VC investor Dan Avida saw how limited and disengaged his two girls were with remote learning through Zoom when the pandemic first closed classrooms and sent everyone home. After not finding another platform for them to potentially use and recommend to their universities, he and his wife, Daphne Koller, one of the co-founders of the online learning platform Coursera, decided to create an alternative.
Their platform, Engageli, is specifically designed for higher-education purposes. And on Tuesday, the ed tech company announced that it raised $33 million in its latest funding round, bringing total financing to more than $47 million, co-led by Maveron. Additional investors include Corner Ventures, Good Friends and Educapital.
"We built Engageli to deliver exceptional student experiences that are personal, engaging and rooted in learning outcomes," Avida said in a press release from the company.
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