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What Is Knowunity?

Knowunity^[1] is a study app that offers a digital learning platform with study notes, homework help, quizzes, personalised AI bots, flashcards, and live student help. It is currently available in Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, the United States of America, and Columbia.

Knowunity functions as a peer-to-peer learning system where students share their learnings with each other, answer each others questions, create study materials like flashcards and quizzes and share them with all other students in the platform.^[2]

Mila Cramer writes: The content consumption motion on Knowunity resembles what has been happening in schools for a long time: you ask the best performing students in your class to explain things or get their notes and summaries.^[3]

Features of Knowunity

Knowunity App combines two ways of modern studying: AI learning tools and a student community that helps one another.

AI learning tools include:

Personalised AI helper bots
AI tutors
Question scanning
Generating quizzes

Student community contributes by:

Uploading study notes
Creating flashcards
Answering questions via in-app chat
Supporting each other virtually

History of Knowunity

Knowunity was founded in Germany by 5 high-school students: Benedict, Lucas, Gregor, Julian, and Yannik in 2020. The founders came up with the idea for a study app when they had problems as students in high school. They wanted to create a peer-to-peer learning system that was mobile and accessible.

The Knowunity App was officially launched in September, 2020 and by December 2020 the app had +350.000 users in Germany. In 2021 Knowunity raised 2 million euros in the seed round and started expanding to Switzerland and Austria. After moving the headquarters from Sindelfingen to Berlin in January 2022, expansion of Knowunity continued with France in February 2022. In April 2022, Knowunity had raised 13 million euros in series A ^[4] and had expanded to Poland with 2 Million users overall. Expansions in 2022 continued with the United Kingdom in August 2022, Italy in September 2022. By October 2022 the Knowunity app had over 4 million users from Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Poland, United Kingdom, and Italy. Expansion continued with Spain and the United States in April 2023. Knowunity app reached 13 million students in total in early 2024.

Founders of Knowunity

Benedict Kurz

Co-Founder of Knowunity, CEO at Knowunity^[5]

Lucas Hild

Co-Founder of Knowunity, CTO at Knowunity^[6]

Gregor Weber

Co-Founder of Knowunity, VP Mobile & Head of Product^[7]

Yannik Prigl

Co-Founder of Knowunity, Head of Backend^[8]

Julian Prigl

Co-Founder of Knowunity^[9]

References

^ "Knowunity". Linkedin.
^ "Germany's most popular & fastest growing student platform, reimagining learning through peer-to-peer knowledge sharing while allowing school children to become learning influencers". Possible Ventures.
^ Cramer, Mila (22 April 2021). "Our investment in Knowunity". Retrieved 4 July 2024.
^ "Knowunity erhält mehr als 10 Millionen Euro in einer Series A Finanzierungsrunde". Unitednetworker. 24 May 2022. Retrieved 4 July 2024.
^ "Benedict Kurz". Linkedin.
^ "Lucas Hild". Linkedin.
^ "Gregor Weber". Linkedin.
^ "Yannik Prigl". Linkedin.
^ "Julian Prigl". Linkedin.

[1] "Knowunity". Linkedin.

[2] "Germany's most popular & fastest growing student platform, reimagining learning through peer-to-peer knowledge sharing while allowing school children to become learning influencers". Possible Ventures.

[3] Cramer, Mila (22 April 2021). "Our investment in Knowunity". Retrieved 4 July 2024.

[4] "Knowunity erhält mehr als 10 Millionen Euro in einer Series A Finanzierungsrunde". Unitednetworker. 24 May 2022. Retrieved 4 July 2024.

[5] "Benedict Kurz". Linkedin.

[6] "Lucas Hild". Linkedin.

[7] "Gregor Weber". Linkedin.

[8] "Yannik Prigl". Linkedin.

[9] "Julian Prigl". Linkedin.

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