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Interactive software for higher education
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Interactive software for higher education
501-1000 employees
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501-1000 employees
To empower educators to engage students and unleash their potential.
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To empower educators to engage students and unleash their potential.
Top Hat is at the apex of two major trends in education: the digitisation of platforms for content and the rising costs of higher education for students. By digitising work largely created by professors, Top Hat has delivered engaging content at lower cost for students across Canada and North America.
Where traditional publishers relied on analogue processes to provide high-quality but largely unengaging, uninteractive and expensive textbooks, Top Hat marketed the platform to professors to publish their own interactive multimedia online textbooks. This gave them a cut and built a holistic student experience on top.
The product has now had so much success that Top Hat’s strategy has evolved to buying those conventional publishers of postsecondary course materials. Now they can shift those quality materials into digitally distributed versions and make them available on a digitized subscription basis.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Feb 2021
$130m
SERIES E
Feb 2020
$55m
SERIES D
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Joe Rohrlich
(CEO, not founder)Prior to joining Top Hat, Rohrlich led a range of customer and go-to-market teams during his 11-year tenure at Bazaarvoice, the market leader in SaaS user-generated content solutions for eCommerce. Before that, Rohrlich led account management at a Procter & Gamble-owned marketing consultancy.
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