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

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The strategy has worked for a few older companies: Kaplan, for instance, began in the test-prep business and has since moved into higher education, corporate training (and a. PowerSchool, owned by Vista Equity Partners, has acquired eight companies since June 2015. short-lived experiment in the coding bootcamp industry ).

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