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Odilo

Avenida de Luxemburgo s/n, Centro Empresarial Plaza, 6ª Planta, Cartagena, Murcia, 30353, Spain

Overview

Odilo provides a white-label, headless e-learning platform that lets businesses and organizations deliver customized on-demand digital libraries in a B2B2C model. The company has assembled a catalogue of about 3.9 million items — roughly 3 million books plus podcasts, full courses and other materials — sourced from some 6,300 publishers in 43 languages. Odilo powers portals for roughly 8,500 customers across 52 countries and serves about 170 million users, including government bodies, libraries, education organizations like MIT, and corporate customers such as Google and Vodafone. The platform emphasizes extensibility via APIs so customers can build tailored learning experiences without exposing the Odilo brand. Odilo plans to use new funding to continue growing its catalogue and to expand deeper into North America and across the African continent. The company was founded in 2012 and recently completed a new growth financing round of €60M ($64M). Odilo offers a platform that lets schools, universities, business schools, corporations, governments and libraries create their own educational “Netflix” or unlimited educational ecosystems. The platform provides access to more than 3 million multiformat titles (ebooks, audiobooks, articles, podcasts, videos and courses) and supports original integrated learning experiences (independent, guided, collaborative, certified, classroom, etc.). Its catalog is sourced from 5,300 content partners in 43 languages and the service reaches more than 146 million users worldwide. Odilo is used by over 6,200 institutions across more than 43 countries. The company plans to use the new funding to boost development of its intelligent learning experience technology, expand its content catalog, and advance global expansion into new markets. Odilo is a Madrid-based technology and digital content company that provides a SaaS platform for managing, distributing, consuming, archiving and preserving all types of digital content, including eBooks, audio, video, images and documents. Its marketplace lets organizations buy digital content to offer users on a loan, rental or subscription basis. Odilo serves libraries (public, private, university, school, and special interest), hospitals, governments, businesses, and travel and hospitality customers in more than 40 countries. The company holds distribution rights to 1.3 million digital content materials from over 2,500 publishers in 42 languages. Led by CEO Rodrigo Rodriguez, Odilo plans to use the new funds to launch new products, accelerate technological development and continue international expansion across Europe, Latin America, North America and Australia. Odilo, based in Madrid and led by CEO Rodrigo Rodriguez, has developed a digital content management and lending platform that allows entities with large user bases to offer on-demand access to digital content through a pay-per-consumption model. The company markets a Content as a Service (CaaS) business and has been deployed as the technological platform for Spain's eBiblio, Chile's national e-book library, and the Cervantes Institute. Described as a leader in the Spanish-speaking market, Odilo has won public contracts across Europe, Latin America and North America. In the United States it was awarded the contract to deliver digital content to the entire State of Michigan. Following these deployments, the company has undertaken an internationalization process. Odilo intends to use the new funding to continue international expansion and strengthen its CaaS offering. Odilo provides a suite of products for lending digital content to libraries, schools, universities, associations, corporations and municipalities. Its technology enables more than 5 million users to access digital content through those institutions. The company has completed projects including the first state-wide network for U.S. libraries to lend e-books and the national network of libraries in Chile. Odilo is creating an open platform selling digital content licenses in Spanish (OdiloPlace) and a library management system that integrates physical and digital lending (OdiloTT). Founded in April 2011 and led by CEO Rodrigo Rodriguez, Odilo has offices in Madrid, New York, Miami and Cartagena. It intends to use new funds to accelerate growth in the U.S. and Latin America.

Total raised
$85M
Funding rounds
5
Latest round
Equity
Latest activity
Jun 2022

Industries

  • EBooks
  • Information Technology
  • Internet
  • Software
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Recent funding

  1. Equity

    Jun 2022

    $64M

  2. Equity

    Jul 2020

    $10M

  3. Equity

    Mar 2017

    $6M

  4. Equity

    Mar 2016

    $1M

  5. Equity

    Sep 2014

    $3M

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