In Conversation with Bernhard Niesner, Co-founder and CEO of Busuu.

Over two decades, we have built strong and long-lasting partnerships with our founders and CEOs and want to share their stories.

We met with Bernhard Niesner, Co-founder and CEO of Busuu, to talk about the acceleration of digital education in recent years, growing the business to over 120 million learners, and the power of languages in realising people’s potential.

In our interview, Bernhard shares his thoughts on embracing the entrepreneurial struggle and enjoying the rewards of creating opportunities for his team. During our conversation, we also learned about the endangered language of Cameroon, spoken by fewer than eight people, and how a linguist and a film crew travelled to a small village to uncover it.

Busuu is a leading language learning community founded in the UK in 2008. Starting as a B2C business, the platform now offers courses to large corporates for employee training and has more than a million active users per year.

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Previous Busuu transactions
GP Bullhound advised Busuu on its $436m acquisition by Chegg (2021)
GP Bullhound investment in Busuu (2020)