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Why I'm Still Bullish About the State of Edtech

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Here’s why 2021 was a banner year for U.S. NYSE: INST), Coursera, Inc. Our own venture capital firm, New Markets Venture Partners, rode these tailwinds ourselves, successfully selling four companies in Q4 2021 and Q1 2022 at generous valuations. billion in mid-October, 2021, to $62.8 million students in 2021, a 5.1

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Degreed Raises $75 Million to Expand Corporate Learning Platform

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That’s what happened to the likes of Coursera, NovoEd and Udacity. A National Association for Business Economics survey this month put the odds of this happening before 2021 at 60 percent. About 80 percent said retraining and “reskilling” is key to addressing internal skills gaps.