Babbel wins the EdTechX Language Learning Award 2023
Berlin, New York, 27 June 2023 - Babbel, the world's most sold language learning platform, is delighted to announce that it has been honored to accept the prestigious EdTechX Language Learning Award at the 2023 EdTechX Awards. The gala dinner took place during the highly anticipated London EdTech Week and EdTech Summit.
Thomas Holl, the co-founder of Babbel, proudly accepted the award on behalf of the entire team. This recognition highlights Babbel's contributions to the digitalization of language learning and its focus on learner success, where the blend of humanity and technology is key. Babbel offers more than 60,000 lessons across 14 languages, hand-crafted by didactic experts and enhanced by technology. As a result, its interactive content for B2C and B2B audiences is highly effective and constantly being improved: in the app, with its live classes (Babbel Live), and its offering of games, podcasts and videos. In particular, the B2B product Babbel for Business is empowering teams of more than 1,000 corporate clients in over 30 countries.
"The EdTechX Language Learning Award goes to the entire Babbel team for their tremendous efforts and success," said Thomas Holl, co-founder of Babbel. "This award is testament to our commitment to providing innovative and effective language learning experiences to millions of learners worldwide. We are grateful to the EdTechX Awards for recognizing our efforts, and are motivated to continue growing as a company while our users grow as learners. What matters to us is to create mutual understanding through language."
The EdTechX Awards have become a benchmark for excellence in the education technology sector, attracting over 1,000 leading companies as applicants in the past decade, collectively raising over $13bn. Notably, previous award winners have achieved significant milestones, including raising capital or completing transactions within two years of winning. The EdTechX Awards Gala Dinner was an unforgettable event, filled with anticipation and celebration. It served as a platform to honor outstanding achievements and acknowledge the significant impact that this year's winners have made on the industry. Babbel stands among the esteemed winners, representing excellence in language learning solutions.
About Babbel
Driven by the purpose of creating mutual understanding through language, Babbel has been building digital language learning products for consumers and businesses since 2007. The Babbel app helps people connect and communicate across cultures, whether for travel, friendship, or career advancement. Based on a deep knowledge of how we learn languages, Babbel aims to make learners conversational as fast as possible. And it works: Studies from institutions like Michigan State University, Yale University and the City University of New York demonstrate the efficacy of Babbel's language learning methods. Millions of language learners agree.
Babbel's secret sauce is the blend of true expertise, understanding of how humans learn, and the latest technology. Starting with one of 60,000 lessons across 15 languages hand-crafted by experts, the learner experience constantly adapts through behavior analysis to provide high quality interactive content that makes understanding a new language easy, from Spanish to Indonesian.
Because Babbel is for everyone, its team reflects this diversity. Across headquarters in Berlin and New York, a team from more than 80 nationalities represent the backgrounds and perspectives that make humans unique. With over 25 million subscriptions sold and an industry-leading retention rate, Babbel creates genuine connections with learners worldwide. For more information, visit www.babbel.com or download the apps in the App Store or Play Store.
