Toucan is an immersive learning tool that is the most efficient way to learn new concepts while going about your day.
Location: United States, California, Santa Monica
Employees: 11-50
Total raised: $7.5M
Founded date: 2019
Investors 15
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Funding Rounds 2
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 27.04.2021 | - | $4.5M | - |
| 11.09.2020 | - | $3M | - |
Mentions in press and media 13
| Date | Title | Description |
| 19.09.2023 | Babbel expands language learning ecosystem with Toucan acquisition | Today language learning platform Babbel announced the acquisition of the Toucan browser extension for an undisclosed amount. Founded and headquartered in Berlin with a North American office in New York, Babbel develops and operates an ecosy... |
| 19.09.2023 | Babbel acquires language learning browser extension Toucan | Babbel, the popular subscription-based language learning service, today announced that it has acquired Toucan, the well-funded language learning browser extension. Toucan, it turns out, wound down as a company earlier this year, though its ... |
| 01.07.2022 | GR0 Presents: How to Bootstrap Your Startup | Though the image of perfecting a pitch deck and then presenting your concept to investors and VCs is central to our common conception of being a founder and entrepreneur, many of the largest and most valuable tech companies in the world – f... |
| 17.02.2022 | LA Is The Third-Largest Startup Ecosystem in the US | Los Angeles is now the third-largest startup market in the U.S.—with nearly 4,000 venture-backed startups calling the City of Angels home, according to a new report from venture capital firm Telstra Ventures. On Wednesday, San Francisco-bas... |
| 31.01.2022 | What Are LA’s Hottest Startups of 2022? See Who VCs Picked in dot.LA’s Annual Survey | In Los Angeles—like the startup environment at large—venture funding and valuations skyrocketed in 2021, even as the coronavirus pandemic continued to surge and supply chain issues rattled the economy. The result was a startup ecosystem tha... |
| 15.12.2021 | London-based fintech startup Toucan takes flight with €941k boost for its donation app | With the vision to modernise charitable giving, London-based Toucan is taking flight after receiving a €941k investment – well over its target – as investors flocked to be part of a digital revolution in the charitable giving sector. Toucan... |
| 28.04.2021 | Daily funding roundup - April 27th, 2021 | Automox raised $110M; Step landed $100M; Placer.ai secured $50M; Aleo picks up $28M Kry: Kry is a Sweden-based tele-health service and software tools company that connects clinicians with patients for remote consultations. Kry has raised $3... |
| 27.04.2021 | EdTech Toucan Wants to Teach You Another Language on Twitter | Scrolling through Twitter could soon help you learn another language. That's the idea behind Toucan, a tech startup whose browser extension translates words on your screen from English to one of seven languages — soon to be 11. On Tuesday, ... |
| 27.04.2021 | Language learning startup Toucan raises $4.5M | Toucan, a startup that helps users learn a new language while they browse the web, is announcing that it has raised an additional $4.5 million in seed funding. As I wrote last fall, the Santa Monica, California-based startup has built a Chr... |
| 17.02.2021 | This New Language App Partners With Its Competition To Gain Distribution | You would think with Taylor Nieman’s volleyball background and Junior Olympic gravitas that she would have cutthroat competitive strategies up her sleeves. Wrong. The CEO and cofounder of Toucan views her competitors as an opportunity to ma... |
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