Virtual Founders Breakfast #7 Building An Edu-Tech Unicorn
Virtual Founders Breakfast #7 features the CEO and Co-Founder of Krakow’s biggest startup success story. Brainly is the world’s largest peer-to-peer learning community for students, parents and teachers. At brainly.com, and its group of websites around the world, students connect to both receive and offer help with homework problems and questions. The unique opportunity for students to freely ask questions and gain the confidence that comes from helping others and inspires students to learn in a collaborative community that receives more than 350 million users each month. Based in Kraków, Poland, with its US headquarters in New York City, Brainly is currently available in 35 countries. The total funding from current investors, including Naspers, General Catalyst Partners, Point Nine Capital, Runa Capital and Learn Capital equals $150M.
Who Can Attend?
➡ Startup and scaleup founders
➡ C-level individuals from innovative organizations
➡ Leaders from ecosystem stakeholders
Michał Borkowski is the CEO and co-founder of Brainly and is responsible for product strategy, company strategy and culture.
Michał grew up in a small town in Poland before heading to Warsaw to study corporate finance at the acclaimed Warsaw School of Economics. He and his co-founders established Brainly in 2009 in Kraków, driven by the conviction that collaborative online communities can empower students from around the world with knowledge and information. In a little more than a decade, Brainly has become the world’s largest online learning community for students, parents and teachers. After moving to New York City and living there for 4 years to open and build Brainly’s US office, Michał now lives in Poland with his wife, Kasia.