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Deals and More Deals: The Top Edtech Business Stories of 2019

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Here’s a look at the biggest edtech business stories of 2019—the ones that captured the most attention, and the ones that should have your attention. A $157M Fundraise for Guild Education Births Edtech’s Newest Unicorn by Tony Wan Unicorns don’t exist, except when they’re of the billion-dollar valuation variety. Can You Say Unicorn?

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How Will Coronavirus Impact Education Technology Investments in 2020?

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Now, with the widespread cancellation of schools and conferences (where investors and entrepreneurs often meet), edtech investors are advising startups to heed Sequoia’s advice. School budgets may well soon dip too, as they did following the last recession in 2008.

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The Next Edtech IPO Might Be This London-Based Language Learning Company

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Niesner claims the company is on track to hit $40 million in revenue in 2020. There are so many players out there—and a few emerging winners” in edtech, says Niesner, 40. “We How They Work Busuu has grown considerably since its 2008 founding. But its co-founder and CEO, Bernhard Niesner, has started to make his case.

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How to make edtech entrepreneurship more inclusive

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In this MarketScale EdTech Today podcast from host Kevin Hogan, remote learning expert Sal Khan and Anne Wintroub, director of Social Innovation for the AT&T Foundation, discuss a variety of topics related to edtech, COVID learning, and connectivity. Many of which were in the edtech space. “Oh, wow.

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The Past Decade Forecasts a New Wave of Economic Opportunity in Education

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From 2008 to 2019 we have witnessed a 4,000-plus percent expansion in the number of funded edtech startups, and the best startups can become unicorns. Digital has changed the nature of market growth, and edtech startups create new digital markets that leverage unique technology attributes of the new industrial revolution.

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Survey of High School Juniors and Seniors Reveals Low Levels of Financial Preparedness

eSchool News

EVERFI collected anonymous survey responses from students who participated in one of three EVERFI financial education courses during the 2020-2021 school year. Founded in 2008, EVERFI’s Impact-as-a-Service TM solution and digital educational content have reached more than 45 million learners globally. Currently, more than half of U.S.

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WCAG 2.2: The Next Step in Digital Accessibility

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were published in February 2008 by WCAG Samurai, a group of web developers autonomous of W3C.Web 2.0 was published by W3C on 11 December 2008 and consisted of twelve guidelines categorized under four existing principles, namely, perceivable, operable, understandable, and robust. Digital Publishing / May 19, 2020.