Educents Raised $2.9M in Seed Round

What does Educents do?

Educents, is a trusted marketplace for educational resources and products. It was found in 2013 with the mission to provides parents, teachers and home educators with high quality educational resources everything in one place. Individual content writers and publishers rely on it for simplifying their marketing and managing their business.

Sellers can create their own storefronts and Educents provides them with integrated payment and communication tools for growing their brand. In just an year, Educents has thousands of active sellers which have saved educators over $15 M and is used in more than 73 different countries.

How much Educents was funded?

Educents raised $2.9 M in seed round on April 5^th, 2015 led by SoftTech VC, with the participation of Crosslink Capital, Kapor Capital, Deep Fork Capital and Learn Capital. The Angel investors include Joanne Wilson and Deborah Quazzo.

Previous funding

$120K in Angel round on January 3^rd, 2013.

What is next for Educents?

With the latest funding of $2.9 M Educents aims at providing teachers more freedom and dollars to buy the instructional materials, they require.

Educents has started by offering flash deals and it recently allowed businesses to creater their own store pages for selling regular priced items. Educent’s  founder Kate Whiting said that Educents is now more of an Etsy where each individual seller has his/her own storefront.

Its mission is to create a more efficient marketplace which saves teachers, money and time. Whiting says, with Educents, teachers can get materials sooner, which otherwise takes up to 3 months before purchases are get an approval and they are delivered which leaves some teachers to pay for materials themselves so they can get them sooner.

 More about Educents

Educents is the online marketplace for affordable education products, found in January 2^nd, 2013 by Kaitlyn Trabucco and Kate Whiting. It provides daily deals to students, teachers and parents by collaborating with established educational suppliers. It delivers products within 5 business days.