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General Information
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Website	grockit.com
Blog	blog.grockit.com
Twitter	@grockit
Category	Consumer Web
Email	grockit@cutline.com
Employees	25
Founded	12/06
Description	Online social learning games

Offices
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San Francisco, USA

500 Third Street
Suite 260
San Francisco, CA, 94107
USA

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People
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Farbood Nivi

Founder, President, chief product officer, and chairman

CEO

VP of Marketing

VP of Engineering

Board

Director of Customer Success

Mitch Lasky

Member, Board of Directors

Former People
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Betty Kayton

CFO

Babak Nivi

Advisor

Heather Gilchrist

Director of Academics

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Funding
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TOTAL	$44.7M
FUNDING TOTAL	$44.7M
Angel, 1/07 Mark Pincus Rob Lord Reid Hoffman Marc Hustvedt Tom Ryan	$400k
Series A, 6/07 Benchmark	$2.3M
Series B, 5/08 Benchmark Integral Capital Partners	$8M
Series C, 5/10 Atlas Venture Benchmark Integral Capital Partners	$7M
Series D, 10/11 Atlas Venture Benchmark Integral Capital Partners GSV Capital New Schools Ventures	$7M
Venture Round, 12/12 Discovery Communications Atlas Venture Benchmark Integral Capital Partners GSV Capital	$20M

Competitors
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PrepMe, Brightstorm, Princeton Review, Kaplan, Top Test Prep, 2U, Udemy, Cramster

Service Providers
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Cutline Communications

Public Relations

Tags
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techcrunch50, tc50, learning, grockit, gmat, mmol, mmo, children, education, testprep, testing, gaming

Grockit
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Grockit is a pioneering online social learning company. Grockit has proven that people learn more, faster through combining social learning mechanics and multi-media learning content to help people teach and learn from others.

Learnist is Grockit’s broadest learning service, launched in May of 2012. At Learnist, expert members curate the web’s content to create simple explanations on virtually anything using open content and rich multimedia.

Grockit.com offers Test Prep services for GMAT, IIM CAT, LSAT, GRE, ACT, SAT and AP Calculus and AP History tests. Grockit has built a social learning test prep platform for license and direct-to-consumer products. Florida Virtual Schools, KIPP Schools, Georgetown University and other schools have deployed Grockit services.

Recent Milestones
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Grockit received $20M in Venture Round funding. (12/19/12)

Posted 12/19/12 at 2:39am via techcrunch.com
Grockit received $7M in Series D funding. (10/17/11)

Posted 10/17/11 at 5:36pm via techcrunch.com
Grockit added Chris Henley as VP of Engineering. (9/1/11)

Posted 9/30/11 at 1:26pm
Grockit added Aaron Burcell as VP of Marketing. (2/1/11)

Posted 2/7/11 at 1:49pm
Grockit added Roy Gilbert as CEO. (9/1/10)

Posted 9/6/10 at 8:30pm
Grockit — Grockit named in Lead411's Hottest San Francisco Companies list (5/18/10)

Posted 9/1/10 at 5:09am via lead411.com
Grockit received $7M in Series C funding. (5/14/10)

Posted 5/14/10 at 12:30pm via techcrunch.com
Grockit added Ari Bader-Natal as Chief Learning Architect. (7/1/08)

Posted 9/1/09 at 12:25pm
Grockit received $8M in Series B funding. (5/30/08)

Posted 5/29/08 at 11:39pm via venturebeat.com
Grockit received $2.3M in Series A funding. (6/1/07)

Posted 7/25/07 at 8:48pm via venturebeat.com
Grockit received $400k in Angel funding. (1/1/07)

Posted 2/23/08 at 5:02pm via techcrunch.com
Grockit added Betty Kayton as CFO.

Posted 2/23/08 at 5:11pm
Grockit added Farbood Nivi as Founder, President, chief product officer, and chairman.

Posted 7/25/07 at 8:46pm
Grockit added David Marino as Director of Customer Success.

Posted 2/23/08 at 5:11pm
Grockit added Mitch Lasky as Member, Board of Directors.

Posted 2/23/08 at 5:04pm
Grockit added Babak Nivi as Advisor.

Posted 2/23/08 at 5:11pm

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Added: 11/5/08

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Products
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Grockit
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Website	grockit.com
Blog	grockit.com/blog/main
Stage	Live
Launch Date	December, 2007
Tags	learning

Grockit is in the beta stage of its online social learning game.

Above: Grockit Game Play
Uploaded: 9/11/08

Learnist
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Get an invitation to this site from InviteShare here!

Website	learni.st
Blog	grockit.com/blog/main
Stage	Beta
Launch Date	May 24, 2012
Tags	social-learning, online-learning, media-curation

Learnist is broad application of social learning developed for facebook, web and mobile users. Learnist encourages you to “share what you know”, and is organized like a multi-media version of WikiPedia. You can create an account and learn from others while waiting for your invite request to be processed. Once your invite has been extended, you can create “Learnist Boards” on virtually any topic, suggest new board items to any board owner and invite others to collaborate on new and existing boards.