Edsurge

DECEMBER 30, 2020

The education industry didn’t. Here is a recap of the biggest and most popular edtech business stories of 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. “Never let a good crisis go to waste,” so the saying goes.

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2017

based education technology company, second only to Bertelsmann’s $230 million investment in HotChalk in 2015. Other investors including Main Street Advisors and Advance Publications made up the rest. This marks one of the biggest fundraises for a U.S.-based

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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. One factor causing larger deal sizes, but less of them, is that many of the large later-stage deals in the EdTech space would have otherwise likely been IPO candidates in years past.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 15, 2020

In 2019, the Dow Jones Industrial Average passed 28,000 points , the S&P 500 Index topped 3,000 points and the Nasdaq broke 9,000 in what some have termed one of the longest bull markets in history. According to an EdSurge database of publicly announced funding deals, investment in edtech companies reached at least $1.66

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Neo LMS

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

That happened waaaay back in 2015 (which in online time seems like a few decades ago). 14 Awesome examples of Critical Thinking EdTech. After separating the wheat from the chaff, here is a quality selection of Critical Thinking EdTech. 6 E-learning trends currently shaping up the industry. The NEO Blog is now 4!

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Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2018

The Farmington, Utah-based provider of online courses for technology professionals has been on the radars of industry analysts ever since its $135 million Series B fundraise in 2014. edtech industry since Instructure, another Utah-based company, went public in November 2015. That year, it also added former U.S.

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Tom Murray

JANUARY 12, 2016

With the new year now upon us, listed below are six edtech resolutions for 2016. As districts became more in tune with these issues in 2015, the move to Chromebooks continued to grow. Commit to Ensuring Equity in Access and Opportunity. Commit to Long-term Sustainability.

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Edsurge

MARCH 14, 2022

In similar fashion, problematic edtech companies with grand visions and little follow-through don’t just affect the investors pouring funds into the space; they also potentially put learners into compromising situations. But who was—or is—the Theranos of the education sector? Money came flowing.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

From bigwig financiers to bankers, along with heads of private and publicly-traded education technology companies, the gathering attracted around 900 attendees last week to share the opportunities and challenges in the industry this year. The previous year, 2015, set a record for education technology investments with over $3.1

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Edsurge

MARCH 16, 2019

We need to find a way to change our hiring strategies and help our industry represent the real world. Most edtech companies don’t have bank accounts flush with cash earmarked for targeted recruitment services. We have around 80 employees, and we haven’t raised any investor money since 2015. But this is not their problem.

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2017

education industry has not become so dependent (yet). To adapt, many companies are investing domestically, particularly in China, where edtech companies raised more than $1.2 edtech startups raised last year. edtech investor, including. Edtech Companies With Asia-Based Investors. film and production studios.

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Edsurge

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 ). PowerSchool, owned by Vista Equity Partners, has acquired eight companies since June 2015. After a dip in dealflow and venture capital to U.S.

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EdTech Magazine

MAY 19, 2015

Frank Smith One of EdTech's 2015 Top 50 K–12 IT bloggers talks about the technologies that are creating sweeping changes in the industry.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

New Markets has supported 43 companies since its launch in 2003; edtech startups make more than 90 percent of its deals in the past five years, Palmer adds. Investments in edtech companies in 2016 totalled $945 million, according to estimates from GSV Capital, less than half of the $2 billion tally last year.

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Edsurge

JUNE 5, 2019

Since its first cohort in 2015, AT&T’s edtech accelerator has graduated 27 companies and nonprofits. He is the CEO and co-founder of LearnPlatform, which helps schools analyze the education technology they use and was one of the original accelerator cohort members in 2015. That was a big step forward for us,” says Gault, 31.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 13, 2019

In the education technology industry, we see an abundance of press covering venture-backed startups and their funding rounds, acquisitions and other noteworthy milestones. On the other hand, there is a paucity of coverage about edtech companies that grow their businesses with little or no venture capital or outside investment.

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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 startups have increased every consecutive year. Santa proved a little more parsimonious to U.S.

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Edsurge

JULY 16, 2018

edtech industry, that’s no big deal: In the first six months of 2018, 62 companies raised $739 million in venture capital. edtech company has hit the nine-figure mark in 2018: a $110 million round for Connexeo, a provider of administrative payment software for schools and community institutions. But for the U.S.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Yet in the education industry, these deals have been few and far in between, especially as many of these companies have opted to build their own edtech tools. This marks just the second “edtech” acquisition by Google in its history. Founded in 2013 (and originally named cwist), Workbench has raised $3 million in funding.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 25, 2019

education technology, and early signs in 2019 suggest the industry is poised for another cash infusion. Already, one New York-based edtech company has raised $100 million. It launched in 2015 with $100 million , and re-upped in 2017 with a $185 million coffer. Expect more dollars to flow. The research arm of the U.S.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 10, 2017

He is the founder of Injini , an edtech accelerator based in South Africa, that launched this year to support education startups from across the continent. CiTi also supports innovation “clusters” for the banking and travel industries.) The magnitude of the problem may be disheartening. Yet the U.S.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 30, 2019

And in this environment, the education industry sees an unprecedented transformation due in part to a new industrial revolution. During the past decade, we have seen only the beginning of changes in the education industry. All of this creates an industry ripe for further disruption on a global scale.

