Transforming Language Learning: Babbel Honored in 2025 GSV 150
Babbel, the world' s first online language learning platform, has been named amongst The GSV 150, the annual award compiled by GSV Ventures identifying the 150 companies making the biggest impact on education and lifelong learning globally. Babbel was recognized in the Adult Consumer Learning alongside industry leaders like Canva, Grammarly, and Top Hat.
This year’s honorees were selected from over 2,500 global venture capital- and private equity-backed companies, using a rigorous evaluation process. Collectively, the 2025 cohort represents over $25 billion in annual revenue and reaches more than 3 billion learners worldwide. Notably, the list also underscores the growing role of generative AI, which is embedded in nearly every company’s offerings this year.
“It is an honor to once again be recognized as one of the GSV 150 winners,” said Julie Hansen, U.S. CEO and CRO of Babbel. “This acknowledgment speaks to our continued mission of empowering learners everywhere through accessible, high-quality and personalized language education. Whether through our self-study courses, AI-powered conversation partner, extensive suite of magazine and podcast content, or our B2B offering, we enable our learners to open up a world of opportunities for personal growth, professional advancement, and cultural exchange.”
Babbel’s inclusion in the 2025 GSV 150 reflects its continued leadership in the language learning space. With over 16 million subscriptions sold and courses in 14 languages, Babbel remains committed to leading the language education industry and delivering effective and engaging learning pathways to students worldwide.
The GSV 150 winners will be celebrated at the 2025 ASU+GSV Summit, an annual gathering of leaders across the education, technology, and investment sectors, held in San Diego, CA.
About ASU+GSV Summit:
The ASU+GSV Summit, co-founded by Michael Moe and Deborah Quazzo, began in 2010 with a collaboration between Global Silicon Valley (GSV) and Arizona State University (ASU). Our north star is that ALL people have equal access to the future, and we believe that innovations at scale in "PreK to Gray" learning and skills are critical to achieving that end.
About Babbel
Babbel develops and operates an ecosystem of interconnected online language learning experiences and is driven by the purpose of creating mutual understanding through language. This means building products that help people connect and communicate across cultures. The Babbel App, Babbel Live, Babbel Podcasts and Babbel for Business products focus on using a new language in the real world, in real situations, with real people. And it works: Studies by linguists from institutions such as Michigan State University, Yale University and the City University of New York demonstrated the efficacy of Babbel’s language learning methods.
The key is a blend of humanity and technology. Babbel offers more than 60,000 lessons across 15 languages, hand-crafted by nearly 200 didactics experts, with user behaviors continuously analyzed to shape and tweak the learner experience. This results in constantly adapting, interactive content with live classes, games, podcasts and videos that make understanding a new language easy, from Spanish to Indonesian.
Because Babbel is for everyone, its team is as diverse as its content. From its headquarters in Berlin and its U.S. office in New York, 1000 people from more than 80 nationalities represent the backgrounds, characteristics and perspectives that make all humans unique. Babbel sold over 15 million subscriptions by creating a true connection with users.
More information: www.babbel.com
