Hack Education

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Connexeo (school administration software): $110 million. Udemy (skills training): $173 million. Investors in tutoring companies this year included Warbug Pincus, Goldman Sachs, Learn Capital, Y Combinator, the Omidyar Network, Sequoia Capital, TAL Education, Tencent, Google, and of course, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.

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Trends MOOC Company Edmodo 93

Hack Education

JUNE 9, 2017

.” New: Disclosure forms show top education official Jim Manning previously consulted for student loan org USA Funds [link] pic.twitter.com/LeIW1TwNyV — Annie Waldman (@AnnieWaldman) June 5, 2017. Udemy has a new CEO : “Kevin Johnson, former CEO of EBates, a marketplace for coupons and shopping discount deals.”

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Education Coursera MOOC Udemy 46

Hack Education

DECEMBER 4, 2016

To the entrepreneur who wrote the Techcrunch op-ed in August that ed-tech is “ 2017's big, untapped and safe investor opportunity.” Online education (admittedly, a very generic category): Investments include Udemy ($60,000,000), DigiSchool ($15,700,000), MasterClass ($15,000,000), UNICAF ($12,000,000), OpenClassroom ($6,740,000).

Technology 40

Technology Education Common Core Company 40