Pearson, Cengage and Freeman & Worth sued Boundless in March of last year, and the startup has been battling these lawsuits ever since.
The sizable chunk of pre-launch funding adds to the $1.7 million seed round Boundless raised last year from Nextview, Founder Collective, Kepha, and SV Angel.
The top three publishers sued Boundless in March of 2012, but just as the company said it would, Boundless has evolved and moved out of beta with various new publicly live products.
Boundless raised $8 million in April of last year from Venrock, adding to the $1.7 million in seed it raised in 2011 from Nextview, Founder Collective, Kepha, and SV Angel.
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Tommy Morrison had a seemingly boundless future in 1996.
Today, Boundless is launching a set of tools to speed adoption by educators.
My dad had three functions at Christmas: boundless enthusiasm, musical accompaniment (he played the piano), and stockings.
On the whole, this is a good thing--from such innocence boundless optimism can spring.
But a little litigation isn't slowing down Boundless, as it today announced that it has closed an $8 million Series A round, led by Venrock — the VC firm that began as the original venture arm of the Rockefeller family.
Today, Boundless is officially coming out of private beta and launching to the world, which includes a brand new website, interface, additional content as well as the launch of its first "Open Textbooks," which are available at the outset in seven subjects.
