Top Hat Raises $10M in Series B Funding

Funding Rounds

Summary

Top Hat, a San Francisco, Ca.- Chicago, Ill. and Toronto, Canada-based provider of an innovative teaching platform, raised $10m in Series B funding.The round was led by Georgian Partners, a growth equity firm investing in expansion-stage software companies, with participation from existing investors Emergence Capital Partners, iNovia Capital, SoftTech VC, Version One Ventures, Felicis Ventures and Golden Venture Partners.Led by Mike Silagadze, co-founder and CEO, Top Hat provides a platform that enables professors to present their lectures, annotate their slides, share their notes with students, ask questions in class, facilitate discussions, and grade their students.Educators can conduct polls, quizzes, assign homework or run interactive tournaments.The solution, which is also available for mobile devices, is currently used by more than 300,000 students at more than 400 universities, including UCLA, UC Berkeley, and Harvard.

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Amount $10.0M Total raised
Date May 8, 2014 Announcement date
Investors Top Hat, Georgian Partners Lead investors
Company http://tophat.com Funded company

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industries
EduTech - institutions
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Collaboration & Communication

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Labels
SaaS EdTech Learning Management Software

Linked Companies

Top Hat
$1M to $5M