Type of business Private Industry Education Headquarters San Mateo Parent organization The Fusion Project | Area served Worldwide Founded 1 September 2008 Users 66.9 million | |
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Type of site Social learning network, Social learning tools, Networked learning Available in English, Croatian, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Greek, French, Italian, Turkish, Dutch, Chinese, Swedish Services Technology based educational learning CEO Vibhu Mittal (22 Dec 2014–) Founders Nic Borg, Crystal Hutter, Jeff O'Hara Nominations Best Education Cloud-based Solution Profiles | ||
Edmodo is an educational technology company offering communication, collaboration, and coaching tools to K-12 schools and teachers. The Edmodo network enables teachers to share content, distribute quizzes, assignments, and manage communication with students, colleagues, and parents.
Company
Edmodo was founded by Nic Borg and Jeff O'Hara in 2008. It is backed by Index Ventures, Benchmark, Greylock Partners, Learn Capital, New Enterprise Associates, Union Square Ventures, Glynn Capital Management, Tenaya Capital, SingTel Innov8, and KDDI. As of August 2016 Edmodo claimed to have over 66,900,000 users worldwide.
In 2013, Edmodo was included in the list of "The Top Apps for Teachers" by PC Magazine. That same year, Edmodo acquired the startup Root-1 in an attempt to become the app store for education. Vibhu Mittal, Co-founder and CEO of Root-1, became the CEO of Edmodo the following year.
In 2014, Edmodo launched Snapshot – a suite of assessment tools to measure student progress on educational standards. Edtech digest awarded Edmodo Snapshot the Cool Tool Award for Best Assessment Solution. The company has partnered with two major publishers in United Kingdom, Oxford University Press and Cambridge University Press to provide access to educational content on the Edmodo Platform and bring Edmodo Snapshot to the UK.
In March 2015, Noodle named Edmodo as one of “The 32 Most Innovative Online Educational Tools".