| Date | Title | Description |
| 07.04.2013 | Rosetta Stone Acquires Livemocha for $8.5M | Rosetta Stone, an Arlington, VA-based provider of a computer-assisted language learning program that teaches more than 30 languages, acquired Livemocha, a Seattle, WA-based online language-learning community, for $8.5m in cash.
Led by CEO M... |
| 05.04.2013 | Language Learning Startup Busuu Hits 30M Users And Launches New Kids iPad App | Just this week Rosetta Stone acquired Seattle-based online language-learning community Livemocha for $8.5 million in cash. At exit Livemocha had a 16 million member online language-learning community. It had also raised $19 million over six... |
| 03.04.2013 | Seattle Roundup: Indix, Haiku, Livemocha, WebTuner, and More | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
A handful of interesting local companies have raised significant capital in the last week, including Indix and Haiku Deck, and stealthy WebTuner, which added to an earlier rou... |
| 02.04.2013 | Rosetta Stone buys Livemocha for $8.5 million | Language learning tool will use the acquisition to bring services to the cloud
(Updated to reflect comment from Livemocha)
In an effort to bring its services easier to access without having to buy a physical disc, Rosetta Stone has acquired... |
| 02.04.2013 | Rosetta Stone cracks Livemocha, buys language community for $8.5 million | Seattle online language community Livemocha has been acquired by Rosetta Stone for $8.5 million in cash.
The deal is hardly a home run, given that Livemocha had raised more than $19 million in venture capital from Maveron, August Capital an... |
| 30.11.2012 | Language Learning Service Verbling Launches Google Hangouts-Powered Classes, Adds Support For 9 New Languages | Learning a new language can be tedious and frustrating. Thankfully, a new generation of startups are leveraging advances in mobile and web technologies to make that process more enjoyable and rewarding. Today, companies like Livemocha, Play... |
| 20.10.2012 | Language Learning Platform Busuu Raises €3.5M Series A Round, Moves to London To Scale Up | Busuu – the language learning community offering largely free audio-visual online courses – has been boostrapping away relentlessly for a few years and only last year raised an Angel round from FON-founder and serial entrepreneur Martin Var... |
| 15.12.2011 | Livemocha Loves AWS in Brazil: Speeds Go from 1999 to 2011 | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
One Seattle-area company is more than a little happy about Amazon Web Services opening a new South American computing region: Livemocha, an online language-learning service th... |
| 05.12.2011 | Livemocha takes a crack at Rosetta Stone in retail | Livemocha CEO Michael Schutzler hasn’t been shy about taking some shots at rival Rosetta Stone over the years. Last year, for example, the Seattle Internet executive declared that Rosetta Stone would have a “long mountain to climb” in order... |
| 14.11.2011 | Shopping Discovery App Zoomingo Raises $1.3 Million | The newly launched shopping discovery app Zoomingo announced today it has secured $1.3 million in funding from early-stage VC firms Naya Ventures and Benaroya Capital along with several prominent angel investors. Previously self-funded, Zoo... |
| 12.11.2011 | Five tips for every startup thinking about going global | Wikipedia photo
Not that long ago, only the largest and most profitable companies could afford to build a multinational enterprise. Today, with Skype, LinkedIn, Google Docs and other services in the cloud available at little or no cost, eve... |
| 08.09.2011 | Livemocha inks deal with Brazilian education company | Earlier this summer, we told you about the $5 million in venture capital that Seattle online language learning startup Livemocha raised. At the time, CEO Michael Schutzler didn’t want to talk about the particulars of the deal, including the... |
| 07.09.2011 | Livemocha Scales up Online Language Lessons, Lands New Deal in Brazil | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
For most of its four-year history, Seattle-based Livemocha has built its international language-learning business through the online equivalent of hand-to-hand combat: Amassin... |
| 10.08.2011 | Voxy Snags $2.8M To Help People Learn A Language Via Smartphone | TechCrunch Disrupt finalist Voxy is announcing new Series A investment today, $2.8 million dollars from investors Seavest Inc, ff Venture and Contour Ventures. Relatively new investor Seavest recently had another education-related portfolio... |
| 04.08.2011 | Morning Radar: Pirq launches a Groupon rival; Insitu’s new aircraft | James Sun
Pirq, the mobile daily deal startup led by James Sun, the former star on “The Apprentice,” has officially launched its iPhone app. The free app allows users to browse offers at more than 130 restaurants in the Seattle area, includ... |
| 14.07.2011 | Startup Spotlight: Livemocha lands $5 million, tops 10 million members | Michael Schutzler
Livemocha’s online community of language learners continues to spread worldwide. And now the four-year-old company — founded by former Microsoftie Shirish Nadkarni and led by CEO Michael Schutzler — has received some addit... |
| 14.07.2011 | Seattle Deal Roundup: Livemocha, TTM, RootMetrics Raise Money | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
We’ve got a trio of quick Seattle-area technology fundraising items today, fresh from the SEC filings.
