Marketplace K-12
FEBRUARY 1, 2016
Recent dealmaking news includes acquisitions by Apple and Excelligence Learning, and partnership between Pearson and Knewton. Really Good Stuff is a multi-channel marketer of classroom products and teaching tools used primarily in grades K-8. The Knewton-powered enVisionMATH2.0 has purchased Really Good Stuff.
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JANUARY 22, 2020
Smart Sparrow , which provides course-authoring tools for faculty and instructional designers to build adaptive courseware, has found a new home in a much bigger nest. The following year, Knewton was bought in a deal that has become a poster child for education technology hype. One such provider, Acrobatiq, was acquired in 2018.
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AUGUST 7, 2019
The two companies were also among the 10 companies that raised the most funding in 2017 as well. Rounding out the podium for top dollars raised in 2019 with $90 million is Examity , a Boston-based provider of exam proctoring tools used by colleges and universities, assessment groups, professional certification boards and employers.
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MAY 26, 2020
Top Hat got its start in the “clicker” business, offering a web-based and mobile classroom response tool that lets instructors gauge whether students understood the lesson (or paid attention). There’s Wiley, better known in academia and research, which recently acquired Knewton and zyBooks , to sell online higher-ed courseware.
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APRIL 26, 2017
Increasingly, Asian companies are also investing abroad to find fresh ideas and tools to bring to their local markets. million (Seed) 2017 EduLab Brightwheel $10 million (A) 2017 GGV Capital ClassWallet $1.5 edtech startups, including Enuma , Knewton , Minerva Project , Ready4 and Volley. edtech startups raised last year.
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JULY 15, 2019
A bundle that includes access to its other online tools, including MyLab and Mastering, costs about $79. The goal, she says, is to “make our tools more versatile in terms of how we help students learn.” Today, companies like Pearson and Cengage bundle digital content with other online tools that some students are required to use.
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SEPTEMBER 5, 2018
Its latest act: making a strategic investment in Open Assessment Technologies (OAT), a San Francisco-based startup that offers open-source tools for building and delivering digital tests. The company offers a suite of tools used to create, deliver and generate reports from digital assessments. A closed market doesn’t grow.
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