Lexsee
Democratising the help to overcome dyslexia.
Active Next round Seed Denmark EdtechSoftwareDigital healthThe challenges and fear around reading, for dyslexic people, can be crippling. Dyslexia can be successfully overcome, but many can’t afford expensive private tutors, and struggle to get help in resource-strapped US school systems.
Lexsee are out to democratise reading for dyslexic people, by creating an app that can make any web content more accessible for the dyslexic learner, delivering a learn-by-doing experience for homework, classwork or anything involving written material. AI-powered features include example-driven micro-learning moments, speech to text, text to speech, social learning, realtime pronunciation analysis and feedback, as well as comprehension boosters like contextual definitions and summaries.
All this provides a richer, multi-input reading environment, where dyslexics can keep up with classwork, build self-esteem, and open up opportunities for the future.
Last updated July 23, 2024
Founding team
Keith Saft, CEO
Keith is a serial entrepreneur and has co-founded several startups, as well as holding c-level positions in several companies.
Benjamin Keyser, CPO
Benjamin has enormous experience within product management, and has held director or c-level product roles in Telfonica, Zendesk, Contentful and Latana, amongst others.
Jonas Reitel Høyer, Head of Technology
Jonas is a software engineer, and has worked for both BeeKeeper and Lua, before joining Stealth Startup as a Tech Lead in 2022.
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New investment Lexsee are cracking the dyslexia code
23/05/2024 @ Accelerace
Established: 2023
Investment: 2024
Money raised: €227.500
Soft funding: €102.000
Our investment thesis
There is no comprehensive reading fluency companion that adapts and amplifies dyslexic adolescents’ efforts to build skills, do homework, classwork, or prepare for public speaking in a way that matches this target group’s expectations and needs: autonomous and unsupervised engagement with tools. In the US, tutoring is the primary current solution, but only around 2% receive effective tutoring with notable results (National Institute of Health; Yale University 2020) and the costs are very high (e.g. average personal spend of USD 6,200/year). Parents of kids with dyslexia are desperate to help as indicated by the high willingness to spend out of pocket. Lexsee is a new category of ‘autonomous educational companion’ that helps dyslexic students through their daily workloads.
