As a medium, print is incompatible with the blistering pace of change and new discoveries. Textbooks are outdated as soon as they go to press. Top Hat is responding by launching a digital textbook marketplace and securing $7.5 million from Leaders Fund. Full story in EdSurge.
Top Hat has added Secure Attendance, a next generation attendance platform built right into their app that can tell if a student is truly in class. Their team has evaluated all the ways students could possibly circumvent an attendance app and developed an accurate, secure solution. Full story on Nibletz
Top Hat has now launched its content marketplace out of beta. The idea here is to challenge the massive textbook industry that doesn’t have any qualms about charging students hundreds of dollars for a book and a few (generally disappointing and hard to use) online tools and addenda. Full story on TechCrunch.
Top Hat has launched an online marketplace for HigherEd content that provides professors with great tools to develop or assemble course materials and share them, for free or at a premium. Students get the benefit of up-to-date, interactive, fully course aligned materials. Textbook publishers selling high-priced books should be worried. Full story on GettingSmart
Top Hat has raised $9 million CAD in its Series C follow-on funding from Toronto-based Leaders Fund. The company raised its $29.5 million CAD Series C back in February. “We leveraged our existing relationship with educators already using our classroom engagement tools to test and launch the Marketplace,” said Mike Silagadze, co-founder and CEO of […]
Last month, Roy Pereira, CEO of Toronto startup zoom.ai, received so many applications for a software engineering position from U.S.-based job seekers that he thought they were fake.”I thought it was maybe bots spamming us,” he remembered, noting only about one per cent of the company’s past applications had come from the States. Full story CBC.
“I’m excited to be joining Top Hat, a Toronto-based startup that has such a clear value proposition,” said Bendtsen. “Talent is a key factor in any high growth startup, and Top Hat is no different. In my role, I’ll be focusing on strategies to strengthen the culture internally, ensuring that we’re creating an inclusive, high-performing […]
Last year, David Bainbridge, CEO of UK-based Knowledgemotion, published an article on TechCrunch titled “Edtech is the Next Fintech.” Full story on Forbes
On May 15 and May 16, the Ontario Centres of Excellence (OCE) hosted OCE Discovery at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre to bring together aspiring and budding entrepreneurs, investors, and those curious about how Canada is becoming a global tech leader.