Edsurge

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Jason Palmer has returned to New Markets Venture Partners , where he spent two years beginning in 2012 as an entrepreneur-in-residence. New Markets has supported 43 companies since its launch in 2003; edtech startups make more than 90 percent of its deals in the past five years, Palmer adds. He wisely kept mum on who they are.).

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Edsurge

JULY 29, 2019

million across 38 deals in 2012 to $276.5 He co-founded eSped, a K-12 software suite to help districts serve special-needs students, which sold to Frontline Education in 2016, and has operated Blindfold Games since 2013 to offer accessible games to adults with visual impairments. The company will track student progress in the games.

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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. But the New York-based company had already served 45 million students in more than 190 countries before the pandemic hit. “We A sample project in Codecademy.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

That disconnect—between the importance of those early years, and the shortage of capital available for supporting programs—was part of what drove Neal Shenoy to launch BEGiN, an early-education media company, in 2012. To date, the New York-based company has raised $93 million. There is some research to support their popularity.

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techlearning

MAY 24, 2018

May 24, 2018—The Boston Business Journal announced that Curriculum Associates has been named to their 2018 “Fast 50” list of the Fastest-Growing Private Companies in Massachusetts for the fourth consecutive year. Companies that did not show growth from 2016 to 2017 were excluded. NORTH BILLERICA, Mass.,

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Think Exam

JULY 24, 2020

According to studies and a recent survey done on misconduct, misdemeanor and use of foul practices it has been found that “the number of students caught cheating using technology has risen to 42% in 2012 to 2016”. The post 7 Online Proctoring Technologies for high test integrity appeared first on Thinkexam Blog.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

But when she returned to teach at Union in 2012, the white student population had shrunk to a little more than half of total enrollment. Since 2016, the diversity of students enrolled in the district’s advanced math courses has increased. Her father, who runs his own remodeling company, can’t help with her calculus work, she said.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Four years ago, when Hardeep Gulati took over as CEO of PowerSchool, the company numbered around 400 employees. Schoology was founded in 2009 and has been working on data integrations with PowerSchool’s student information system as far back as 2012, Friedman adds.

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Edsurge

JULY 11, 2019

When deciding whether a company is viable to be bought, CareMonkey president Peter Bencivenga says the magic number is 90 percent. That number refers to customer retention rate, and Bencivenga said he’s called off potential acquisitions when a company’s performance in this department isn’t up to snuff.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 21, 2021

And we’ve only seen the beginning—within the next few years, the company is poised to disrupt the healthcare market, become the market leader in online advertising, establish itself as a competitor to USPS, FedX and UPS, and provide global access to broadband internet through a network of satellites orbiting the planet… to name but a few examples.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 23, 2016

I’m excited for the industry’s future, and I think we can make money investing in publicly-traded edtech companies. I think you’re wrong, so I propose a bet: We’ll both invest in a basket of stocks on January 1, 2012—mine representing the edtech industry, and yours the whole economy. My edtech portfolio was more difficult to assemble.

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Edsurge

MAY 6, 2019

Publicly-traded companies like Wiley generally share the price of their acquisitions, unless the financial impact is considered immaterial to the buyer’s bottom line. The New York City-based company has raised more than $180 million in investment capital. 1, 2019), the company reported a more than 20-percent decline in this division.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2019

The score gap between those who make less than $80,000 and those who make more than that amount has increased from 2012 to 2016, according to a 2016 ACT report. At least one testing company is trying (sort of) to eliminate the barrier of income. SAT scores from 2016 have been converted to the 2018 scale.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Now, just a few months into his current role as CEO at Achieve3000, Udell is already adding another company to the list. The company offers reading materials that are rewritten at 12 different levels in English (and eight levels in Spanish), so that students can all engage in the same content regardless of their reading skills.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

It turns out these insights are only a sliver of the data the company wants to surface and share with educators and parents. The company has now raised $32 million in venture funding. Founded in 2012, Panorama pitched its survey tools as a way for parents and educators to better understand the social-emotional needs of their children.

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Edsurge

JULY 1, 2019

based education company has acquired Zyante, Inc., based company, which has a team of 84 full-time staff and contractors that will join the new owner, according to Gavin Chow, Wiley’s vice president of strategy and performance. Zyante, the maker of zyBooks, was founded in 2012 by two professors from the University of California system.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 15, 2020

According to an EdSurge database of publicly announced funding deals, investment in edtech companies reached at least $1.66 based education companies that raised a round of at least $250,000. Companies that primarily offer financial and loan services that serve education as one of many markets were also not included.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 16, 2019

As a new college student in 2012, Sabih Bin Wasi found his excitement over his many course options tempered by his confusion at scheduling them. based company has completed a $3.1 Founded in 2016, Stellic has 15 university partners, including University of Chicago, University of Minnesota and Bin Wasi’s alma mater, Carnegie Mellon.

