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General Information
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Website	piazza.com
Blog	blog.piazza.com
Twitter	@piazza
Category	Consumer Web
Phone	707 776 6520
Email	team@piazza.com
Employees
Founded	2009
Description	Collective Answer Platform

Offices
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Palo Alto, USA

541 Cowper St
Palo Alto, CA, 94301
USA

People
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Pooja Sankar

CEO & Founder

Steve Loughlin

Board Member

Phil Soffer

Marketing

Funding
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TOTAL	$7.5M
FUNDING TOTAL	$7.5M
Seed, 7/11 Sequoia Capital Kapor Capital Felicis Ventures SV Angel	$1.5M
Series A, 1/12 Bessemer Venture Partners Kapor Capital Felicis Ventures	$6M

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Piazza
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Piazza gets students help, fast. Students post questions anonymously and their classmates and professors collectively answer. This online platform gets them high quality answers for even the most specific doubts, within minutes.

Recent Milestones
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Piazza received $6M in Series A funding. (1/6/12)

Posted 1/7/12 at 4:14am via techcrunch.com
Piazza received $1.5M in Seed funding. (7/6/11)

Posted 7/4/11 at 1:52pm via finsmes.com
Piazza added Phil Soffer as Marketing. (7/1/11)

Posted 11/5/11 at 6:45am
Piazza added Steve Loughlin as Board Member. (9/1/10)

Posted 1/6/12 at 10:52am
Piazza added Pooja Sankar as CEO & Founder.

Posted 2/4/10 at 11:21am

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Piazza from Campfire Creative

Added: 1/9/12

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Founder Stories: Pooja Sankar

Added: 2/20/13

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Piazza Raises $1.5M in Seed Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
Bessemer Leads $6M Round In Q&A Platform For Students And Teachers, Piazza (techcrunch.com) [edit]

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