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CreativeLive lands $25M to expand online learning platform further into the enterprise
CreativeLive, which offers streamed classes
- May 17, 2017
- News
CreativeLive, which offers streamed classes taught by experts from a variety of disciplines, has landed a new $25 million funding round.
The latest round brings the company’s total funding to $58.8 million since it was founded in 2010. GSV Acceleration led the round, and it was joined by two other new investors: REV Venture Partners and actor, director and Thirty Seconds to Mars frontman Jared Leto. Existing investors Greylock Partners, Social Capital, Virgin Group founder Richard Branson and Creative Artists Agency also participated in the round.
(Palo Alto) June 24, 2020 —
While the pace of layoffs might be
Intellispark, an education
RaiseMe Expands Coll …
May 5, 2017 – SAN FRANCISCO, CA – RaiseMe, a
- May 5, 2017
- News
May 5, 2017 – SAN FRANCISCO, CA – RaiseMe, a college access platform that aims to expand college opportunities for students of all backgrounds, today announced a new cohort of highly selective colleges joining its movement to help students of all backgrounds prepare for college. This group, which includes University of Chicago, University of Pennsylvania, Washington University in St. Louis, Harvey Mudd College and Grinnell College, joins a growing community of institutions across the country that are awarding college scholarships to students through RaiseMe’s platform.
Already, 700,000 students in 1 of every 2 high schools across the country have used RaiseMe to earn micro-scholarships for college. By signing onto RaiseMe, students at high schools across the country can earn incremental scholarship awards, called “micro-scholarships” for achievements that are preparing them best to succeed in college, like earning good grades and participating in extracurriculars.
(Palo Alto) June 24, 2020 —
While the pace of layoffs might be
Intellispark, an education
Degreed CEO David Bl …
In 2012, when David Blake launched Degreed–an
- March 30, 2017
- News
In 2012, when David Blake launched Degreed–an online platform where individuals and organizations can discover, track, and measure all their learning and skills–his mission was, as he puts it, to “jailbreak the degree.”
Blake was taking on the educational establishment, which, he believes, “has given universities a monopoly on credentials and defining who is educated. They have the keys to opportunity in the market, and they are a gatekeeper at the front of the path towards upward mobility. I thought that was really unfair.”