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Edsurge

MARCH 29, 2021

2012 saw the development of Oculus, a virtual reality headset company that Facebook later acquired for more than $2 billion. 2016 brought us Pokemon Go, the addictive game that saw players running around their neighborhoods hunting virtual creatures projected onto the physical landscape through their smartphones.

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Think Exam

JULY 24, 2020

According to studies and a recent survey done on misconduct, misdemeanor and use of foul practices it has been found that “the number of students caught cheating using technology has risen to 42% in 2012 to 2016”. The post Clever ways students cheat on online exams and how to stop them appeared first on Thinkexam Blog.

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Edsurge

JUNE 27, 2019

For McCarthy, it was a small sign among many that international countries like India had become powerful markets for corporate training companies like Degreed. “A Companies outside the U.S. To date, the San Francisco-based company has raised about $140 million. are now 20 percent.”

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

An experiment to create an inexpensive pathway for students to attend prestigious, four-year universities ended up costing one company a lot of money. Quad Learning , a company based in Washington, D.C. Preliminary findings from Columbia researchers found that 64 percent of the first cohort of students in 2012 graduated in two years.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 19, 2018

In 2012, the government of India stated that it would need to build 1,000 new universities and an astounding 50,000 new colleges by 2020 to meet expected demand as its population and workforce continued to grow.

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Education Outcomes Online Learning System 112

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Discovery Education , a large provider of print and digital textbooks and curriculum, is taking a big step away from its parent company Discovery Communications, best known for its broadcast TV channels. Although part of a publicly-traded company, Discovery Education’s financial standing is somewhat difficult to parse.

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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. After a dip in dealflow and venture capital to U.S.

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Edsurge

JUNE 1, 2019

Alan Aspera first learned he could go online to buy equity in private companies through, of all things, a book he read about a year ago. In February, the company hosted a crowdinvesting campaign on Republic, one of the more popular platforms to attract individuals like Aspera—unaccredited investors who chip in small amounts.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Their hope is that these programs will help pave the way toward the kind of supportive environment that education technology companies need to survive. Many of the most eager entrepreneurs were first timers—often very young people with little experience in building companies or even in teaching—but driven by a passion for education.

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ProfHacker

DECEMBER 12, 2016

2016 has been a difficult year, and in the spirit of moving forward you’ll notice lots of suggestions centered around giving not only to those close to us but to larger causes and projects that need support. But some lesser-known companies make nice speakers that sound good and are quite affordable. Bose, Beats) as well as a speaker.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 28, 2018

How the Company Aims to Catch Tutoring Requests That Go Too Far. Here’s a look at how the education company is responding. In 2016, the company reported its largest loss in its history, down $3.3 Here’s what’s next for the world’s largest education company, according to its CEO John Fallon. Cheating on Chegg?

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Department of Education data, out of the thousands of institutions operating online programs, the 100 colleges and universities with the greatest online enrollment accounted for 47 percent of all online students in 2016, up from a 43 percent share in 2012.

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EdNews Daily

MARCH 29, 2017

I retired from the school district in 2012 in an effort to pursue my job as a published author. One day I searched google for top, online teaching companies and 51Talk was one of the first companies I reviewed. One day I searched google for top, online teaching companies and 51Talk was one of the first companies I reviewed.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Last September, the company tapped Good Harbor Partners, a Boston firm that advises on business transactions in the education technology industry, to explore strategic and financial opportunities for the company. He and Ryan Alexander, the company’s president, are no longer involved in running the company.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 10, 2017

In 2012, 30 million primary-age children (or 1 out of 5) in sub-Saharan Africa did not attend any school. In South Africa, the youth unemployment rate topped 50 percent in 2016. In return, Injini takes up to 15 percent of equity in each company. “We Sometimes a school chain will even buy out a company.” Yet the U.S.

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Edsurge

APRIL 10, 2019

Declara launched in 2012 to considerable funding and fanfare—including a shoutout from former President Barack Obama. Instead, it has caught the attention of a European buyer: An Italian blockchain company that builds software to support the “Internet of Things” ecosystem has acquired Declara. Declara was the second. But for what?

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 12, 2023

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 19, 2017

After a lull in 2016, venture activity for U.S.-based So far this year, these companies raised over $1.2 By contrast, in 2016, investors put $1 billion into 138 deals. educational technology companies whose primary purpose is to improve outcomes for teachers and learners across K-12 and higher education. edtech companies.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 12, 2018

That question has spurred the creation of many companies, conferences and other collaborative educational gaming efforts. Launched in 2012 with a three-year, $10.2 Lindl left GlassLab in spring 2016, a few months after the organization became absorbed by LRNG , an education nonprofit spun out by the MacArthur Foundation.

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