{"id":12655,"date":"2024-06-08T09:27:26","date_gmt":"2024-06-08T01:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/?p=12655"},"modified":"2024-06-08T09:33:13","modified_gmt":"2024-06-08T01:33:13","slug":"3550%e4%b8%87%e7%be%8e%e5%85%83a%e8%bd%ae%e8%9e%8d%e8%b5%84%ef%bc%8cpraktika%e6%90%ba%e6%89%8bai%e8%99%9a%e6%8b%9f%e5%af%bc%e5%b8%88%e6%89%93%e9%80%a0%e6%b2%89%e6%b5%b8%e5%bc%8f%e8%8b%b1%e8%af%ad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/12655.html","title":{"rendered":"Praktika raises $35.5 million in Series A funding to create an immersive English learning classroom with AI virtual tutors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/praktika\" title=\"[See articles with [Praktika] labels]\" target=\"_blank\" >Praktika<\/a> In the Series A round led by Blossom Capital<a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/%e8%9e%8d%e8%b5%84\" title=\"[View articles tagged with [financing]]\" target=\"_blank\" >Financing<\/a>The company has raised $35.5 million in a round of funding led by Creator Ventures and Blue Wire Capital, aiming to disrupt the traditional language learning market.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12656\" title=\"20240607113833184911\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/20240607113833184911.jpg\" alt=\"20240607113833184911\" width=\"1000\" height=\"493\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The founding team includes Adam Turaev (CEO), Anton Marin (CTO) and Ilya Chernyakov (CPO), who are pioneers in generative AI and co-founded Cleverbots, a conversational AI platform.<\/p>\n<p>The funding will be used to improve the app experience, increase avatar accuracy, add new languages, and build new development centers in Eastern Europe and the UAE to challenge existing leaders in language education.<\/p>\n<p>Adam Turaev, CEO and co-founder of Praktika, said:<strong>Praktika replicates the responsive interaction and psychological support of a human mentor using real voices and avatars.<\/strong>It\u2019s a fun and affordable way to learn a language and clients love it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe founding team at Praktika has created a fun and affordable way to learn languages using a personalized AI tutor,\u201d said Ophelia Brown, managing partner at Blossom Capital.<\/p>\n<p>Sasha Kaletsky, managing partner at Creator Ventures, added: \u201cThe Praktika team has successfully infused this human-like element into their product through AI. More than a million learners around the world have used Praktika to improve their<a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/%e8%8b%b1%e8%af%ad\" title=\"[See articles with [English] labels]\" target=\"_blank\" >English<\/a>level, and this is just the beginning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Project address:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/12657.html\/\">https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/12657.html<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Praktika has raised $35.5 million in a Series A round led by Blossom Capital, aiming to disrupt the traditional language learning market. Previously, the company also received a $2.5 million seed round led by Creator Ventures and Blue Wire Capital. The founding team includes Adam Turaev (CEO), Anton Marin (CTO), and Ilya Chernyakov (CPO), pioneers of generative AI who co-founded Cleverbots, a conversational AI platform. The funding will be used to improve the app experience and increase virtual avatar accuracy<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[146],"tags":[2976,2977,421],"collection":[],"class_list":["post-12655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-praktika","tag-2977","tag-421"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12655"},{"taxonomy":"collection","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collection?post=12655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}