Top Hat Co-founder and CEO Named One of Canada’s Top 40 Under 40
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Harleen Dhami
Harleen Dhami is a Senior Growth Marketing Specialist for Top Hat. During her tenure at Top Hat, she's interviewed acclaimed educators including Dr. Bryan Dewsbury and Dr. Christopher Emdin. She works to amplify the stories of both faculty and students alike through case studies, blog posts and ebooks. Harleen holds a Master's Degree in Professional Communication from Toronto Metropolitan University. In 2020, she was the recipient of a Gold Quill Award of Merit presented by the International Association of Business Communicators.
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UBC Faculty of Arts and Top Hat Partner to Expand Access to Higher Education
This enables 1,100 instructors and 14,000 students to have access to low-cost or free interactive course materials.
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Top Hat Hires Chief Product Officer Eran Ben-Ari to Lead Next Wave of Product Innovation and Customer Success
Ben-Ari will oversee product strategy, development, and expansion, focused on drivingrevenue opportunities.
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Top Hat Partners with Unizin Consortium to Bring Affordable and Accessible Digital OER Content to 25 Universities
The partnership grants educators at member institutions access to Top Hat’s full range of tools.
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Top Hat Named to Deloitte’s Technology Fast 50™
It honours 50 Canadian technology companies with the highest revenue-growth percentage over the four years.
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Ohio University and Top Hat Partner to Reduce Textbook Costs for Students
OHIO students will realize an estimated savings of $500,000 per semester through the successful adoption of OER.
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Empower Teachers, Support Students: Top Hat CEO Mike Silagadze
“Top Hat is providing a tech platform that gives professors a way to adopt open source content at a fraction of the price, or maybe or even free.” Read the full Techvibes interview with Top Hat’s CEO on how classrooms are being reinvented in the 21st century.
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CIX Reveals Its 2017 List of Canada’s Top 20 Most Innovative Companies
Top Hat has been named as one of the top 20 most innovative tech companies in Canada for 2017, based on factors like product and service offering, depth of management, market opportunity, and business model. Full story on Betakit.
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Mobile Apps Gain Ground Against Handheld Clickers
For students and instructors, smartphone apps represent the opportunity to consolidate technologies, while at the same time allowing for more complex answers than A-through-D questions. Read more in Inside Higher Ed about how Top Hat’s smartphone app is replacing the physical clicker.
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Top Hat Continues 2017 Momentum With New Office in Sydney Australia
TORONTO–Top Hat, provider of the leading cloud-based teaching platform for higher education, today announced the opening of its Sydney, Australia office with Jacquie Dwyer joining as Vice President of APAC. The office is the first market expansion for the company outside of North America. The new outpost will be focused on sales and customer success, […]
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Top Hat Wins Pauli Award 2017 For Company of the Year
The 6th annual Pauli Awards recognize members of the Golden Triangle Angel Network, a company that invests in and mentors early-stage companies. This year’s Company of the Year award went to Top Hat, which was founded in Waterloo. Full story on CTV Kitchener.
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Top Hat Launches Marketplace to Challenge Textbook Publishers
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.
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Top Hat Puts Two More Features In Their Cap For Back To School
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
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Top Hat Takes on Textbook Publishers with the Launch of its Content Marketplace
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.
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Top Hat Disrupts HigherEd Content Marketplace
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
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Top Hat Raises $9 million CAD To Disrupt Textbook Publishing Industry
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 […]
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Toronto tech firms seeing more interest from U.S. job seekers — and not just because of Trump
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.
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Top Hat appoints Jesper Bendtsen as first chief people officer
“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 […]
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Global EdTech Investments And Outlook: 10 EdTech Companies You Should Know About
Last year, David Bainbridge, CEO of UK-based Knowledgemotion, published an article on TechCrunch titled “Edtech is the Next Fintech.” Full story on Forbes
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OCE Discovery Panel Says Canadian Gov’t Must Provide “Sustained” Support to AI Industry
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.