Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Mike Silagadze, who in 2009 co-founded Top Hat , a provider of digital courseware and textbooks for higher education, will be stepping away from the role on March 15 after serving as CEO for over a decade. Wiley, for example, purchased Knewton and zyBooks just two months apart in 2019 to bolster its digital offerings.

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Edsurge

MAY 26, 2020

Top Hat has been steadily expanding its suite of tools ever since the company was founded in 2009, and in recent years has charted a course to “create the next generation of interactive courseware,” says Silagadze in an interview. To date, the company has raised $105 million in venture capital.

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2017

9 million (A) 2016 Fosun Group Kaymbu $2 million (Seed) 2016 Sinovation Ventures Knewton $52 million (F) 2016 TAL Education KnowRe $6.8 edtech startups, including Enuma , Knewton , Minerva Project , Ready4 and Volley. Sinovation Ventures , a venture firm founded in 2009 by Google’s former chief in China. edtech startups.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 17, 2011

According to the report, 38% of kids in this age range are playing mobile games, up from 8% in 2009. Online video portal Udemy announced that it has raised $3 million Adaptive learning company Knewton announced a massive round of fundraising: $33 million. But this isn''t simply kids playing hopscotch or tag, of course.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

I’d love to provide a link but Andreessen deleted his blog in 2009. It announced this year it was “ phasing out ” its reliance on Knewton provide those algorithms.). Someone generously re-posted all the content from that blog to a Posterous site.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 16, 2016

Knewton (adaptive teaching software). While some have scoffed that the size of the donation – $1.25 ” Giving women the right to vote, in other words, was a disaster. Thiel and his VC firm Founder’s Fund’s Education Technology Investments (since 2010). Declara (adaptive teaching software). Thinkful (coding bootcamp).

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

In 2009, Techcrunch named the laptop one of the biggest flops of that decade.) Founded in 2008 by a former Kaplan executive Jose Ferreira, Knewton was one of the most heavily funded ed-tech startups of the decade. He told NPR in 2015 that Knewton’s adaptive learning software was a “mind-reading robo tutor in the sky.”

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