Sanchez's current startup Educately raised over $2M and scaled to 50 employees
Joan Manuel Sanchez · Startup Acquisition Stories with JM Sanchez Co-founder of Studia · Aug 29, 2023 · at 1:47
Joan Manuel Sanchez discusses his background as co-founder and CRO of Educately alongside his side project Studia.
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“Which is called Educately. Still running it. I'm still the chief revenue officer of the company. We raised over two million dollars in that one. I was still scaling it, a team of 50, going very well.”
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