Overview
Salaries
Products
People
Growth
Offices
Financials

Funding and backers

Total raised
$5.4M
13 rounds on record
Latest round
$1.2M
Venture round · Dec 2024 · 21 mo ago
Team
11-50
employees, estimated range
Grants
$250k
1 grant · CORDIS
Backers
1
Expert Dojo
The money's age
Due for its next round
21 months since the last round · not hiring
Momentum
0/100
no fresh signals
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Sep 12, 2025 Won a grant $250k · CORDIS Dec 17, 2024 Raised a round Venture round $1.2M · SEC Form D Dec 4, 2023 Raised a round Venture round $658k · SEC Form D Dec 4, 2023 Raised a round Venture round $658k · SEC Form D Dec 4, 2023 Raised a round Venture round $658k · SEC Form D Nov 1, 2021 Raised a round Venture round $191k · SEC Form D Nov 1, 2021 Raised a round Venture round $191k · SEC Form D Nov 1, 2021 Raised a round Venture round $191k · SEC Form D Oct 13, 2020 Raised a round Venture round $300k · SEC Form D Oct 13, 2020 Raised a round Venture round $300k · SEC Form D Oct 13, 2020 Raised a round Venture round $300k · SEC Form D Dec 23, 2019 Raised a round Venture round $400k · SEC Form D Jun 20, 2019 Raised a round Venture round $280k · SEC Form D 2019 Founded Jul 30, 2014 Released an app Shoonya Kids: Learn Languages · App Store
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 0.78%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
App Store
4.2 ★
97 ratings
Funding rounds
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Grant Sep 2025 $250k — CORDIS
Venture round Dec 2024 $1.2M — SEC Form D
Venture round Dec 2023 $658k — SEC Form D
Venture round Dec 2023 $658k — SEC Form D
Venture round Dec 2023 $658k — SEC Form D
Venture round Nov 2021 $191k — SEC Form D
Venture round Nov 2021 $191k — SEC Form D
Venture round Nov 2021 $191k — SEC Form D
Venture round Oct 2020 $300k — SEC Form D
Venture round Oct 2020 $300k — SEC Form D
Venture round Oct 2020 $300k — SEC Form D
Venture round Dec 2019 $400k — SEC Form D
Venture round Jun 2019 $280k — SEC Form D
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
Legal entity Shoonya Digital, Inc. SEC Form D
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Rashi BahriExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Ashutosh ChitnisExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
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Overview

Language learning for kids is easy with Shoonya. Designed to be the best language software for kids, we have many languages to choose from.

People

Rashi Bahri
Executive Officer, Director
Ashutosh Chitnis
Executive Officer, Director
Tom Washing
Director
Lane Rankin
Director
Linda Fingerle
Director
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Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
0
Countries
1
Goleta United States
HQ
10-50 est. staff

Financials

Total raised
$5.6M
Latest round
Grant
Funding rounds
13
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Grant 2025 $250k Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2024 $1.2M Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2023 $658k Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2023 $658k Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2023 $658k Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2021 $191k Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2021 $191k Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2021 $191k Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2020 $300k Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2020 $300k Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2020 $300k Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2019 $400k Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2019 $280k Details