Sophia Antipolis-Based Teach On Mars Raises €7 Million

By Dan Anderson ● Jan 28, 2019

Teach on Mars — a Sophia Antipolis-based mobile native learning technology company — has announced it has raised €7 million in funding. This round of funding was led by Omnes and Région Sud Investissement. And this round also included the company’s existing investors.

Founded in 2013 by Vincent Desnot, Tanguy Deleplanque and Quentin Dérunes, Teach on Mars will be using the funding for three critical areas: commercial expansion (international markets), the extension and reinforcement of its content partner network, and the acceleration of its research and development.

To expand internationally, Teach on Mars is going to formalize its Value-Added Reseller distribution partnerships in Europe. The company is going to accelerate its partnership programs with providers of premium mobile-first learning content. And the company will maintain its aggressive research and development policy in order to consolidate its technological leadership.

Teach on Mars’ digital learning platform is 100% mobile-native and incorporates solutions for the creation, distribution, and management of professional training and personal development content through smartphones. Over the last five years, Teach on Mars became a European leader in next-generation learning solutions and grew into a team of nearly 60 people serving more than 100 blue-chip organizations and global brands.

“Since 2013, Teach on Mars has moved comfortably ahead of the first-generation pack in the race to make digital learning mobile-first,” said Teach on Mars co-founder and CEO Vincent Desnot in a statement. “The next challenge is to deliver on the promise of ‘permanent learning’, where every aspect of the user’s connected lifestyle is linked to his ongoing development. To do that, we must continue to pursue our objective of offering the finest learning ecosystem in the market. Teach on Mars will ultimately become more than a digital learning solution: it will be a tool for the continued employability of the new generations entering the workforce and a means to harness the power of collective intelligence for our client organizations.”

So far, Teach on Mars has been deployed to a million learnings and operates in more than 20 languages and over 60 countries throughout the world. The company’s client portfolio includes more than half the companies in France’s CAC 40. And it is used by companies across a wide variety of sectors including luxury goods and financial services.

Omnes director Xavier Brunaud added that the “impressive execution so far by Vincent Desnot and his team led us to support their international expansion plan as well as their product roadmap.” And Turenne Capital general partner Marie Desportes explained “We are proud to support Vincent Desnot through this new growth plan designed to reinforce the company’s international presence and consolidate its dominant position.”