Edsurge

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

The company last raised $30 million in a Series C round led by Naspers in 2016, and a $10 million Series B back in 2012. Codecademy hired its first chief financial officer last November: former Chegg executive and general manager Adam Goldman. Chegg went public in 2013.

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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

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Edsurge

APRIL 17, 2019

When Tim Kelly started Planet3 in 2013, he aimed for the stars. Planet3’s Formative Years Kelly founded Planet3 in 2013 to blend top-tier commercial game designers with instructional experts and create a digital platform to teach middle-school science. Atari founder Nolan Bushnell started BrainRush in 2012.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. 3D printing, The Economist pronounced in 2012 , was poised to bring about the third industrial revolution. (I Textbook Publishers vs. Boundless. Bonus if you can charge parents money for this sort of peek into their kids’ worlds.

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