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Knack

Peer tutoring programs for colleges

Raised to date

$4.8M

of $4.8M offered across 1 Form D filing

Investors
6
Last filed
Apr 29, 2026

About

Knack is a student success technology platform that lets colleges and universities run and scale peer-to-peer tutoring programs. The platform matches students needing academic help with higher-performing peers on the same campus, who are hired and paid as tutors through the system. Institutions get an administrative dashboard showing which courses need support and how students are engaging. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Miami, Florida, the company raised a Series B led by New Markets Venture Partners in October 2025 and named Megan Dusenbery CEO.

Rather than staffing tutoring centers, Knack turns a school's own high-performing students into a paid, course-specific tutor network — scaling academic support, creating on-campus student employment, and building community at the same time. Knack reports that 52% of students on the platform had never engaged with academic support before, and that partner institutions see a 5x+ increase in the size of their campus tutor network.

Funding

  • EquityFiled Apr 29, 2026Form D
    $4.8M/ $4.8M

Product

Knack

Student success / academic support platform

A web and mobile peer tutoring platform for higher education that connects students to course-specific peer tutors on demand and gives administrators a dashboard of course-level support needs and engagement metrics.

  • Course-specific peer tutoring available on flexible schedules, online or in person
  • Student and tutor mobile and web apps
  • Administrative dashboard showing which courses need support plus engagement metrics

Built for

Higher education institutions — colleges, universities and community colleges seeking to expand academic support services

People on file