Digitally native Gen Z has been weaned on online education. And Berlin-based Knowunity — launched by four 20-something entrepreneurs in 2020 — thinks it’s captured the Gen Z zeitgeist with a peer-to-peer online learning platform that doubles as a creator economy app. The platform has had more than 600k study notes uploaded by students across a variety of subjects.
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February 15, 2023
German edtech Knowunity, a TikTok for schoolwork, raises €9m Series A extension
The platform is looking to expand into the US with the money, which brings its Series A total up to €19m
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Miriam Partington was a senior reporter at Sifted, based in Berlin. She covered the DACH region and the future of work, and wrote Startup Life , a weekly newsletter on what it takes to build a startup.

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