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Edsurge

MARCH 6, 2019

A company best known (and sometimes rebuked) for its plagiarism checker has just received one of the biggest checks in the education technology industry. billion, the deal is the larger than the total amount that edtech startups raised in 2018, which reached a new peak last year at $1.45 billion purchase of Lynda in 2015.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2016

Here’s where we started: Last January, we embarked a project that aimed to look at edtech’s role in the changing picture of K-12 education through three different lenses: through the perspective of investors, entrepreneurs and teachers. We called it “The State of EdTech: Forces and Trends Shaping K12 Edtech” report.

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edWeb.net

JULY 6, 2015

The edWeb team was out and about at ISTE 2015 in Philadelphia last week. We connected with so many great educators and industry execs about what’s hot in education. and Linda Winter, the president of the Winter Group , hosted a “Purely Social” event for education industry friends and colleagues. What a blast!

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2017

edtech industry. 2015, focused on K-12 companies (with one exception). Currently “some of the fastest-growing companies in the world, in terms of revenue, are edtech businesses,” claims Patterson. His bet is that “we’ll see a number of edtech companies cross the $100 million revenue mark and have the ability to go public.”

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Starting with a $100 million fund in 2015, Owl has since raised two subsequent funds— $185 million in 2017, and $315 million in 2019. Now the San Francisco-based edtech investment group is doubling down with two additional funds totalling $585 million. Since 2015, Owl has invested in 39 edtech companies. In total, U.S.

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Edsurge

MARCH 6, 2018

At a SXSW EDU session about improving recruiting, hiring and cultural practices to support diverse edtech organizations, TeLisa Daughtry, founder of FlyTechnista , says that sort of word choice can feel uncomfortable for women and people of color who don’t associate with those terms. The company started sharing this data in 2015.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 1, 2016

Moving to the cloud can be good for both vendors and schools It is in the interests of the edtech industry for educators to feel confident about using technology. Edtech cannot afford to let the specter of cybercrime dampen enthusiasm. Wireless, once a frustration for many teachers, has largely improved.

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eSchool News

APRIL 16, 2021

The financing was co-led by Practica Capital and Tesi , Finnish Industry Investment. HEI Schools, which was founded 2015 together with the University of Helsinki , one of the world´s top universities in educational sciences, is a pioneer in providing a unique Finnish brand of research-based early education globally. practica.vc.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2016

MasteryConnect was one of hundreds of edtech companies that capitalized on investors’ enthusiasm and optimism for the industry in recent years. Between 2010 to 2015, venture capitalists poured $2.3 K-12 edtech companies, with $741 million coming in 2015 alone. ( billion in U.S. Earlier this year, Portland, Ore.-based

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Edsurge

MAY 10, 2017

In honor of Teacher Appreciation Week, we asked educators from around the country to share their most transformative edtech moments. Michael Hernandez ( @cinehead ), Cinema and Journalism Teacher, Apple Distinguished Educator, 2015 PBS Digital Innovator. You'll never be able to lure them from industry,” some told me.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Knack and NurseDash aren’t the first edtech deals for ETS, however. One of these problems that ETS has identified—and invested in—has been popular among the edtech industry and its investors: Knack, based in Tampa, Fla. Yet ETS is not the only three-letter testmaker to make edtech investments. With more than $1.3

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Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2017

billion purchase of Lynda.com and Instructure’s initial public offering, both of which took place in 2015. These statistics offer a somber reminder that the edtech industry does not produce quick, home run hits. Other EdSurge stories about edtech venture capital. 2016 US Edtech Funding Totals $1 Billion.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

The EdTech industry rose to the occasion and introduced education products to supplement in-person learning. The industry has matured over time and seen tremendous investments. Furthermore, the adoption of EdTech has presented an opportunity for companies to build products that cater to evolving needs of users.

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MIND Research Institute

JUNE 11, 2019

Over the past several years, MIND Research Institute has been endeavoring to change the conversation around edtech evaluations. A few weeks ago, EdSurge published an article that echoed many of those same sentiments, most specifically that the overreliance on “gold standard” RCT studies is the wrong approach for edtech.

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EdTech4Beginners

JUNE 12, 2017

Introduced in 2015, Google Expeditions is a low-cost tool that includes a camera capable of capturing a 360-degree virtual reality image. Farid Gasim is Founder of Edarabia.com and has extensive experience in serving the Middle East education industry. Consider Google’s Expeditions. 4D Anatomy. Image sources: .

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