Edsurge
FEBRUARY 23, 2021
Founded in 2011, the New York-based company has built a hugely popular training platform that has helped millions of students learn to code over the last decade. Since Codecademy launched in 2011, the learn-to-code industry has spawned dozens, if not hundreds of coding bootcamps, apps and other competitors. Chegg went public in 2013.
Edsurge
JULY 28, 2021
In 2011, Pittsburgh-based Duolingo was founded by Luis von Ahn and Severin Hacker. As a string of online-education companies have gone public, including Chegg, Coursera, Kahoot and others, it seems that investors have decided that there’s enough public interest in digital learning, and they want in.
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Edsurge
JUNE 30, 2020
Founded in 2011, the company is named after its founder Byju Ravvendran, who previously worked as a private tutor. Chegg, which offers online homework help and other support services for students, has seen its stock soar since the pandemic. Perhaps more, the company says it is profitable, with over 3.5 The highest-valued private U.S.
Edsurge
APRIL 26, 2019
From 2011 to 2014, U.S. Goldman, vice president of textbooks and e-books at Chegg, a student services provider that notably sold its print textbook inventory to Ingram in 2015, adoption of digital materials among students has been slower than he predicted. “But now I can report that these tools have been adopted in thousands of U.S.
Edsurge
DECEMBER 28, 2018
Cheating on Chegg? It’s no surprise that students would ask for help on platforms like Chegg, which offer digital textbooks as well as tutoring and homework help. Here’s a peek at four projects highlighted by Justin Hendrix, the executive director of the NYC Media Lab. How the Company Aims to Catch Tutoring Requests That Go Too Far.
Edsurge
JULY 24, 2017
2U 2008 2014 $665M (IPO) Archipelago Learning 2000 2012 $302M (acquired by PLATO Learning) Chegg 2005 2013 $830M (IPO) Connections Education 2001 2011 $400M (acquired by Pearson) HigherOne 2000 2012 $260M (acquired by Blackboard) Instructure 2008 2014 $487M (IPO) K12.com Six of the deals took at least 10 years to materialize.
Edsurge
FEBRUARY 14, 2018
In 2011, he returned to Varsity Tutors on a full-time basis. Varsity Tutors is not the only one chasing the tutoring market, which is saturated with traditional, brick-and-mortar competitors like Kumon and Sylvan Learning and online upstarts like Chegg and Wyzant.
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