[2] Perlego offers ebooks in 5 languages: English, Spanish, Italian, German and French, from local and international publishers.

Perlego was founded in 2017 in London, United Kingdom by Gauthier Van Malderen and Matthew Davis, both Belgian[3] natives and recent university graduates.

They did this by offering students an "all-you-can-read" subscription model, providing a more affordable and convenient alternative to purchasing new textbooks while aiding publishers in reclaiming market share lost to online piracy.

The fundraising was led by Charlie Songhurst, Dedicated VC, and Thomas Leysen (Chairman of Mediahuis and Umicore), with Perlego’s existing investors all reinvesting on a pro-rata basis.

[8] Perlego’s content library currently contains over 1,000,000 titles[9] in English, Italian, Spanish French and German, covering more than 900 separate disciplines from aeronautics to zoology.