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Schoology Funding Round

On 11/10/2015, Schoology raised $32 million in funding from JMI Equity, FirstMark Capital and Great Road Holdings.

Transaction Overview

Company Name
Announced On
11/10/2015
Transaction Type
Venture Equity
Amount
$32,000,000
Round
Undisclosed
Investors

JMI Equity (Lead Investor) (Jit Sinha)

FirstMark Capital (Amish Jani)

Great Road Holdings

Intel Capital (Sumeet Jain)

Proceeds Purpose
Schoology will use the new funding to make product engineering investments to increase the scope and power of its education cloud, which connects the people, content, data, and systems that fuel education. It also plans to expand distribution so it can reach more schools, districts, colleges and universities around the globe.

Company Information

Company Status
Private & Independent
Industry
EdTech
Mailing Address
2 Penn Plz. 10th Floor
New York, NY 10121
USA
Email Address
Overview
Schoology is a free web-based learning management system (LMS) built on a social network. Schoology leverages the familiarity of popular social media tools to improve communication and collaboration.
Profile
Schoology LinkedIn Company Profile
Social Media
Schoology Company Twitter Account
Company News
Schoology News
Facebook
Schoology on Facebook
YouTube
Schoology on YouTube

Management Team

Title
Name
Email & Social
Chief Executive Officer
Jeremy Friedman
  Jeremy Friedman LinkedIn Profile  Jeremy Friedman Twitter Account  Jeremy Friedman News  Jeremy Friedman on Facebook
Executive Vice President
Bill Kindler
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VP - Engineering
Alberto Silveira
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VP - Product Management
Joel Hames
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VP - Sales
Amanda Rice
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