Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

-based publicly traded student services company, plans to buy Thinkful , a Brooklyn-based online coding bootcamp. Both companies’ boards of directors have approved the deal. The publicly traded company has also adjusted guidance for its future performance. The company offers income-share agreements and other payment options.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 29, 2023

Scribblers has also added new administrative features to its ScribChoice program that support the fidelity of the lottery process, such as: An audit report showing any activity on the lottery or waitlist, so all automatic and manual offers can be tracked.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Helping students write and reason clearly, critically and concisely is the central mission at her company, ThinkCERCA. Today the Chicago-based company has raised $10.1 The company currently numbers 45 employees across the country. “Like how to write an email.”

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Back in June, the former CEO of Bleacher Report agreed to have coffee with Brett and David Kopf, the co-founders of Remind. Yet he was struck by Remind’s mission, along with the “immense capability and market positioning that the company has carved in the education ecosystem.” They’ve also raised more than $59.5

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Edsurge

MAY 21, 2021

They’re about a decade behind their university counterparts, who helped to found edX in 2012 , the same year that startup Coursera launched its competing service, now worth millions. Course profiles feature statistics about typical industry salaries and list the companies that have hired completers. Now, it just needs students.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Lessons will include how to select AI projects, as well as how to work with and manage AI teams within companies. The course will cost $49 per month and will be hosted on Coursera, a platform for massive open online courses, or MOOCs, that Ng co-founded in 2012. (He He left the company in 2014.)

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Edsurge

MARCH 25, 2019

And now, it’s added an impressive investment to its coffers to help the company continue growing. On Monday, Tinkergarten announced $21 million from WndrCo , a holding company run by former bigwigs from DreamWorks and Dropbox with a past investments that include the owner of Zagat, Mixcloud and 100 Thieves. million in venture funding.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

It’s rare enough for any entrepreneur to lead a company to a $275 million sale—in cash. But that’s how much Dave Dahl sold his family company , Dave’s Killer Bread, for in 2015. Today, it claims to be the largest organic bread company in America. He learned about it when the company reached out to him last November.

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Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2020

Since February 2019, those three rideshare companies have raised at least $65 million in venture capital, and together employ more than 200 people. The companies have offered to deliver food and learning materials like laptops and textbooks to students’ homes. The company still plans to expand further into those markets.

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Edsurge

MARCH 29, 2020

The CEO of Preply says he was less focused and less experienced back in 2012, when he opened operations in the Boston area for an earlier iteration of his company. Back then, the company specialized in standardized test prep. The company has recorded a 40 percent increase in traffic since January, Bigai says. In the U.S.,

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2024

Credit: Grace McConnell for The Hechinger Report The Chatfield College campus. Credit: Grace McConnell for The Hechinger Report The nearly empty Chatfield College campus on a bleak winter day. Credit: Grace McConnell for The Hechinger Report The chapel on the nearly empty campus of Chatfield College, which has closed.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Students can submit volunteer hours quickly and easily from their phones – no need to log on to a computer and submit hours at a later time, increasing accuracy in hours reporting. ABOUT TRACK IT FORWARD Track it Forward is a software company founded in 2009 in Oakland, California. www.trackitforward.com. www.trackitforward.com.

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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 A PwC-CB Insights report puts U.S. based education companies that raised a round of at least $250,000. Not as well represented in the top charts are companies serving the K-12 market.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 20, 2023

Make School, a San Francisco-based gaming company turned for-profit educational institution, was already offering a short-term tech boot camp, designed to meet that same goal. At least 75 such partnerships exist between colleges and three of the country’s top boot camp provider companies: edX, ThriveDX and Fullstack Academy.

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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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Securly

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

In 2012, Chromebooks accounted for only 1% of the devices sold to US classrooms; now, they make up more than half of the edtech market. As Secretary Duncan’s chief of staff wrote at the time, the Common Core was intended to create a national market for book publishers, technology companies , testing corporations, and other vendors.”.

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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

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

And now, the company that helps groups of colleges—a “consortium” in Acadeum parlance—share online courses has raised a new round of funding to support its marketing efforts and woo more schools to its digital course-sharing consortia. Pierce changed the name because people mistook his company for an actual consortium (which it is not).

