Recent e-Learning Fundraising Across Europe & the US Europe Date of Last Round
Capital Raised ($m)
Jun-13
Total Capital Raised To Date ($m)
Investors
Company Overview
Year Founded
35.0
Bill Gates, Benchmark Capital, Dragoneer Investment Group, Tenaya Capital, The Founders Fund, Thrive Capital
Offers a social, crowdsourced platform designed for researchers
2008
35.0
Mar-13
10.0
IBB Beteiligungsgesellschaft, Kizoo Technology Capital, Nokia Growth Partners, Reed Elsevier Ventures, VC Fonds Technologie Berlin
Creates online and mobile-based language learning courses
2007
10.8
Dec-12
5.0
Beringea
Provides open source and agile training programmes and events for software professionals
2003
5.0
Nov-12
5.1
Undisclosed
Online community that teaches people languages through crowdsourcing
2010
6.3
Oct-12
4.6
PROfounders Capital
Free online community for learning languages
2008
9.4
Investors
Company Overview
Year Founded
Target
Domicile
United States Date of Last Round
Capital Raised ($m)
Jun-13
30.0
Bessemer Venture Partners, EPIC Ventures, OpenView Venture Partners, TomorrowVentures
Best known for its Canvas learning management platform, which was launched in 2011 and now counts over 6 million 2008 users in over 425 K-12 and HE(1) institutions
50.0
May-13
2.0
Capricorn Investment Group, Expansion VC, Learn Capital
Learning marketplace that lets students connect with experts in one-on-one video chats
2012
2.5
May-13
6.5
Mainsail Partners
Cloud-based talent management software specifically developed for K-12 educational organisations
2001
6.5
May-13
4.0
American Public Education (NasdaqGS:APEI)
Accredited military transition college
2011
6.5
May-13
7.5
Redpoint Ventures, Bill Campbell (Former Marketplace that aims to help students and teachers Chairman of Apple), Jesse Rogers connect around a range of subjects
2011
7.5
Target
IBIS Capital | A European Perspective on e-Learning
Source: Capital IQ, TechCrunch, press releases, as at 9 Jun 2013 (1) Refers to higher education
Domicile
Total Capital Raised To Date ($m)
16