Kano Raises $28M in Series B Funding
Summary
Kano, a London, UK-based DIY computer company, raised $28M in Series B funding.The round was led by the Thames Trust and Breyer Capital, with participation from Index Ventures, the Stanford Engineering Venture Fund, LocalGlobe, Marc Benioff, John Makinson, Collaborative Fund, Triple Point Capital, and Barclays.Kits, which combine device building (computers, sensors, light boards) and creative coding with a free online community, let beginners build real devices, and offer a range of learn-to-code environments.It takes makers from block based to real text coding, including Python, JavaScript and Unix commands, and into collaborative coding on the Kano World community platform.The kits are deployed in more than 1,000 education programs worldwide and its community of beginner developers, in 86 countries, many as young as six, have shared over 150,000 apps in the last year alone.