The founders of 99math.
The founders of 99math. Tõnis Kusmin is on the far right.
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99math raises $1M to boost edtech gaming platform

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Estonian startup 99math has raised $1 million to boost its edtech math gaming platform aimed at making math fun.

The 3-year-old 99math has a multiplayer math game that teachers use in classrooms around the world. After debuting as a beta tool in 2019, 99math grew into a gaming platform for kids with over 300,000 users. Together, students in 99math have solved over 170 million math problems. It turns out one of the tricks to getting children into math is to get kids competing with each other in the classroom.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.