Articles Tagged: "Top Hat Monocle"

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Making Moves

by on Tuesday July 24th, 2012

I’m happy to announce that I will be channelling much of my own energies into establishing this presence as a Principal at iNovia. Since I joined iNovia in 2010, we’ve made 25 new investments (including half that were pre-revenue) across 10 cities. Over that time, our team has helped generate several meaningful exits, as well as fought some extremely tough struggles on the road to failure… More

Top Hat Monocle Closes $8M In Series A Funding Led By Emergence Capital Partners and iNovia Capital

by on Wednesday July 18th, 2012

Top Hat Monocle, a market leading mobile-based education platform that enables student engagement, today announced it has completed Series A financing. The $8 million round is led by Emergence Capital Partners and iNovia Capital, along with SoftTech VC, Version One Ventures (Boris Wertz) and Golden Venture Partners… More

Disrupting Education


The Internet has revolutionized many aspects of our day-to-day lives, including everything from how we talk to how we shop, work and play. One area that has remained relatively unencumbered by this revolution has been the classroom experience. Enter Mike Silagadze, Mohsen Shahin Andrew D’Souza. These three have taken their passion for disruption and channeled it into Top Hat Monocle. Top Hat Monocle is a mobile-based education platform that engages students and provides Professors with the real-time feedback on student understanding… More