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The education space is heating up with Knewton closing a $33 million Series D round led by the Founders Fund. Other participants in the round are Accel Partners, Pearson, Bessemer Venture Partners and FirstMark Capital. Think of the service as a personal tutor of sorts, using its trademarked Adaptive Learning Platform to customize learning tools [...]

Getting slaughtered in Math? Knewton is here to save the day. The remedial courses and exam prep startup recently outgrew its New York stomping ground and has expanded into faraway Arizona State, where it will offer full fledged math programs to students who can’t make the grade. Students become acquainted with Knewton if they score low [...]