gener8tor Alumni Fiveable Lands $10M Series A Financing
As the pandemic continues to unevenly play out, the backdrop of our days has never felt more stagnant. While tech workers may turn to virtual HQs or Twitter Spaces for spontaneous chats, high schoolers are searching for casual places online to riff and study with friends. And Fiveable, a Milwaukee-based startup, fits the growing demand.
Fiveable began years ago as a free, online learning community for high school students with the focus of helping them pass Advanced Placement (AP) exams. It grew in popularity as it live-streamed five-hour “cram shops” focused on a specific subject, created study guides, and managed a Discord with thousands of students. Now, it is evolving to become a social learning platform that helps any student navigate high school.
“We’re the hallways of the educational internet,” said Fiveable co-founder and CEO Amanda DoAmaral. “What do students do in the hallways of high school? They hang out with friends, they grab books, they figure out where they need to be next, they catch up — and a lot of what happens in Fiveable is that.”
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originally published in TechCrunch, on September 28, 2021
written by Natasha Mascarenhas