Grockit Helps MBA Hopefuls Study For The GMAT
Entrance exam preparation is costly and not exactly what I’d call fun. A company that launched on Monday called Grockit is dropping costs and making the process a bit easier to get through. Grockit was...
View ArticleGrockit Raises Cash, Prepares "Massive Multiplayer Online Learning" Product.
When we last wrote about San Francisco based Grockit, in late 2006, they were unfunded. Their business idea of holding low-cost GMAT prep courses over Webex was just getting off the ground. Now they...
View ArticleStarts-Ups Change How Students Study for Tests
Anyone who’s applied to college has dealt with the frustration of standardize testing. With the cost of failure so high, parents and grads continue to spend a lot of cash on test preparation to ensure...
View ArticleGrockit Gets $8 Million More For Mysterious Learning Game
We don’t know much about Grockit. The company is creating a new way to get people to learn online, and has spent the last year working away in stealth mode. Whatever it is, it’s apparently impressing...
View ArticleVirtual Worlds Are So Hot Right Now: $345 Million Invested So Far This Year
I feel like today is Virtual World Day. We started off the morning covering the public beta launch of Vivaty, then Second Life and IBM announced that they bridged two virtual worlds, and Google...
View ArticleTC50: Grockit, The Multiplayer Learning Game That's Better Than Any Practice...
Grockit, the mysterious online learning site that has been operating in stealth for the past year and has raised a total of over $10 million, has finally revealed itself to the public, and it doesn’t...
View ArticleYammer Takes Top Prize At TechCrunch50
Watch a video of the awards ceremony here. Three jam-packed days, and 52 startup demos later, we finally have a winner for this year’s TechCrunch50. Every day, the presentations just seemed to get...
View ArticleKnewton Takes Adaptive Learning To The Next Level
Textbooks are so yesterday. Yet student backpacks are still weighed down by them. Replacing those textbooks with software has been one of the great white whales of computing going back at least to...
View ArticleAfter Near-Death Experience, Grockit And Its CEO Come Back Strong (Screenshots)
Sitting across from Grockit CEO Farb Nivi, you’d never know that a few months ago he was spending weeks in the hospital and with tubes down his throat after getting hit by a minivan on his Vespa. One...
View ArticleGrockit Scores $7 Million To Advance From Online Test Prep To The Academy
Online learning site Grockit raised another $7 million in a Series C financing today. Atlas Venture led the round, with existing investors Benchmark and Integral Capital participating. The last time...
View ArticleGrockit Makes YouTube EDU More Useful
Online learning site Grockit, which launched at TechCrunch 50 in 2008, has integrated educational videos from YouTube EDU to enhance the learnings experience for its users. Grockit is an online...
View ArticleKnewton Brings On Ex-AOLer David Liu As COO
Online learning startup Knewton has a new chief operating officer. David Liu, the former senior VP at AOL who spearheaded its Lifestreaming efforts and is also an angel investor (SimpleGeo,...
View ArticleGrockit Hires A Badass Boy Scout From Google As CEO
Online learning site Grockit is scaling up its leadership team after raising $7 million last May. Today it is announcing that it is hiring Roy Gilbert as CEO. Gilbert is Google’s director of user...
View ArticleClass Is In Session, And Streaming Live On Grockit TV (50 Invites)
Educational startup Grockit is expanding its reach today from social learning to streaming video. The startup has launched Grockit TV, a set of live courses to supplement its SAT and GMAT test prep...
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Grockit Lands $20M From Discovery, Benchmark & Others To Bring Its New...
Social learning company Grockit announced today that it has raised a new round of strategic investment from Discovery Communications, the media giant best known for its television properties, like the...
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Grockit Sells Social Learning Platform To Kaplan, Goes All-In On Learnist,...
If you haven’t heard, some of the former giants of the education world haven’t been doing too well, particularly academic publishers, as evidenced by McGraw-Hill’s recent sale and Cengage’s filing for...
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With 1M Users Now On Board, Learnist Brings Its “Pinterest For Learning” To...
When Grockit first emerged back in 2008, it had set its sights on building a full-service, social learning service that would give students a better way to study for standardized tests, among other...
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Grockit Helps MBA Hopefuls Study For The GMAT
Entrance exam preparation is costly and not exactly what I’d call fun. A company that launched on Monday called Grockit is dropping costs and making the process a bit easier to get through. Grockit was...
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Grockit Raises Cash, Prepares "Massive Multiplayer Online Learning" Product.
When we last wrote about San Francisco based Grockit, in late 2006, they were unfunded. Their business idea of holding low-cost GMAT prep courses over Webex was just getting off the ground. Now they...
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Starts-Ups Change How Students Study for Tests
Anyone who’s applied to college has dealt with the frustration of standardize testing. With the cost of failure so high, parents and grads continue to spend a lot of cash on test preparation to ensure...
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