Empower Education Online

Empower Education Online (EEO), established in 2014 by founder and CEO Song Junbo, operates as a software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider in the educational field from its headquarters in Beijing, China. The company primarily serves the education market, focusing on providing solutions for K-12 schools, universities, and corporate training enterprises. EEO generates revenue by offering its integrated teaching platforms to these educational institutions.

The company's flagship product, ClassIn, was launched in 2015 and is designed as an integrated teaching and learning platform. It facilitates online live classes, offline smart classrooms, and includes a learning management system (LMS) and a personal learning environment (PLE). ClassIn supports a range of interactive features to replicate a physical classroom, including a collaborative blackboard, group teaching, virtual experiments, and the ability for up to 2,000 people to attend a live class with 50 participants on audio and video simultaneously. The platform is built to support an Online-Merge-Offline (OMO) teaching framework, blending digital and physical teaching scenarios. In addition to ClassIn, the company's product suite includes TeacherIn, a toolkit for lesson planning and collaboration, and NOBOOK, which provides virtual labs for subjects like physics and chemistry.

EEO has achieved significant financial milestones, including a Series C funding round of $265 million in November 2020, with investors such as Hillhouse Capital, Tencent Holdings, and SIG (China). This followed a Series B round in July 2020. A notable strategic move was the acquisition of NOBOOK, a developer of virtual labs, in 2021, which expanded its capabilities in STEM education. By 2021, EEO reported that its platforms were used by over 60,000 schools and institutions across more than 150 countries, serving millions of students and educators. The company has formed strategic alliances, such as one with Sony Global Education, to develop teaching frameworks for new markets.

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