{"id":10418,"date":"2017-01-13T12:00:28","date_gmt":"2017-01-13T18:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/therealdaily.com\/?p=10418"},"modified":"2017-02-23T09:23:05","modified_gmt":"2017-02-23T15:23:05","slug":"aceable-real-estate-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/real-estate-tech\/aceable-real-estate-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Popular Austin startup gets into the real estate education game [exclusive]"},"content":{"rendered":"

An Ace in the sleeve<\/h2>\n

Looks like Austin\u2019s go-to driver\u2019s ed and defensive driving company Aceable is getting into the real estate education game and they’re quietly launching AceableAgent<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Read also: NAR REach Accelerator opening applications for 2017 class<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n

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\nAround Austin, Texas, Aceable is known for its innovative take on driver\u2019s education. Founded in 2013, Aceable has been, in their own words,<\/a> \u201creinventing required learning.\u201d They offer state approved online courses and even have a mobile app.<\/p>\n

Although they are based in Austin, Aceable offers courses for those in California, Ohio, Florida, and Illinois as well and there is no word yet as to where real estate education will be offered. Their mobile-first courses are ridiculously affordable, all coming in at significantly below one hundred dollars per course. I wish I could have been taught by memes rather than high school football coaches at a school I didn\u2019t even attend.<\/p>\n

More funding, more reach<\/h2>\n

Now Aceable is shaking up the game again, branching out to real estate education. According to Xconomy<\/a>, Aceable raised four million dollars in their 2016 Series A round of funding.<\/p>\n

The company earned 8.7 million overall in the campaign led by investors Silverton Partners in Austin and Floodgate in California.<\/p>\n

They plan to expand their market to other states as well as different areas of education, including real estate, nursing, food safety, and human resources.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Bringing relevance back<\/h2>\n

Founder and CEO Blake Garrett said, \u201cThe number one complaint we hear from professionals in the fields that we\u2019re exploring is that course content is boring at best\u2014and irrelevant at worst.\u201d<\/p>\n

[clickToTweet tweet=”This new platform aims to make learning exciting rather than a tiresome experience.” quote=”Their platform aims to make learning exciting rather than a tiresome experience.”]<\/p>\n

Aceable looks at how people are currently using technology and create programs that mirror our natural inclinations.<\/p>\n

Their expansion into other markets could be revolutionary for those who are unable to attend traditional on-site training classes due to disability, scheduling conflicts, or lack of transportation. And perhaps their inexpensive mobile-first approach to driver’s ed will translate to real estate and compete with some of the outdated options.<\/p>\n

Someone to watch<\/h2>\n

In the real estate world, Aceable has been quietly operating as AcebleAgent<\/a> for about a week now.<\/p>\n

If their success in the driver\u2019s ed market is any indication, Aceable will likely become a frontrunner for alternative licensing programs.<\/p>\n

While online training and app-based learning certainly can\u2019t completely replace the merits of instructor-based learning, Aceable is forging a new path when it comes to alternative education programs.<\/p>\n

#AceableAgent<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(TECH NEWS) This education platform aims to make learning exciting rather than a tiresome experience. And it just might become the best new way to keep your real estate skills sharp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":337678,"featured_media":10427,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[93],"tags":[1391,1390,851,897,1392,1234,1393,566],"class_list":["post-10418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-real-estate-tech","tag-aceable","tag-aceagent","tag-austin","tag-education","tag-license","tag-real-estate-news","tag-real-estate-agent","tag-startup"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/01\/aceable.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/337678"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10418"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10424,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10418\/revisions\/10424"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}