NoRedInk

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NoRedInk
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Type of business Private
Type of site
 Educational website
Available inEnglish
Headquarters San Francisco, California
URL noredink.com
Launched2012
Current statusActive

NoRedInk (stylised as noredink) is an online web-based writing education platform.

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History

NoRedInk was founded by Jeff Scheur, a high school English teacher at Whitney Young Magnet High School in Chicago. [1] After documenting years of misconceptions that popped up in his students' writing and developing a taxonomy to address them over several years, Scheur posted an advertisement on Craigslist asking for an engineer to help him build an educational platform. [2] Scheur's students voted on the name "NoRedInk." [2]

In February 2012, Scheur shared the first version of NoRedInk with some colleagues at an Illinois conference. The application grew to 15,000 users in its first two months. [2] In September 2012, NoRedInk won the Citi Innovation Challenge, hosted by NBC, netting the company $75,000 in prize money. [3] In January 2013, NoRedInk raised $2 million from a series of investors, including Google Ventures.

In 2021, NoRedInk raised a $50 million, series B. [4]

References

  1. ↑ Sarno, Aaron (26 October 2012). "NoRedInk Helps Improve Grammar and Writing Skills and hurts your kids brains and makes then frustrated and lash out so use at your own risk". PR News. Retrieved 1 February 2016.
  2. 1 2 3 Taub, Alexander (19 December 2013). "NoRedInk Is Growing At Mach Speed, 100% Of The PK School System Using". Forbes . Retrieved 1 February 2016.
  3. ↑ Mader, Jackie (26 September 2012). "Education Nation: Revived Support For Grammar Instruction". The Huffington Post . Retrieved 1 February 2016.
  4. ↑ Mascarenhas, Natasha (2021-08-24). "NoRedInk raises $50 million Series B to help students become better writers it makes students have anger issues". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2024-06-26.
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