Company Strives To Capture And Measure Lifelong Learning With New iOS App And Web Platform
San Francisco, CA - June 29, 2016- Degreed, the fast-growing learning technology company that works to make all career and lifelong learning matter, is excited to announce the launch of its first native mobile app, available for free on iOS in the App Store. This native app launch follows a $21MM round of Series B funding (January 2016), and the company’s first acquisition, of European-based company, Gibbon. Degreed’s product development and mobile roll-out illustrates the market acceleration and need for empowerment and recognition of all types of individual, lifelong learning.
Degreed, which was previously available purely as a web application, is a universal way to discover, track, utilize, and share learning from any source. The Degreed app provides users with content from countless external learning sources including: articles from thousands of publishers, podcasts, and YouTube videos. The mobile app is designed to give users a personal profile to showcase all lifelong and professional learning while solving a problem for everyday learners who gain daily knowledge informally and fluidly through their phones.
“People are increasingly learning informally--on the go. Everyone knows this. But what is new is the ability to leverage all of those moments of learning into something greater. To turn that into professional credit. To leverage it to learn new skills. To level up. Degreed’s mission is to make all learning matter,” explains Co-founder & CEO, David Blake. “The Degreed app is an extension of that mission--to help make all of that mobile learning matter--in a big way, in your career and professionally with your employer.”
The Degreed native app bridges the gap between people learning during their free time (usually on their phones) to standardizing and quantifying this knowledge to fuel their careers. It’s important to recognize that our education does not end when we graduate formal schooling. The definition of true “education” is blurring – people no longer solely attend a university to garner skills in concepts like code, graphic design, and even politics.
People learn from outside sources; experiential conferences, in classes, and during free time. Degreed’s mission is to streamline all types of learning create a lifelong learning profile that will help individuals and companies make smarter decisions previously based solely formal education level and accomplishments.
For more information about Degreed visit: https://degreed.com
About Degreed:
Individuals and organizations use Degreed to discover, track, and measure all learning. Degreed, which has offices in San Francisco, CA, Salt Lake City, UT and Leiden, The Netherlands, was founded in 2012 and first launched in January 2013. Degreed announced a $21 million Series B funding round in January 2016, led by Jump Capital, along with Signal Peak, Rethink Education, Deborah Quazzo and other existing investors. Degreed has raised a total of $40 million in capital to fuel their mission of making all professional and lifelong learning matter.
“People are increasingly learning informally--on the go. Everyone knows this. But what is new is the ability to leverage all of those moments of learning into something greater. To turn that into professional credit. To leverage it to learn new skills. To level up. Degreed’s mission is to make all learning matter,” explains Co-founder & CEO, David Blake. “The Degreed app is an extension of that mission--to help make all of that mobile learning matter--in a big way, in your career and professionally with your employer.”
The Degreed native app bridges the gap between people learning during their free time (usually on their phones) to standardizing and quantifying this knowledge to fuel their careers. It’s important to recognize that our education does not end when we graduate formal schooling. The definition of true “education” is blurring – people no longer solely attend a university to garner skills in concepts like code, graphic design, and even politics.
People learn from outside sources; experiential conferences, in classes, and during free time. Degreed’s mission is to streamline all types of learning create a lifelong learning profile that will help individuals and companies make smarter decisions previously based solely formal education level and accomplishments.
For more information about Degreed visit: https://degreed.com
About Degreed:
Individuals and organizations use Degreed to discover, track, and measure all learning. Degreed, which has offices in San Francisco, CA, Salt Lake City, UT and Leiden, The Netherlands, was founded in 2012 and first launched in January 2013. Degreed announced a $21 million Series B funding round in January 2016, led by Jump Capital, along with Signal Peak, Rethink Education, Deborah Quazzo and other existing investors. Degreed has raised a total of $40 million in capital to fuel their mission of making all professional and lifelong learning matter.
