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FarFaria is an award-winning reading app with thousands of e-books for children ages 2-9. With unlimited access to a curated library of intricately illustrated children’s e-books and new titles published every week, FarFaria keeps kids engaged and learning.
We started FarFaria because we wanted to expand children’s imaginations through reading. By providing a library that’s convenient for parents and just plain fun for kids, we’ve been able to do just that: FarFaria kids read over 10X the national average!
Our popular e-books include classics, like Princess and the Pea and Rapunzel, as well as the original hit series, The Monster Club and Zombie Elementary. FarFaria e-books offer professional audio narration with word highlighting and standards-aligned reading levels featured on every book cover.
FarFaria is available in the App Store and Play Store, as well as on the Kindle Fire. Download and start reading for free today.
Get the app today:
iTunes: http://bit.ly/FarFaria
GooglePlay: http://bit.ly/FarFariaAndroid
We started FarFaria because we wanted to expand children’s imaginations through reading. By providing a library that’s convenient for parents and just plain fun for kids, we’ve been able to do just that: FarFaria kids read over 10X the national average!
Our popular e-books include classics, like Princess and the Pea and Rapunzel, as well as the original hit series, The Monster Club and Zombie Elementary. FarFaria e-books offer professional audio narration with word highlighting and standards-aligned reading levels featured on every book cover.
FarFaria is available in the App Store and Play Store, as well as on the Kindle Fire. Download and start reading for free today.
Get the app today:
iTunes: http://bit.ly/FarFaria
GooglePlay: http://bit.ly/FarFariaAndroid
Overview
Location
United States, California, San Francisco
Employees
11-50
Total raised
$3.25M
Founded date
2010
Funding Rounds 1
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Mentions in press and media 16
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| Apr 11, 2014 | FarFaria Brings Hundreds Of Children’s Books To Android | FarFaria, the children’s subscription-based e-book service which recently raised $3.25 million in Series A funding, is now bringing its e-reader to Android users, with the launch of a smartphone and tablet-compatible application on Google P... |
| Feb 8, 2014 | FarFaria Raises $3.25M in Series A Funding | FarFaria, San Francisco, CA-based provider of an iPad app that gives access to over 600 illustrated children’s books, raised $3.25m in Series A funding. Backers included Inventus Capital Partners and unnamed angels. The company intends to u... |
| Feb 6, 2014 | Inventus Capital leads $3.25M in Series A in developer of children’s digital book app FarFaria | California-based Intuary Inc, which provides FarFaria, an iPad app for digital books for kids, has closed $3.25 million in a Series A round of funding led by Inventus Capital Partners to grow its library and also to add more devices. As par... |
| Feb 4, 2014 | FarFaria Raises $3.25M To Bring Children’s Books To The iPad (And Eventually Other Devices) | FarFaria, which has built a children’s subscription book service for the iPad, is announcing that it has raised $3.25 million in Series A funding. The round was led by Inventus Capital Partners, with Inventus’ Manu Rekhi joining the board o... |
| Feb 4, 2014 | FarFaria Closes $3.25M in Series A | SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Leader in digital children's books for iPad, announced today the closing of $3.25 million in Series A. >> Click here for more funding data on FarFaria >> To export FarFaria funding data to PDF and Exc... |
| Sep 16, 2013 | iStoryTime Debuts A “Netflix For Ebooks” For Kids | If a startup called Oyster is the Netflix for e-books, then iStoryTime is the children’s alternative. One of the oldest players in the kids’ interactive e-books app market is zuuka (aka iStoryTime), a company founded in 2009 and backed by $... |
| Apr 16, 2013 | Once upon a time, a children’s book app got kids to read at record rates | In the land of FarFaria, little girls named Daisy befriend dangerous dragons and farm boys conquer giant sea monsters. FarFaria is a popular electronic book app for children. Today, the company is celebrating its first birthday by announcin... |
| Apr 16, 2013 | Once upon a time, a children’s book app got kids to read at record rates | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more. In the land of FarFaria, little girls named Daisy befriend dangerous dragons and farm boys conquer giant sea monsters. FarFaria is a po... |
| Mar 22, 2013 | Announcing the winners of our #WinSXSW contest | Want to know what companies really stood out at South by Southwest? Scroll down. Just like every year, SXSW was a big, crazy cluster of startups jostling for attention. But this year, we decided to turn the social media noise into an asset.... |
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FAQ about FarFaria
When was FarFaria founded?
FarFaria was founded in 2010.
How much funding has FarFaria raised?
FarFaria has raised $3.25M in total across 1 funding round.
What has the press written about FarFaria?
Parsers VC has collected 16 articles mentioning FarFaria, among them “FarFaria Brings Hundreds Of Children’s Books To Android” (Apr 11, 2014) and “FarFaria Raises $3.25M in Series A Funding” (Feb 8, 2014).
Is FarFaria still active?
Yes, FarFaria is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Mar 16, 2020.