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SchuBu shows what becomes possible when learning is fun and financing fits the mission.
The Vienna-based EdTech company is building the first fully interactive, gamified and curriculum-aligned digital schoolbook for lower secondary education. The platform covers the entire learning cycle: content is introduced interactively, understood through exploration and reinforced through targeted practice. SchuBu replaces the passive PDF-and-worksheet model that still dominates most schools. Students learn through discovery instead of memorisation. Teachers get ready-made, curriculum-compliant lesson units instead of hours of preparation. In Austria, SchuBu is free to use in every school, leads the market with a 53 % share and has been awarded the Austrian State Prize for Digitalisation.
We supported SchuBu through a financing round combining equity and mezzanine capital: from the financing strategy and equity story to investor outreach and a successful close in March 2026, including a quasi-equity component from Erste Social Finance and capital from ESIIF I. The result is a round built for long-term adoption in schools, not a short exit horizon. Now SchuBu is taking the next step. The company is further developing its technology, deepening daily use in Austrian classrooms and setting the standard for digital schoolbooks across the DACH region.
What makes the case compelling, what the financing structure looks like, and how the collaboration unfolded: our Venture Snapshot tells the full story.
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This series was supported until April 2023 by the “Kompetenzzentrum für Soziale Innovationen” and has since been continued through the programme “ESF-2022-SOC-FIN — Transaction costs to support social finance intermediaries”, co-funded by the European Union. The views and opinions expressed in this success study are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.