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Edsurge

MAY 13, 2021

It was 2012, and online learning was suddenly booming. Nearly 10 years later, Coursera has in fact become a unicorn, valued at well over the billion-dollar mark, and in March it started trading on the New York Stock Exchange as a public company. Course Report published year-end data from edX and Coursera.

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eSchool News

MARCH 3, 2022

Since its founding in 2012, TeachBoost has built simple, user-friendly tools to help educators elevate observation, evaluation, and professional development beyond compliance. RIDGELAND, Miss. TeachBoost’s platforms can be customized to meet the needs of schools, districts, and organizations of any size and across any workflow.

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EdNews Daily

MARCH 22, 2017

During the 2012–2013 school year, more than 30 million students participated in the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) , according to a U.S. Government Accountability Office report. Nevertheless, the USDA regulations went into effect during the 2012-2013 school year. How exactly do these foods affect 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

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

The Denton, Texas-based company is also growing up itself. ReadyRosie founder and CEO Emily Roden says helping children by engaging their parents has helped her company grow to serve 6,500 Head Start programs, childcare centers and elementary schools. The company has raised no outside capital since its start.

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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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Marketplace K-12

APRIL 15, 2016

billion added since 2012, said Colin Messenger, senior analyst at Futuresource Consulting, in a release about the company’s most recent study, “Technology in Education: Global Trends, Universe Spend and Market Outlook.” Thailand, India, Mexico and Venezuela have all deployed significant projects, the company found.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 3, 2018

In order for people with STEM majors to keep their edge, they have to invest in continuing education or work for companies willing to make that investment for them, the authors report. People who major in subjects like history or political science don’t get first jobs that are as lucrative, but they catch up a lot,” says Deming.

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Edsurge

JULY 12, 2017

In an email, the company stated that “we’ve determined that we simply cannot reach a sustainable business model without compromising our mission of delivering a high-quality coding education that remains accessible to a diverse population of students.”. The company was founded in 2012, and had bootstrapped its growth until its.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 27, 2020

Another bootcamp has been gobbled up by an education technology company looking to break into the corporate learning and career readiness market. Still, the deal is less than the estimated $168 million that Galvanize has raised since it started in 2012, according to Crunchbase. 31, according to company earnings also released Monday.

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Neo LMS

OCTOBER 2, 2018

A range of specialist companies and private institutions is now providing excellent higher education components, as well as providing ancillary and support services such as examination and certification services, learning support, learning analytics, etc.

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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. Some reports suggested students didn’t learn much of anything, and were certainly not prepared to tackle real-world problems.

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Edsurge

MAY 8, 2019

Last December, following a Disney investment that valued the company at $376 million , the Oslo-based company made clear its intention to build a pipeline for acquisitions. The company has since expanded its collection of games to cover other math skills, from number sense to geometry proofs. The company also earned $1.9

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 10, 2019

After two “salvage operations” where she turned around struggling companies, Susan Kim wanted a break from the fervor of startup life. But when she got a call a year ago about an education company with a vibrant community of teachers, she reconsidered. At the time of its sale to NetDragon, the company reported a loss of $19.5

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

That was an increase of 2 percentage points over the previous year, and the highest share of students not returning for their sophomore year since 2012. Related: Many young adults choose work over college, report shows. Related: Many young adults choose work over college, report shows. percentage points. Out of the country’s 2.6

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 22, 2023

Credit: Camilla Forte/ The Hechinger Report Back in 2006, when Luciano was researching degrees that would lead to a good job in the fashion industry, she came across the website of the now-shuttered International Academy of Design and Technology, or IADT. I just thought I needed to try harder, keep searching.”

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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. The divide between the rich and the poor has widened slightly.

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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

JUNE 12, 2017

Gaillard, his teachers and their peers around the world are among 50 million monthly active users that the company claims it now enjoys, citing internal data from Google Analytics. That the Norwegian company has taken the globe by storm comes as no surprise to Gaillard. says Eric Harrell, CEO of the company. He happily obliged.

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