WyzAnt

WyzAnt
Private
Industry Education service
Founded Chicago, Illinois (2005 (2005))
Founder Andrew Geant and Mike Weishuhn
Headquarters Chicago, USA
Services Tutoring
Number of employees
80 full time employees (2014)
Website www.wyzant.com

WyzAnt is an online-based service that matches tutors with students that is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

Wyzant was co-founded in 2005 by Princeton graduates Andrew Geant and Mike Weishuhn with $10,000 raised from family and friends.[1][2] In 2013 they raised $21.5 million in Series A funds from the venture capital firm Accel Partners.[2][3]

As of 2014 WyzAnt had 80 employees and listed about 76,000 active tutors in its database[2] and had about 2 million registered users, from kindergarteners to PhD candidates.[3] In 2013 WyzAnt’s highest-paid tutor earned $120,000.[3] By 2014 the company had booked $100 million in tutoring sessions and logged almost 2.5 million hours of instruction.[3]

References

  1. "Chicago Hosted Andrew Geant (WyzAnt)". Startup Grind. July 29, 2014. Retrieved 29 September 2014.
  2. 1 2 3 Rogers, Bruce (2014-09-17). "Creating an Online Marketplace for Tutors and Students". Forbes. Retrieved 29 September 2014.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Tilin, Andrew (September 13, 2014). "Meet the eHarmony of Tutoring". Entrepreneur. Retrieved 29 September 2014.
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