Vlada Lotkina's $12M EdTech Funding & Exit Journey
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Immigrant Entrepreneur Raised $12 Million for an EdTech Startup Without a Network: Vlada Lotkina of ClassTag
In this episode, Vlada Lotkina, founder of ClassTag, shares valuable tips for first-time founders and fundraisers on successfully raising funds in a difficult category - education.
She covers strategies for scaling ClassTag's user base to 5 million teachers and parents, convincing investors who initially said no, and selling the company smoothly after raising $12 million in venture capital.
Here's what you're in for:
03:04 - Challenges of scaling an EdTech company
05:37 - Fundraising strategy into raising $12 million in venture capital
17: 10 - Lessons learned in funding options
20:39 - Selling ClassTag
26:55 - Vlada's advice for new founders
About Vlada
Vlada Lotkina is an immigrant entrepreneur from Ukraine who was raised in an entrepreneurial family. Coming to the US, she chose to have a corporate career and rose the ranks at Dell before she founded ClassTag.
ClassTag is a FREE app that enhances parent-teacher communication. It brings everyone together through messages, announcements, videos, pictures, a library, a calendar, parent-teacher conferences, actionable engagement stats, and much more in one place.
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