Busuu, the global mobile platform for language learning, has received a €6 million investment from MCGRAW-Hill Education(MHE). Busuu.com was founded by Bernhard Niesner and Adrian Hilti, alumni of IE Business School’s International MBA program, who launched the company in January of 2008 to offer a method they would have liked to have had when they arrived in Spain.
Since Busuu was created in 2008, the number of users has increased at a rate of 100,000 per day. The product is present in Brazil, Russia, China, Turkey, Germany and the US. The company offers audiovisual language courses, both free of charge and fee paying, in 12 languages. The course also include direct interaction with native speakers worldwide. Some two thirds of users access Busuu using mobile devices.
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