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Chance meeting helped SA startup GetSmarter secure over $100m sale
A chance meeting with US listed company 2U's CEO Chip Paucek in October last year set Cape Town based SA edtech startup GetSmarter on the road to being acquired by the US firm in a $103-million deal signed on Monday evening.
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Sam Paddock (pictured on right), who is the company’s CEO, said he and his co-founder and brother Rob weren’t looking to be acquired.
“It became clear that joining forces would result in an organisation that could power the world’s best digital education. This was too big an opportunity to pass on,” he said.
The deal, reported by Forbes magazine in an article yesterday includes an earn-out provision of as much as $20m in cash.
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