ClassIn Raises $265 million In Series C funding, Led By Hillhouse Ventures

Global EdTech giant ClassIn, creator of online interactive classroom ClassIn, has announced its Series C funding of $265 million.

The new round of financing, led by Hillhouse Ventures, followed by Tencent, SIG, Ince Capital and Gaocheng Capital, comes just months after the company secured its over 50 million Series B round from Ince Capital in July.

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The fresh injection of capital will be harnessed to expand product R&D, develop new and advanced technologies in education, and explore more markets abroad increasing global reach, while ensuring it maintains its leading position in the China market.

Designed to tackle head-on the lack of interactivity in online learning scenarios, ClassIn offers group video chat on top of a range of sophisticated interactive classroom settings and teaching features to create a fully interactive online learning experience that, combined with smart scheduling and quality teachers, can outperform the effect of traditional offline settings.

With over a dozen self-developed interactive tools and digital blackboard syncing technology, ClassIn creates a diversified interactive online classroom, which resembles the offline learning experience.

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It supports a wide range of classroom sizes from 1 to 2000, allowing teachers and students to video chat, co-edit documents in real time, deliver lectures and online presentations, hold group discussions and more.

The product is highly adapted to a small-class scenario, ensuring the highest quality online learning experience and most cost-effective option for students and schools compared to 1-on-1 classes.

The teaching platform has now served over 60,000 K12, university and private sector clients, and is used by 20 million monthly active users (teachers and students) in 150 countries.

ClassIn is also the dominant online teaching platform in many of the world’s most prestigious universities, including Peking University in China, Cairo University in Egypt, Alcala University in Spain and Abu Dhabi University in the UAE. The Arab League Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization, ALESCO, has listed it as a recommended remote teaching solution to all of its partner schools.

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