It's midnight before your final exam and you need help. Do you know where your tutor is? InstaEDU, says a $1.1 million seed round from former Facebooker Chamath Palihapitiya's fund�The Social+Capital Partnership and several angels.�Stumped high school and college students pay InstaEDU by the minute to video chat with tutors from top universities at any hour of the day. InstaEDU will use the seed to grow its team and build critical features like advanced scheduling. Co-founder Alison Johnston was the community manager of on-demand Q&A service Aardvark which was acquired by Google. With�plenty of students and their parents happy to pay to get into a great school or job, now she's bringing the same satisfaction of instant answers to the lucrative tutoring space. In fact,�55% of student-tutor matches are made in under a minute and TechCrunch readers can get a free trial of InstaEDU at the end of this article...
Wednesday, May 30, 2012
InstaEDU On-Demand Video Tutoring Gets An A+ and $1.1M Seed From The Social+Capital Partnership
It's midnight before your final exam and you need help. Do you know where your tutor is? InstaEDU, says a $1.1 million seed round from former Facebooker Chamath Palihapitiya's fund�The Social+Capital Partnership and several angels.�Stumped high school and college students pay InstaEDU by the minute to video chat with tutors from top universities at any hour of the day. InstaEDU will use the seed to grow its team and build critical features like advanced scheduling. Co-founder Alison Johnston was the community manager of on-demand Q&A service Aardvark which was acquired by Google. With�plenty of students and their parents happy to pay to get into a great school or job, now she's bringing the same satisfaction of instant answers to the lucrative tutoring space. In fact,�55% of student-tutor matches are made in under a minute and TechCrunch readers can get a free trial of InstaEDU at the end of this article...
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