The Bellevue, Wash.-based company is entering a tough market at a time when most families have cut spending. But chief executive Lou Gray says that parents are still willing to make sacrifices for the sake of educating their kids.
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The company raised $7.1 million in angel funding from tech veterans. Board members include former Microsoft executive Brad Chase, ex-Expedia executive Byron Bishop, and Harel Kodesh, chief executive of Decho, a cloud services firm. The company was founded in February 2006 by Gray and Ben Slivka, chairman and former head of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer team.
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