Koofers Raises $5M For College Academics Network
alarmClock Sep 30 10Reston, VA-based Koofers has raised $5M from New Atlantic Ventures, Altos Ventures i investors QED Investors and AOL-cofounder Steve Case's Revolution. Koofers' service is to help students to help each other learn by providing open access to: course materials, class and professor ratings, study aids and more. Koofers has aggregated data from 400 schools -- aided by its integration with Facebook. Koofers' CEO, Gio Hunt, is a former AOL executive as its its head of marketing who was a VP of Marketing at AOL. We really like the concept here and think it has legs. Facebook grew as a social outlet for college students while Koofers is focused on the academic side of the college experience and we feel they can add a lot of functionality from here. Full story...
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