The Hungarian edtech company BOOKR has raised €6.1 million in a Series A funding round led by TCEE Fund IV, advised by 3TS Capital Partners, with participation from international and strategic investors. The transaction includes a primary investment, secondary share purchases, and the conversion of existing financial instruments.

The company builds digital tools for reading, language learning, and literacy, with the aim of helping children strengthen their ability to read with understanding and work with information.

Its BOOKR Class product is a platform for schools that gives teachers and students a range of learning resources, including interactive books and exercises for students, along with various tools for teachers.

“The next generation will not compete with AI on speed. They will need to compete on depth: comprehension, curiosity, judgement and the ability to ask better questions. This investment allows BOOKR to build the learning infrastructure behind those capabilities, and to take it to millions more children around the world.”

— said Dr Dorka Horváth, PhD, CEO and Co-Founder of BOOKR Kids

Where BOOKR stands today 

The company already has more than 600,000 paying students, over 3,000 schools, and a presence in more than 30 countries. Its main market is English teaching, but it also offers German and Hungarian language courses.

Its offering includes a wide range of interactive digital books built around the school curriculum, along with over 50,000 learning activities, and its books reach students across Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and the Americas.

The company reported around $2.7 million in revenue. BOOKR has been shortlisted for Bett Award, an annual international awards recognizing technology and innovation in education, and holds strong evidence of impact in UNICEF's assessment framework for EdTech.

More about the investment 

Together with 3TS Capital Partners, the investor group also includes Leib Lurie, co-founder and former CEO of the U.S. literacy nonprofit "Kids Read Now"; Robert Iskander, chairman and CEO of "SchoolDay"; "Infinit Capital Oy," the Finnish investment fund of the Kopponen family; and Hungarian angel investor Albert Sarospataki, CEO of "Billingo," who invested through his angel syndicate "FusionWise." 

The investment will help BOOKR expand into markets across Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and the Americas through stronger partnerships and distribution. The company also plans to launch new products: BOOKR Next, aimed at learners aged 10–18, and BOOKR Phonics, an eight-phase program of decodable texts designed to support early literacy. 

BOOKR also plans to expand its Teacher Dashboard and Speaking Studio internationally, and to keep investing in research linking product use to real learning results. 

“BOOKR pairs outstanding content and rigorous pedagogy with something few companies from our region achieve: a genuinely international business. Through established partner networks across markets including Turkey, the UAE, Jordan and China, it has built a geographically diversified revenue base rather than depending on a single home market. That proven cross-border traction positions BOOKR to help define how literacy and language learning evolve in the AI era.”

— said Barnabás Vincze, Investment Manager at 3TS Capital Partners