School of Everything wins roster of seed investors
by Mike Butcher
on April 1, 2008

London-based School of Everything has secured a round of seed investment to the tune of £350,000. The investors are Web veteran Esther Dyson, Swiss investor Rocco Pellegrinelli, British Telecom’s JP Rangaswami and Channel 4 Education. The Young Foundation – which helped incubate the startup – also invested in this round. Rangaswami and Pellegrinelli will join CEO Paul Miller, COO Andy Gibson and Andrew Brough from the Young Foundation on the board. Rangaswami becomes chairman alongside his BT role.

The site was a startup in the Seedcamp competition last year but was not one of the finalists, depsite most observers I recall liking the idea, team and early execution. They launched an alpha site last year. The site matches up people who want to learn with teachers who can teach them. Whether it’s yoga or languages, music or blogging 101, teachers can sign up to teach anything – as long as it’s legal.

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  • http://www.extratuition.com 11 Plus Tutors

    I have followed school of everything with some interest over the last year, there are others in the market place doing what they are trying to achieve with varying degrees of success – it should be interesting to see how the money will be used to roll out and expand their services.

  • http://www.moo.com Richard Moross

    So glad for SOE, lovely people, great business.

  • http://www.primemaths.com Primemaths

    Is this not similar to the canadian startup – learnhub or learninghub?

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