Socratic is an e-learning site that lets students ask detailed questions and receive concise answers and expanded explanations from experts, teachers, and mentors. The product operates as a community-driven, Quora-like system focused on learning and centralizing teacher-posted information. Founded two years ago by Chris Pedregal and Shreyans Bhansali, the company emphasizes making high-quality educational content accessible and helping students learn underlying concepts. The site reports about 500,000 users asking millions of questions, and one teacher has helped over a million students. After the recent raise the company will have a $7.5 million war chest. The founders describe their vision as making Socratic feel like having a great teacher sitting next to you throughout a student's learning life. Socratic is developing an open platform that allows teachers to upload video lessons and lets K-12, college and graduate students find information on school topics such as chemistry and physics. The company aims to build a product and a community to cover every topic, in every language, in every teaching style. Socratic is co-founded by Christopher Pedregal and Shreyans Bhansali and is based in New York City. It raised $1.5M in seed funding to support product and community development. The seed round was led by Spark Capital with participation from betaworks, Andreessen Horowitz Seed, David Tisch (BoxGroup), John Maloney and Terrapin Bale. The company is now hiring.

Total raised

$8M

Funding rounds

2

Latest round

Series A

Latest activity

Mar 2015