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Websiteeducation.com
Blogeducation.com/blog
Twitter@education_com
CategoryConsumer Web
Phone(650) 366-3380
Emailkeden@education.com
Employees30
Founded9/06
DescriptionWebsite for parents

Offices

Headquarters
2317 Broadway Street
Suite 240
Redwood City, CA, 94063
USA
Sales Office
44 West 28 Street
New York, NY, 10001
USA

People

CEO
Vice President, Marketing
Chief Revenue Officer
Editor-in-Chief
CTO & Vice President, Engineering

Former People

Funding

TOTAL $24.5M
FUNDING TOTAL $24.5M
Series A, 8/06
$4.5M
Series B, 7/09
$15M
Series C, 2/12
$5M

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Education.com

Launched in 2007, Education.com is the 4th largest parenting website with more than four million unique visitors each month.

The company generates revenue primarily through display advertising.

The site offers a broad range of content to parents and educators including:

Articles: Education.com hosts tens of thousands of articles written by the company’s in-house editorial staff and acquired from universities, publishers, non-profits, research organizations, teachers, psychologists, and physicians.

Activities: Education.com offers thousands of hands-on and curriculum based activities, worksheets, games, and coloring pages – all sorted by grade level and topic.

Community: Using JustAsk, Education.com members have the ability to share advice with Education.com’s community of thousands of parents and the company’s panel of experts.

Schoolfinder: A resource empowering parents to obtain qualitative and quantitative information on more than 200,000 schools (preschools, K-12 public, private & charter schools, and colleges).

Video: Education.com produces and acquires high quality, engaging videos on a wide range of topics of interest to parents from back-to-school tips to holiday activity how-tos.

Mobile: Education.com offers a free iPhone App (“Fun Finder”) through the iTunes store.

Recent Milestones

Videos

http://youtu.be/r12IrXnYQfI
Above:

Education.com healthy lunchbox tips

Added: 10/28/11

Screenshots

Products

Wonder Box

Wonder Box, a creation of Education.com, is a subscription based product for kids 3-6.

Each box includes all supplies needed to do three hands-on activities (such as “Decorate a Cape”, “Build a Puppet”, or “”Create your own bath bombs”) plus extras like activity books, recipes & more. Each Wonder Box activity helps build essential kindergarten skills, while creating opportunities for parents and kids to have fun learning together.

A variety of gift options and subscription lengths are available.

Sources

  1. Education.com – VC funded with $4.5m (family2point0.wordpress.com) [edit]
  2. Education.com Gets $9.75 Million Second Round (cbsnews.com) [edit]
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