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August 4, 2023

Austrian online tutoring unicorn GoStudent raises $95m in equity and debt

The online tutoring platform is profitable in the DACH region


GoStudent's leadership, Alfons Priessner (COS), Felix Ohswald (CEO), Laura Warnier (CGO) and Gregor Müller (COO).

Fundraising may be hard for many scaleups at the moment, but online tutoring platform GoStudent has bucked the trend by bagging a new round of $95m, split between debt and equity. 

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Miriam Partington

Miriam Partington is a senior reporter at Sifted, based in Berlin. She covers the DACH region and the future of work, and writes Startup Life , a weekly newsletter on what it takes to build a startup. Follow her on X and LinkedIn

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