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Websitekoofers.com
Blogkoofers.com/blog
Twitter@koofers
CategoryConsumer Web
Phone703-889-5328
Email
Employees8
Founded2008
DescriptionSocial Learning Company

Offices

Koofers - HQ
11720 Sunrise Valley Drive
Suite 0110 - Lower Level
Reston, VA, 20191
USA
Koofers - Virginia Tech
432 North Main Street
Suite 200
Blacksburg, VA, 24060
USA

People

Co-Founder & CEO
Co-Founder & CSO
Co-Founder & CTO
Director
Board Member
Director

Former People

Acquisitions

Textbo, 7/11

Funding

TOTAL $7M
VENTURE FUNDING TOTAL $7M
Seed, 4/08
LaunchBox Digital
Grant, 10/08
fbFund
Seed, 1/10
Altos Ventures
New Atlantic Ventures
$2M
Series A, 9/10
Revolution
QED Investors
Altos Ventures
New Atlantic Ventures
$5M

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Koofers

Koofers, Inc. is a social learning company transforming higher education through student-driven, intercollegiate collaboration. Koofers empowers students to help each other learn and has aims to fundamentally transform higher education. Therefore, Koofers’ product, Koofers.com, provides students with the best information, tools and services available online at no cost to them.

Students benefit from collaboration with their peers and from the experiences of former students. Koofers.com fosters this form of learning by providing an interactive community to where students can share information, collaborate with each other, and much more.

Many helpful services span the entire academic calendar from course selection through final exams, and include interactive flashcards, course & instructor ratings, professors’ grading histories, and an online library of shared past exams & study materials.

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Videos

Screenshots

Koofers screenshot
Above: Home Page
Uploaded: 1/26/10
Koofers screenshot
Above: Home Page
Uploaded: 5/28/10

Products

Course / Professor Ratings

By combining an extensive amount of academic information directly from university records along with social networking data, Koofers.com gives you virtual snapshots of classes and how specific professors teach them.

Koofers screenshot
Above: Overall Teacher / Class Rating
Uploaded: 8/21/08
Koofers screenshot
Above: Individual Review of Teacher / Class
Uploaded: 8/21/08

Grade Distributions

View the current and past grade breakdown and average GPA for Every Course, Every Professor, Every Department.

See the official grade reports for all professors, courses, and departments in your university.

Koofers screenshot
Above: Average GPA (Pie Chart)
Uploaded: 8/21/08
Koofers screenshot
Above: Average GPA (Over Time)
Uploaded: 8/21/08

Koofers

Websitekoofers.com

Unique to Virginia Tech is the word “coofer” that was coined in the early 1940s to refer to tests or homework completed in an earlier course that is available to students taking the course later, and used as a means of studying or preparing. The term originated at Bluefield College, a former extension branch of VPI, and is likely derived from the word “coffer” (synonym for a strongbox). A student from Bluefield College transferred to the Virginia Tech - Blacksburg campus and first introduced the term. It is often used as a verb in such constructions as “to coofer a problem,” also sometimes spelled “koofer.”

Koofers.com takes it a step further and re-brands “Koofers” as any historical information or data that can help you with your classes (i.e. exams, study guides, ratings, grade distributions, etc.)

Koofers screenshot
Above: Example Koofer (Study Guide) for a Marketing class
Uploaded: 8/22/08

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Sources

  1. Citation Needed [add]
  2. LaunchBox 08 Portfolio (launchboxdigital.com) [edit]
  3. Facebook Announces 25 New fbFund Recipients (developers.facebook.com) [edit]
  4. SEC Form D (sec.gov) [edit]
  5. Social Learning Company Koofers Raises $5 Million From Revolution, Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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