested in numerous businesses across many sectors and continents. Nic is the father of two young boys.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| MOOC | 1 | 33% |
| EdTech | 1 | 33% |
| Mobile | 1 | 33% |
| Shopping | 1 | 33% |
| Education | 1 | 33% |

9 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 1 | 33% |
| Angel | 1 | 33% |
| Series A | 1 | 33% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Brazil | 1 | 33% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 33% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Veduca | Veduca is a Brazilian online education platform that believes that people's lives can be transformed through high quality content, produced and distributed in a sustainable and collaborative way. The company was founded in March 2012 by Carlos Souza, Eduardo Zancul, Marcelo Mejlachowicz and Andre Tachian. Over the last 5 years Veduca has grownto be one of the most relevant educational portals in Brazil. The platform was fully relaunched in December 2016. Since then we have 500k new students that can have access to content for free and can chose to apply for a certificate by paying R$49,00. Veduca is a social business, with the commitment to re-invest profits into better platform and new content. Over these 5 years, Veduca has been profiled by many of the main media vehicles in Brazil, such as TV Globo, SBT, TV Band, Veja, Valor Econômico, Brasil Econômico, O Estado de S. Paulo, Folha de S. Paulo, Galileu, among others, and thousands of websites. Abroad, Veduca has also been highlighted as one of the key players in the ed-tech world by the Financial Times, Thomson Reuters, Yahoo Finance, The Chronicle of Higher Education, El Universal (Mexico), and others. | $2.3M | Series A | Oct 01, 2013 |  |
| Veduca | Veduca is a Brazilian online education platform that believes that people's lives can be transformed through high quality content, produced and distributed in a sustainable and collaborative way. The company was founded in March 2012 by Carlos Souza, Eduardo Zancul, Marcelo Mejlachowicz and Andre Tachian. Over the last 5 years Veduca has grownto be one of the most relevant educational portals in Brazil. The platform was fully relaunched in December 2016. Since then we have 500k new students that can have access to content for free and can chose to apply for a certificate by paying R$49,00. Veduca is a social business, with the commitment to re-invest profits into better platform and new content. Over these 5 years, Veduca has been profiled by many of the main media vehicles in Brazil, such as TV Globo, SBT, TV Band, Veja, Valor Econômico, Brasil Econômico, O Estado de S. Paulo, Folha de S. Paulo, Galileu, among others, and thousands of websites. Abroad, Veduca has also been highlighted as one of the key players in the ed-tech world by the Financial Times, Thomson Reuters, Yahoo Finance, The Chronicle of Higher Education, El Universal (Mexico), and others. | $750K | Seed | Feb 01, 2013 |  |
| easyOwn.it | easyOwn is the Personal Shopping Basket (independent from single webshops) where you can highlight, comment and share products. You can put items on a wish list, select and buy them later, where you have your online shopping history irrespective where and from whom you have selected/chosen/bought the product and independently of theunderlaying webshop.easyOwn is a revolutionary eCommerce Cloud Web-Service with magnificent advantages for Merchants, Consumer & Manufacturer...easyOwn is not only streamlining the checkout process by adopting the easiness of buying a chocolate bar at a kiosk. No, it also expands the shopping reach for each associated Online Merchant to make their offers/products purchasable through Ads, eMail Campaigns, … Thus merchants are able to place and sell there products where their target customers are with a unique one-stop-shopping experience. With the easyOwn-shopping basket functionality for the first time merchants will get direct orders from multiple virtual chainstores into their inventory systems. directly back-channels oby providing direct back channels to make products additional sales channels offering alternative sales. | $138K | Angel | May 01, 2011 |  |

3 of 3 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Bolt Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mountain-do-brasil) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About EDUKO Education

VC Fund



1 contacts available at EDUKO Education.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Nicolas Gautier | Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nicolas-gautier |

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## FAQ

### What does Nicolas Gautier invest in?

Nicolas Gautier invests primarily in MOOC, EdTech and Mobile startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 3 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Brazil. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Nicolas Gautier last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Nicolas Gautier closed in Oct 2013. Shizune tracks 3 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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