LearnZillion offers a free cloud-based curriculum solution designed to help teachers, schools and districts improve instruction and respond to the specific needs of their students. The site provides Common Core-aligned math and English curriculum authored by educators currently teaching in classrooms across the U.S. The company intends to use recent funding to grow its curriculum offerings and to provide a digital alternative to traditional textbooks. LearnZillion was founded in 2011 by CEO Eric Westendorf and operates out of Washington, D.C. In 2015 the company secured external financing to support product and content expansion. No revenue or user metrics were disclosed in the article. LearnZillion develops a web-based curriculum and professional development platform that offers Common Core-aligned lessons, assessments, and activities created and curated by teachers. The service provides free access for teachers and parents while offering a paid enterprise plan for schools and districts with premium professional development content, teaching insights, and analytics. To ensure quality, the company hand-picks a team of teachers to curate and develop lesson plans; the team includes 200 teachers from 41 states who collaborate to produce content. As of the article, LearnZillion has 120,000 teachers registered and reaches 1.4 million students. Founded in 2011 by a former principal and a former teacher, the startup plans to scale its operations and ramp up hiring to support wider adoption of the Common Core. The company operates in a competitive space alongside offerings such as TeachersPayTeachers and BetterLesson. LearnZillion is a web-based platform that provides 3- to 5-minute, standards-based math and literacy video lessons taught by many of the nation’s best teachers. The platform allows teachers to customize instruction with individualized student playlists and includes assessment and analytics tools to track student progress for students, parents, and teachers. LearnZillion was incubated as a project at E.L. Haynes Public Charter School, where co-founder Eric Westendorf previously served as principal and Chief Academic Officer. The company is being used in over 20 district and charter schools in Washington, DC as a professional development tool and a strategy for personalizing instruction during class time. LearnZillion recently closed a $2.4 million Series A round, providing early financial backing to advance its product and school deployments.

Total raised

$22M

Funding rounds

3

Latest round

Equity

Latest activity

Sep 2015