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Monday, September 5, 2016
StudySoup raises $1.7M to help students buy and sell class notes - Lucia Maffei, Tech Crunch
San Francisco-based education startup StudySoup, which calls itself “a peer-to-peer learning marketplace,” announced it has raised $1.7 million in seed funding. The company works as an online study group where students can sell or purchase class notes and study guides. “We realized that a lot of students come to college on very different levels,” Sieva Kozinsky, 26, co-founder and CEO, said in a phone interview with TechCrunch. “They’re all expected to hit the ground running and to get on the same page, and unfortunately it leads to a lot of failures, because people are totally unprepared and there isn’t the right support there.”
https://techcrunch.com/2016/08/26/studysoup-raises-1-7m-to-help-students-buy-and-sell-class-notes/