Smart Sparrow has raised $4m to support its adaptive learning platform. The company's third funding round was led by Moelis Australia Asset Management, which put forward $3m, and also featured contributions from existing investors OneVentures and Uniseed. So far Smart Sparrow has raised almost $14m in venture funding. The Australian-founded company, which is now based in San Francisco, offers course-building platforms to teachers, allowing them to design online programmes from scratch, including interactive content such as embedded quizzes, virtual labs and simulations. In the US, a company called Coursera launched an open platform for teaching students how to write their own course materials.
Smart Sparrow has raised $4m to support its adaptive learning platform. The company's third funding round was led by Moelis Australia Asset Management, which put forward $3m, and also featured contributions from existing investors OneVentures and Uniseed. So far Smart Sparrow has raised almost $14m in venture funding. The Australian-founded company, which is now based in San Francisco, offers course-building platforms to teachers, allowing them to design online programmes from scratch, including interactive content such as embedded quizzes, virtual labs and simulations. Thus far Smart Sparrow has signed up 150 universities and been used to create more than 20,000 courses.