Altitude Learning
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Altitude Learning (formerly AltSchool) is an American education and technology company founded in 2013. It is headquartered in San Francisco.
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| Formerly | AltSchool |
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| Company type | Private public benefit corporation |
| Industry | Education |
| Founded | 2013 |
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| Headquarters | San Francisco , United States |
Area served | United States |
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| Website | www |
History
Max Ventilla founded AltSchool in 2013 as a company that operated schools built around a personalized learning model.[2] The company created a series of small schools based on this model, where students were involved in creating personalized projects for themselves.[3] Students and teachers created individual "playlists" of tasks and projects for each student. Students' progress was streamed to parents using a portal app.[4] In 2014, the company raised $33 million of venture capital funding.[5] In 2015, AltSchool raised $100 million in funding.[6]
By 2016, the company had opened six schools in San Francisco, Palo Alto and Brooklyn.[7][8] That year, the company partnered with three schools in California and Virginia.[9] In 2017, AltSchool launched a small middle school in New York City's Union Square.[10]
The company later began closing or divesting from its schools. In 2019, AltSchool ceased operating schools directly and rebranded as Altitude Learning, an educational software company.[11]
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