Who invested in StudySoup

3 rounds we have observed, with the 4 investors named in them. Every figure came from a named source, and where the company reported a raise to the SEC itself, that is shown beside it.

InternetMedia

Funding summaryUpdated 26 Oct 2026

$1.9Mraised across 3 rounds since 2014, from 3 sources

$100KSeed$1.7MSeed$106KDebt

Latest round: Debt, $106KJan 2017
Biggest round: $1.7MSeed · Aug 2016
Investors: 4

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The funding story

Each circle is a round, placed by date and sized by amount. The line above is the running total.

201520162017

$100KSeed$1.7MSeed$106KDebt

First round: Seed, $100K
Biggest round: $1.7M
Usual gap between rounds: 2.1 years

StudySoupConsumer internet1 / 7Their pitch deckStudySoup's pitch deck, 7 slidesEach slide read for what it argues, against the decks that raised at the same stage.

The rounds

Jan 2017
Debt$106K1 new1 returning
- 500 Global
- Lighter Capital
Source recorded
Aug 2016
Seed$1.7M2 new1 returning
- 500 Global
- Canyon Creek Capital
- 1776 DC
Reported by TechCrunch
Aug 2014
Seed$100K1 new
- 500 Global
From a historical funding record

Who was in which round

The busiest backers across the latest rounds. A filled square is a round they joined; a dark one, a round they led.

Seed2014Seed2016Debt2017

500 Global

Lighter Capital

Canyon Creek Capital1776 DC

Everyone who backed them

500 GlobalAngel3rounds

Lighter CapitalVC firm1round

Canyon Creek CapitalVC firm1round

1776 DCno record of our own yet1round

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Also claim to have backed them

This firm lists StudySoup as a portfolio company on their own website, but no report of a round names it. They are the firms' own claims, kept apart from the rounds above.