Now that high school seniors have made the fateful choice of a college to attend in the fall, their parents are free to pull out tufts of hair as they figure out how to pay for it.
Scholarships are life-saving options, but they can be hard to ferret out, says San Francisco-based startup Schoold, which offers a free college-planning mobile app. The company, which uses artificial intelligence techniques to personalize help for individual students, today announced a new “Scholarship” function on its app. It will automatically surface details on study grants and awards that could work for each particular user.
With over 2,500 attendees expected at this year’s ASU GSV Summit in San Diego from April 18-20, we ran the company exhibitor list through the CB Insights database — thanks to our Bulk Search tool — to help you target the right companies and people.
Grovo, a company offering “micro-learning” content to help businesses train their employees, has raised $40 million in Series C funding.
The round was led by Accel (which has been involved since Grovo’s seed round and led the Series B) with additional funding from previous backers Costanoa Venture Capital, SoftTech VC and Greg Waldorf, plus new investor Vayner Capital. Grovo has now raised a total of $65 million.
Online education startup Udacity, whose students have gone on to join the likes of Google and Facebook, is now a $1 billion company.
Today the education company shared that it talked its way into a $105 million investment from Google Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, media company Bertelsmann, and others in order to expand internationally.
