Type Private Services Tutoring Founded 2005 | Industry Education service Website www.wyzant.com | |
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Founder Andrew Geant and Mike Weishuhn Headquarters Chicago, Illinois, United States Number of employees 80 full time employees (2014) Profiles | ||
Wyzant is an online-based service that matches tutors with students that is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.
Wyzant was co-founded in 2005 by Princeton graduates Andrew Geant and Mike Weishuhn with $10,000 raised from family and friends. In 2013 they raised $21.5 million in Series A funds from the venture capital firm Accel Partners.
As of 2014 Wyzant had 80 employees and listed about 76,000 active tutors in its database. It reportedly had about 2 million registered users, from kindergarteners to PhD candidates. In 2013 Wyzant's highest-paid tutor earned $120,000. By 2014 the company had booked $100 million in tutoring sessions and logged almost 2.5 million hours of instruction.
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