San Francisco-based Owl Ventures led the investment, joining Noodle Partners’ seed investors, Osage Venture Partners and New Markets Venture Partners. The capital will go toward expanding Noodle’s online programs at Tulane, American and the additional dozen universities with which the company is working.

New leadership team brings over three decades of Higher Education experience

Debut cohort tentatively slated to begin in January 2018.

Signaling an important milestone in its 183-year history, Tulane University today announced a relationship with Noodle Partners, a company dedicated to dramatically improving the quality and delivery of online education. Adding to existing online degrees in public health and law, Tulane plans to launch an array of new market-competitive online degrees over the next several years.

With teacher shortage looming, AU’s online programs will help to prepare the next generation of effective teachers and education policy leaders.