Brainly is a crowdsourced homework-help platform that connects students (primarily ages 13–19) and parents in a peer-to-peer Q&A format. The company’s user base has grown from 150 million in 2019 to about 350 million today, including roughly 30 million users in the U.S., which is its only market currently being monetized. Its core product is an open-ended question-and-answer network for homework help (often compared to a Quora for homework). Brainly is testing additional services including tutoring (about 150,000 sessions run to date), video content, and AI-driven personalization tied to local curricula. The company plans to use new funding to build out tools for students and parents and to accelerate expansion in emerging markets such as Indonesia and Brazil. To date Brainly has raised roughly $150 million in known funding. Brainly is a Quora-style, crowdsourced platform that helps students find and contribute answers to homework questions across subjects like math, history, science and social studies. The company operates a freemium model: the majority of users access the site for free and see ads, while some pay $3 per month for additional features and no ads; Brainly would not disclose how many paying users it has. Content moderation combines user reports, human moderators and algorithms, and regular contributors can be invited into a paid answering program. Brainly reports 150 million users in 35 markets, up 50% from 100 million in 2018, with about 10 million users in the U.S. The company was founded in Poland in 2009 and originally launched as “Zadane.” Brainly plans to use funding to expand in the U.S., pursue monetization, and continue growing across multiple languages and high-growth markets such as India, Indonesia, Turkey and Brazil. Brainly operates a Quora-like homework Q&A service used by students, offering peer-to-peer help across multiple subjects. The platform reaches over 100 million users and reports about 100 million kids ages 12 to 18 use it every day. Its user base spans 35 countries and the product is available in 12 languages. Brainly claims it has captured roughly 10% of the market of kids in that age group. Most growth has been outside the U.S.; the U.S. accounts for about 8 million of its users. The company is focused on expanding its presence further in the U.S. Brainly is a seven-year-old social learning network in the education-technology space. The company was founded in Kraków, Poland and now maintains a second office in New York. Brainly's core product is positioned around social learning and peer-driven educational support. The company received a $15 million Series B led by Naspers Ventures, signaling outside capital support for growth. Naspers' involvement—through its newly formed U.S.-focused Naspers Ventures unit—could help Brainly attract talent and expand its presence in the U.S. The investment is noted as Naspers' first ed-tech bet. Brainly operates a social learning platform that enables students to help each other with schoolwork. The company reports more than 30 million monthly visitors and says it is live in 36 countries. Brainly has more than doubled its user base over the past year and sees over 8,000 questions asked on its sites every hour. Founded in 2009, the startup is expanding its presence in the US after launching operations there earlier this year. To support that push it will open a new office in New York City and build a US-based management team led by CEO Michal Borkowski. The recent financing is intended to accelerate Brainly's US expansion.

Total raised

$149M

Funding rounds

6

Latest round

Series D

Latest activity

Dec 2020