Smart Sparrow is a complete platform for authoring, sharing, and deploying courseware, with built-in analytics to review student performance. Our mission is to empower educators to create adaptive, engaging, and personalized learning experiences for students. Create on your own or work with our Learning Design Studio to bring your online learning to life.
Location: United States, California, San Francisco
Employees: 11-50
Total raised: $15.3M
Founded date: 2008
Investors 1
| Date | Name | Website |
| - | OneVenture... | one-ventur... |
Funding Rounds 2
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 12.04.2017 | Series C | $5.3M | - |
| 13.03.2014 | - | $10M | - |
Mentions in press and media 21
| Date | Title | Description |
| 27.05.2022 | Продюсирование эмоций: выводим образовательный продукт на новый уровень | Не только статистика трансформируется с течением времени — из года в год и пользователи меняют свои предпочтения и взгляды на продукты. Если раньше они делали выбор в пользу сравнительно сложных образовательных продуктов с лекциями по 2 час... |
| 22.01.2020 | Pearson Bets on Adaptive Learning (Again) With $25M Acquisition of Smart Sparrow | Smart Sparrow, which provides course-authoring tools for faculty and instructional designers to build adaptive courseware, has found a new home in a much bigger nest. Last week, Pearson announced it paid $25 million to acquire Smart Sparrow... |
| 27.06.2019 | Sydney Sees Startup Success in Edtech and Fintech | Sydney is recognized as Australia’s global city and represents 7% of the country’s economy. With talent coming in from the University of Technology Sydney and startup communities such as Tech Sydney connecting founders and innovators, it’s ... |
| 05.02.2018 | ACT Bets Big on Analytics, Adaptive Learning With $7.5M Investment in Smart Sparrow | When most people hear the letters ACT, they likely think of the test that helps determine which colleges they get into. But the organization’s chief executive, Marten Roorda, wants to provide more than a score. In recent years, the nonprofi... |
| 05.02.2018 | College Testing Firm ACT Invests in Edtech Startup Smart Sparrow | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints ACT, the big college admissions testing organization whose CEO aims to make it an educational venture as well, is investing $7.5 million in interactive online learning startup... |
| 05.02.2018 | EdTech startup Smart Sparrow lands $10 million investment from college testing firm ACT to accelerate work in learning innovation | Australia-based EdTech startup Smart Sparrow has landed $10 million strategic investment from ACT, the nonprofit behind the ACT college admissions test. While millions of individuals take the ACT test each year, that’s just one aspect of th... |
| 18.04.2017 | Sydney edutech Smart Sparrow raises $5.3 million Series C round to expand platform for US market | Sydney-founded online education startup Smart Sparrow has announced the closing of a US$4 (AU$5.3) million Series C round led by OneVentures to expand its design-based technology to cater for the growing number of students taking online cou... |
| 12.04.2017 | Smart Sparrow Raises $4M in Funding | Smart Sparrow, a San Francisco, CA-based educational technology company, raised $4m in funding. Backers included Moelis Australia Asset Management, OneVentures and Uniseed. The company – which previously received a $4.5m grant from the Bill... |
| 11.04.2017 | Smart Sparrow Secures $4M | SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Smart Sparrow today announced $4 million in new funding to support the expansion of its popular instructional design and courseware platform. >> Click here for more funding data on Smart Sparrow >> To expo... |
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