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APRIL 1, 2022
In the next few days, thousands of edtech entrepreneurs, investors, educators and policymakers will flood a hotel in San Diego to attend the Mecca of Education Innovation Optimism known as ASU GSV. So now is the perfect time to reflect on the state of edtech. Today’s K12 educators are more digitally native than ever before.
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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. According to our tally, there were 58 U.S.
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FEBRUARY 14, 2018
In the heartland of America, one company is raising big bucks in a bid to capture this lucrative market. Louis-based company’s $50 million Series B round, which closed in November 2015. Already boasting 4,000 tutors covering 1,000 subjects, the company is on the hunt for more teachers.
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JULY 30, 2018
Investing is humbling because we inevitably miss out on or pass on companies that go on to achieve great success in realizing their mission. When Carolan’s team started Reach Capital in 2015, it raised $53 million for its first fund. (It For Reach, they include Sesame Workshop and TAL Education, a Chinese education company. “We
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FEBRUARY 26, 2018
In its latest earnings update, the company confirmed that it is indeed moving ahead with such plans. The publisher sold The Financial Times and its stake in The Economist in 2015. Under his tenure, Pearson has embarked on a rocky transition to refocus Pearson as a digital-focused education company. billion loss in 2016.
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MAY 2, 2017
To mark the 20th anniversary of Blackboard, one of the first LMSes, the company’s co-founder, Matthew Pittinsky, wrote an epic blog post about the company’s history, which includes his advice for today’s edtech leaders. The winner of the LMS market would be the company with the most widely adopted platform.
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APRIL 17, 2019
But at an all-hands meeting at the company’s Washington, D.C. Some employees hoped the company could turn around and stayed on without pay. “We Planet3 found its biggest backer in Rob Roy, CEO of Las Vegas-area data center services company Switch, which invested $10 million in the company in 2015.
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