Education.com scores $9.75 million in second round of funding
Online education portal Education.com will announce a total of $9.75 million in its second round of financing today, VentureBeat has learned. The site seeks to become a one-stop destination for parents looking for online answers about their children’s education.
The site’s main appeal lies in its School Finder application, allowing parents to see information such as teacher-to-student ratio, test scores, and other parent’s reviews about local schools. The site also hosts about 7,000 articles, drawn from… Continue Reading
SchoolNet raises $12.5 million to expand parent-teacher community site
SchoolNet has raised $12.5 million in financing to expand its efforts to create a community for parents and teachers around K-12 education.
This financing includes a combination of equity and loans from Velocity Financial Group, TriplePoint Capital and the New York City Investment Fund. The company provides a portal for those interested in education; the features include a search engine with results from trusted K-12 sources, opinion pages on a variety of educational subjects, strategies for… Continue Reading
Education.com, helps parents guide kids through school
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Education.com, a Redwood City, Calif. company dedicated to teaching parents how to help their kids through school, launches today with $4.5 million in funding.
Attempting to build a company around a domain name, instead of the other way around, can be dangerous. As the huge flop of Wine.com has shown — hundreds of millions of dollars invested, and still struggling seven reincarnations later — faith placed in a domain name with no business plan doesn’t work…. Continue Reading