What it sells
Peer tutoring program for colleges across the country.
Business model breakdown
Buyer: who owns the budget?
Higher-education institutions
Trigger: what makes them buy now?
UnverifiedNeed to scale academic support without adding staff and to create student employment.
Workflow: what inputs become what output?
Students get on-demand peer tutoring in an app; Knack hires and trains tutors; administrators track engagement in a dashboard.
Economics: what it saves and how it charges
Institutions pay for the platform; claims 52% of students had not used academic support before and 5x+ growth in campus tutor networks. Fee model not stated.
Distribution: how it reaches customers
Direct sales to colleges; 13+ university partners including Georgia Tech, Rutgers and USF.
Funding history and coverage
| Round date | Stage | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-10-24 | Series B | — | New Markets Venture Partners, Precursor Ventures, Jeff Vinik, ETS, Chegg, Lumina Foundation, ASU Enterprise Partners, Village Capital, Bisk Ventures (backers named) | hypepotamus.com |
Profiles summarize public reporting and company websites. Business-model notes are MaxBC's reading of that material, not confirmed facts; unknowns are left blank rather than guessed. Updated 2026-10-12.