Overview
Founded in 2015 by Sebastien Lebbe and Jonathan Alzetta, engineering graduates from l'Ecole Polytechnique of Brussels, Wooclap was built around a core observation: students increasingly struggle to stay engaged in lectures, and smartphones are usually treated as the problem. Lebbe and Alzetta decided to make the smartphone part of the solution by building a live interaction platform that turns passive audiences into active participants.
The platform supports live polls, quizzes, word clouds, open questions, and collaborative exercises. Instructors project a Wooclap session on screen and students respond on their phones in real time. The tool is widely used in Belgian and French higher education institutions and has expanded significantly into corporate training markets. Wooclap is used by over 50 million learners globally.
The company raised EUR 350K in 2017, its first external capital. In September 2025, Wooclap raised EUR 25M in a growth round led by Impact Expansion, an impact-focused growth fund. The company described the round as confirming its profitable trajectory in EdTech, positioning Wooclap for accelerated international expansion and continued product innovation in active pedagogy.
Funding & milestones
1 events found for Wooclap · 2025
GrowthVenture / equityDetails€25M
Reported amount €25,000,000
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Profile narrative
- EUR 350K2017initial external round
- EUR 25M growth roundSeptember 2025Impact Expansion (lead)
Key people
In the news
- Say hello to Anne-Sophie! 💙👋 We're happy to welcome Anne-Sophie D., our new Engineering Manager! Her mission? Helping our engineering teams grow alongside the product. 🛠️ The goal: give teachers and trainers the tools to turn passive audiences into engaged learners. We're glad to have you on board, Anne-Sophie! ✨ Want to join the team too? We're hiring! Check out our open roles 👉 https://lnkd.in/eNVimG_s #Wooclap #TeamWooclap #NewJoiner #WereHiring #EdTech
- Some things are scarier than Halloween... 👻 A room full of silent learners. 🧟 Questions with no answers. 😱 Not realising nobody understood the last explanation. 💀 A training session where everyone is just waiting for the coffee break. Luckily, there's nothing scary about making learning active! Happy Halloween from the Wooclap team! 🧡
- Las Vegas, we're coming! 🚀 👋 Meet Wooclap at DevLearn 2026. From November 4–6, join us at MGM Grand in Las Vegas to connect with learning and development professionals and explore new ways to make learning more engaging and effective. 📍 Find us at booth #670 to meet the team, discover Wooclap, and discuss your learning and training challenges. 🎤 Don't miss our speaking session: 🧠 6 Actionable Tips to Equip Your SMEs Who Were Never Trained in Learning Design by Ciaran Farrell, Head of Customer Experience, North America 📅
- What if L&D’s role wasn’t just to deliver training, but to create the conditions for everyone to learn and grow? That’s the kind of question we love to explore at our Learning Shows, internal sessions at Wooclap where we invite experts to share their experience and fuel our thinking about learning. For this edition, we welcomed Nicolas Duquenois, L&D Expert – Learning Innovation & Technology at SNCB Academy, who shared his vision of how training practices are evolving. His example: training trainee train drivers. A year-long
- Me retrouver hier soir à BeCentral, le QG de mes startups sociétales, à un événement organisé par l'AILouvain - Alumni Ingénieurs Louvain, dont je fais partie, autour d'un panel avec mon Ami Laurent Hublet sur la souveraineté numérique et avec l'outil d'interaction avec le public qu'est Wooclap, y retrouver Roald Sieberath, Laurence Guiot et mon associé Daniel Verougstraete, j'avais une impression d'être au bon endroit au bon moment. Merci à Sophie Préaux et à Nathalie Debaty pour l'organisation de cet événement.
- Say hello to Noriko! 👋 We're happy to welcome Noriko Hanajima-Carpentier to Wooclap as our new Strategic Partnerships Manager. At Wooclap, every partnership starts with a shared ambition: making learning more active and engaging. Noriko's mission: building strategic partnerships that connect Wooclap with the tools educators and organizations already rely on, from LMS platforms like Moodle, Instructure (Canvas by Instructure), Anthology Inc, D2L and 360Learning to the wider learning ecosystem. 🤝 The goal: elevate learning impact,
- What’s new in Wooclap? 👀 Small improvements can make a real difference in how you run an interactive session. Our October product updates are designed to help educators and trainers manage responses more easily, keep sessions flowing and get a clearer picture of participation. Here’s what’s new: 📊 Donut charts to visualise Poll and Multiple Choice Question results at a glance. 💬 Simpler moderation to review and select responses in Open Questions and Word Clouds. ✅ More flexible attendance checks to check attendance at any point
- On ne serait pas là sans eux. Je pense que le plus beau cadeau qu’on puisse recevoir en tant qu’entrepreneur, c’est d’être entouré de personnes comme celles-ci. Coachs, advisors, mentors… on peut les appeler comme on veut. Ce sont ceux qui sont toujours là : 👂 pour écouter nos doutes 💼 pour partager leur expérience 💬 pour nous conseiller 🙌 ou simplement pour nous taper sur l’épaule quand c’est nécessaire Ce matin encore, on se retrouvait pour notre Advisory Board trimestriel. Et comme à chaque fois, je suis ressortie de
Alumni
- PJonathan AlzettaCo-founder & CTO
Rodolphe LechatCCO
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