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Grovo Raises $5.5 Million

By TechTaffy Desk

Online education company Grovo has raised $5.5 million in a Series A round of funding. Greg Waldorf, the founding investor and former CEO of eHarmony, led the financing. The financing also includes investments from Greg Sands of Costanoa Venture Capital and Jeff Clavier of SoftTech VC.

Mr. Waldorf has joined Grovo’s board of directors as chairman.

Grovo features 60-second video lessons, and features over 3,500 lessons on Internet tools and cloud services. Each lesson comes with multiple choice quizzes, downloadable PDF’s, and time-synced transcripts. Users can answer a few questions on their requirements to get a personalized training plan with learning tracks.

[Image courtesy: Grovo]

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