Edutainment Startup Raises $5.7M as Pandemic Keeps Students Home
With children stuck in Zoom classes and parents becoming de facto teacher-assistants, education has taken center stage at home and made edtech companies like Encantos attractive to some investors. he...
View ArticleEncantos Raises $5.7M to Accelerate Digital and Physical Subscription...
Led by Precursor Ventures, new investors include Angeles Ventures, Concrete Rose Capital, Metrodora Ventures, Next Play Ventures, Portfolia’s Rising America Fund, and Revolution’s Rise of the Rest...
View ArticleWho’s up for a Kidscreen Award?
Netflix is the top nominee for the first time, followed by Sesame Workshop and PBS KIDS. Check out who else made the list. With 14 shortlisted entries, Netflix is the top nominee for the 2021...
View ArticleEncantos and Macmillan Publishers Enter Into Strategic Publishing Relationship
Macmillan will distribute Encantos’ existing publishing catalog, as well as jointly develop new titles Encantos, an edtech company focused on inspiring kids to learn 21st century skills through its...
View ArticleThe media startups investors are betting on in 2020
19 media startups that top VCs say are poised to take off in 2020, as the pandemic reshapes the industry The shuttering of movie theaters, production studios, live sports, theme parks, and film and...
View ArticleBusiness Insider’s 100 Top Startups Of 2020, cccording To VCs
Encantos: a kids-focused media company What it does: Encantos is a 4-year-old education and entertainment company for kids. Total funding raised: $2 million, according to PitchBook Recommended by:...
View ArticleEncantos Named to Fast Company’s Annual List of the World’s Most Innovative...
Award-winning entertainment-driven edtech company inspiring kids to learn 21st century skills through its unique Storyteaching methodology is among the innovators in the Education category The list...
View ArticleEncantos Featured in Official Gift Bags for the GRAMMY Awards®
Encantos Joins Exclusive List of Companies Featured in Official Gift Bags for the GRAMMY Awards® Presenters and Performers Treated to Innovative, Award-Winning Gifts from the Music-First, Bilingual...
View ArticleEncantos names chief product officer
Scott Traylor will now oversee product development for the edutainment company behind the Canticos franchise. By Elizabeth Foster LA-based edutainment company Encantos has brought in Scott Traylor as...
View ArticleAdweek’s Sustainability Stars: 17 Brand Leaders on a Mission to Help Our Planet
Julie Fleischer, Quality Education Chief growth officer, Encantos By TL Stanley The educational roots run deep in Julie Fleischer’s family. Her mother is a retired teacher, and she and her Argentinian...
View ArticleHow this Educational Technology Company is Showing up as an Ally for Parents...
Like many parents, one of my biggest concerns a year into this pandemic has been: Are my children learning anything? By Mita Mallick Like many parents, one of my biggest concerns a year into this...
View ArticleHow Encantos is Inspiring Kids to Learn 21st Century Skills Through Culture
Chief Growth Officer Julie Fleischer shares how the award-winning edtech company is providing kids with the quality education they need to thrive By Luz Corona As part of the Adweek Sustainability...
View ArticleSusie Jaramillo Wins the Mills Tannenbaum Award for Children’s Literacy
We are thrilled to announce the winner of Reach Out and Read of Greater New York’s Mills Tannenbaum Award for Children’s Literacy — Susie Jaramillo, the president and chief creative officer of...
View ArticleEncantos’ Learning App Will Be Powered by a Network of Creative Educator-Authors
Companies that directly connect creators to users are decidedly in vogue, even in the colorful cuddly world of kids’ content. Encantos, the L.A.-based children’s book publisher-turned-edtech startup,...
View ArticleEncantos Appoints Anna María Chávez as Chief Impact Officer
Former CEO of the National School Boards Association and the Girl Scouts of the USA will also serve as President of the company’s new non-profit initiative Encantos.org which focuses on accelerating...
View ArticleEncantos Snags Former Girl Scouts of America CEO
Culver City-based Encantos, a children’s book-publisher turned digital education startup, has brought on a former Girl Scouts of America CEO as its chief impact officer. Anna Maria Chávez was the...
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Did education lose a decade or gain a new path forward?
by Kate MacArthur When Steven Wolfe Pereira talks about his ed tech company, Encantos, it’s easy for his enthusiasm rub off on you. His genuine zest for reimagining literacy, learning and life skills...
View ArticleEncantos CEO on CNBC The Exchange
What can be done to improve remote learning? @wolfepereira, Co-founder and CEO of @EncantosWorld, explains why children “learn best through playing,” and how the Encantos digital service is best...
View ArticleASU, Encantos partner to reimagine elementary education for kids
Global education leader ASU and edtech leader Encantos to codesign first-of-its-kind elementary content. With a shared vision to inspire kids to learn 21st-century skills, Arizona State University and...
View ArticleEncantos in Parents Latina Magazine
Tell a Good Story by MICHELLE CROUCH At the next family gathering, make sure your kiddo pulls up a chair as Abuela regales the table with tales from the archives. Oral storytelling (verbally passing...
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