BOOKR secures €6.1 million Series A transaction to build literacy infrastructure for the AI age

The transaction marks a new phase in BOOKR’s ambition to become a leading global learning platform for literacy, language development and AI readiness – combining trusted content, rigorous pedagogy, classroom integration and measurable learning outcomes.

Alongside 3TS Capital Partners, the investor group includes Leib Lurie of US literacy nonprofit Kids Read Now; Robert Iskander, Chairman and CEO of SchoolDay, whose education data infrastructure serves more than 18 million learners; Infinit Capital Oy, the Koponen family’s Finnish investment vehicle; and Hungarian angel investor and Billingo CEO Albert Sárospataki through the FusionWise angel syndicate.

Founded in Budapest, BOOKR has grown from a literacy startup into an international learning ecosystem serving more than 600,000 paying students across over 3,000 schools in more than 30 countries. Its key markets span Europe, Asia, the Middle East and the Americas. BOOKR operates primarily in the global English-language-learning market, at the intersection of language acquisition, reading comprehension and literacy, while also serving German language learning and Hungarian first-language literacy. Its ecosystem includes thousands of interactive, curriculum-based digital books and more than 50,000 learning activities.

BOOKR Class brings together two layers of education technology that are often kept separate. Children access curriculum-based, animated, interactive books shaped by writers, artists, dramaturgs, psychologists, educators and literacy experts, with native-speaker narration and multisensory storytelling that strengthen language input, comprehension and empathy. For educators, Teacher Support AI provides diagnostic CEFR-aligned pathways, curriculum mapping, learning-data analysis, content recommendations and teaching materials. Generative AI is concentrated in the teacher environment under professional oversight; children encounter only bounded, age-appropriate functionality designed around privacy-by-design and the child-safety principles reflected in the EU AI Act. This combination makes learning engaging and safely personalised at scale.

BOOKR’s thesis is deliberately counterintuitive: in an AI-saturated world, reading comprehension becomes more important – not less. As generative systems increasingly produce, summarise and interpret information, learners need strong cognitive foundations to question outputs, identify weak reasoning, build background knowledge and form independent judgements.

BOOKR is not building technology that replaces thinking. It is building technology that helps children become better thinkers. Its next-generation platform will use AI to diagnose learning needs, personalise pathways, map content to curricula, generate teacher-support materials and provide more precise feedback – while preserving the essential roles of literature, human creativity and the teacher.

This direction becomes product reality today with the launch of BOOKR’s new Teacher Dashboard, bringing curriculum alignment, data-informed differentiation, advanced progress analytics and a new generation of teacher-support tools into one integrated environment.

BOOKR is also developing an AI-driven, multi-adaptive language placement and proficiency assessment system, supported by a €662,000 non-repayable grant from the European Union.

BOOKR’s growth is underpinned by measurable learning impact and an expanding body of international research. University-led research in Hungary found significantly stronger reading-comprehension development – a 20% improvement – among students using BOOKR’s interactive learning format than among the control group. In a 2026 pilot in Jordan, the treatment group improved by 1.08 points while the comparison group declined by 0.47 points (p<0.001), with higher usage associated with stronger gains. Together, these studies contribute to a broader evidence base spanning multiple countries, age groups and learning environments.

The company reported approximately USD 2.7 million in revenue in 2025 and remained EBITDA-positive. BOOKR has also received international recognition through the Bett Awards, repeated selection for HolonIQ’s Europe EdTech rankings, inclusion in the EdTech Insiders K–12 AI landscape, and the highest evidence rating in UNICEF’s assessment framework for EdTech solutions.