{"id":19215,"date":"2020-08-11T15:15:37","date_gmt":"2020-08-11T19:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/news\/omers-leading-funding-round-for-u-s-online-learning-company-148734"},"modified":"2020-08-11T15:15:37","modified_gmt":"2020-08-11T19:15:37","slug":"omers-leading-funding-round-for-u-s-online-learning-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2020\/08\/11\/omers-leading-funding-round-for-u-s-online-learning-company\/","title":{"rendered":"OMERS leading funding round for U.S. online learning company"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"alignleft clearfix\">\n<div class=\"wp-caption feature-image alignleft\"> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"350\" height=\"263\" src=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Education-350x263.jpg\" class=\"attachment-feature size-feature wp-post-image\" alt title=\"OMERS leading funding round for U.S. online learning company\"> <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"byline\"> <span>Staff <\/span>&nbsp;|&nbsp;August 11, 2020 <\/p>\n<p>The Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System\u2019s growth equity arm is leading a $66 million Series D funding round for American online learning company Skillshare Inc.<\/p>\n<p>With more than 12 million registered members and 8,000 teachers, the company offers online classes in different creative areas, such as graphic design and photography, through a community-based model.<\/p>\n<p>To date, Skillshare has raised $42 million from a variety of investors that also participated in this round. The&nbsp;current round of funding will primarily go towards creating localized experiences for international students while also expanding domestically and growing the company\u2019s offerings, according to a press release. Further, the funding will create more opportunities for its teachers and assist the company in building out its enterprise offering.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/news\/omers-investing-in-german-internet-infrastructure-psp-in-cloud-security-platform-142498\">OMERS investing in German internet infrastructure, PSP in cloud security platform<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs the leading platform for creative skills, Skillshare brings together a truly global community of students and teachers,\u201d said&nbsp;Saar Pikar, managing director at OMERS Growth Equity, in the release. \u201cSkillshare serves the needs of professional creatives and everyday creative hobbyists alike, which presents a highly innovative value proposition for the online learning market.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pikar will also be joining Skillshare\u2019s board of directors.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/news\/omers-leading-funding-round-for-u-s-online-learning-company-148734\">Read the full article at BenefitsCanada.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff &nbsp;|&nbsp;August 11, 2020 The Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System\u2019s growth equity arm is leading a $66 million Series D funding round for American online learning company Skillshare Inc. With more than 12 million&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19215"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}