Wyzant

Wyzant
Type of site
Private
Founded Chicago, Illinois (2005 (2005))
Headquarters Chicago, USA
Founder(s) Andrew Geant and Mike Weishuhn
Industry Education service
Services Tutoring
Employees 80 full time employees (2014)
Website www.wyzant.com
Alexa rank Increase 9,651 (July 2017)[1]
Current status Online

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.[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] It reportedly 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. "Wyzant". Alexa Internet. Retrieved July 18, 2017.
  2. 1 2 3 Rogers, Bruce (2014-09-17). "Creating an Online Marketplace for Tutors and Students". Forbes. Retrieved 18 July 2017.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Tilin, Andrew (September 13, 2014). "Meet the eHarmony of Tutoring". Entrepreneur. Retrieved 18 July 2017.

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