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Type of site | Privately held company |
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| Available in | Arabic, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese |
| Founded | 2010 |
| Area served | Worldwide |
| Founder(s) | Greg Detre Ed Cooke Ben Whately [1] |
| CEO | Steve Toy |
| URL | memrise.com (community courses) |
| Registration | Yes |
| Launched | September 2010 |
| Current status | Active |
Memrise is a British language platform that uses spaced repetition of flashcards to increase the rate of learning.[2] It is based in London, UK.
Memrise offers user-generated content on a wide range of other subjects. The Memrise app has courses in 16 languages and its combinations, while the website for "community courses" has a great many more languages available, including minority and ancient languages.[3] As of 2018, the app had 35 million registered users.[4] Memrise has been profitable since late 2016, having a turnover of $4 million monthly.[5]
- ^ "Ben Whately - founder's story".
- ^ Shellenbarger, Sue. "Flashcards Get Smarter So You Can, Too". WSJ. Retrieved 24 June 2019.
- ^ "Learn Languages, Grammar & Vocabulary with Memrise - Apps on Google Play". 2018-12-27. Archived from the original on 2018-12-27. Retrieved 2019-02-24.
- ^ "Memrise raises $15.5M as its AI-based language-learning app passes 35M users". 11 June 2018.
- ^ "The Entrepreneur: Ed Cooke, Memrise". Startups.co.uk. 15 December 2016. Retrieved 2020-01-12.