Edutech startup Panorama Education receives $4m seed round from backers including Mark Zuckerberg, Google, and Yale.
Panorama Education, an edutech Yale startup which offers a primary and secondary education survey platform, has raised $4m for its seed round.
The round was co-led by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s Startup:Education and SoftTech VC. Google’s venture arm Google Ventures, actor Ashton Kutcher’s investment company A-Grade Investments, and Yale University also participated.
The company provides a survey and analytics platform which helps primary and secondary schools (K-12 in the US) identify solutions to pressing problems through analysis of feedback, and is already in use in over 4,000 schools.
The seed round will assist the company in rolling out new tools for teachers and analytics features for its platform, as well as expanding its outreach programme.
Co-founder Aaron Feuer, who started the company as a Yale undergraduate, said: “We are using technology to address some of the most difficult problems in education. We are tremendously excited to have Mark Zuckerberg involved because of his passion for technology and education.”
