WriteLab acquired by Chegg – Reach Capital – Medium

One of our first investments out of Reach Capital was in a scrappy writing startup spun out of UC Berkeley, founded by English professor Don McQuade and his star student and TA Matthew Ramirez. They set out to solve their own problem: they were drowning in grading papers and didn't feel as if they were giving adequate feedback to their students. Yesterday, Chegg announced their acquisition of WriteLab, the AI-driven writing feedback platform. Grounded in a research-based pedagogy, WriteLab relies on machine learning algorithms to provide different categories of advice -- grammatical comments, logic, clarity and concision. WriteLab acts as a teacher's assistant, helping students polish their writing before turning it in.