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Lingua.ly is an EdTech startup that takes a digital language immersion approach to teaching languages. The company was founded by Jan Ihmels and Orly Furhman, two academics from Cambridge and Stanford respectively. Lingua.ly operates under the freemium business model and exists as a Cloud-based web app and mobile app available for Android and iOS. In February 2014 the company won the regional 1776 Challenge Cup's Innovation in Education Award for its patent pending algorithm and language learning platform. In May 2014 Lingua.ly was selected as the international finalist for the education category for the Challenge Cup and was one of the Elite 8 companies at the global finals. Currently, Lingua.ly is a contender at the upcoming Open Education Challenge, which is an EU-based EdTech accelerator working in partnership with the European Commission.
After its beta launch in August 2013, the company's extension for Google Chrome saw widespread early adoption in the US, Spain, and Latin America as a spaced repetition vocabulary acquisition tool. Several international publications have cited Lingua.ly as a leading platform for innovative language learning. In April 2014 Lingua.ly launched its mobile app for Android and was considered to be one of the best new education apps, achieving 100K downloads in its first month on the Google Play Store. Lingua.ly released a stand-alone web app in June 2014, which was met with largely positive reviews, including coverage in the New York Times. Most recently, Lingua.ly released an iOS mobile app in July 2014, which was quickly listed as one of the top iPhone apps of the week.