Edsurge

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Across the globe, that figure surpassed $16 billion , marking a 32-fold increase from 2010. Few investors have watched, and fueled, the growth of the edtech industry as closely and consistently as Reach Capital , one of a handful of venture firms that has focused its investments in education technology startups for the past 10 years.

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Edsurge

JUNE 14, 2022

A consultant recently noticed a company announcement about the features in the U.K. The company did not respond to questions about the program. But recent reports have speculated that the company could “bootstrap an online course ecosystem.” version of the platform and shared a screenshot on Twitter.

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Edsurge

JUNE 23, 2020

Its early work focused on lobbying on behalf of its members, which also included companies across the banking, financial and trade publishing sectors. It was early in offering programs that highlighted edtech,” says Frank Catalano, an independent industry strategist who previously served on SIIA’s education board. “It billion in U.S.

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edWeb.net

APRIL 4, 2022

The EdTech Awards for 2022 were just announced, and edWeb has won the award for Professional Development Learning Solution out of a field of 20 Finalists. edWeb is also a Finalist in two other categories: Online Courses/MOOC Solution and EdTech Company Setting a Trend. Congratulations to all of the winners and finalists!”

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Edtech startup incubators? That’s so 2010. Kurshan, a Senior Fellow and Innovation Advisor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education, has spent decades building edtech enterprises—both for-profit and nonprofit ones. I think this reflects an evolution of the edtech entrepreneurial ecosystem.”

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eSchool News

APRIL 18, 2023

The company provides trauma-informed, culturally responsive, personalized, evidence-based digital programs for delivery of social-emotional-behavioral supports and training for PreK-12 students and staff.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 8, 2019

For the past decade, the most esteemed business plan competition for edtech entrepreneurs has been held by the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education and sponsored by Milken Family Foundation. Here’s why he believes edtech entrepreneurs will win from taking part in the EBPC competition.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Edtech is booming, with 40 times more venture capital invested in the sector in 2021 than in 2010. There is no question that edtech has brought new ways to support the learning process and was used extensively by schools to connect remotely to students who could not attend classes in-person during the worst parts of the pandemic.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

On October 7, seven talented edtech entrepreneurs will take center stage at the final event of the 2019 Milken-Penn GSE Education Business Plan Competition (EBPC). Because we have been around for a decade, we have a vibrant ecosystem of entrepreneurs, researchers, investors and subject matter experts ready to partner with new companies.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Those building, funding and using edtech tools must similarly wrestle with these concerns. Now, educators are focused on linking edtech tools directly to student learning outcomes. Computing devices and 1:1 programs are far more prevalent now than in 2010. Technology can collect and harness more data than ever before.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

The industry has since consolidated, due in part to an uptick in mergers and acquisitions by education companies and private equity firms. So what is it like—and what does it take—to sell a company? She and her fellow panelists all also agreed on another thing: Companies are bought, not sold. Too Early to Think Exit?

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Edsurge

JULY 19, 2023

At a time when school districts are spending money on edtech like never before, it’s perhaps natural that some educators would be skeptical about both the pace and enthusiasm behind it. public schools raise questions about whether curricula and edtech are staying culturally relevant. Who Is Edtech Made for?

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Edsurge

JANUARY 23, 2019

If it seems baffling that companies with no revenue can raise money from private investors ( ahem , as some edtech startups did in the early 2010’s), then EdTechX Holdings might just sound outright crazy at first. EdTechX Holdings is a “special purpose acquisition company,” or SPAC for short.

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Edsurge

JULY 24, 2017

edtech companies last year, the dollars returned with a fury during the first six months of 2017. edtech startups is already at 88 percent of the total in 2016 ( which was $1 billion ). Several private-equity-backed companies have invested heavily in the “platform” approach. According to our tally, there were 58 U.S.

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eSchool News

APRIL 12, 2022

During the initial phase of COVID-19 lockdowns, Generation Alpha (born 2010-2024) and Generation Z (born 1995-2009) had to pivot to virtual-only school platforms. We’ve seen a sharp rise in edtech players around the world offering online and after-school programs to help children decrease the pandemic learning gap.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 19, 2023

Pittsburgh, PA – Carnegie Learning , a leader in artificial intelligence for K-12 education and formative assessment, announced today it has been selected for the GSV (Global Silicon Valley) 150, a list of the world’s most transformative private companies in education. Not only do we embrace change, we create it.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2016

edtech companies, which altogether raised an estimated $1.03 edtech companies raised roughly 57 percent of what Snapchat did in its $1.8 In this annual analysis, EdSurge counts all investments in technology companies whose primary purpose is to improve learning outcomes for all learners, regardless of age.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 31, 2019

They were the most powerful companies in education. They bought other companies to try to blend assessment and curriculum as they also continued publishing. On the other hand, companies like Curriculum Associates took the path of blended learning and have seen significant growth driven by a technology-first model.

