Here's something you need to know about the company that helps you know what to know about.
Chicago-based Curiosity.com, an aggregator of online education content, has launched its first official app this morning. The Curiosity app for the iPhone enables users to learn "something new every day" by curating the site's best learning experiences and packaging them into the new Daily Curiosity Digest. The Digest is a daily collection of 5 videos, playlists or courses that are culled from Curiosity.com's complete archive of over 600,000 learning experiences.
Explained Gabe Vehovsky, CEO of Curiosity.com, "Our mission is to make learning more accessible and easy."
Whereas the Curiosity site is more of a discovery engine - a kind of 'Pandora for Education Content' - the app is more editorial focused. The app presents users with the "top five things to learn today," information that's distilled into a series of facts, quotes, and visuals to "feed their fascination." However, like the site, the app allows users to dig deeper for more info easily jump into other topics, using its curated top five to launch users into discovery.
And Curiosity.com knows something about discovery. The startup, which raised $6M in November from several Chicago-based investors, began as a project within Discovery Communications' internal incubator in early 2014. (Discovery Communications is the 30-year old media company that oversees Discovery, TLC, Animal Planet, and more; the organization led the round). Following its funding, Curiosity.com spun off into its own entity.
At the time, Discovery Communications' Chief Development and Digital Officer explained the spin-off by saying that "Curiosity.com has evolved from a powerful concept to a strong platform and business. We look forward to continuing to support Curiosity.com’s growth and development, along with this new, strong team of investors."
Today, the Curiosity app is available for download on the Apple app store and it's coming to Andorid and iPad "soon."
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