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Chegg to Buy Coding Bootcamp Thinkful for $80 Million

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Chegg , a Santa Clara, Calif.-based The acquisition will cost Chegg about $80 million in cash for Thinkful, with possible additional payments of up to $20 million in cash or stock based on performance, according to a statement Wednesday. Chegg had been holding onto $1.1 Both companies’ boards of directors have approved the deal.

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Edtech Earnings Roundup: How 2U, Chegg, Instructure and Pluralsight Fared in Q2 2019

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Chegg The numbers: For the second quarter, ended June 30, Chegg reported an adjusted EBITDA of $31.1 million, a 61 percent increase year over year, and raised its expected 2019 revenue to between $398 million and $402 million. Chegg now has about $1.1 But 2U wasn’t the only edtech player to get Wall Street talking.

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Earnings Roundup: How Public Edtech Companies Fared Following the Outbreak

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Chegg The bottom line: Chegg’s first quarter delighted investors. Fueling that growth is Chegg Services, which brought in just over $100 million in revenue last quarter, a 33 percent increase over Q1 2019. As such, it is difficult to predict how much, if any, of Chegg's first half momentum will continue.”

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Why I'm Still Bullish About the State of Edtech

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Chegg (NYSE: CHGG) is down 43.8 We wouldn’t be surprised if 2U or Chegg were taken private in the next year, since both companies have strong fundamentals and exceptional human capital. million in 2019 to 18.6 Skillsoft (NYSE: SKIL) is down 50.8 percent, the company went public via SPAC in June 2021 at $10/share.

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2U Defends Trilogy Bootcamp Purchase

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2U expects revenue for the 2019 fiscal year of between $570 million and $575 million, which would mean a 38-to-40 percent increase year over year. A fellow publicly traded education technology company, Chegg, has promised low-cost courses with its own bootcamp acquisition, Thinkful. Average revenue per course was $3,825, about 98.2

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The Post-Pandemic Outlook for Edtech

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College students are turning to digital tutoring platforms like Chegg and online course providers like Coursera, both of which have performed well over the last few months. Between 2016 and 2019, online tutoring services raised more than $1.2 Before the pandemic, according to the latest available data, only 15 percent of U.S.

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Course Hero Adds $70 Million to Series B Fundraise

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Many of its services are similar to those offered by Chegg, a publicly traded education company that has also seen a meteoric growth in usage and revenue since the pandemic hit. So far there are 45,000 verified educators on the platform, up from 20,000 in August 2019, according to Grauer.

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