One day in 2008 David J. Sigrist was tutoring students to read ancient Greek and Hebrew through memorization and grammar drills, and he witnessed learners who spoke multiple languages already being told they didn’t have a mind for languages. At that time the seed for Immersio came into being because he knew there had to be a better way.

Years later as a seasoned instructor in ESL, linguistics, and ancient languages, David and his co-founder Phong met at Vancouver’s Centre for Digital Media. Through David’s teaching experiences in diverse settings worldwide and Phong’s business and instructional design experience running an English language school in Vietnam, they found their mutual passion for education and appreciation for the opportunities that language education brings. 

After months and years of testing different methods, vetting the existing solutions, and researching best practices and emerging technologies to create a business model that works for all while making a social impact, they finally met Jake. With Jake’s wealth of experience as a software engineer, information architect, and experience developing and accrediting the CELPIP-G test with psychometric assessment, all the pieces came into place to create something new to transform education, starting with languages.