Edtech startup ApprenNet is merging with a San Francisco company called Handsfree Learning. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. The company will keep the ApprenNet name and its Philly office, ...

Just a few months after its CEO Rachel Jacobs perished in the Amtrak train derailment, Philly edtech company ApprenNet announced that it had raised $1.8 million in funding, Technical.ly Philly ...

Rachel Jacobs has her eye on Philly. Jacob’s hire coincides with, as she puts it, the company finding the right product-market fit. ApprenNet had long focused on the legal education industry, where ...

Philadelphia-based video-based learning firm ApprenNet has merged with Handsfree Learning, a San Francisco-based mobile app company. In May, ApprenNet CEO Rachel Jacobs died in the Amtrak train crash ...

Never count Paul Freedman out. After his last venture to create an online higher-ed program closed shop after facing regulatory hurdles, the serial entrepreneur, who previously built and sold a ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Freedman and Jacobs were wrapping up talks over a merger ...

With the new name also comes a new logo and a new website, still under construction at the moment, as well as a product refresh. In a nod to the famous psychologist K. Anders Ericsson's* theories on ...

Update (7:31 p.m. ET): Rachel Jacobs' family has confirmed that she died in Tuesday night's fatal Amtrak derailment, NBC News reports. She was 39 years old. Rachel Jacobs, the CEO of ...

APPRENNET: ApprenNet announced today that it has received $1.8 million in a financing round led by Martellus Holding. According to ApprenNet’s CEO Paul Freedman, the money will be used to double the ...

PHILADELPHIA, PA and SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwired - Sep 1, 2015) - ApprenNet, today, announced the closing of $1.8 million in its first round of financing. The initial funding was led by Nick ...

This month's edition of the Pulse podcast features an interview with Paul Freedman, a serial entrepreneur who is now CEO of ApprenNet, Inc. In the podcast, the host Rodney Murray speaks with Freedman ...

A metro Detroit native and tech CEO was confirmed dead Wednesday evening after an Amtrak train derailed in Philadelphia the previous day, killing at least seven passengers and injuring another 200.