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Location: United States, Maryland, Baltimore
Employees: 51-200
Total raised: $15.4M
Founded date: 2009
Investors 6
| Date | Name | Website |
| - | BV Investm... | bvlp.com |
| - | FirstMark | firstmark.... |
| - | Rethink Ed... | rethink.vc |
| - | City Light... | citylight.... |
| - | Chrysalis ... | chrysalisv... |
| 13.04.2020 | FirstMark ... | firstmarkc... |
Funding Rounds 2
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 30.01.2015 | - | $5.4M | - |
| 13.04.2012 | - | $10M | - |
Mentions in press and media 19
| Date | Title | Description |
| 11.01.2021 | How This Company Is Helping to Solve Some of Higher Ed’s Thorniest Challenges | “We think college should be affordable and low risk. Everybody should get to go. That’s the DNA of StraighterLine,” says Chief Learning Officer Dr. Amy Smith. We think college should be affordable and low risk. Everybody should get to go. -... |
| 29.07.2020 | Disruptive Transformation - A Way To Change Higher Education | Universities and colleges across the nation are in crisis. These institutions face huge funding shortfalls, their students’ total indebtedness has climbed to $1.6 trillion, and decreased enrollment is likely for September and beyond. We now... |
| 25.01.2019 | StraighterLine looks to open up its lower-cost college courses to international students | Baltimore-based StraighterLine is piloting a new online option for international students looking to come to college in the U.S. The South Baltimore edtech company created a new program that allows students to complete a year of coursework ... |
| 12.02.2018 | On the Market: A look at dev and design job openings in Baltimore this week | On the Market is a Technical.ly column where we highlight noteworthy job openings and the people who are lookin’. Got a submission? Email us and tell us why it belongs in the roundup.Johns Hopkins’ medical library is hiring a software engin... |
| 16.08.2016 | The EQUIP Eight: Dept. of Ed Selects Partners for Higher-Education Experiment | By the end of this year, students may be able to use federal aid to learn skills like coding, or advanced manufacturing, from companies like Flatiron School and General Electric. This mashing of federal dollars, public universities and priv... |
| 15.02.2016 | How StraighterLine went from controversial to common practice | When StraighterLine started, the idea of offering online college courses at much cheaper rates than universities was “pretty heretical,” says founder Burck Smith. When Smith spun the startup out of his previous company, Smarthinking, and mo... |
| 08.01.2015 | Four years later, validation for StraighterLine’s cut-rate online college courses | A Baltimore-based edtech company that aims to be a “low-risk, low-cost trial period” for online college students who may not initially pass muster now has ties to about 80 institutions, according to education news site Inside Higher Ed. (Co... |
| 21.08.2013 | 19 MD-based companies named to Inc. 500 list [Startup Roundup] | Have news for the Startup Roundup? Get in touch.who’s getting funded? AllStar Deals, based in Rockville, has raised $500,000 in equity, according to SEC filings. The online commerce company “brings together brands, agencies, celebrities, an... |
| 14.12.2012 | StraighterLine launches Professor Direct, college profs now set prices for own online classes | In November, Technically Baltimore reported that StraighterLine founder and CEO Burck Smith had something big hiding up his sleeve. OK, so IT — a tool that would allow college professors to set prices for their own online courses on Straigh... |
| 30.11.2012 | Burck Smith: StraighterLine a ‘year and a half ahead’ of other online college-course providers [Q&A] | Burck Smith — Baltimore Friends High School graduate, resident of Charm City’s Homeland neighborhood, repeat entrepreneur — is a thought leader in the online college education conversation. His company, StraighterLine, allows students to ta... |
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