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Knowunity GmbH is an educational platform used by more than 30 million students. In Europe, the company built one of the biggest creator programs in the world, amassing over 1 billion views across more than 25 countries. Now expanding into the United States, Knowunity has launched a $50M-backed company there.

Parrot is a YC-backed (W25) education technology company in San Francisco building the "Tik-Tok for language learning" with real native short-form videos, interactive subtitles, and AI-generated activities that teach the way people learned their first language. The startup follows an immersion-first approach grounded in second-language acquisition research and comprehensible input, aiming to make native content and short-form video the global standard for online language learning. Parrot is also building a leading AI learning engine that adapts dynamically to each learner’s needs by blending human teaching insights with AI-powered personalization. Launched in February 2025, Parrot already has thousands of active users with strong engagement and rapid growth, plans to expand beyond Spanish to multiple languages, and is hiring its first Founding Engineer to help scale to millions of learners and creators.

9 Mothers Defense develops fast and cost-effective counter-small UAS (C-sUAS). The company uses AI for detection, tracking and defensive systems to protect against aerial threats, building AI-powered machines designed to intercept and neutralize Group 1/sUAS threats in real time. Operating in the defense industry with a focus on immediate threat countermeasures, it pursues mission-critical work countering immediate real-world aerial threats. Meaningful early equity for foundational owners and direct roadmap influence give employees a seat at the table shaping product and technology trajectory from day one, with zero red tape allowing them to make technical decisions autonomously. An on-site team in Austin, Texas builds robots, sensors and models to control them from scratch, using Python and Rust on embedded hardware, and their work spans vision, acoustics, radar and control systems across hardware and software.