Livemocha reports that it has raised about $5 million in a Series C roun... |
| 21.04.2011 | Busuu raises Angel round from FON-founder Martin Varsavsky | Busuu.com, the language learning community, has raised an Angel round from FON-founder and serial entrepreneur Martin Varsavsky.
The Madrid-based startup is remaining mum about the size of the investment, however, but says that to-date Busu... |
| 09.02.2011 | Language learning community Busuu partners with The Guardian and Macmillan Education | Busuu.com, the language learning community, has teamed up with The Guardian newspaper and Macmillan Education to give its users more real-life context when learning English.
Under the partnership, busuu users can access daily world news upd... |
| 28.10.2010 | Busuu partners with publisher Collins to push more traditional language learning content | Busuu.com, the language learning community, is partnering with British publisher Collins to offer a range of grammar guides.
It represents the second traditional publisher tie-up for Madrid-based busuu following a similar arrangement with P... |
| 18.10.2010 | Former Zynga exec lands at VC firm Maveron | Andrew Trader, an early team member of red-hot gaming startup Zynga, is now joining venture capital firm Maveron, the company told VentureBeat late Monday.
Trader, known as “A.T.”, built and managed all business operations at Zynga as vice ... |
| 15.09.2010 | Livemocha Seeks to Upend Rosetta Stone, Taking Language Learning to New Heights Online | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Livemocha is ready to kick some language learning butt—at least according to chief executive Michael Schutzler. The Bellevue, WA-based startup is already the largest online la... |
| 09.06.2010 | Livemocha’s New CEO, Michael Schutzler, on Company Challenges, Culture, and the Evolution of Social Networks | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Michael Schutzler knows a few things about building online communities and profitable companies. The new CEO of Livemocha, the Bellevue, WA-based language-learning startup and... |
| 08.06.2010 | Schutzler Joins Livemocha as New CEO | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Bellevue, WA-based Livemocha, the online language learning startup, said today it has appointed Michael Schutzler as its new CEO. Schutzler was previously the CEO of Classmate... |
| 18.03.2010 | Smartling lands $4M, continues frenzy of web translation | It looks like competition among translation startups is heating up, with a number of companies popping up making substantial announcements in the last few months. Smartling, a startup that helps businesses to better use their websites by sp... |
| 18.03.2010 | Smartling lands $4M, continues frenzy of web translation | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
It looks like competition among translation start... |
| 01.03.2010 | Language learning community busuu.com secures first round | [Spain/Austria] Last week busuu.com closed their first funding round from an undisclosed Austrian serial angel investor. The total sum is also not clear, but appears to be below €500,000.
Busuu .com is a two year old, online community based... |
| 22.12.2009 | Livemocha Scores $8M Series B Round, Looks to Expand Globally with New Partnerships | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Now here’s an interesting deal from a company we’ve had our eye on for a while. Bellevue, WA-based Livemocha, which runs a popular language-learning website, announced today i... |
| 22.12.2009 | Livemocha Raises $8M in Series B Financing | Livemocha, a Seattle, WA-based company which operates the popular language learning site, has raised $8m in a Series B financing round led by August Capital, with participation from existing investor Maveron.
This new capital infusion will ... |
| 22.12.2009 | Livemocha Bags Another $8 Million From August Capital, Maveron | Online language learning community Livemocha has secured a healthy $8 million in Series B funding in a round led by August Capital, with participation from existing investor Maveron (a Seattle-based investment fund co-founded by Starbucks C... |
| 22.12.2009 | Language learning site Livemocha keeps growing — gets $8M boost | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Livemocha, the fast-growing site that lets people... |
| 22.12.2009 | Language learning site Livemocha keeps growing — gets $8M boost | Livemocha, the fast-growing site that lets people learn other languages for free — by matching them up with other native speakers online — has raised $8 million more in a second round of funding.
