8 Female Founders to Watch
Corporate learning is one of the hottest spaces in edtech right now. Workday’s recent $1.1 billion acquisition of Sana, a Swedish corporate learning platform, shows that the market is ready to reward bold ideas that reshape how companies upskill and reskill their workforce.
Europe is also home to incredible founders - like Joel and Anna, Sana’s founders - building transformative solutions for workplace learning.
Here is a selection of 8 founders from the Female Edtech Fellowship network who are redefining corporate learning — and who just might be building the next billion-dollar success story:
Sylvie Milverton – Lynx Educate
Lynx Educate is a social impact platform that allows companies to invest in education for their communities in order to align their ESG goals with their business objectives. Companies can support disadvantaged communities with access to education in a meaningful way. Learners choose from a range of company-sponsored education programmes and are supported through 1:1 Lynx success coaching. Companies that adopt our solution are able to reinforce their brand values, reach new customers and strengthen social value credentials.
Miriam Mertens – DeepSkill
DeepSkill delivers tailored training programs for your top talent and emerging leaders. With AI support, they create individualized learning paths on their digital platform. From conception, to implementation, to performance measurement: Their blended learning approach combines self-learning, training and coaching.
Stine Schulz – Learningbank
Learningbank is an all-in-one platform for learning & workforce enablement for deskless workers. Learningbank empowers companies with people on the floor, in-store, and on the go to overcome their unique learning and development challenges. The platform allows you to create engaging, scalable, and practical learning experiences that fit seamlessly into the flow of work.
Eva van Leeuwen – Young Heroes
Young Heroes is the coaching & career platform for early career professionals. Learning Heroes empowers both managers and young professionals to grow with purpose and confidence. They believe that early-career guidance and meaningful leadership can transform potential into performance.
Henny Hoekstra – Pluvo
Pluvo helps organizations train their teams flexibly and effectively. As a full learning management system, it centralizes all internal learning: from e-learning and in-person sessions to compliance and skills development. With its built-in skills matrix, companies can map and strengthen competences while tracking progress in real time. Subject-matter experts easily turn internal knowledge into engaging learning experiences with the help of AI-assisted authoring and ready-to-use templates. Supported by personal service and secure EU-based hosting, Pluvo makes learning a natural part of work.
Hatla Johnsen – uQualio
uQualio empowers organizations to transform the way they train and share knowledge globally through AI-powered video microlearning. Their all-in-one platform enables teams to turn their own videos into engaging, interactive courses made accessible across borders with AI dynamic language translations - complete with autogenerated subtitles, quizzes to boost retention, and certifications featuring multi-level micro credentials.
Bien Vanderstappen – TEO Training
TEO Training helps companies discover and develop technical talent. Organizations can choose from TEO’s modular tools or implement the full suite to efficiently build their own in-house technical training center. In a world where qualified technical professionals are increasingly scarce, TEO focuses on unlocking hidden potential. Due to intensive co-creation with many of their clients TEO was able to expand their scope and to evolve to a broad solution for knowledge management for blue collar workers.
Aleksandra Maravic – Beyond the Box
Beyond the Box helps companies boost team performance through personalized 1:1 sessions. Their platform accelerates learning and enables employees to complete tasks more effectively and overcome challenges by connecting them with the right expert at the right time. Effortlessly intuitive and highly effective, Beyond the Box enables employees to submit the specific work challenge or task they need support with, leveraging AI to rapidly match them with the most qualified expert.
The Female Edtech Fellowship is a six-month programme bringing together ambitious female founders from across Europe, supporting them with peer learning, workshops, and a powerful network to scale their ventures. Since launch, the fellowship has run 7 cohorts, gathering a community of female entrepreneurs driving innovation in education and learning.
With more than 100 fellows in our network, the Female Edtech Fellowship is proof that Europe is full of visionary women ready to shape the future of learning. The recent Workday–Sana acquisition is just the beginning. The next billion-euro corporate learning success story could very well come from one of these founders.
European edtech is on fire — and these women are leading the way.
- Guest post by Svenia Busson.
