| Date | Title | Description |
| 12.11.2024 | Industry-Leading Instructional AI Platform Launches Advanced Plagiarism Prevention and Detection Solution | Packback’s expanded academic integrity tools bring together real-time feedback with advanced plagiarism and AI text detection, guiding students in the writing process to improve their writing while working to proactively prevent plagiarism ... |
| 22.03.2024 | Packback Announces Strategic Investment from PSG Equity | We are thrilled to share that Packback, an AI-driven writing and discussion platform within the HPA Portfolio, has received a strategic majority investment by PSG Equity, a prominent growth equity firm.
Packback’s proprietary AI technology ... |
| 22.03.2024 | Packback Receives Investment from PSG Equity | Packback, a Chicago, IL-based provider of an AI-enabled writing and discussion platform, received an investment from PSG Equity.
The amount of the deal was not disclosed.
Commenting on the news, Kelsey Behringer, CEO of Packback, said: “We ... |
| 22.03.2024 | 'Shark Tank' alum Packback announces new funding, discusses growth since show appearance | - |
| 21.03.2024 | Packback Announces Strategic Investment from PSG Equity | Packback Announces Strategic Investment from PSG Equity
Investment aims to drive expansion of Packback’s AI-powered platform to help boost student engagement and academic performance in K-12 and higher education
Chicago, IL - March 21, 2024... |
| 06.10.2023 | Seeing Through Edtech Bad Behavior | As soon as my kids were old enough to stop squirming through a 70-page story, I made sure to read them Roald Dahl’s The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar. I had two reasons. First, it’s wondrous and incredibly well-crafted – better than Dahl’s... |
| 28.09.2023 | 20 Women Tech Leaders On The Principles That Guide Their Leadership | getty |
| 03.03.2023 | Packback Labs Launches Free “Teach with GPT” Suite of Tools to Help Educators Effectively Leverage Generative AI in the Classroom | Packback Labs, the product innovation arm of AI-enabled education platform Packback, announced the launch of their free “Teach with GPT” suite of tools. Packback has been utilizing AI to bring students and instructors closer together since ... |
| 14.02.2023 | Packback Labs Launches Free “Teach with GPT” Suite of Tools to Help Educators Effectively Leverage Generative AI in the classroom | "GPT offers another valuable opportunity for educators to deploy AI as an effective learning tool rather than viewing it as a threat, and we believe that to best prepare students to truly thrive in a post-AI world, these technologies n... |
| 21.11.2022 | College Faculty Can Now Use AI to Coach Students on Long-form Essay Writing | Packback, whose inquiry-based online discussion platform is used at hundreds of colleges around the country, announced the launch of Deep Dives, an AI-enabled coach developed to help students improve their writing. Deep Dives was designed t... |
| 18.11.2022 | College Faculty Can Now Use AI to Coach Students on Long-form Essay Writing | “Our work is about enabling instructors to spend more time connecting with their students who need the most support; and freeing instructors to focus on concepts and complex themes, rather than correcting grammar mistakes.”
CHICAGO, IL (PRW... |
| 23.04.2020 | Amidst Adversity, Faculty Innovation Is Flourishing | Professors are embracing improvisation as courses move online.Getty |
| 31.01.2019 | VC Funding for Chicago Tech Tops $200M in January | This is our round up of Chicago tech and startup companies that received venture capital investments during the month of January. If we missed one, let us know at info@chicagoinno.com.
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| 30.01.2019 | Packback Raises $2.5M in Funding | Packback, a Chicago, IL-based edtech company, raised $2.5m in funding.
The round was led by University Ventures, with participation from Hyde Park Angels.
The company will use the new capital to maintain its growth as it continues to expand... |
| 30.01.2019 | Daily funding roundup - January 30th, 2019 | Oxygen raised $2.3M; Returnly raised &8M; Verbit raised $23M; Clover Health raised $500M;
HeyTutor: HeyTutor is a platform allowing students, tutors and agencies to connect. HeyTutor has raised $1 million in Series A funding from ScOp V... |
| 30.01.2019 | Term Sheet — Wednesday, January 30 | WHEN A STARTUP GOES BUST
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| 29.01.2019 | Packback Lands Another $2.5M | Chicago ed-tech startup Packback has raised another round of funding as it brings its artificial intelligence software to more college classrooms.
Packback announced Tuesday that it has raised $2.5 million in a round led by repeat investor ... |
| 31.01.2018 | Packback Raises $4.2m in Series A Funding | Packback, a Chicago, IL-based developer of an AI-powered online discussion platform, raised $4.2m in Series A funding.
The round was led by University Ventures, with participation from previous investors Mark Cuban, Wintrust Ventures, and W... |
| 31.01.2018 | Mark Cuban, Other Investors Put More Money Into AI Startup Packback | As Packback continues its pivot away from an online textbook platform and into artificial intelligence software for college courses, Mark Cuban and other investors are pouring more money into the Chicago startup.
Packback announced Wednesda... |
| 31.01.2018 | VC Funding for Chicago Tech, Startups Topped $175M in January | Chicago-area tech and startup companies had a strong start to 2018, collectively raising at least $175 million in venture capital funding, according to data compiled by Chicago Inno.
In December, local tech and startup funding topped $113 m... |
| 11.12.2017 | 18 Chicago Startups to Watch in 2018 | 2017 has been quite a year for Chicago tech startups. In between the highs and lows, we've seen plenty of early-stage startups that are on the rise throughout the city.
To find Chicago Inno's latest crop of startups to watch, we reached out... |
| 21.09.2017 | Packback Raises $1.5M in Funding | Packback, a Chicago, IL-based education technology company, raised $1.5m in funding.
Backers included University Ventures, and ICG Ventures LLC, the corporate venture capital arm of Ingram Content Group, and Mark Cuban.
The company, which i... |
| 19.09.2017 | Term Sheet — Tuesday, September 19 | VCs VERSUS ICOs
Companies have raised more than $1.7 billion through initial coin offerings this year, surpassing early-stage VC funding for Internet companies. It’s easy to see why an ICO is appealing to tech founders (No due diligence! LO... |
| 19.09.2017 | With a New Focus on Artificial Intelligence, Mark Cuban-Backed Packback Raises $1.5M | Chicago startup Packback looks a little different today than it did in 2014 when it went on Shark Tank and scored a $250,000 investment from Mark Cuban.
Back then, Packback was all about online textbooks, offering 24-hour e-textbook rentals... |
| 09.06.2015 | Packback Raises Another $1.5M to Get More eTextbooks In Front of Students | Packback wants more students to pay less for textbooks. They just raised $1.5 million to do just that.
Chicago-based Packback, a rental service for eTextbooks, announced Tuesday it raised $1.5 million in funding in a round led by Hyde Park ... |
| 12.08.2014 | Shark Week: PackBack Announces $1 Million Seed Round with $250K from Mark Cuban | In March, Packback, the pay-per-use eTextbook rental platform, secured a $250K investment from Mark Cuban on ABC's Shark Tank. Today, the Chicago-based startup announced a $1 million seed round.
In addition to the Mavericks Owner, the round... |
