Our Story

Like thousands of parents across the UK, mother of three, Reedah El-Saie was frustrated with an antiquated education system.

Reedah witnessed how constant exams and revision were causing stress and anxiety to thousands of children, resulting in low attainment levels.

As a family of diverse heritage, she wanted a more inclusive curriculum, which celebrated global contributions to science, mathematics, literature, humanities, the arts and wider knowledge.

Fostering a lifelong love of learning through play!

In Winter 2018, whilst preparing her son for 11+ exams, Reedah came across Fortnite, often played during revision breaks. She noticed how the open world, multi-player, action game appealed to, and transcended barriers for, children across the world. She imagined educational being disseminated through open world games, including diverse characters and stories, fully aligned with the national curriculum and 11+/ 13+ entrance exams, fostering learning through play.

After extensive but fruitless research for pre-existing educational mobile games, aligned with the UK national curriculum, Reedah founded Brainspark Games.

Having released its first History game, featuring the Tudors, in the Apple and Google Playstores, Brainspark Games has been awarded…

  • 8x Innovate UK grants

  • Featured in the Prime Minister’s ‘Council for Science & Technology’ report into the creative industries

  • Exhibited at Maths Week Parliamentary Expo

  • Featured in HolonIQ’s ‘Europe EdTech200 - Advanced Technology’,

  • AWE XR ‘European Tech StartUp To Watch’

  • GSV Cup Elite200

  • Top 30 Global Winners of ‘GSV & Unity EdTech Creator Challenge’

  • AWE XR ‘Climate Education Prize’ finalist

  • Creative Industries ‘100 Ones To Watch’

  • Creative Women 'Excellence in Technology Award’

  • Featured in UK Tech News as “One of London’s Most Diverse Startups”.

Meet Reedah

Non-gaming, non-technical, solo female founder, of diverse heritage

Born out of a personal frustration with an antiquated education system, not designed for diverse learners, Reedah founded Brainspark Games in 2021, bootstrapping and seed funding the MVP prototype.

Brainspark is now on a mission to revolutionise the way children learn though play, so that no child gets left behind!

Our Mission

Foster a love of learning through play

Enhance the way children learn and retain knowledge

Democratise high quality, immersive, creative education

Reach every child in every corner of the world

 

We are conducting research trials and user testing across the world including UK, Europe, Middle East, Africa & Asia amongst other regions. If you are a child, parent, teacher, charity or government organisation - then get in touch to arrange a FREE trial or playtesting session!

 

Our Brilliant Team

Our team includes world class experts in games design, technical development, education, child psychology, as well as a ‘Board of Brilliant Brains’ (BBB) made up of over 100+ children from diverse backgrounds from across the world, who provide invaluable user feedback on development of our educational games.