Herndon-based edtech startup Real Time Cases has merged with Florida learning asset delivery company Elearis to form Curator Solutions.
The new company is a content creation, curation and publishing platform aimed to help educators save time and increase productivity in the design, build and launch of lessons and courses.It will be based in Herndon, where Real Time Cases moved from D.C. last year.
The merger was born out of the recent partnership between the two edtech firms, leveraging Elearis’ technology platform and Real Time Cases’ video-based business case studies. The combined company’s focus is to enable educators in colleges and businesses to create and deliver content easily and cost effectively, in a way that learners find engaging and accessible.
“Increasingly, people are accustomed to learning on the fly, or just-in-time, on mobile devices, tablets, and computers. They expect to leverage work- or school-related learning materials in the same way,” said Real Time Cases co-founder Jake Schaufeld in a statement. “In just a few months of partnership, we saw the true potential of the complementary solutions that Elearis and Real Time Cases bring to educators and knew the next logical step was to merge."
Schaufeld, who launched Real Time Cases in 2014, is now CEO of the combined company. Elearis is based in Delray Beach, Fla.
Curator Solutions will provide access to case studies for educators to use in undergraduate and graduate business classes; access to an interface for creating, arranging and delivering online content to corporate learners; the ability to make changes to courses and materials across multiple versions simultaneously; and accessible content to an unlimited number of students online and offline.
The combined firm will continue to offer both Real Time Cases and Elearis solutions, including the library of 200-plus case studies that Real Time Cases has created with 40-plus corporate partners, which are now accessible through the Elearis cloud-based platform.
WeddingWire CEO Timothy Chi, CustomInk CEO Marc Katz, ThinkFoodGroup founder Jose Andres and Monumental Sports & Entertainment General Manager Zach Leonsis are among the local executives featured in its videos. And in December, it partnered with well-funded D.C. startup Framebridge on a series of case studies for business classes.
The new investment follows Real Time Cases’ $3.5 million capital raise in May 2018 that brought its total funding to $7 million, according to the WBJ. The digital platform already features courses in management, marketing, entrepreneurship, finance and hospitality; and last year began expanding into health sciences.
