NoRedInk

NoRedInk helps students improve their grammar/writing skills through adaptive learning and generating content from personal interests.

  • Stage Prototype Ready
  • Industry Education
  • Location Menlo Park, CA, USA
  • Currency USD
  • Founded May 2011
  • Employees 3
  • Website noredink.com

Company Summary

NoRedInk.com helps students improve their grammar/writing skills through adaptive learning. Our engine generates curriculum from kids' interests and adapts to their abilities with instant feedback, tutorials, and color-coded heat maps. With no marketing, we're in 5% of U.S. schools, and students solve 4 questions every second of the school day. We won NBC's $75K Innovation Challenge and are on a mission to eliminate "red ink" on students' papers.

Team

  • Jeff Scheur
    Founder/CEO

    Jeff taught high school English for 8 years and led Whitney Young Magnet School's debate team to a national title in '10. After grading 15K English essays, he developed NoRedInk.com to help students improve their grammar/writing skills. He received his B.A. in economics from Oberlin and his M.A. in Ed. from University of Michigan. He's intent on improving the feedback loop in education & helping students become strong, confident writers.

  • James Richard
    Software Engineer

    James began freelancing in 2005, working in PHP5, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, HTML5, CSS, MS SQL, Java, C++, Objective C, and Linux web servers. Before NoRedInk, some of James’s projected included iOS apps for VocabSushi and Fare/Share, GPS software for ThinAir Wireless, and a resume-building system for ResumeBear.

  • Brian Tatnall
    Software Engineer

    Brian has created over 40 Ruby on Rails apps and has managed a team of developers at DRW Trading Group. Prior to that, he did software development for Stark Investments and worked at Obtiva, a premier software development shop in Chicago.

  • Jeff Scheur

Advisors

  • Bart Loethen, Synergy Law Group
    Lawyer
    Unconfirmed

Previous Investors

  • Learn Capital
    Unconfirmed
    Social+Capital
    Unconfirmed
    Hyde Park Venture Partners
    Unconfirmed

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