Holly Owley and Portos are revolutionizing the teaching of English in school

Designed by linguists and developed since 2015 St. Owly , Born in Besançon in the Doubs, is a digital application that allows 3-12 year olds to learn English in five minutes a day, appreciated by Portas. This academic concept is based on a linguistic bath based on three sentences and three words to remember for a session. It worked so well that in 2019 the school publisher came looking for two founders of Holly Owley, Julie Bougainville and Stephanie Bourgeois, to collaborate with them.

Research and development work was carried out on campus Station f , In Paris, half the crowd has gathered on the Holy Oval team. “Elementary school teachers have a ready-made solution available from the start of the 2021 school year, which has already been ordered by 200 classes,” Julie notes.

Boucon, General Manager. The start-up claims that this app first entered the school to learn English, which has designed two versions: one for tablets and the other for an overhead projector.

Raise 4 to 5 million

The solution is a variation of the Holy Owly Family 2020 edition, which is enriched with motivation to attend, different learning and play dimension: the child becomes a hero, travels, ‘the responsibility of a small animal. “Students do their self-learning on their own, and we bring the English speaker’s voice into the classroom, which reduces the teacher’s frequent pronunciation problem,” says Julie Bougan.

The young company provided its application free of charge to families during the first imprisonment and the health crisis accelerated sales. Holly Ovalie, which has not released its revenue, is now demanding 10,000 subscriber families to connect daily, and estimates that by 2021 its activity will increase by 20%. Also to expedite delivery in France and abroad. International application, versions are ready. Used to learn Spanish, French and Chinese, the 4 to 5 million fundraiser will begin in a few days.