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
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Often compared with: Khan Academy, Age of Learning.