2017年1月12日,

发布司法部调查的FBI克林顿邮件的处理情况下科技创业公司都试图使语言学习成为可能没有在90年代以来人类的导师当cd - rom和罗塞塔石碑是最先进的。社交媒体的兴起和智能手机鼓舞了新一波的语言学习应用程序像Duolingo, OKPanda或通用。ly,等等。但LingoLive的首席执行官泰勒缪斯,断言是不可能成为流利的在图中没有真人教师的专业水平和基于任务的课程。大多数语言学习软件,甚至辅导平台,只能帮助学生获得基本精通外语,缪斯说。他的公司帮助员工开发了波兰和沟通技巧,他们需要进步领导角色在他们的职业生涯。现在,LingoLive关闭了一个520万美元的风险投资发展的市场语言教练高潜力的专业人士。今天,纽约LingoLive工作与客户从Eventbrite, Twitter和假日酒店。这是它是如何工作的,缪斯说:“我们教练在比赛学生不仅仅是语言。也是在你的学习风格,你的目标,你需要开发特定的英语技能,《纽约时报》你想学习的人正确的专业知识。你选的技能你想发展,无论是编写更简洁的电子邮件或提供一个伟大的公开演讲。” The startup’s platform works on desktop or mobile, and allows learners to meet their coaches online for scheduled live sessions any time they want. Companies pay LiveLingo per employee, and usually sign their people up for six to twelve months of courses, Muse says, though it is possible to sign up an employee for a one-month brush-up. Owl Ventures led the investment in LingoLive joined by the company’s earlier backers Entrepreneurs Expansion Fund , Alpine Meridian Ventures , and Fresco Capital . The investors represent a mix of edtech-focused and enterprise software-focused firms. Prior to raising their Series A, LingoLive raised $1 million in seed funding and participated in the Entrepreneurs Roundtable accelerator in New York where its company is now headquartered. Owl Ventures’ Partner Amit Patel said his firm backed LingoLive after seeing some impressive metrics. The company has: grown revenue 20% month over month consecutively since launching in 2014; trained 180 coaches to teach language using a proprietary, task-based curriculum; and attained a student satisfaction rate just over 98 percent across the board. While LingoLive does most of its business by training learners who are non-native English speakers, it also offers courses in French, Japanese, Mandarin, Portuguese and Spanish. Patel said, “Helping businesses avoid what’s known in the field of learning and development as ‘linguistic debt,’ is becoming more important in a globalized economy.” Muse says the company intends to use the funding for hiring, recruiting and training coaches, improving the algorithms that match the right teachers to language learners, and marketing efforts. Long-term LiveLingo will be establishing offices around the world, and adding new languages to its platform, as well as adapting its lessons to help native English language speakers simply improve their communication skills. The company’s main competition is not necessarily found in other language learning apps, but corporate language coaching businesses like Berlitz or Education First.