$4.5m · Seed · Edtech, Software · New York, US
New York-headquartered imagi has raised a $4.5m Seed round to expand its AI-literacy platform for K-12 schools. The company said Brighteye Ventures and Day One Capital co-led the financing, with FemInvest and We Are Human participating alongside operators and founders including will.i.am, Thomas Dohmke, Mati Staniszewski and Fredrik Hjelm. The capital will fund US district sales, hiring, new product features, teacher training, compliance and research.
imagi gives students supervised access to generative-AI tools inside lessons managed by teachers. Its first major integration is with Lovable: students can build apps and projects while teachers see their prompts, and content is moderated before it reaches them. TechCrunch reported that both prompts and responses are screened and that the product is designed around COPPA, FERPA and GDPR requirements; imagi says student and teacher data is not used to train AI models.
The company reports that it operates across more than 100 school districts in every US state, including the Hawaii Department of Education, and has reached more than 700,000 students in 140 countries across its products. It also says user growth rose 30-fold year on year and annual recurring revenue tripled. Brighteye adds a more recent product signal: roughly 15,000 teachers and more than 100,000 students signed up in the first four months after the Lovable-powered platform launched, with a state-level Hawaii pilot and a launch at LA Unified.
Trust is the distribution layer
The financing is backing more than another classroom interface for a frontier model. Schools buy through districts that must evaluate safety, privacy, teacher control and curriculum fit. By screening activity, keeping teachers in the loop and presenting multiple AI tools through one vendor, imagi is trying to absorb that integration and compliance work before it reaches each school. For model providers, the same layer offers a route into classrooms without building an education-specific sales and governance operation.
That model also makes adoption evidence more demanding. Free access and platform partnerships can produce broad student reach, but contracted district expansion depends on teacher training, procurement cycles and proof that students are actively learning rather than outsourcing work to software. imagi’s move from coding products into AI literacy gives it seven years of school-selling experience, while the new capital gives the team room to test whether early pilots become repeatable district contracts.
Founded in Stockholm in 2018 by Dora Palfi and Beatrice Ionascu after a KTH research project, imagi shifted its focus toward US K-12 education in 2024 and now says it is headquartered in New York. Its announced next steps include integrating additional AI tools and launching a new platform, making product breadth and district retention the clearest milestones to watch.
