{"id":83672,"date":"2017-06-14T14:37:40","date_gmt":"2017-06-14T18:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techvibes.com\/?p=83672"},"modified":"2017-06-14T14:37:40","modified_gmt":"2017-06-14T18:37:40","slug":"top-hat-secures-additional-investor-launches-marketplace-for-higher-education","status":"publish","type":"magazine","link":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/magazine\/top-hat-secures-additional-investor-launches-marketplace-for-higher-education","title":{"rendered":"Top Hat Secures Additional Investor, Launches Marketplace for Higher Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cts.businesswire.com\/ct\/CT?id=smartlink&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tophat.com&amp;esheet=51574291&amp;newsitemid=20170614005295&amp;lan=en-US&amp;anchor=Top+Hat&amp;index=1&amp;md5=f24db5f896460d5cb382048054da7a1d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Top Hat<\/a> has raised an extra $7.5 million.<\/p>\n<p>The additional Series C round was led by Leaders Fund, a venture capital fund focused on investing in disruptive business-to-business software-as-a-service companies. The Toronto startup&#8217;s latest influx of capital builds on an existing $22 million Series C.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInvesting in Top Hat was an easy decision,\u201d David Stein, Managing Partner at Leaders Fund, said of his firm&#8217;s follow-on fund. \u201cThe education technology market is notoriously difficult, but Top Hat\u2019s educator-first approach and mission to improve classroom engagement by putting the teacher at the center really stood out to our team.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Top Hat also announced the full release of the Top Hat Marketplace, which it describes as &#8220;a unique and game-changing resource of affordable and customizable educational content.&#8221; This educational content resource is now available to educators at most of the top 1,000 North American colleges and universities.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We leveraged our existing relationship with educators already using our classroom engagement tools to test and launch the Marketplace,\u201d said Mike Silagadze, cofounder of Top Hat. \u201cThis is a fundamental shift in education, and we\u2019re excited to provide Top Hat educators with a community focused on quality content and better teaching while also creating an effective learning experience for students.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The educational content in the Top Hat Marketplace breaks the slow-paced publishing model by allowing educators to provide one another instant feedback, the Canadian company explains; this collaborative community-sourced model means that the Marketplace\u2019s content is continually being updated and improved upon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top Hat has raised an extra $7.5 million. The additional Series C round was led by Leaders Fund, a venture capital fund focused on investing in disruptive business-to-business software-as-a-service companies. The Toronto startup&#8217;s latest influx of capital builds on an existing $22 million Series C. \u201cInvesting in Top Hat was an easy decision,\u201d David Stein, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55555,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[256,558,58],"magazine-region":[],"magazine-series":[],"magazine-topic":[],"class_list":["post-83672","magazine","type-magazine","status-publish","hentry","category-News","tag-education","tag-top-hat","tag-venture-capital"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/83672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/magazine"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/55555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/83672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83672"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-region?post=83672"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-series?post=83672"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-topic?post=83672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}