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AltSchool

EdTechUSAClosed 2019

Total Raised

$174M

Peak Valuation

$700M

Employees

Year Collapsed

2019

Business model

Operated private micro-schools and licensed its education software platform to other schools.

In brief

Backed by some of Silicon Valley's most prominent investors, it opened a small network of tech-driven private 'micro-schools' in San Francisco and New York while building software to license to other schools. The physical schools proved far more expensive to run than projected, a…

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Key facts

Founded
2013
Closed
2019
Headquarters
San Francisco, USA
Industry
EdTech
Employees
Revenue
Undisclosed
Founders
Max Ventilla

Related failures

Often compared with: Khan Academy, Age of Learning.