🏆 Announcing the 2025 Nordic Baltic EdTech 50. Workforce Rises, Sweden’s Grip Loosens.
Nordic-Baltic EdTech 50 reveals workforce surge. This week’s partnerships show universities teaming up with tech firms to fast-track AI adoption. Workday acquires Sana Labs, an AI workplace learning platform, for $1.1B
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The 2025 Nordic-Baltic EdTech 50 shows K-12 giving ground to fast-growing Workforce and Post-Secondary startups. Norway’s Pistachio (cybersecurity training) and Keenious (AI research search), Finland’s Annie Advisor (student guidance chatbots), and Estonia’s Lingolette (workforce language training) highlight the region’s expanding diversity. Sweden’s Sana (AI enterprise learning)—which raised $55M early this year and has just announced that they are being acquired by Workday for $1.1B—underscores the scale of opportunity in enterprise, workforce learning. With B2B models back in favor and regional leadership spreading beyond Sweden, the Nordic-Baltic ecosystem is maturing into a more distributed and dynamic market.
Nordic-Baltic EdTech 50. Regional diversity expands in 2025 cohort
⭐ AI & Digital Innovation Spotlight
📚 The International Center for Artificial Intelligence Research and Ethics and Google partnered to provide Saudi university students with one-year access to Google AI Pro to enhance student AI skills & innovation.
👩🏫 The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) and OpenAI have partnered to improve AI learning in India, providing 150K free ChatGPTGo licenses for 6 months to students and faculty in government institutions.
🤖 Oman's Ministry of Education and Microsoft are collaborating to integrate AI into public schools by deploying 4,000 Microsoft 365 Copilot licenses to improve lesson planning, grading, and learning experiences.
🤝 Policy & Partnerships
🤖 Google is expanding its Gemini for Education suite to over 1,000 US colleges, reaching more than 10M students as a part of a multi-year, multi-billion-dollar commitment to AI training, offering tools for classroom support, personalized learning, and research.
🤝 Pennsylvania's State System of Higher Education and Google have expanded their partnership to provide AI education to students, aiming to equip students with foundational skills and prepare them for careers in an AI-driven job market.
💡 Apprenti has announced a new apprenticeship program for an AI Associate in collaboration with North Carolina State University's AI Academy, and it is designed to train workers in AI skills without them having to leave their jobs.
💪 Power Moves & Funding
🤝 Pearson has entered into a partnership with Salesforce to become the sole provider of certification exams for Salesforce's certification program.
🧑💼 Workday, a US-based HR software provider, acquired Sana Labs, an AI workplace learning platform, for $1.1B to expand enterprise learning and knowledge tools.
📱 Lingokids, a Spain-based children’s learning platform, has raised $120M to expand content for kids and develop AI capabilities to accelerate content development.
🖥️ Mynd.ai, an EdTech leader, has acquired Merlyn Mind's AI voice control technology to expand Mynd.ai's reach to 126 countries with 4,000+ global resellers.
📢 University of Greenwich announced a merger with the University of Kent to create the London and South East University Group.
