Koofers raises $500K to pass along old exams, study guides
Every high school and college campus has unofficial channels for swapping old exams, opinions about teachers, study guides and grim grade distribution tales. Now online student community Koofers aims to centralize all of this on the web — and it just racked up a $500,000 tranche of an anticipated $2 million first round to expand to new campuses.
The site targets professors as well as students, and all members can upload documents relevant to courses and… Continue Reading
EduFire brings tutoring into the Web 2.0 age
Education is a field that missed out on the start-up boom. But now the sector is making up for lost time.
One of the latest companies to jump on this trend is eduFire, a company that makes it a lot easier to find tutors and learn with them. The site launched about 90 days ago and it has more than 500 tutors who have trained students in more than 900 hours of one-to-one tutoring sessions.
“We’ve got… Continue Reading
Intel Capital’s new investments: 51.com, Aternity, Ceedo, Phoenix, Tutor.com
Intel Capital, the venture capital arm of of the giant chip company Intel, announced six investments into new companies at its CEO Summit.
We already mentioned Jajah (see our story). Here are the others:
51.com — Intel Capital leads a Series B investment in 51.com, which Intel calls the largest social networking site in China with about 60 million registered accounts. The site is especially popular with 17- to 30-year-olds, growing by about 5 million accounts per month…. Continue Reading