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AllHere, a Boston MA-based company which specializes in providing K-12 districts with technology solutions for student outcomes, raised $8M in Series A funding.
The round, which brought funding raised to date to $12.1m, was led by Spero Ventures with participation from Rethink Education, Gratitude Railroad, Potencia Ventures, and Boston Impact Initiative, as well as new investors Softbank’s Opportunity Fund, Operator Collective, and Yard Ventures.
The investment round will be used to grow the capabilities of AllHere’s conversational artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, expand operations and business reach.
Led by Joanna Smith, CEO and Founder, AllHere combines conversational AI, behavioral science, and interactive nudges to foster attendance and engagement in K-12 education. The company’s solutions automate personalized, two-way text messaging with chatbots to improve attendance rates and guide students and families through school. Its evidence-based system provides 24/
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Seven Seven Six, a venture firm founded by Alexis Ohanian, the co-founder of Reddit and noted crypto bull, led a $5.3 million seed round investment in QuickNode, a company powering the future of a decentralized internet founded in 2017.
Edtech has realized it needs to build for the TikTok generation. It’s part of the reason we’re seeing a rise in supplemental, aspirational companies such as Outschool and MasterClass, which both lean on snappy editing, engaging content and, most of all, on-demand learning. But a nut that is yet to be cracked is how to […]