Smarteducation, Education Apps For Touch Devices, Raises 100M Yen / TechCrunch Japan

Smarteducation provides Oyako de Rhythm Ehon, an application for iOS which allows parents and children to enjoy sounds by touching instruments on screen along with music. Smarteducation announced that it raised around 100 million yen from Infinity Ventures.

Oyako de Rhythm Ehon has 200,000 downloads which is relatively large number for an application targeting education. ...

Smarteducation has raised 50.5 million yen from founders and angel investors to set up the company. ...

TechCrunch Japan 2/17/2012 [jp]

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• The founders were directors and core members of CA Mobile, a subsidiary of CyberAgent. Infinity Ventures also invests in One Of Them. A founder of the startup was also working at CyberAgent. There appear some entrepreneurs with successful background in large Internet companies.
• http://smarteducation.jp/