Ed-Tech Startup Crowdmark Earns Top Grades From First Adopters. Will VCs Follow Suit?
It perhaps takes a university professor with tech savvy to invent an online company that helps teachers to grade students better. That description fits James Colliander, a math professor at the University of Toronto, who after 22 years of academic life became co-founder and CEO of Crowdmark, a web app that cuts the time instructors spend grading exams and papers, and helps improve learning outcomes. The technology might be catching on – in June, Crowdmark received seed funding to advance product testing. And it may even be on the cusp of scoring a Series A round.
19 August 2013•3 mins read
