Smarterer, a US-based startup which provides skills assessment technology, and is already backed by Google Ventures and venture capital firm True Ventures, has closed a $1.6m series B round of funding including from new investors Rethink Education, a venture firm focused on education technology, and Deborah Quazzo, managing partner of GSV Advisor, a broker dealer providing advisory services to the education and business services sectors.

Smarterer has raised a total of $4.6m to date.

The funding will be used to…