The story
In December 2009, Flashnotes was founded by Kent State University student Michael Matousek. After seeing other students struggle in several classes, and hearing them constantly ask to borrow other students' notes, Matousek created a solution that would help classmates by providing additional, student-created study resources. The result was Flashnotes. In 2012, Flashnotes moved to Boston. Flashnotes has partnered with other education companies including Cengage and Barnes and Nobles. In February 2014, this organization raised $3.6M in the funding round that included Stage 1 Ventures, Runa Capital and Atlas Ventures as the main investors. In 2014, Flashnotes purchased Moolaguides, a Florida-based ed-tech start-up. From 2015, the platform was called Luvo. As of 2016, Flashnotes raised up to $14 million from different funding rounds.
In May 2016, Flashnotes was shut down.
From Wikipedia’s article on Flashnotes, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4