Sirius Game closes €1.3M round to expand game-based learning

Edtech startup Sirius Game has closed a €1.3 million funding round led by Cassa Depositi e Prestiti, with participation from Trentino Invest, Ultra VC, 28Digital and Add Value.

The newly raised capital will be used to strengthen the company’s structure and accelerate growth across three key areas: further development of its technology, expansion within the Italian and international education systems, and growth in the corporate training segment.

As part of this new phase, Sirius Game has launched JOY, an educational product for primary schools developed in collaboration with Il Gruppo Editoriale La Scuola and the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano.

Founded by Laura Cesaro, Sirius Game was created to address a challenge common to both schools and companies: learning is often perceived as passive, insufficiently engaging and limited in its long-term effectiveness. The company’s game-based learning model, grounded in scientific evidence, aims to make learning more engaging, effective and lasting while complementing traditional educational approaches.

Through challenges, missions and interactive activities, learners take an active role in the learning process, developing transversal skills such as critical thinking, collaboration and digital awareness. The model is designed to be applicable across educational and organisational contexts.

Laura Cesaro, CEO and co-founder of Sirius Game, described the funding round as an important milestone for the company, enabling it to scale the impact of its game-based learning model and expand its reach across schools and companies internationally. She emphasised that the company’s goal is not simply to make learning more enjoyable but to make it more effective and capable of delivering lasting outcomes.

We want to show that learning can be engaging and rigorous at the same time, helping people develop skills that are truly useful to face change.

Operating with an international outlook, Sirius Game maintains ongoing dialogue with educational and innovation ecosystems worldwide as it continues to expand the reach of its learning solutions.