{"id":18383,"date":"2021-10-28T02:50:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-28T02:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/10\/28\/big-bang-academy-a-hong-kong-edtech-start-up-receives-hkd-7-figure-seed-funding-from-gobi-partners-alibaba-entrepreneurs-fund-to-revolutionize-k-6-steam-education\/"},"modified":"2021-10-28T02:50:00","modified_gmt":"2021-10-28T02:50:00","slug":"big-bang-academy-a-hong-kong-edtech-start-up-receives-hkd-7-figure-seed-funding-from-gobi-partners-alibaba-entrepreneurs-fund-to-revolutionize-k-6-steam-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/10\/28\/big-bang-academy-a-hong-kong-edtech-start-up-receives-hkd-7-figure-seed-funding-from-gobi-partners-alibaba-entrepreneurs-fund-to-revolutionize-k-6-steam-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Bang Academy, a Hong Kong EdTech Start-Up Receives HKD 7-figure Seed Funding from Gobi Partners \/ Alibaba Entrepreneurs Fund to Revolutionize K-6 STEAM Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>HONG KONG SAR &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/\">Media OutReach<\/a> &#8211; 28 October 2021 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bigbangacademyhk.com\/\">Big Bang Academy<\/a>,\u00a0a Hong Kong-based STEAM education technology start-up\u00a0announced the completion of HKD 7 figures seed funding investment led by Gobi Partners, including participation from family offices and&#13;<br \/>\nexperienced angel investors from a technology and private equity background. <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img src=\"https:\/\/images.media-outreach.com\/Thumb\/500x0\/190563\/Group-2-.jpg#image-190563\" width=\"500\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Big Bang Academy was&#13;<br \/>\nfounded by two young University of Cambridge alumni who studied Engineering and&#13;<br \/>\nNatural Sciences (Biological) respectively. Despite having years of working&#13;<br \/>\nexperience in large corporations, their passion in science persists. &#8220;When I&#13;<br \/>\nwas 6 years old, I learned to fix fuse problems in the electrical circuit of&#13;<br \/>\nthe TV at home. It was these positive and joyful childhood memories that&#13;<br \/>\ninspire us to develop a life-long passion in learning. We want to recreate these&#13;<br \/>\n&#8220;lightbulb moments&#8221; for children to become more curious, persistent learners,&#8221;&#13;<br \/>\nsaid Sarah, the co-founder.<\/p>\n<p>With a mission to make&#13;<br \/>\nlearning as compelling as a movie, as fun as a theme park, and as educational&#13;<br \/>\nas a classroom, Big Bang Academy brings science to life with their&#13;<br \/>\naward-winning STEAM e-learning app, online live classes and theme-park like&#13;<br \/>\nlearning experiences. To achieve the vision of building the next &#8220;Netflix for&#13;<br \/>\nkids&#8221;, Big Bang Academy empowers every child to be self-directed learners&#13;<br \/>\nthrough hands-on experiments anytime, anywhere. Their award-winning curriculum covers&#13;<br \/>\nthe natural sciences and engineering, with the aim to equip future leaders with&#13;<br \/>\nthe scientific skills and knowledge to solve the most pressing issues humanity&#13;<br \/>\nface globally like climate change, global pandemic and energy shortage etc. <\/p>\n<p>Big Bang Academy&#8217;s classes&#13;<br \/>\nand content have reached over 4,000 students aged 3-12 years old in Hong Kong,&#13;<br \/>\nSingapore, and Taiwan shortly after one year of inception. They have recorded a&#13;<br \/>\n300% year-on-year growth in revenue and are trusted by top schools and&#13;<br \/>\ncorporates such as Malvern College Hong Kong, K11 Musea, Consulate General of&#13;<br \/>\nFrance in Hong Kong and Jockey Club Hong Kong.<\/p>\n<p>Chibo Tang, Managing&#13;<br \/>\nPartner of Gobi Partners said, &#8220;We&#8217;re excited to be working with Big Bang&#13;<br \/>\nAcademy as their innovative approach leads a new age of hybrid learning for&#13;<br \/>\nkids and provides a necessary platform for them since the pandemic changed the&#13;<br \/>\nway children are learning.&#8221;<b><u\/><\/b><\/p>\n<p>The company intends to use&#13;<br \/>\nthe funds in advancing their product development, including AI-enabled personalized&#13;<br \/>\nlearning technology, enrichment of the educational content library, and&#13;<br \/>\nresearch &amp; development for home experiment kits. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Especially during the&#13;<br \/>\npandemic season, we have experienced a surge in demand from parents in Asia for&#13;<br \/>\nan effective and engaging education model which combines both online and&#13;<br \/>\nhands-on elements. It can not only stimulate children&#8217;s curiosity, but also&#13;<br \/>\nprovide tangible learning outcomes,&#8221; said Nixon, the co-founder. Moving forward,&#13;<br \/>\nthe company plans to partner with top international education institutes and&#13;<br \/>\nexperts to create accredited content to further strengthen the overall learning&#13;<br \/>\nquality and effectiveness.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/news\/2021-10-28\/101278\/big-bang-academy-a-hong-kong-edtech-start-up-receives-hkd-7-figure-seed-funding-from-gobi-partners-alibaba-entrepreneurs-fund-to-revolutionize-k-6-steam-education\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HONG KONG SAR &#8211; Media OutReach &#8211; 28 October 2021 &#8211; Big Bang Academy,\u00a0a Hong Kong-based STEAM education technology start-up\u00a0announced the completion of HKD 7 figures seed funding investment led by Gobi Partners, including participation from family offices and&#13; experienced angel investors from a technology and private equity background. 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