KNEWTON, INC

NEW YORK, NY · Founded 2008 · CIK 0001435090 · Software

Adaptive learning courseware platform that personalizes educational content delivery

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Grants: —; No SBIR or STTR on record; Sector median: 0
Raised: $125M; 6 Form D · Aug 2018; 98 months since last filing
Contracts: —; No federal contracts on record
Patents: 8; 1 granted · 7 pending; Sector median: 0

Capital Timeline

Federal above the line · equity below · node area scaled to amount

Federal ↑Equity ↓

200820102012201420162018

Capital and federal award history
Date	Event	Source	Amount
16 Apr 2009	Private capital raised	Form D · SEC	$6,000,000
28 Apr 2010	Private capital raised	Form D · SEC	$12,250,000
25 Oct 2011	Private capital raised	Form D · SEC	$24,999,992
27 Dec 2013	Private capital raised	Form D · SEC	$34,249,989
30 Oct 2015	Private capital raised	Form D · SEC	$42,250,017
08 Aug 2018	Private capital raised	Form D · SEC	$5,185,025

Form D · SEC

Peer position

Software · 4096 companies · ranked on federal contract value

Software companies ranked by federal contract value
#	Company	Contracts	Disclosed equity
1334	Observa, Inc.	—	$477K
1335	Everlaw, Inc.	—	$307M
1336	BITMINE IMMERSION TECHNOLOGIES, INC.	—	$254M
1337	KNEWTON, INC	—	$125M
1338	Unacast, Inc.	—	$4.7M
1339	Revel Systems, Inc.	—	$80M
1340	Mios Ltd.	—	$4.5M

Ranked on federal contract value rather than capital raised. The equity column is the comparison worth making — companies at the same procurement position often sit at very different points in their funding history.

Founders & Team

From Form D filings · 14 related persons

Michael ChapinExecutive Officer
Kevin ComolliDirector
Jose FerreiraDirector · Executive Officer · Promoter
Jennifer GrunebaumExecutive Officer
Doug HughesExecutive Officer
Amish JaniDirector
Brian KibbyDirector · Executive Officer
Josh KopelmanDirector
Simon LeveneDirector
David LiuDirector · Executive Officer
Andrew RosenDirector
Rob StavisDirector
Robert StavisDirector
Hiro TamuraDirector

Patents

USPTO · 1 granted of 8

19 Sept 2019Personalized Content Recommendationsapplication
01 Aug 2019Methods For Streaming Video Using Narrow-band Accessible Live Video Streamingapplication
26 Feb 2019Personalized Content Recommendationsgranted
24 May 2018Methods, Media, And Systems For Computer-based Learningapplication
29 Sept 2016Methods, Media, And Systems For Computer-based Learningapplication
21 Jul 2016Generating Content Relationships Based On Aggregate User Solicited Feedbackapplication
22 May 2014Methods, Media, And Systems For Computer-based Learningapplication
—Methods, Media, And Systems For Computer-based Learningapplication