iversity

About the company

We are a young and dynamic team that is working on a project with a purpose. We want to build a new infrastructure for teaching and learning at the dawn of the digital age.

Our team members have held positions with online and offline media, in marketing and communications departments, software development, strategy consulting, and academia in Germany and the US.

iversity staff were educated at professional schools and research universities including Freie Universität Berlin, Technische Universität Berlin, Hertie School of Governance, National University of Singapore, and Columbia University.

iversity leverages the potential of Web 2.0 technology to improve academic collaboration in courses, research and informal learning groups. During the beta-phase, over 11,500 students and faculty from more than 80 institutions of higher education have used the platform to exchange learning materials, to connect with their peers and to hold online group discussions. In July, iversity successfully raised 1.1 million Euros (USD 1.6 million) in VC from the BFB Frühphasenfonds Brandenburg.

So far course management systems have been closed, insular solutions. iversity’s mission is to connect people and content across institutional boundaries as well as to bring the open web onto its platform by integrating existing services over APIs.

To put it a little more passionately: we want to revolutionize academic collaboration!