Marketplace K-12
JUNE 6, 2016
A number of ed-tech companies, including Udemy and Tynker, have raked in funds from investors over the past week. Udemy Raises $60 Million: Udemy , a San Francisco-based online provider of courses, received a $60 million strategic investment from Internet and entertainment group Naspers through its Naspers Ventures division.
Edsurge
APRIL 1, 2022
This year’s 1 3th edition will swamp San Diego’s waterfront for four days and feature 1,000 speakers, including Thomas Friedman and Margaret Atwood, plus the buzziest for-profit companies in our industry. based education and workforce technology companies, together amounting to more than $150 billion in market capitalization.
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Edsurge
SEPTEMBER 18, 2020
Outschool, a marketplace for live online classes for kids, started out in 2015 with a focus on serving families that homeschool. But now, with much of regular schooling happening in homes, the company has seen a dramatic expansion of its audience. To date, the company has raised $55 million.
Edsurge
DECEMBER 30, 2020
The maker of the Canvas learning management system, which went public in 2015, announced a $2-billion offer from private equity firm Thoma Bravo last December. It may not be the only publicly traded edtech company to be taken private. Udemy Got $50M. Ultimately, the sale went through in March. Duolingo Just Raised $35M.
Edsurge
DECEMBER 30, 2019
From 2015 to 2019, entrepreneurs created 11 times the number of education unicorns compared to 2005 to 2014. Unicorns such as Coursera, Udemy, Varsity Tutors and VIPKid led the way with innovative solutions. Distance reduction allow companies to compete worldwide. Large datasets provide insights to drive innovation.
Edsurge
DECEMBER 26, 2016
edtech companies, which altogether raised an estimated $1.03 Those tallies dipped from 2015, which saw 198 deals that totalled $1.45 edtech companies raised roughly 57 percent of what Snapchat did in its $1.8 edtech companies raised roughly 57 percent of what Snapchat did in its $1.8 Or, from a different perspective, U.S.
EdNews Daily
MARCH 26, 2019
The key difference in the past few years, however, has been larger funding rounds and valuations across a fewer number of EdTech companies. This distorts the total private placement numbers we see since the well-funded companies completing the larger private placements pre-IPO comprise a large portion of the overall deal volume.
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