imagi AI Literacy & Coding Platform for K-12

imagi Education, Inc. was founded in 2018 by Dora Palfi and Beatrice Ionascu after a research project at KTH University in Stockholm, and is headquartered in New York (169 Madison Ave). It builds an AI literacy and coding platform for K-12 schools that it describes as the safe education layer between AI tools and schools.

Students get supervised access to real-world AI tools inside ready-to-teach lessons, including a Lovable partnership where students build their own apps and projects. Teachers receive curriculum, safety guardrails and training, and schools log in through school accounts. The company reports more than 700,000 learners in 140 countries and more than 100 US school districts, including the Hawaii Department of Education.

• Supervised AI tool access: students use real AI tools under classroom safety controls.
• Ready-to-teach lessons: curriculum-aligned AI literacy and computer science lessons.
• Lovable integration: students build apps and projects with an AI app builder.
• Safety guardrails: classroom-level controls for AI use.
• Teacher training: professional development and an ambassador program.
• Hour of AI resources: activities for school events and clubs.

Vietnamese international and private schools can run AI literacy electives with supervised AI tools. Informatics teachers can use ready lessons for Hour of AI events. Education groups can pilot app-building projects in coding clubs.

Supervised access to AI tools lets schools teach AI use under safety guardrails instead of blocking it. Ready-to-teach, curriculum-aligned lessons reduce teacher preparation. Teacher training and school logins support rollout across a district. The company reports 30x year-on-year user growth.

Schools are moving from restricting generative AI to teaching it, and AI literacy is entering K-12 curricula. In the company's cited CollegeBoard data, 84% of high school students use LLMs for schoolwork while 45% of administrators say GenAI access is restricted in classrooms. Vietnamese and Southeast Asian schools face the same question as AI tools spread among students.

imagi Education, Inc., New York, with a team across the US, UK, Sweden and Finland. Seed round of USD 4.5 million announced 2026-07-23, bringing total raised to USD 5.5 million; led by Brighteye Ventures and DayOne Capital.