SPEAKABOOS: (I see you!) $6.2 million to New York-based Speakaboos in seed and Series A round from investors including Advancit Capital, Kyowan Group (the largest education company in Korea), Gerald Hughes (former Prez & COO of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) and Rick Segal (Managing Director of Rethink Education. Launched in 2009, Speakaboos offers parents a subscription service to a library of over 150 interactive storybooks for young children. TechCrunch reports that the company currently has over 10,000 subscribers.
