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Duolingo Raises $20M

By TechTaffy Desk

Duolingo has raised $20 million in a Series C round of funding round led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Duolingo is an online social platform that teaches users a new language while they simultaneously translate content across the Web. Dr. Luis von Ahn, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon University, co-founded Duolingo with his PhD student Severin Hacker in 2011.

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