Gaia Learning secures £550k in seed funding led by Nesta Impact Investments to expand its online education platform.
The funding round was led by Nesta Impact Investments with co-investment from GC Angels to support national and international growth.
Gaia Learning provides a specialist online alternative provision for neurodivergent children and young people across the UK. The platform also offers Bloom, a SEND infrastructure platform designed to help schools deliver and track support.
Gaia Learning has secured £550k in a seed funding round led by Nesta Impact Investments, with participation from GC Angels. The Manchester-based educational technology provider will direct the capital towards supporting its national and international expansion.
The company delivers live online learning classes for neurodivergent pupils aged eight to sixteen, reporting rising demand from families and schools. Having recently tripled its student numbers and expanded its team, the business plans to use the latest capital injection to scale its digital provision for children struggling within mainstream education.
From the founder
"We’re so pleased to have our new investment partners on board and them acknowledging the potential in all we do at Gaia Learning to help school partners, learners and their families. We have tripled our learners this academic year, grown our team to 12 staff members and seen huge demand from children who are struggling in mainstream education. Now, more than ever, schools need flexible, digital solutions that can scale within budget supporting each neurodivergent child’s needs."
Kate Longworth
CEO at Gaia Learning
Investor perspective
"We backed Gaia learning as both a promising high growth business and as a solution to tackle the acute gap between education outcomes of students with special educational needs and the average. Students with an Education Health and Care Plan, who Gaia Learning typically supports, at a national level have outcomes at GCSE eight times worse than the average. One of Nesta’s key areas of focus is to narrow the education attainment gap and Gaia Learning provides a compelling solution to tackle this."
Lisa Barclay
Executive Director of Investments, Nesta Impact Investments
Use of funds
- 01Expand into international markets
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About the company
Gaia Learning
Gaia Learning provides a specialist online alternative provision for neurodivergent children.