# Twinkl

> Twinkl is a VC fund in Sheffield backing Education and Baby. See 3 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sheffield, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 3
- Last investment: Mar 2025
- Lead investor: 67%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/twinkl-ltd/about/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/twinklresources
- Website: https://www.twinkl.co.uk/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/twinklresources/

Twinkl is a provider of teacher-created lesson planning, teaching, and assessment materials such as online educational games, augmented reality and so much more. It has over 525,000 resources and new content gets added every day. It was founded in 2010.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Twinkl. Shizune tracks 2 team members at Twinkl. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/twinkl-83f0?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $637k–$1M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Education | 2 | 67% |
| Baby | 1 | 33% |
| MOOC | 1 | 33% |
| SaaS | 1 | 33% |
| EdTech | 1 | 33% |

15 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 2 | 67% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 33% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 67% |
| South Africa | 1 | 33% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Jonathan Seaton | Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer | 35 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jonathan-seaton |
| Susie Seaton | Co-Founder | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/susie-seaton |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Happity | Happity helps parents find baby & toddler classes. Fast. | $453K |  | Mar 14, 2025 |  |
| Watobe | Watobe offers online mathematics lessons for African learners in the form of both streaming and on-demand content comprising videos, exercises, quizzes and tutoring support. Launched in South Africa in 2019 and expanding to other markets across the continent, it is an affordable, high quality alternative to in-person tutoring. | $637K | Seed | May 25, 2021 |  |
| Erase All Kittens | Erase All Kittens is a Mario-style game designed to teach young children, especially girls, transferable programming skills via highly gamified, story-driven gameplay. Our goal is to empower children with professional coding skills and completely transform the way that girls perceive coding.EAK is totally unique because as players progress, theycan edit the code that governs the game environment - building and fixing levels as they play. | $1M | Seed | Apr 29, 2021 |  |

3 of 3 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Twinkl invest in?

Twinkl invests primarily in Education, Baby and MOOC startups, most often at Seed and Funding Round stage. Most of the 3 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Twinkl's check size?

Twinkl typically joins rounds of $637k–$1M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Twinkl participates in.

### How do I contact Twinkl?

Public channels for Twinkl 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 Twinkl?

The team at Twinkl includes Jonathan Seaton (Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer) and Susie Seaton (Co-Founder). 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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