Fiction Express

fictionexpress.com ↗ ·Barcelona ·Seed

Fiction Express is a Barcelona-based edtech platform that improves children's literacy through co-creative, interactive reading: students read serialized stories and vote weekly on plot developments alongside professional authors, with teacher dashboards and comprehension tools. Evolved from Boolino (founded 2011) into the Fiction Express brand in 2017; now used in roughly 9,000 schools across 60+ countries and available in English, Spanish, and Catalan. Winner of the Bett Global Award for Best International Digital Educational Resource.

Founded

2011

Founders

Total funds raised

€1.9M

SectorsEdtech, Literacy, EdTech Publishing Start-up MapEdtech › K-12 curriculum and apps

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Founders

Cristina Puig

Co-founder & CMO

Sven Huber

Co-founder & CEO

Toni Montserrat

Co-founder

Global models 4

Newsela

United States · newsela.com ↗

Sells schools subscriptions to reading content levelled for each student, with comprehension quizzes and teacher dashboards, the same school literacy SaaS model as Fiction Express.

$160MComparable

Epic

United States · www.getepic.com ↗

A digital reading platform for children, free for teachers in classrooms and paid for by families at home, competing with Fiction Express for children's reading time and literacy budgets.

$40MComparable

Amira Learning

United States · amiralearning.com ↗

Sells schools a reading-development platform with teacher dashboards and student progress tracking, matching Fiction Express's B2B literacy subscription.

$40MComparable

Ello

United States · www.ello.com ↗

A children's reading app that builds literacy through guided story reading, sold by subscription, a close fit to Fiction Express's interactive-reading approach.

$20MComparable