Geniebook is an education technology company for K-12 students across Southeast Asia, including Singapore, Vietnam and Malaysia. Its core products are live courses and AI personalized worksheets across multiple subjects, including in math, science, and English. Founders Neo Zhizhong and Alicia Cheong are industry insiders with both having spent 10+ years in education. Neo Zhizhong is the CEO and is a serial entrepreneur. Alicia is the COO and also co-founded SchoolPlus together with Neo previously.
Location: Vietnam
Total raised: $17.7M
Investors 2
| Date | Name | Website |
| 30.01.2022 | Lightspeed... | lsvp.com |
| - | Titan Capi... | titancapit... |
Funding Rounds 2
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 19.10.2021 | Series A | $16.6M | - |
| 15.05.2019 | Series A | $1.1M | - |
Mentions in press and media 13
| Date | Title | Description |
| 10.07.2024 | Geniebook sheds over 100 jobs as learning goes back to school | Premium Content It takes our newsroom weeks - if not months - to investigate and produce stories for our premium content. You can’t find them anywhere else. Elyssa Lopez · 19h ago · 3 min readGeniebook sheds over 100 jobs as learning goes b... |
| 03.08.2023 | Geniebook harnesses AI to personalize learning experiences | The education landscape is constantly evolving, and new solutions are being developed to improve how students learn in an increasingly digitized world. Singapore-based edtech company Geniebook is one of the companies operating in this field... |
| 11.07.2023 | Discover the Geniebook Summer Festival 2023: Unlocking Excellence in Education | HANOI, Vietnam, July 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Geniebook, Singapore's leading EdTech platform for English, Mathematics, and Science (EMS) syllabi, is excited to announce its expansion in Vietnam. As part of this expansion, Geniebook will be ... |
| 09.12.2021 | Personalised worksheets, live classes and chats to power your child’s learning | The learning process can be tough for more than just students. Parents often find it difficult to motivate their young learners, assess how well their children understand the assigned academic concepts, or even help answer complicated homew... |
| 20.10.2021 | Geniebook secured US $16.6 M Series A funding backed by East Ventures, Lightspeed & top executives from Southeast Asia’s unicorns | Geniebook, a Singapore-based edtech company, has raised $16.6 million in a Series A funding round headed by East Ventures and Lightspeed Venture Partners. John Danner of Dunce Capital, Gaurav Munjal and Roman Saini of Unacademy, Kunal Bahl ... |
| 20.10.2021 | Edtech Startup Geniebook Raises $16.6 Mn Series A Round | - |
| 19.10.2021 | Singapore edtech startup Geniebook secures $16.6m in Series A funding | Singapore-based edtech startup Geniebook is looking at scaling its team and expanding its existing products after raising $16.6 million in a Series A funding round backed by venture capital firm East Ventures and Lightspeed Venture Partners... |
| 18.10.2021 | Singapore-based Geniebook’s personalized learning platform raises $16.6M Series A | Founded in 2017, Geniebook is a Singapore-based learning platform that uses a combination of machine learning and human teachers to personalize each student’s education. The company announced today it has raised $16.6 million in Series A fu... |
| 12.05.2021 | Top 10 Educational Technology startups in Singapore | Singapore has repeatedly been placed in the top 5 highly ranked countries in the world related to educational outcomes. EdTech industry has been growing rapidly and Singapore itself has seen growth in this sector. According to Shivanu Shukl... |
| 16.05.2019 | Edtech firm Geniebook secures USD 1.1 million in pre-series A funding | Singapore-based test-prep startup Geniebook raised SGD 1.5 million (USD 1.1 million) in its pre-series A financing round led by Apricot Capital, a Singaporean multi-asset private investment company. The startup seeks to use the funds to gro... |
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