Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Chegg , a Santa Clara, Calif.-based The acquisition will cost Chegg about $80 million in cash for Thinkful, with possible additional payments of up to $20 million in cash or stock based on performance, according to a statement Wednesday. Chegg had been holding onto $1.1 It is expected to close in the fourth quarter.

Chegg 133

Chegg Company Course Data 133

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. 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. So how is it keeping pace?

Chegg 164

Chegg Company EdTech Education 164

Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2022

The prior year, my former chief Bill Gates headlined ASU GSV and received a standing ovation for championing technology’s power to transform teaching and learning. Chegg (NYSE: CHGG) is down 43.8 LMS and Digital Learning topped the hype cycle in 2001 (a few years before Blackboard went public). MOOCs topped the cycle in 2012.

EdTech 187

EdTech Chegg Udemy Company 187

Edsurge

DECEMBER 28, 2018

While not quite the “Year of the MOOC,” 2018 saw a resurgence in interest around the ways these massive open online courses are delivering free (and more often these days, not free) online education around the world, and how these providers are increasingly turning to traditional institutions of learning. Cheating on Chegg?

MOOC 123

MOOC Chegg Coursera Pearson 123

Edsurge

JULY 24, 2017

Frontline Education, controlled by Insight Venture Partners, has snapped up another 10—most recently, professional-learning provider School Improvement Network. These new firms coming in big checks are going to learn that lesson,” Palmer says. PowerSchool, owned by Vista Equity Partners, has acquired eight companies since June 2015.

EdTech 105

EdTech Chegg Kaplan Coursera 105

Edsurge

JULY 30, 2018

The firm traces its roots to 2012, when Jennifer Carolan and Wayee Chu (now both general partners at Reach), started a $12 million “Seed Fund” at NewSchools Venture Fund, an Oakland-based education nonprofit philanthropy. WriteLab (Chegg). -based firm has established itself as a familiar name within the education technology industry.

Blendspace 67

Blendspace Chegg Technology Education 67

Edsurge

AUGUST 23, 2016

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. Cambium Learning Group. Back in 2012, there were seven companies that fell into this category. a share in May 2016, it was down 88 percent from January 2012.

EdTech 60

EdTech Pearson Chegg Company 60