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  1. Remote Work Tech Companies Prepare for Surge in Customers Amid COVID-19 Outbreak

    Asked about how prepared online teaching platform Top Hat is for a swell of new users, senior director of communications and events Joel…

  2. How to Govern, Manage, and Work Amid COVID-19

    Top Hat, won’t just be remembered for pivoting amid disruption. After redesigning its classroom engagement offering to meet the needs of…

  3. Embracing Online Teaching During the COVID-19 Pandemic

    Growing numbers of colleges and universities are shuttering their doors to mitigate the spread of COVID-19. In turn, educators have had to…

  4. As Employers Send Workers Home, Some Tech Companies Stand To Benefit From COVID-19 Crisis

    Mike Silagadze, CEO of Toronto-based digital textbook provider Tophatmonocle Corp., said he sees this as “an opportunity to reach…

  5. Amazing Ways Canadian Startups Are Tackling the COVID-19 Crisis

    Colleges and universities in many regions are moving to remote, online teaching to avoid the gathering of large crowds. This will be a…

  6. Top Hat Raises $72 Million CAD Series D, Inks deals to Disrupt the Textbook Industry

    Top Hat has raised $72 million CAD ($55 million USD) in a Series D funding round to help the company accelerate its goal of disrupting the…

  7. Edtech Startups Prepare to Become ‘Not Just a Teaching Tool’ but a Necessity

    As classrooms close to limit the spread of the coronavirus, educators scramble to move learning online. Read the article in Tech Crunch to…

  8. Top Hat Raises $55M to Expand Digital Courseware, OER

    Top Hat, an ed tech company that specializes in creating open educational resources (OER), announced that it raised $55 million in Series D…

  9. Top Hat Raises $55M Series D Funding for its Higher Ed Learning Platform

    Top Hat, announces it has raised $55 million in Series D funding co-led by Georgian Partners and Inovia Capital. All of the company’s…

  10. Top Hat Raises $55 Million to Take on Big Textbook Publishers

    Top Hat has inked deals with Fountainhead Press and Bluedoor Publishing to convert all the publishers’ content into digital materials over…

  11. Top Hat Raises US$55 Million in Series D Round

    The latest investment for Top Hat was co-led by existing investors Georgian Partners and Inovia Capital. Top Hat has raised over US$104…

  12. Top Hat Raises $55M Series D To Help Make The 8 a.m., 150-Person Lecture More Interactive

    Top Hat wants to help textbook publishers bring their content from print-only to digitally palatable. And, since it’s 2020, add fully…

  13. Top Hat Raises $55-million in Debt and Equity Financing as it Prepares to Partner with Small Publishers

    “The entire academic textbook publishing space has been facing double-digit revenue declines,” Mr. Silagadze said. “Top Hat is…

  14. Private is the New Public: The Problem with Tech Stars Chasing Private Money as They Don’t File IPOs

    In the face of myriad capital-raising options, founders of tech companies have the upper hand and are choosing to stay private for longer.

  15. Eran Ben-Ari: How Anthropology Can Create Products That Are Customer Obsessed

    Eran Ben-Ari, Chief Product Officer at Top Hat, uses his Anthropology background to solve real customer problems—including growing user…

  16. Podcast: Josh Guttman, Regional VP of Sales, Top Hat

    Josh Guttman, Regional Vice President of Sales at Top Hat, outlines the must-haves in any sales role: authenticity, values and fighting the…

  17. Podcast: How to Create Agile and Active Learning Experiences

    Eran Ben-Ari, Chief Product Officer at Top Hat, explains how Top Hat disrupts higher education on three levels—students, professors and…

  18. Taking OER To The Next Level at SXSW EDU 2019

    Mike Silagadze, CEO and co-founder of Top Hat, acknowledges the benefits and criticisms of incorporating open educational resources into…

  19. Active-Learning Classrooms, 7 Tips for Higher Education

    Mike Silagadze, CEO and co-founder of Top Hat, believes that active learning cannot be restricted to the classroom but instead needs to…

  20. Trial and Error: Flipping the Flipped-Classroom Model

    How Top Hat helps professors John Redden and Kristen Kimball engage their large class by using small group exercises: with a rethink of…