Posted on: January 16, 2013 by Alastair GoldfisherNo Comments »
Online education company Lynda.com has raised its first round of funding, securing $103 million in growth equity from Accel Partners, Spectrum Equity and Meritech Capital Partners. As part of the funding, Andrew Braccia of Accel and Vic Parker of Spectrum, have joined the board.
Posted on: July 18, 2012 by Alastair GoldfisherNo Comments »
Top Hat Monocle has raised $8 million in Series A funding in a round led by Emergence Capital Partners and iNovia Capital, along with SoftTech VC, Version One Ventures (the new fund of Boris Wertz) and Golden Venture Partners. The Toronto-based education company, which has an office in San Francisco, raised $1.5 million in seed stage [...]
Posted on: April 30, 2012 by Alastair Goldfisher1 Comment »
Although few education startups have swayed the masses, VCs are once again backing tech companies focused on the sector.
Posted on: April 14, 2011 by Alastair Goldfisher2 Comments »
Salt Lake City-based Instructure Canvas, a provider of a cloud-based learning management systems, plans to announce on Friday that it has raised $8 million in Series B funding from OpenView Venture Partners, EPIC Ventures, TomorrowVentures and Tim Draper of Draper Fisher Jurveston. As part of the funding, Firas Raouf from OpenView has joined the board. [...]
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