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Labbox
Techstars '21Prishtina, XK · Founded 2017 · 3 employees on LinkedIn · 1 known investors
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Labbox designs electronic building blocks that teach children core engineering and physics concepts through hands-on circuit building, sensors, and actuators. The company offers learning kits, classroom stations, and board games for children, parents, and educators.
Also known as Labbox
Founders & leadership
Labbox was founded in 2017 by Arta Shehu and Fiona Shehu.
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Company profile
researched Sep 2026Labbox develops a library of magnetically connecting electronic building blocks intended to teach children the science of circuits and electronics. Each block represents a functioning, low-voltage electronic component — power sources, sensors, actuators such as servo motors, switches, adjustable resistors and logic elements — and includes polarity markings, protection against damage from incorrect wiring, and built-in mistake indicators so children can identify and debug faults themselves. The system covers more than 30 blocks and supports building series and parallel circuits, matching concepts taught in school science lessons.
The product line is organised as the Circuit Explorer series, structured as a level-based progression: the Base kit for fundamentals, the Boost kit adding sensors, outputs and a timer, and the Pro kit adding logic blocks, adjustable resistors and additional outputs for multi-path circuits. All kits are mutually compatible. A Lab Kit bundles all three levels and is described as containing 31 smart blocks and 95 pieces supporting more than 300 circuit projects. Beyond kits, Labbox offers a story-driven board game for ages 10+ and 1–4 players in which participants build real circuits to repair spacecraft and save the fictional city of Electra, and states that it is extending into classroom-ready STEM stations, maker challenges and a community of young inventors.
Kits ship with step-by-step instructions, guided challenges, activity cards and visual guides aimed at letting parents and teachers without technical backgrounds run activities. Instructions are available in English, German, Italian, French and Spanish, with each kit including a three-language set (EN/DE/IT or EN/ES/FR).
Founding story
Labbox was founded by Arta Shehu and Fiona Shehu together with the team behind jCoders Academy, growing out of years of teaching children how technology works in the academy's classrooms and the observation that children learn electronics best by building, failing safely and retrying.
Business model
Labbox sells physical educational hardware directly to consumers and institutions through its own Shopware-based online store, offering individual kits, an all-in-one bundle and a board game, supported by free shipping and 30-day returns. It also positions its products for classrooms and makerspaces and plans a system for ordering individual blocks and replacement parts.
Product sales of electronics kits and board games at fixed prices: the Circuit Explorer Base, Boost and Pro kits are listed at €79.99 each and the Circuit Explorer Lab Kit at €199.99, tax included.
Traction
Labbox sells four Circuit Explorer kit configurations online and ships to nine European countries; its board game is offered on pre-order. The company states its blocks library exceeds 30 components and that the Lab Kit supports over 300 circuit projects.
Latest developments
Labbox is taking pre-orders for a board game for ages 10+ and 1–4 players in which players build real circuits, and says it is setting up a system allowing customers to order individual blocks and replacement parts, while expanding toward classroom STEM stations and maker challenges.
▸Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market, geography, history
Market position
Labbox is described in regional technology press as a Kosovo edtech startup teaching children engineering and seeking to expand beyond the Balkans. It positions its kits against STEM tools that it says either oversimplify the underlying science or mediate it through apps and screens.
Emphasis on real, protected electronic components that children cannot damage through experimentation, combined with polarity signs and built-in mistake indicators that let learners diagnose errors independently, cross-compatible level-based kits, and screen-free, story-driven formats such as a circuit-building board game.
Technology
Electronic blocks with magnetic connectors, polarity indicators, component protection and feedback indicators that signal wiring mistakes. Blocks cover power, sensors including light sensors, actuators such as servo motors, switches, timers, adjustable resistors and logic elements, and are described as real, low-voltage, classroom-grade components rather than simulations or app-driven toys.
Go-to-market
Direct e-commerce from labbox.education with pre-orders for the board game, shipping via logistics partner GLS in 2–5 working days, alongside positioning for classroom and makerspace use with ready-made lessons and guides for teachers and parents.
Children from age 8 (usable with parental guidance from about age 6) up to adults, plus parents, teachers, schools, clubs and makerspaces seeking hands-on STEM materials that require no prior technical background.
Geography
Headquartered in Kosovo, with the company covered as a Kosovo-based edtech startup from Pristina. Online orders are delivered to Germany, Austria, Belgium, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Spain and Sweden.
History
The company originated inside the classrooms of jCoders Academy before being built out as a standalone system of snap-together electronic blocks. By 2021 it was reported as a Kosovo edtech startup looking to expand beyond the Balkans, and it now sells the Circuit Explorer kit series across several European markets while preparing a board game for release.
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Timeline · 3
launches, deals, and filingsRegional tech outlet The Recursive reported that the Kosovo edtech startup teaching children engineering was looking to expand beyond the Balkans.
Labbox sells four cross-compatible electronics kits through its own store, with the Lab Kit bundling all levels.
A board game for ages 10+ and 1-4 players in which players build real circuits to repair spacecraft in the city of Electra is offered for pre-order.
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▸Research sources · 5
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- Labboxlabbox.education · web
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Labbox do?
- Labbox makes magnetic electronic building blocks and board games that teach children ages 8+ how real circuits work.
- Who founded Labbox?
- Labbox was founded by Arta Shehu, Fiona Shehu in 2017.
- Who are Labbox's investors?
- Labbox's investors include Techstars.
- Where is Labbox headquartered?
- Labbox is headquartered in Prishtina, XK.