Financing for Japanese and Chinese Character Site Skritter.com Closes
Financing closed for Inkren LLC (makers of Skritter.com). Proceeds will be used to improve and market the service which specializes in teaching Chinese and Japanese characters (called hanzi and kanji respectively). - July 01, 2010
Japanese and Chinese Character Learning Site Skritter.com Appoints Doug Sibley Vice President Sales and Marketing
Chinese and Japanese Character learning company Inkren LLC (Skritter.com) has appointed Doug Sibley as Vice President of Sales and Marketing to build up sales and marketing capabilities and focus marketing communications around "characters" given the core of the company's product is overcoming the barrier of learning the characters that make up the Chinese and Japanese languages. - June 05, 2010
Chinese and Japanese Learning Tool Skritter.com Secures Investor Financing Commitment
Skritter.com, a website aimed at learning Chinese characters (Hanzi) and Japanese Kanji announces commitment of angel investors. The startup expects to use the financing to improve and market the site. - March 16, 2010
Inkren’s Skritter.com Launches Japanese Version of Its Character Learning System
Inkren, makers of Skritter.com’s Chinese character learning system launch their automated Japanese character learning service. Japanese characters (Kanji) are a logical extension for Skritter.com as the character sets for both languages came from the same original set of ancient Chinese characters. Says co-founder Nick Winter “Japanese learning technology is way ahead of Chinese, but those 2000 daily-use Kanji are still titans looming on the path to fluency. We want to topple them.” - January 30, 2010