Education.com brings in $5.3M for online education and parenting advice
Education.com Holdings, a web site providing information — mostly for parents — on various education and child-raising topics (from bullying to financing college tuition), has raised $5.3 million in second-round preferred stock, reports VentureWire.
Last year, the Redwood City, Calif., company snagged $9.75 million in a second round of venture funding from Azure Capital Partners, California Technology Ventures and Telesoft Partners.
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