The A round included venture capital firms Social+Capital Partnership, IA Ventures and other angel investor Joel Spolsky alongside Professor Kearns.
Michael Kearns, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, has backed the $5m series A round for Coursekit, an academic social network for students to interact with each other.
The A round included venture capital firms Social+Capital Partnership, IA Ventures and other angel investor Joel Spolsky alongside Kearns.
The University of Kentucky has formed an industry-university partnership to advance aspects such as sustainable agriculture in the whiskey distilling industry.
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