• Schoology

  Participated · Equity · Jun 2014

  Schoology is an NYC-based education technology company that provides an education cloud connecting people, content, and systems and tools to personalize education and improve student outcomes. Led by CEO Jeremy Friedman, its platform is used by more than 12 million people from 60,000 K-12 schools and universities around the world. The company raised $32M in financing and has raised $57M in total funding to date. In conjunction with the financing, Jit Sinha, General Partner at JMI Equity, will join Schoology’s board. Schoology said it will use the funds to make product engineering investments and expand distribution to reach more schools, districts, colleges and universities globally. Schoology is a New York City–based learning-management platform that offers collaborative, blended learning tools, dedicated mobile apps, advanced analytics, and an open API for third-party integrations. The company provides both a free stand-alone product and a fee-based enterprise-class solution deployed in schools or across districts. Schoology supports five million users across 50,000 K-12 schools and universities in nearly every country, and has secured major deployments such as Uruguay’s national initiative for 620,000 students and a collaboration with CSU Global Campus. It has received industry recognition, including top education technology product at the 2014 SIIA CODiE Awards and multiple CODiE awards this year. The new growth capital is intended to accelerate expansion into K-12, higher education and international markets, scale operations, and build new product features. Intel Capital’s participation and the board appointment signal strategic validation as Schoology continues to commercialize and grow its platform. Schoology is a New York City–based developer of a cloud-based collaborative learning platform for K–20 classrooms. Led by founder and CEO Jeremy Friedman, it provides teachers and administrators with a full suite of learning management tools to manage lessons and homework, administer and grade tests and quizzes, discover and embed educational content, and collaborate on course materials. The platform includes analytics for individual student and overall classroom performance and tools to communicate and engage with students in a secure online environment. Schoology has been used by more than 18,000 schools and districts in the U.S. and abroad. The company has raised $9.3M in funding to date and is currently hiring. Schoology develops a cloud-based collaborative learning platform for K-12 classrooms that is available as a free standalone product and as a fee-based configurable enterprise solution. The platform combines online learning, classroom management, social networking, and tools to improve communication, collaboration, parental engagement, and access to curriculum and supplemental content. Schoology's system requires no installation, training, or maintenance and integrates with existing school/district technologies to create a single, scalable interface for teaching, assessment, administration, and analysis of student progress. It also enables school-to-school networking and a centralized resource library for sharing best practices and digital content. The company says it continues to sign contracts with prestigious K-12 districts domestically and abroad and plans regional expansion through a partnership with Cempaka Schools to promote usage in Malaysia and Singapore. With Cempaka's $1 million investment, Schoology has raised $3.3 million in venture capital to date. Schoology makes a cloud-based learning management system and configurable social network for academic institutions. Its platform bundles an online gradebook, attendance, tests/quizzes, discussion boards, blogs, homework dropboxes, and collaborative course and group pages. The social-network features enable cross-school networking so multiple organizations can join shared classes, groups, and discussions, and the suite can integrate with existing school reporting and information systems. Schoology offers the core platform free to individuals, schools, and districts and monetizes through premium add-ons such as custom branding and support packages. The company is preparing a full API release in July 2010 to enable custom applications and integrations. It plans to use recent funding to expand its workforce and grow the service.

• Spreecast

  Participated · Series A · Sep 2012

  Spreecast builds an interactive social online video broadcasting platform that allows up to four people to stream face-to-face while hundreds of viewers watch, chat, and participate. Viewers can request to join on camera and producers can manage who appears on-screen. The service is integrated with Facebook, Twitter and Google+ and Spreecasts can be embedded on the web with instant playback for continued sharing. The product supports both public and private broadcasts and is designed to drive views and shares after the live experience. The company was conceived by Jeff Fluhr, co-founder of StubHub. Spreecast said its new financing will be used for hiring, community expansion and product development. Spreecast is a browser-based social video platform built on Flash that enables interactive online video broadcasts. Up to four people can appear face-to-face streaming live while hundreds can watch, chat, and participate by submitting comments and questions. Viewers can request to join on camera and producers can manage the action; broadcasts are integrated with Facebook, Twitter, and Google+. Spreecasts are recorded and made immediately available for playback and sharing; by default they are public but users can also create private Spreecasts. The platform is the brainchild of Jeff Fluhr, co-founder of StubHub. The company has raised $4 million in seed funding and plans to use the new capital to hire additional engineers and staff, build out the product platform, and expand the community.

• Cloudmeter

  Led · Series A · Apr 2012

  Cloudmeter, previously known as Atomic Labs, is a Mountain View, CA-based company that provides big data capture and analytics. Its core offerings include Pion Enterprise, a real-time big data capture, processing and integration solution, and Pion Replay, a customer experience management product that enables companies to identify, find and replay individual website visitor sessions. The company plans to introduce later this year a next-generation Real User Monitoring as a Service (MaaS) offering to help customers understand and improve end-users' experiences across cloud, datacenter and hybrid applications. The MaaS product is positioned to deliver the most relevant and effective information with ease of use and cost in mind. Cloudmeter closed a $5m Series A financing to fund these initiatives and to expand development, sales and marketing to support demand for its products. The company is led by Founder and CEO Mike Dickey.

• Shipwire, a CEVA Logistics Company

  Participated · Equity · Jul 2011

  Shipwire provides a SaaS platform that lets online merchants access and manage inventory across a network of warehouses in the U.S., Canada and Europe to cut shipping costs and delivery times. Its offering includes Shipwire Anywhere, which lets sellers route orders and manage inventory stored in any location (warehouse, garage, office closet, retail store, storage unit). The company charges for label printing and otherwise offers the inventory and order management software as a service. Shipwire is used by customers such as Rovio to ship Angry Birds merchandise. The company says the new funding will be used to expand its global warehouse network into new countries and to fund additional product development. eBay and Newell Rubbermaid joined as strategic investors, and executives from Rubbermaid and eBay joined the advisory board while Ivan Hoffman, former president of FedEx Ground, joined the board of directors.

• NearVerse

  Led · Seed · Apr 2010

  NearVerse's core product, LoKast (short for “local-casting”), is a proximity-based mobile social network that automatically discovers users within roughly 300 feet and lets them view and download each other’s photos, videos, contacts, web links and music. The app uses its own internal network to operate without 3G/4G connectivity, enabling use in subways, underground and congested venues where cellular service is unreliable. LoKast supports content sampling (30-second song clips) with affiliate links to iTunes and plans to enable app sharing between phones. The company holds five patents on its proprietary technology and has struck content and promotional deals with music distributors (The Orchard, IODA, Monalis 360) and production companies such as Magnolia Pictures. NearVerse plans an Android app and Facebook Connect integration. The recent seed funding will be used to further develop LoKast and accelerate its connectivity beyond existing carrier networks.

No current team members are available.