Kevin “Picasso” Rooney
Users have been wondering why our learning-game looks so good. The answer is, quite simply, Kevin “Picasso” Rooney. The story of Kevin’s nickname deserves repeating. It has changed frequently over time due to a variety of circumstances, most notably the fact that, for the last 15 years, the world’s best soccer player has, with the...
Welcoming Charlotte Salasky to the Memrise team
We are delighted to announce the addition of Charlotte Salasky to the Memrise team. As befits her role as Employee no. 1, Charlotte brings passion, integrity, imagination and intellectual lucidity to her work with Memrise. Charlotte’s initial responsibilities will be to oversee Memrise’s marketing and PR, focusing in particular on the organisation of our summer...
Memrise wins Princeton TigerLaunch Business Competition!
Our recent efforts came to fruition on February 21st, 2009, at Princeton’s TigerLaunch Super Saturday; a head-to-head business competition featuring a fierce roster of entrepreneurs pitching their companies to several tenured judges. With tension slowly mounting throughout the day, Greg’s impressive stage presence and delivery crescendoed to a seamless performance of the final Memrise pitch to the...
About Us
Memrise.com is an online learning platform that makes use of the most advanced memory techniques to help users remember information faster and more effectively than with any other method. Memrise is founded by Greg Detre, a Princeton PhD candidate studying the psychology of memory and forgetting, and Ed Cooke, a Grandmaster of Memory and acclaimed lecturer...
