PrepMe
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| Test Preparation, Adaptive Learning | |
| Industry | Internet, Education |
| Founded | 2001 |
| Headquarters | Chicago, Illinois, USA |
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Key people
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Karan Goel: CEO/Co-Founder |
| Revenue |
 Unknown |
| Website | PrepMe.com |
Karan Goel: CEO/Co-Founder
Avichal Garg: CTO/Co-Founder
Joe Jewell: VP/Co-Founder
PrepMe is a for-profit American company that offers online courses and tutoring for standardized achievement tests, in particular those offered by the Educational Testing Service (ETS), such as the PSAT and SAT; and the ACT offered by ACT, Inc. PrepMe also developed its Coursification platform to open its adaptive online learning platform to publishers.
The company was founded in 2001 by Avichal Garg, Karan Goel, and Joe Jewell, Stanford, University of Chicago, and Caltech students respectively. It is based in Chicago with a software engineering team in Palo Alto, California. One of the company's co-founders, Avichal Garg, a former Google product manager, raised investment capital from other former Google employees to fund PrepMe. The company was incubated at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business' Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship after it won the university's 2005 New Venture Challenge.
The company is a 2008 winner of the Chicago Innovation Awards and was featured on the front cover of Fortune Small Business.
PrepMe uses adaptive learning technology to provide students with a customized test preparation course specifically targeting individual strengths and weaknesses.
On February 1, 2007, Maine governor John Baldacci announced that for three years PrepMe planned to let every junior in Maine use its online SAT preparation program without cost to themselves, their school, or the state. Office of the Governor Release.
Over 100,000 students have used the company's programs.
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