LearnBoost

If you’ve been wondering what I’ve been up to these days, I have some compelling news to share about my company, LearnBoost

I’m excited to announce that my company has raised a seed round of $975K from several leading angels and venture capital firms. Our VC’s are Bessemer Venture Partners, Charles River Ventures, RRE Ventures, and Atlas Ventures. Our angels include Naval Ravikant, Bill Lee, James Hong, Othman Laraki, Karl Jacob, and several other fantastic angels. We’re thrilled this entire group of investors share LearnBoost’s vision for developing free and amazing software for schools.

In early August, LearnBoost will release our free, easy-to-use, and beautiful application built on the powerful technology we’ve developed. LearnBoost completely replaces other gradebook providers, both free and paid. Our accounts give teachers a free gradebook to manage their classroom, as well as integrated software to create and manage lesson plans, track attendance in a list or innovative visual format, maintain schedules, import and integrate Google calendars, “tag” standards to assignments and lesson plans, and much more. If you are a teacher, or know a teacher, they can use our software for free — please tell them to get on our free account list.

We’ll be using this funding to move towards developing the best student information system on the market, in addition to the free teacher software we’ll be releasing in August. We’re aiming right at Blackboard, Pearson, and other slow legacy software providers with our free, wonderful offerings. We closed our financing a few months ago, so we already have a team in place to reach our goals. That said, we’re always looking for more talent; if you are a developer or designer and want to be part of a fast-growing team dedicated to education and open source software, please check out our jobs page.

So what’s next? If you’re a teacher or know a teacher, tell them about LearnBoost and make sure they get on the free account list. Our free and amazing software can be used by any teacher and in our test phase we’ve gotten lots of praise already. I’m excited for our release in early August and to continue to share our open source releases and developments.

Guillermo Rauch
LearnBoost CTO