Babbel wins funding, enters crowded language market

[Francis Hult]

Tech Crunch

 

Babbel wins funding, enters crowded language market

 

Language learning online is picking up again. We already have sites like Mango Languages and LiveMocha which offer new interfaces on languages, and often social networking features. LingQ , offers vocabulary and grammar drills. Then in Europe you have FriendsAbroad , VoxSwap and the LearnItLists widget startup. Not to mention italki from China.

 

So now Babbel , the Berlin-based language learning startup which we wrote about in January and which appeared at our London TechCrunch Pitch! event, has secured an undisclosed amount of funding from German investors Kizoo and VC Fonds Berlin.

 

Full story:

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/07/29/babbel-wins-funding-enters-crowded-language-market/ 

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