TinyApp
Digital toolset that enables successful planning and activity evaluation of early childhood education and continuous collaboration with families.
| Date | Investors | Amount | Round |
|---|---|---|---|
| - | investor investor | €0.0 | round |
| investor | €0.0 | round | |
€160k | Seed | ||
| Total Funding | 000k | ||
| EUR | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenues | 0000 | 0000 | 0000 | 0000 | 0000 | 0000 | 0000 |
| % growth | (55 %) | 109 % | 15 % | 2 % | (9 %) | 25 % | 27 % |
| EBITDA | 0000 | 0000 | 0000 | 0000 | 0000 | 0000 | 0000 |
| % EBITDA margin | - | - | - | (568 %) | (751 %) | - | - |
| Profit | 0000 | 0000 | 0000 | 0000 | 0000 | 0000 | 0000 |
| % profit margin | (478 %) | (252 %) | (573 %) | (763 %) | (1155 %) | (661 %) | (1064 %) |
| EV | 0000 | 0000 | 0000 | 0000 | 0000 | 0000 | 0000 |
| EV / revenue | 00.0x | 00.0x | 00.0x | 00.0x | 00.0x | 00.0x | 00.0x |
| EV / EBITDA | 00.0x | 00.0x | 00.0x | 00.0x | 00.0x | 00.0x | 00.0x |
| R&D budget | 0000 | 0000 | 0000 | 0000 | 0000 | 0000 | 0000 |
| R&D % of revenue | 87 % | 104 % | 109 % | - | - | - | - |
Source: Company filings or news article
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Helsinki-based TinyApp, operated by HelsinkiNYC International Oy, provides a digital platform for the early childhood education (ECE) sector, rooted in Finland's renowned pedagogical principles. The company was founded in 2014, with Taina Mikkola identified as the founder and current CEO. Mikkola established the company after witnessing firsthand the challenges ECE professionals face, aiming to create a tool that supports a child-initiated, play-based learning philosophy.
TinyApp's core offering is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) application available on iOS and Android. It targets ECE professionals, including teachers and daycare managers, as well as the parents of the children in their care. The platform is engineered to streamline daily pedagogical work by digitizing four key areas: group planning, creating individual learning plans, pedagogical documentation, and enhancing cooperation with parents. For educators, features include tools for planning activities, documenting a child's progress against curriculum objectives, and identifying individual strengths and interests. For daycare managers, the platform provides data-driven reports and analytics to monitor pedagogical operations. A key function is improving the home-school connection by sharing meaningful insights, messages, photos, and videos with parents, aiming to build trust and involve them in their child's development. The business model is subscription-based, with tiered pricing plans based on the number of students, such as the "TinyApp 20" for 1-19 students and the "TinyApp 100" for 50-99 students.
The company positions its product as a professional development tool that helps educators improve their pedagogical skills on the job. While founded in Finland, TinyApp has global ambitions and has adapted its platform into eight languages to serve different educational environments. It reports serving over 12,000 users across more than 100 kindergartens. Since its inception, TinyApp has participated in the xEdu accelerator and secured approximately $187K in funding over several rounds, including seed and angel investments.
Keywords: early childhood education, edtech, pedagogical tool, parent communication, daycare management software, lesson planning, child development, learning analytics, SaaS, curriculum management, digital documentation, preschool software, kindergarten, Finnish education, Taina Mikkola, child-initiated learning, family engagement, ECE, educational software, professional development for teachers