Open English is an online English school. In 2014, the school had 100,000 students in the Spanish speaking world.
History
Andrés Moreno, Nicolette Rankin and Wilmer Samiento, co-founded Open English in
Caracas, Venezuela
Caracas (, ), officially Santiago de León de Caracas, abbreviated as CCS, is the capital and largest city of Venezuela, and the center of the Metropolitan Region of Caracas (or Greater Caracas). Caracas is located along the Guaire River in the ...
in September 2006.
In 2009, Rankin and Moreno moved the company to
Miami, Florida
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.
Moreno played the English student and Rankin played the English teacher in their homemade commercials for Open English.
From 2010 to 2013, the company raised $120 million in VC funding,
[ including $69 million in 2013 from venture firm ]Technology Crossover Ventures
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Background ...
(TCV).
See also
*Language education
Language education – the process and practice of teaching a second or foreign language – is primarily a branch of applied linguistics, but can be an interdisciplinary field. There are four main learning categories for language education: ...
References
External links
Open EnglishOpen English Junior
Companies based in Miami-Dade County, Florida
Schools of English as a second or foreign language
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