The Noodle Companies


The Noodle Companies is a group of four subsidiary education firms based in New York City.

Subsidiaries

The Noodle Companies are all designed to improve efficiency and transparency in the education market.
As of 2017, The Noodle Companies had raised about $40 million from venture capitalists.
The Noodle Companies are all based in New York City.

Noodle.com

Noodle.com is the oldest of the four subsidiaries and was found in 2010. The company's website is a search tool for education-related services such as schools, private tutors, classes, counselors, etc. In 2016, Noodle.com had to cut staff in order to remain solvent

Noodle Partners

Noodle Partners was formed in 2015. Noodle Partners works with colleges and universities to develop and operate online programs. Noodle Partners raised $3 million in its seed round. The seed round was led by Osage Venture Partners. Noodle Partners outsources large portions of its services such as recruitment and curriculum development. Noodle Partners uses a fee-based pricing model instead of revenue sharing. Noodle Partners' outsourcing practices have been criticized for creating multiple points of failure.

Clients

's business school was a Noodle Partners client as of 2017. Noodle Partners helped Pepperdine develop on online undergraduate degree in management. Pepperdine was Noodle Partners' first client.
The company has collaborated with the Tulane University to create an online Master of Social Work degree program and Claremont Graduate University to introduce its first online master's degree programme.

Noodle Markets

Noodle Markets helps primary and secondary schools manage their procurement programs. Noodle Markets raised $4 million in its seed round of funding.

Noodle Pros

Noodle Pros was founded in June 2016, It is an online directory of private tutors sorted by geography.

Paycheck Protection Program

Despite having raised tens of millions of dollars in capital, Noodle Pros applied for and received a forgivable loan from the Paycheck Protection Program, which was designed for small businesses, with a value between $350,000 and $1 million.

Management

John Katzman

is best known as co-founder of The Princeton Review, which initially taught SAT preparation to high-school students in New York City. He started the company in 1981 shortly after leaving college, then partnered with Adam Robinson to develop it, and served as the company's CEO until 2007. He authored and coauthored a number of books for the company, including Cracking the SAT, a New York Times bestseller, and created products and services in several media.