Question

Give History of brainly app

Answer 1

Initially called Zadane.pl, the company was founded in 2009 in Poland by Michał Borkowski (current chief executive officer), Tomasz Kraus and Łukasz Haluch. The first million unique users monthly was achieved within 6 months after the release. In January 2011, the company announced Znanija.com, the first international project dedicated to Russian language speakers.Several other versions in multiple languages for the following markets included Turkey(eodev.com), Latin America and Spain (brainly.lat) and Brazil (brainly.com.br). In December 2013, seven new language versions of Brainly were released, include the English language(brainly.com), Indonesian (brainly.co.id), Indian (brainly.in), Filipino (brainly.ph), Thai language(brainly-thailand.com), Romanian (brainly.ro) and Italian (brainly.it) sites. Brainly was initially funded by the co-founders, but then raised funds from Point Nine Capital and Business Angelsin 2012. In October 2014, the company announced that it had raised another round of funding from General Catalyst Partners, Runa Capital and other venture capital firms. The total amount of the investment was $9 million and allowed further product development, as well as the opening of the US-based headquarters in New York City.

In May 2016, another funding round of $18 million of combined debt and equity was disclosed. In June 2016, Brainly acquired the US-based OpenStudy.

In October 2017, Brainly raised $14 million in the funding round led by Kulczyk Investments.The total funds raised by the company since its establishment, is reported to be $38.5 million.In January 2018, Brainly announced it had acquired the video education start-up, Bask, to bring video technology to the Brainly platform.

Answer 2

Brainly is a multinational educational technology company based in Krakow, Poland[1] and New York, United States. Brainly operates a group of social learning networks for students and educators. It has over 100 million unique users monthly from over 35 countries (as of January 2018). The first website launched in 2009[2] in Poland under the name Zadane.pl. Brainly inspires students to share and explore knowledge in a collaborative community, and engage in peer-to-peer educational assistance. The network has elements of gamification in the form of motivational points and encourages users to engage in the online community by asking questions and answering those of other students.
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