Crimson Education
Crimson supports students from around the world to become world-class leaders. What started 10 years ago as an admissions consultancy helping Kiwi students get into the world’s top colleges has turned into an ecosystem of online education products that allow students around the world to accelerate their studies from pre-primary to postgraduate. Through rapid innovations in product and tech, we have scaled our impact and supercharged the education careers of over 100,000 students from more than 60 countries. Services include in-depth US, UK, EU and Australian university admissions support, Australia and New Zealand medical school admissions support, local curriculum tutoring, and extracurricular mentoring. Visit the Crimson Education website to learn more about our network, our edtech platforms and free resources for families.
- Sector
- Education technology / university admissions
- Business model
- B2C education services
- Founded
- 2013
- Founders
- Jamie Beaton, Sharndre Kushor, Fangzhou Jiang
- Headquarters
- Auckland, NZ
- Latest round
- NZ$67.6M Series D, led by Movac (Nov 2024)
- Status
- Unicorn, valued NZ$1B (Nov 2024)
Sources: en.wikipedia.org, techcrunch.com, en.wikipedia.org, startupdaily.net, nzherald.co.nz
The team on Day One
Hear from the team
Milestones
- 2013 Founded by Jamie Beaton to help students enter top universities en.wikipedia.org
- Aug 2019 Raised US$5M at a US$245M valuation techcrunch.com
- 2022 Reached US$550M valuation crimsonglobalacademy.school
Backed by
Movac, HEAL Partners, Icehouse Ventures, Five Sigma, HighSage Ventures.
Sources: startupdaily.net
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