Edtech Startup Top Hat Secures $7.5 Million

Top Hat just closed $7.5 million in Series C financing. Leaders Fund and Union Square Ventures participated in the round.

A proven student engagement and interactive teaching platform, Top Hat offers software that helps college professors activate classrooms. By requiring students to use their personal devices to answer quizzes, reply to polls, and tackle difficult simulations, Top Hat transforms the passive lecture hall into an exciting learning environment. As a strong advocate for traditional on-campus education, Top Hat aims not only to modernize established teaching methods but also to facilitate new approaches, including the “flipped classroom,” group learning, and other creative solutions. Thousands of professors and hundreds of colleges worldwide rely on Top Hat to engage their students and improve academic performance. The company is headquartered in Toronto, Canada, with 120 full-time employees.