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Grockit

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Grockit is an online social learning game company. It currently offers GMAT and SAT test prep games. Grockit believes that people learn better through peer-to-peer situations instead of teacher-to-student, and they are building their companies’ products around this idea. Grockit is a play on the word ‘grok’ which means to understand something so well it becomes part of you. Their main competitors include online courses offered by The Princeton Review and Kaplan.

Milestones

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• Received $8M in Series B funding. (5/30/08)
  Posted 5/29/08 at 11:39pm
• Received $2.3M in Series A funding. (6/1/07)
  Posted 7/25/07 at 8:48pm
• Received $400k in Angel funding. (2007)
  Posted 2/23/08 at 5:02pm
• David Marino, Director of Operations added.
  Posted 2/23/08 at 5:11pm
• Betty Kayton, CFO added.
  Posted 2/23/08 at 5:11pm
• Babak Nivi, Advisor added.
  Posted 2/23/08 at 5:11pm
• Mitch Lasky, Board Member added.
  Posted 2/23/08 at 5:04pm
• Farbood Nivi, Founder & CEO added.
  Posted 7/25/07 at 8:46pm
• Heather Gilchrist, Director of Academics added.
  Posted 2/23/08 at 5:11pm
• Brian Buser, Director of Marketing added.
  Posted 7/17/09 at 10:06am
• Ari Bader-Natal, Chief Scientist/Architect added.
  Posted 9/1/09 at 12:25pm

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1. Grockit Raises Cash, Prepares “Massive Multiplayer Online Learning” Product. (techcrunch.com) [edit]
2. Grockit raises $2.3M for online test preparation (venturebeat.com) [edit]
3. Stealth educational startup Grockit raises $8M more (venturebeat.com) [edit]