My Indian Tutor

Tutorvista just raised $2M in VC money from Sequoia Capital. The company has 90 tutors in India teaching kids in US and UK for a flat fee of $100/ month or $19.99/ hour. They have 1 employee in the bay area for sales and marketing. And it looks like they are doing a great job (read the comments from Epinions) below. The Company was founded by K Ganesh, founder of CustomerAsset and ICICIOneSource - he also is on the board of Marketics.

Is management education next in line?

Here are someone's comments on Epinions:

RE: Tutorvista works

I found it works very well. It took my kids a couple of sessions to get used to the accent, because all the tutors are Indians, I guess. There was also a little hassle the first session or two with technology--just taking the time for it to load the first time and everything was new to us. But the tutor is really great--knows her stuff--and my kid (14 years old) really likes the sessions now. She seems to be doing better on her tests and homework, which is what we were looking for. She doesn't have any problem with the accent now, but it took a couple or three sessions before she was comfortable with it. Now, she uses it two or three hours each week. She has worked with the same woman tutor for about three months now.

They've got a lot of good stuff online, like animations and worksheets and things, and while my daughter doesn't have much time to do extra assignments, I think she finds the animations pretty helpful in understanding the concepts. Anyway, we think it is DEFINITELY worth $100 a month, and I'd say we'll keep the service going through next year when she starts highschool.