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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. The four focus areas include career credentialing, digital and adaptive learning platforms, STEM and computer science instructional tools and data analytic services for schools. The Fulton, Md.-based A fourth deal is expected to close sometime this month.

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

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The partnership also helps surface new tools and services. 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. With measured expectations come measured results.

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The Politics of Education Technology

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Microsoft and Apple are two. Cambridge Analytica, a company on whose board Trump’s campaign manager and now chief strategist Steve Bannon sits, used Facebook “as a tool to build psychological profiles that represent some 230 million adult Americans.” ” Voter suppression – via Facebook.