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March 8, 2012 08:30 pm GMT

Now With 1.5M Lessons, ShowMe Launches v2.0 To Bring Khan Academy To The Masses

Screen shot 2012-03-08 at 3.13.43 AMOver the last year or so, we've seen an auspicious rise in the number of startups looking to tackle those seemingly intractable problems in both K-12 and higher education. One of these startups, the New York City-based ShowMe, found some early financial validation from an impressive set of investors, raising $800K last August from the likes of Lerer Ventures, SV Angel, betaworks, Learn Capital, and angel investor Naval Ravikant. Those familiar with Khan Academy -- the startup that offers an impressive web library of videos on everything from arithmetic and physics to finance and history to let students learn at their own pace -- will likely find it easy to understand ShowMe's appeal. The startup is taking a bottom-up approach to the Khan Academy model.

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