The Bellevue, Washington company is shaking ... |
| 22.12.2009 | Livemocha makes $8 million Series B | Online language learning program gets new funds for further product development Livemocha, an online language education program, has raised new Series B funding totaling to $8 million in a round led by August Capital and contributed to by r... |
| 13.10.2009 | Web technology is about to change how we learn | The education industry is on the cusp of being massively disrupted by innovation in Web technology. Like other industries prior, it would like to pretend that it can weather the storm and continues business as usual, with only minor tweakin... |
| 13.10.2009 | Web technology is about to change how we learn | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
The education industry is on the cusp of being ma... |
| 27.07.2009 | Rosetta Stone Announces TOTALe, Language Instruction With A Social Bent | Admit it: you’ve been thinking about learning a foreign language. Maybe you’ve been planning a trip to Mexico or were considering taking over a small, French-speaking colony in the Maldives. Regardless of your interest or your armaments, it... |
| 02.06.2009 | Babbel Launches EU Election Tutorials | In anticipation of the upcoming European Union elections, Berlin-based language site Babbel just launched a “Politics and Voting” section to their Vocabulary Trainer. Co-founder Markus Witte believes the training package will help his 330,0... |
| 06.04.2009 | When Startups monetize! Babbel starts first paid services | Babbel – the language learning site competing with the likes of Mango Languages, LiveMocha and LingQ among others – has been free for a year now. However, it releases its first premium product tomorrow in the first sign of a business model.... |
| 06.04.2009 | When Startups monetize! Babbel switches on paid courses | Babbel – the language learning site emanating from Germany – releases it’s first premium product tomorrow. It’s the first sign of their business model and begins their monetization. I’m told the objective is to establish a “freemium” model ... |
| 12.03.2009 | Plugg wraps with two very capable winnners | So Plugg, the European startups conference in Brussels today (organised by TechCrunch writer Robin Wauters) wrapped up with two overall winners of their startup competition, and if I do say so myself they were pretty worthy.
The overall win... |
| 21.10.2008 | Thoughts From The Eliptical Trainer | Its been a while since I’ve done one of these posts. A lot’s been going on and I find myself on the trainer thinking outloud.
1) The credit markets are thawing (see the ted spread chart on fredwilson.vc for a visual of the thaw). The equity... |
| 15.10.2008 | iKnow Is A Social Learning Platform That Can Really Make You Smarter. Opens API. | Although the world market for e-learning is estimated to top $52 billion in 2010 (in 2007, revenues exceeded the $17-billion mark in the US alone), it’s still quite hard to find good resources for education and training in the Web 2.0 space... |
| 25.08.2008 | Learning a language the Web 2.0 way | TechCrunch UK recently ignited a debate around education startups in the UK, but it’s quite clear that the biggest Web 2.0 education market is language learning – and that market, obviously, scales internationally. Here, Nicola Robinsonova ... |
| 29.07.2008 | Babbel secures funding for language learning | Babbel, the Berlin-based language learning startup which we wrote about in January and which appeared at our London TechCrunch Pitch! event, has secured an undisclosed amount of funding from German investors Kizoo and and VC Fonds Berlin, a... |
| 29.07.2008 | Babbel wins funding, enters crowded language market | Language learning online is picking up again. We already have sites like Mango Languages and LiveMocha which offer new interfaces on languages, and often social networking features. LingQ, offers vocabulary and grammar drills. Then in Europ... |
| 28.07.2008 | Language learning website Babbel nabs first round of funding | Babbel, a website that helps users learn French, Spanish, German, Italian, or English, announced it had received a round of funding from German VC funds Kizoo and VC Fonds Berlin. The company is not disclosing the amount of funding, saying ... |
| 15.01.2008 | Livemocha raises $6M for language learning | Livemocha is a Seattle, Wash. company that offers online instructional content for language education, helping learners of English, Spanish, Mandarin, French, Hindi, and German.
The site, which launched in September 2007, operates as an onl... |
| 14.01.2008 | Babbel: Help Me, Help You Learn A New Language | Foreign languages are hard. There’s no shortage of expensive books and systems claiming to teach you how to gab like a native in only a few short lessons. But traditional methods don’t work for most people as well real world experience and ... |
| 24.09.2007 | LiveMocha uses social networks to teach you languages online | Hearing about new social networks usually makes us cringe. Surely by now, all relevant communities of people have a place to share ideas, photos and blogs.
But at this years DEMOFall, Seattle’s LiveMocha launches with a interesting twist. T... |
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