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Edsurge

MARCH 24, 2019

Governments, educators, advocacy groups and companies large and small need to work better together. But what may surprise some readers of the report, released Monday, is what the United States can learn from developing nations when it comes to bringing together all parties interested in edtech. Take Chile, for instance.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2017

My bet is that by 2040, our children will look back on this period between 2015 and 2030 in education technology much the same way internet historians look to the period 1995 to 2010 as the birth of the commercial web. More than 80 percent of the edtech startups created in the past five years will not survive through 2020.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

SplashLearn, the US-headquartered learning company began 2021 on a high note raising $18 million in Series C funding round led by Owl Ventures. San Francisco based Owl Ventures is the largest edtech sector-focused venture capital firm in the world. SplashLearn was incorporated in 2010. billion in assets under management.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2016

But when funding dries up and profits remain elusive, companies have to make tough cuts. Back in the driver’s seat is Mick Hewitt, who co-founded the company in 2009 and served as its first CEO. He adds: “As a venture-funded company, there’s been a decision to get to profitability in the next nine to 12 months.” billion in U.S.

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The Web20Classroom

JANUARY 3, 2011

So here is my reflections on 2010 and my predictions for 2011. So education related companies are going to have to be innovative in the apps they create for these devices. Lots of potential there and I bet we will see at least one education company develop learning games for the Kinect. I want to be hip. How did I do?

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Edsurge

JANUARY 23, 2017

Leading one education company is stressful enough for most people. That’s the challenge that John Katzman, one of the most recognized names in the business, has embarked on with The Noodle Companies. As founder and CEO of The Noodle Companies, he’ll decide how to allocate the funds. But try doing four—simultaneously.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 19, 2023

Pittsburgh, PA – Carnegie Learning , a leader in artificial intelligence for K-12 education and formative assessment, announced today it has been selected for the GSV (Global Silicon Valley) 150, a list of the world’s most transformative private companies in education. Not only do we embrace change, we create it.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 12, 2020

peaked at the end of the last recession in 2010 , and has been declining ever since. Consider also that the economic model of most Online Program Managers, or OPMs —the edtech firms that have powered much of four-year institutions online growth—focus on higher-cost graduate degree programs. Community college enrollment in the U.S.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

We were in the early innings of what I argued at that time was more of a supply-side-driven phenomenon: universities and companies were experimenting with new offerings, and the groundwork was being laid for a more digitally-oriented, shorter-form credentialing future.

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Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2018

The company already offers premium pricing for schools and other organizations with multiple users.) For Laurie York, who’s created 82 padlets since first using the tool in 2010, the initial response was “disappointment.” Education companies change pricing models , or simply close shop at a whim. The company has raised $1.6

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

During a recent edWebinar , edtech experts provided an overview of the E-Rate program, state matching funds, and ways to obtain grants for technological development. In 2010 the FCC appointed her to the USAC board representing the nation’s schools and libraries on ERATE. Accessing the E-Rate and Matching State Funds.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

In the 1980s, researchers developed an adaptive-tutoring math system used in high schools and colleges, and the tool was spun out as an independent company in 1998. Since then the company has swapped hands between other private-equity firms and private investors. He declined to share whether the company is turning a profit.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 5, 2018

For more than two decades, Jonathan Grayer has made a career out of welding educational companies. In 2010, he pooled his own money with KKR, a private equity firm, to launch Weld North , which has since acquired another 16 edtech companies (and invested in 4 others). Yet that’s not all.

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Edsurge

MAY 9, 2017

We’ve tried to make this event much more broader just another ‘edtech conference’ and to encompass learning and talent development,” says Li Jiang, Vice President of GSV Asset Management. That’s generally how much companies have to generate for most major banks to consider working with them to find a buyer. The joke’s on them.”.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2020

Except that Ashford’s parent company will end up paying millions to Arizona to make it happen, leading New America’s Kevin Carey, the group’s director of education policy programs, to argue in a widely shared Tweet that “it’s not really a purchase at all.” percent of the revenue from the campus with Zovio, the company that owned Ashford.

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Edsurge

MAY 16, 2018

They started the company to solve a challenge that they both knew well: how to provide fast and actionable feedback to writing students. The company has also begun partnering with other companies such as Pearson and Microsoft. Even so, Ramirez described the edtech environment as “extremely challenging.”

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 5, 2017

While the emergence of “edtech” and the growing tide of investment towards this industry has led to a seemingly endless proliferation of new startups claiming to be in service of education, the perception of many educators, including some of my professors at Penn, is often one of skepticism. Blackboard Inc.,

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Edsurge

APRIL 10, 2019

It’s become known as the edtech industry’s rendezvous for investors and bankers—although it wasn’t always this way. “It Here’s how the attendee demographics have grown from 2010 to 2018. How powerful would it be if a CEO who just sold his company for a million dollars got on the microphone and said: ‘I worked really hard for this.

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Edsurge

JUNE 29, 2016

Five edtech companies emerged recently from Boston's LearnLaunch accelerator, tackling issues that include learning to code, hiring and collecting social emotional data. Companies already in its network include Lululemon, Microsoft, Nestle and Pepsi. LearnLaunch is working hard to give its companies a strong launch point.

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