Hodoo English

Kenya
Khayega, Kakamega County, Kenya

Company profile

Hodoo English company profile

Hodoo English is a quest-based MMORPG with built-in speech recognition and over 300 non-player characters with whom the player must have meaningful conversations in English. The game was designed by videogame giant NCSOFT to address "mute English", a pedagogical problem in which a school system produces students who can read and write in English but cannot speak it. In Hodoo English, learners are immersed in a rich 3D world where they complete quests and interact with different characters by speaking English. Your child is the main character of the story, using his or her growing English vocabulary in a variety of situations.

Business identity

Operating status
Active
Company type
For Profit
Employee range
11-50 employees
Revenue range
$0-$1M
Founded
2018-11-30

Headquarters

Country code
KE
Continent
Africa

Capital profile

Funding and company signals

Funding stage
M And A
Funding rounds
7
Total equity funding
$24M
Last funding
Series Unknown / 2025-12-10
Last equity funding
Series Unknown
Investors
14
Lead investors
2
Founders
1
Exited on
2015-09-01

Founders and investors

Founders

Kim Min-woo

Lead investors

BluepointCore Asset Management

Investors

BluepointCapstone PartnersInterVest Co.Korea Development BankLG Uplus