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New Markets Venture Partners Adds $30 Million, Former Gates Foundation Executive to Edtech Fund

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His career also includes stops at Microsoft, Schoolnet and Kaplan. New Markets has supported 43 companies since its launch in 2003; edtech startups make more than 90 percent of its deals in the past five years, Palmer adds. CB Insights projects 2016 funding totals to fall back to 2013 level , after three consecutive years of increase.

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New Markets Venture Partner’s Latest Edtech Fund Closes at $68 Million

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They last did so in 2013.) New Markets’ Market Forecast Over the years, New Markets’ Palmer, whose career includes stints at Microsoft, Kaplan and the Gates Foundation, has learned to read market cues from federal legislation. Source: New Markets Education Partners. The only acquisition with a disclosed valuation was Questar’s $127.5

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