Perlego
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Latest round
Venture round
Feb 2026 · 8 mo ago
Hiring now
3
+2 posted in 30 days
Backers
3
Founders Factory, Evli Growth Partners
The money's age
Fresh money
8 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
57/100
hiring for its size, a new city, fresh money
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Feb 10
Raised a round Venture round
Apr 15, 2025
Raised a round Venture round
Oct 10, 2024
Raised a round Venture round
Jun 27, 2024
Raised a round Venture round
Jul 27, 2023
Raised a round Venture round
Apr 21, 2022
Raised a round Venture round
Sep 10, 2021
Raised a round Venture round
Apr 15, 2021
Raised a round Venture round
Mar 9, 2020
Raised a round Venture round
Dec 12, 2019
Released an app Perlego: Books & Textbooks · App Store
Sep 27, 2018
Raised a round Venture round
Nov 20, 2017
Raised a round Venture round
Apr 29, 2016
Founded per the company register
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 0.02%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
App Store
4.5 ★
1.1k ratings
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venture round | Feb 2026 | — | — | find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk |
| Venture round | Apr 2025 | — | — | find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk |
| Venture round | Oct 2024 | — | — | find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk |
| Venture round | Jun 2024 | — | — | find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk |
| Venture round | Jul 2023 | — | — | find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk |
| Venture round | Apr 2022 | — | — | find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk |
| Venture round | Sep 2021 | — | — | find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk |
| Venture round | Apr 2021 | — | — | find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk |
| Venture round | Mar 2020 | — | — | find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk |
| Venture round | Sep 2018 | — | — | find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk |
| Venture round | Nov 2017 | — | — | find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk |
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
| Legal entity | PERLEGO LIMITED | Companies House |
| Registered | 29 Apr 2016 |
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
Founders Factory 
Evli Growth Partners 
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Overview
Perlego is a London company founded in 2016 that runs a subscription library of academic and professional books. Students pay a monthly fee for unlimited access to hundreds of thousands of titles from major publishers. The company positions itself as an alternative to buying expensive individual textbooks.
News
Perlego's AI researcher: revolutionising student research
Perlego improves the research experience with its 1m+ online catalogue
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Wiley and Perlego agree to extend their partnership to allow students access to affordable e-books - Good e-Reader
Wiley and Perlego have announced the extension of their partnership, allowing students worldwide to access a vast array of digital books for higher education. The renewed partnership, which will continue until February 2027, builds upon their collaboratio
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Access almost a million academic and non-fiction books with Perlego
Students struggle enough to pay for tuition. With the added burden of books and supplies, many need to work or forgo other necessities to make ends meet. What if there was a cheaper, viable option?
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Turn your iPhone into a research library with Perlego
Not everyone has access to the same learning resources. For example, an Ivy League student can tap into vastly different assets than someone paying their
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Perlego raises $50M to build out its vision of being the 'Spotify for textbooks'
Spotify helped pave the way for a new model for consumers to listen to music: pay a monthly fee to stream whatever you want, with no need to own any
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Digital Textbook Company Perlego Raises $4.8 Million In Funding
Perlego has raised $4.8 million in a round of funding led by ADV.
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Perlego raises $4.8M for its 'Spotify for textbooks'
Perlego, which has been dubbed the 'Spotify for textbooks,' has closed $4.8 million in finding. Leading the round is ADV, with participation from existing
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Perlego over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
26
Postings analysed
3
Stack modernity
77/100
Languages
JavaScript
Node JS
TypeScript
Frameworks & libraries
Jest
Playwright
React Native
React.js
Databases
Amazon Aurora
DynamoDB
MySQL
Cloud & platforms
AWS
GitHub Actions
AWS Lambda
Amazon CloudWatch
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Full Perlego tech stack
26 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Growth
Hiring Momentum
82/100
Scaling fast
Open positions
3
1 opened / 1 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
37 days
faster than 34% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
+100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Product
50% ▲
Backend
25% ▲
Design
25% ▼
Activity Timeline
New location: London
Oct 2026
Added React.js to stack
Oct 2026
Added TypeScript to stack
Oct 2026
Added React Native to stack
Oct 2026
Added Playwright to stack
Oct 2026
Added OWASP to stack
Oct 2026
Added Node JS to stack
Oct 2026
Added Jest to stack
Oct 2026
Added JavaScript to stack
Oct 2026
New location: United Kingdom
Oct 2026
Added Linux to stack
Sep 2026
Added Notion to stack
Sep 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
London
London
United Kingdom
HQ
2 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 50% engineering $86k Avg Salary
hires for Backend, Product
Jobs
≈ $93k – $175k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Full-Time • 4+ years exp • London
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$80k – $87k per year • Hybrid • Full-Time • London
JavaScript
TypeScript
Node JS
React.js
Mobile
React Native
DevOps
GitHub Actions
CI/CD
AWS
GitHub
Cybersecurity
OWASP
Management
Agile
QA
Playwright
Jest
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$80k – $87k per year • Remote (United Kingdom) • Full-Time
MySQL
DynamoDB
Amazon Aurora
DevOps
Terraform
GitHub Actions
CloudFormation
Prometheus
CI/CD
AWS
Docker
Cloudflare
Grafana
AWS Lambda
Incident Management
Amazon ECS
Amazon CloudWatch
Linux
Apply
Financials
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
11
Funding rounds
| Round | Announced | Amount | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2026 | — | Details |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2025 | — | Details |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2024 | — | Details |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2024 | — | Details |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2023 | — | Details |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2022 | — | Details |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2021 | — | Details |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2021 | — | Details |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2020 | — | Details |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2018 | — | Details |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2017 | — | Details |