Scoolinary is a subscription-based online academy for the hospitality and gastronomy industry, offering 400+ video courses in cooking, pastry, bakery, mixology, coffee, wine and restaurant management taught by Michelin-starred chefs and world-class professionals. Founded in Mallorca in 2020 by the team behind Habitissimo, it is a seed-stage, B Corp-certified edtech with 400,000+ students, accreditation from Worldchefs and the American Culinary Federation, and teams in Spain, Argentina and Peru. It raised roughly €2M+ in seed funding from Spanish VCs plus an ENISA loan, and expanded into Latin America by acquiring Cocina Lab in 2021.
SectorsEdtech, Foodtech, Online Learning, Hospitality, Consumer Subscription
Start-up MapEdtech › Online learning platforms
Founders
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Jordi Ber
Co-founder & CEO
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Lorena Hidalgo
Co-founder & Director of Customer Success and Brand Experience
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Maria Parareda
Co-founder & Director of Content
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Martin Caleau
Co-founder & Director of Technology (CTO)
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Vicente Fortea
Co-founder & Partner (Content Production)
Global models 5
MMasterClass
United States · www.masterclass.com ↗
Sells a subscription to a video-course library taught by celebrity experts, including top chefs, which is the same subscription model as Scoolinary's Michelin-starred instructors.
~$460MComparable
SSkillshare
United States · www.skillshare.com ↗
Charges a subscription for unlimited access to a library of practical video classes taught by practitioners, the same all-access subscription model applied to creative skills.
~$136MComparable
DDomestika
United States · www.domestika.org ↗
Spanish-founded platform that sells expert-taught video courses in Spanish and other languages through course sales and a Plus subscription, with a strong Spain-to-LatAm expansion like Scoolinary's.
~$130MComparable
Crehana
Peru · www.crehana.com ↗
Latin American online academy selling subscription access to professional video courses to individuals and companies, the same model in Scoolinary's LatAm markets.
~$95MComparable
TTypsy
Australia · www.typsy.com ↗
Subscription video-training library built only for hospitality staff and businesses, the closest sector match to Scoolinary's hospitality and gastronomy academy.
undisclosed (small)Comparable
In the same niche 15 others
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Investors 4
Open as list →Funding rounds 1
| Date | Round | Amount | Lead |
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| 2021-09-10 | Seed (estimated) | approximately €1M |
Lead not disclosed
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