Fluentify

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{{infobox company
|name = Fluentify
|logo = Fluentify_Logo.png
|type = [[Privately held company|Private]]
|location_city = [[London]], [[United Kingdom]]<ref name="Company Overview of Fluentify LTD">{{cite web|title=Company Overview of Fluentify LTD|url=https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/11511871|publisher=Companies House UK|accessdate=18 August 2018}}</ref>
|industry = [[Online education]]
|foundation = 2013<ref name="Company Overview of Fluentify LTD">{{cite web|title=Company Overview of Fluentify LTD|url=https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/11511871|publisher=Companies House UK|accessdate=18 August 2018}}</ref>
|founder = Giacomo Moiso, Claudio Bosco, Matteo Avalle
|homepage = [https://www.fluentify.com www.fluentify.com]
}}

'''Fluentify''' is an online language tutoring website. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in [[London]], [[United Kingdom]], the company is privately owned and operated by Fluentify LTD.<ref name="Company Overview of Fluentify LTD">{{cite web|title=Company Overview of Fluentify LTD|url=https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/11511871|publisher=Companies House UK|accessdate=18 August 2018}}</ref> The platform offers online language classes with selected native speakers.

== History ==
Fluentify was founded in February 2013 and launched into public beta in May 2013. The same month, the company was selected to join London-based Accelerator Academy for three months of training. In March 2014, Fluentify announced that it had raised $410k in angel funding from the banker Stefano Marsaglia.<ref>{{cite news|title=Language Learning Platform Fluentify Takes In $410K Angel Investment|url=https://techcrunch.com/2014/03/31/fluentify-angel/|publisher=TechCrunch|accessdate=31 July 2014|date=31 March 2014}}</ref> Marsaglia is a prominent M&A banker, currently the co-head of corporate and investment banking at [[Mediobanca]],<ref>{{cite news|title=Mediobanca Names Barclays' Marsaglia Investment Banking Co-Head|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-12-03/mediobanca-names-barclays-marsaglia-investment-banking-co-head.html|publisher=Bloomberg}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Mediobanca hires veteran adviser to expand European operations|url=http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/f3aff70c-5b72-11e3-a2ba-00144feabdc0.html|publisher=Financial Times}}</ref> [[Italy]]’s biggest publicly traded [[investment bank]].<ref>{{cite news|title=A little less tangled, Italian finance is at last being reshaped|url=https://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21580156-italian-finance-last-being-reshaped-little-less-tangled|publisher=The Economist}}</ref>

Fluentify and the founders have received the attention of the media in Italy. In April 2014, the two founders of the company were invited to be a guest on the TV show Che Tempo Che FA, one of the most famous programs in Italy organized by Fabio Fazio.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2014-06-28 |title=Il made in Italy a Londra: con Fluentify l'inglese lo impari online da artisti e professionals della City |url=https://www.huffingtonpost.it/silvia-lombardo/fluentify-londra_b_5224959.html |access-date=2022-09-07 |website=HuffPost Italia |language=it}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Iovane |first=Giorgia |date=2014-04-27 |title=Che Tempo che fa, 27 aprile 2014, tutte le interviste |url=https://www.tvblog.it/post/571263/che-tempo-che-fa-puntata-27-aprile-2014-diretta-ospiti |access-date=2022-09-07 |website=TvBlog |language=it}}</ref>

In May 2014, Wired Monthly Technology Magazine chose Fluentify as one of the top 6 tools to learn online foreign languages.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2014-05-22 |title=Sei modi per imparare le lingue online |url=https://www.wired.it/internet/web/2014/05/22/sei-modi-per-imparare-le-lingue-online/ |access-date=2022-09-07 |website=Wired Italia |language=it-IT}}</ref>

==Business model==
Fluentify scales by increasing the number of students and tutors and matching them with each other.<ref>{{cite news|last=Choudary|first=Sangeet|title=A Platform Thinking Approach to Innovation|url=https://www.wired.com/2014/01/platform-thinking-approach-innovation/|publisher=WIRED|date=1 August 2014}}</ref> The company claims that top tutors can earn up to £2,500 per month.<ref>{{cite web|title=Company blog - How to become a tutor|url=http://www.fluentify.com/blog/?p=97|publisher=Company blog|accessdate=1 August 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151006030712/http://www.fluentify.com/blog/?p=97|archive-date=6 October 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>[https://www.teacheron.com/online-tutors Online Tutors - TeacherOn]</ref>

== References ==
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== External links ==
* [https://www.fluentify.com Fluentify Official Site]
* [https://www.fluentify.com/blog Company blog]


[[Category:Language education in the United Kingdom]]
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[[Category:Online companies of the United Kingdom]]
[[Category:Education companies of the United Kingdom]]
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[[Category:British educational websites]]

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