Genius Group enters Joint Venture with Groove Digital and Groove AI to Deliver AI SAAS Platform to Educators

SINGAPORE, Sept. 20, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- (NYSE American: GNS) (“Genius Group” or the “Company”), a leading entrepreneur edtech and education group, announces today that it has signed a joint venture partnership with Groove Digital Inc and Groove AI to deliver artificial-intelligence (“AI”) powered tools to GeniusU partners and faculty. 

Groove Digital is a leading software as a service (“SAAS”) platform for digital commerce, used by over 400,000 online educators, retailers and service providers. Its suite of marketing software includes GrooveFunnels, GroovePages, GrooveMail, GrooveSell, GrooveVideo, GrooveAffiliate, GrooveKart, GrooveCalendar, GrooveMember and GrooveBlog. Groove AI is an AI driven content builder launched by Groove Digital’s founders in 2023 to accelerate the build time and optimization for digital entrepreneurs to launch and scale their businesses globally. 

Genius Group, through its Edtech platform GeniusU Ltd, and the founders of Groove Digital and Groove AI have signed a joint venture agreement to launch a new AI driven SAAS platform, Genius Groove Inc. The joint venture company, under 50/50 ownership, will integrate Groove Digital’s tools and Groove AI’s large language model engine with GeniusU’s Partner Portal. 

This will provide unique AI driven drag-and-drop components to enable Genius Group’s partners, faculty and educators to rapidly build and scale global classrooms, integrating GeniusU’s freemium and premium course building tools with Groove’s end-to-end marketing, video, community building and online commerce tools. 

The Company anticipates Genius Groove Inc will be market ready and delivering its AI Educator SAAS solution to GeniusU’s 12,500 partners and faculty by Q1 2024. Genius Groove’s AI Educator SAAS solution will also be open to educators globally, from schools and universities to corporate trainers, speakers, authors and influencers delivering online courses. 

CEO of Genius Group, Roger Hamilton, said “Groove Digital has supported the growth hundreds of thousands of online entrepreneurs with their online business-building tools. We are excited to be joining forces to tailor these tools to the specific needs of online educators. There are many talented teachers that deserve to reach a global audience, and with Groove Digital’s suite of products, together with Groove AI’s content creation engine and GeniusU’s global community of students, they will be able to easily and affordably.” 

CEO and co-founder of Groove Digital and Groove AI, Mike Filsaime, said “Our agreement with Genius Group is the first joint venture of its kind that Groove Digital and Groove AI has entered into, and speaks to our confidence and optimism in working effectively with the Genius team to serve the growing education market. Education is being dramatically disrupted with people more interested in learning from individuals than institutions. Genius Groove will deliver all the tools necessary for educators to run their global classrooms more effectively - and with more students - than most schools today.” 

About Genius Group

Genius Group is a leading entrepreneur Edtech and education group, with a mission to disrupt the current education model with a student-centered, life-long learning curriculum that prepares students with the leadership, entrepreneurial, and life skills to succeed Through its learning platform, GeniusU, the Genius Group has a member base of 4.5 million users in 200 countries, ranging from early age to 100.

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About Groove Digital and Groove AI

Groove Digital, founded by Mike Filsaime, Matt Serralta, Donna Fox, and John Cornetta, is a leading SAAS platform for digital commerce, used by over 400,000 online educators, retailers and service providers. Its suite of marketing software includes GrooveFunnels, GroovePages, GrooveMail, GrooveSell, GrooveVideo, GrooveAffiliate, GrooveKart, GrooveCalendar, GrooveMember and GrooveBlog. Groove AI is an AI driven content builder launched by Groove Digital’s founders in 2023 to accelerate the build time and optimization for digital entrepreneurs to launch and scale their businesses globally.

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