Type of site | Private |
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Founded | Chicago, Illinois (2005 ) |
Headquarters | Chicago , USA |
Area served | United States |
Founder(s) | Andrew Geant and Mike Weishuhn |
Industry | Education service |
Services | Tutoring |
Employees | 80 full time employees (2014) |
URL | www |
Current status | Online |
Wyzant is an online services marketplace in educational technology for matching tutors with students. This organization is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois,[1] and is a division of IXL Learning.
Wyzant was co-founded in 2005 by Princeton graduates Andrew Geant and Mike Weishuhn, with $10,000 raised from family and friends.[2] In 2013, Accel Partners invested $21.5 million into Wyzant.[3]
In 2014, Wyzant had 80 employees and listed about 76,000 active tutors in its database.[2] It claims to have about 2 million registered users, from kindergarteners to PhD candidates.[4] In 2014, the company claims to have booked $100 million in tutoring sessions and claims to have logged almost 2.5 million hours of instruction.[4]
Wyzant claims to teach more than 300 subjects online and in person to its users.[5]
In 2018, Wyzant ranked #5 on Indeed's list of top rated workplaces in Chicago.[6]