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Owl Ventures’ New $185M Edtech Fund Has Global Backers—and Ambitions

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Fueled by an explosion of broadband access, education software and, of course, the irresistible allure of financial returns, investors across the world want a slice of the U.S. 2015, focused on K-12 companies (with one exception). Dreambox, a provider of online math materials, dates back to 2006. edtech industry.

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US Edtech Investments Peak Again With $1.45 Billion Raised in 2018

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billion, matching the previous high for the single-year funding total of this decade, set in 2015. There’s a notable difference between 2018 and 2015, however. In 2015 there were 165 deals, versus just 112 in 2018. Last year, U.S. education technology companies raised $1.45 The funding total in 2018 also eclipsed the $1.2

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The History of the Future of E-rate

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The agency issued an order to support affordable access to high-speed broadband in particular (not merely “access to the Internet”) and to boost access and bandwidth of schools’ WiFi networks. As part of these modernization efforts , in 2015 the funding cap for E-rate was increased to $3.9 ” Among them: an $8.71

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