| Website | grockit.com |
| Category | Games, Video and Entertainment |
| Employees | 12 |
| Founded | 12/06 |
| Description | online GMAT and SAT preparation |
| Total | $10.7M |
| Angel Mark Pincus Rob Lord Reid Hoffman Marc Hustvedt Tom Ryan | $400k |
| Series A, 6/07 Benchmark Capital | $2.3M |
| Series B, 5/08 Benchmark Capital Integral Capital Partners | $8M |
Grockit is a learning Web 2.0 service, as they like to call it. The two products they offer include an online GMAT preparation package and a learning game for massively multiplayer online games (currently in private invite mode). 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.
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Added: 11/5/08| Website | grockit.com |
| Blog | grockit.com |
| Stage | Alpha |
| Launch Date | July 26, 2007 |
| Tags | learning |
Grockit is in the alpha stage of a MMOLG (Massively Multiplayer Online Learning Game)
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