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Why I'm Still Bullish About the State of Edtech

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This year’s 1 3th edition will swamp San Diego’s waterfront for four days and feature 1,000 speakers, including Thomas Friedman and Margaret Atwood, plus the buzziest for-profit companies in our industry. It’s hard to remember now, but many industry colleagues felt edtech was a frothy market in 2017. Chegg (NYSE: CHGG) is down 43.8

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Fueled by Big Rounds, Edtech Funding Surges to $887M in First Half of 2017

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short-lived experiment in the coding bootcamp industry ). Home-run bets and financial windfalls are rare in the edtech industry. The biggest exit in the edtech industry—Lynda.com’s $1.5 These triple-digit rounds feel “disproportionate to where the market for education technology has been,” he says. of deals.

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