Just a few months after its CEO Rachel Jacobs perished in the Amtrak train derailment, Philly edtech company ApprenNet announced that it had raised $1.8 million in funding, Technical.ly Philly ...

Online learning startup ApprenNet closed a $1.8 million funding round from a mix of Philly investors and high-profile edtech investors. It’s the company’s first round of institutional funding.

Edtech startup ApprenNet is merging with a San Francisco company called Handsfree Learning. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. The company will keep the ApprenNet name and its Philly office, ...

APPRENNET: ApprenNet announced today that it has received $1.8 million in a financing round led by Martellus Holding. According to ApprenNet’s CEO Paul Freedman, the money will be used to double the ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Freedman and Jacobs were wrapping up talks over a merger ...

Never count Paul Freedman out. After his last venture to create an online higher-ed program closed shop after facing regulatory hurdles, the serial entrepreneur, who previously built and sold a ...

Update (7:31 p.m. ET): Rachel Jacobs' family has confirmed that she died in Tuesday night's fatal Amtrak derailment, NBC News reports. She was 39 years old. Rachel Jacobs, the CEO of ...

PHILADELPHIA, PA and SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwired - Sep 1, 2015) - ApprenNet, today, announced the closing of $1.8 million in its first round of financing. The initial funding was led by Nick ...

Rachel Jacobs, the CEO of online learning startup ApprenNet based in Philadelphia, was on Amtrak train 188 that derailed in Port Richmond. The chief executive officer of a Philadelphia-based ...