Forget the metaverse — Labster raises $47m to build the "eduverse"

Maija PALMER
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January 20, 2025

Source: Sifted

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Five years before the metaverse became trendy, Danish edtech company Labster was already building one.

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Founder Michael Bodekaer Jensen might not have used the term at the time, but this is essentially what the platform is — an educational “eduverse” where students can wander around a science campus to do virtual experiments or take VR-based medical training courses, and where teachers could build and share their own digital teaching materials.

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Labster boomed when the Covid-19 pandemic closed many schools. And the company feels it can [...]

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