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Pear Deck Raises $4M to Jazz Up Digital Presentations in the Classroom

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The tool can display students’ responses in real-time anonymously on the class monitor, or privately on the teacher’s dashboard. Pear Deck works on most web browsers on desktop and mobile devices. Prior to this venture, Eynon-Lynch and two other co-founders developed an online gradebook that was acquired by Haiku Learning in 2013.

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PowerSchool Buys Chalkable, Tops $200 Million in Acquisition Spending

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Chalkable was formerly called STI, a Mobile, Ala.-based The company raised $3 million in 2013 and acquired three companies: Learning Earnings, Spiral Universe (an SIS provider) and Chalkable, which initially aimed to create an educational app store where teachers can purchase and deploy apps.