About Top Hat
Top Hat is a cloud-based active learning courseware platform for higher education, enabling educators to engage students through interactive lectures, polls, quizzes, discussions, and assessments across in-person, online, and hybrid classrooms. The platform also provides digital interactive textbooks and tools for attendance, assignments, and analytics. It serves thousands of instructors at more than 1,500 North American colleges and universities, reaching over 3 million students.
Company details
Funding
Total raised
$270.1M
Last stage
Growth
Investors
Founders
Michael Silagadze
Co-founder of Top Hat, leading the interactive classroom platform for higher education.
Mike Silagadze
Co-founded Top Hat in 2009 near the University of Waterloo; served as CEO for over a decade before handing over leadership to Joe Rohrlich in 2021. Holds a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Waterloo. Now CEO of ether.fi and a venture partner at Ripple Ventures.
LinkedInMohsen Shahini
Co-founded Top Hat in 2009 with Mike Silagadze. Was completing his PhD at the time of founding and served as Chief Academic Officer at Top Hat.
What happens next.
No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.
Confirm the fit
A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.
I pitch you to the company
I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.
A meeting lands on your calendar
If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.