profe.social

What profe.social does

Profe.Social (legal entity Profe Social SpA) is a community-driven online marketplace and social network for teachers, founded in 2021 and headquartered in Santiago, Chile. The platform enables educators to share, discover, download, and exchange classroom materials through a unified interface that combines a content marketplace with social networking. Per disclosed platform metrics, it hosts more than 416,900 registered teachers across 84 countries, over 105,200 uploaded educational resources, and over 2.7 million cumulative downloads.

The product is built on Ruby on Rails with Active Storage for file management and is delivered exclusively as a web application (no native mobile app). Core product surfaces include The Wall (a community discussion space), Popular and Recent resource feeds, curated Resource Compilations organized by subject and grade level, teacher profiles with portfolios and reviews, internal messaging, and a rating/review system on individual resources. The defining commercial mechanism is the ProfeCoins virtual currency, sold in packs starting at $2.96 USD at $0.10 per coin. Teachers earn 50% of the resource value when their materials are downloaded, while the company retains the other 50% as its effective marketplace take rate.

Profe.Social operates a freemium business model: free registration with optional paid ProfeCoins transactions. Revenue is generated through the net spread on coin sales versus creator payouts. The company is privately held with no disclosed institutional investors beyond a 2021 seed-stage funding package of approximately $212K in aggregate from 500 Global ($150K), Platanus ($50K), and Start-Up Chile ($12K). The company has no disclosed revenue, no B2B or institutional distribution channel, and the team is lean at 1-10 employees.

Name

profe.social

Legal name

Profe Social SpA

Website

https://profe.social

Company type

Private

Founded year

2021

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Profe.Social is a Chilean-founded online community and marketplace enabling teachers from 84 countries to share, discover, download, and exchange classroom materials, monetized via a proprietary virtual currency (ProfeCoins) under a 50% creator revenue share model.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Educational Resource Marketplace

NAICS

Educational Support Services (611710), Educational Services (611)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

Core Digital Curriculum & Courseware (Full Programs & Units) (EDAFACAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

Group Work, Breakout & Collaborative Document/Workspace Tools (EDAFAGAE), Classroom Communication & Messaging Platforms (EDAFAGAA)

Keywords

• Teacher resource marketplace
• Educational content platform
• Teacher community network
• Digital teaching materials
• Educator collaboration platform

Headquarters

HQ city

Santiago

HQ country

Chile

HQ region

Latin America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. ProfeCoins Purchase Revenue: Platform sells ProfeCoins to users who want to download paid resources. 1 ProfeCoin = $0.1 USD. Users can purchase coin packs starting from $2.96 USD.
2. Marketplace Commission (via ProfeCoins): Teachers earn 50% of resource value when someone downloads their resource. Platform retains the other 50% from ProfeCoins transactions.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

profe.social operates an online community and marketplace where teachers upload, share, and download educational resources. The platform uses a proprietary virtual currency called ProfeCoins (1 coin = $0.1 USD), where teachers earn coins by sharing resources, receive 50% of resource value on downloads, and can cash out real money once they accumulate 200+ coins.

Product overview

Profe.Social is a social network and educational resource marketplace for teachers, built as a unified platform combining community features with a resource exchange economy. The core product includes The Wall (a community discussion space), resource feeds (Popular and Recent), and Resource Compilations (curated thematic collections). The platform operates on the ProfeCoins virtual currency system, which enables teachers to upload and sell resources, earn coins through downloads, and cash out when reaching 200 coins. Supporting features include teacher profiles with ratings and reviews, user messaging, and category/subject browsing. The platform hosts over 416,900 teachers from 84 countries who have shared more than 105,200 educational resources.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Profe.Social Platform
• ProfeCoins

Quantifiable outcome

• Teachers have downloaded educational resources more than 2,739,500 times in total

Named customers6 records

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration1 record

Feature1 record

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves3 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Market position

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Instagraminstagram.com/profesocial
• Xx.com/profe_social

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds3 records

Investors3 records

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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