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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 Later this year, Chegg will start testing a bundled product that includes its Study, Math Solver and EasyBib Plus products for a substantial subscription discount, fully deploying the bundle in 2020. on the close of Aug.

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Duolingo IPO Shows Investors Think Edtech Is Still Growing.

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It’s got an effective mobile app that really changes the context in how people access language, a critical mass in consumer interest in learning applications and since the pandemic hit, it put edtech into the minds of investors as a real investable category,” says Trace Urdan, an edtech analyst and managing director at Tyton Partners.

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Public Edtech Companies Have Been Rare. These SPACs Will Change That.

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That leaves 2U, Chegg and Stride (formerly known as K12 Inc.) In 2020, 248 SPACs raised more than $83 billion —more than four times the companies, and six times the funding, over the previous year. He was an early investor in Chegg, which went public in 2013 and whose stock more than doubled in 2020. public market.

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Course Hero Adds $70 Million to Series B Fundraise

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edtech companies raised over $800 million in the first half of 2020. 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. Its revenue surpassed $100 million last year, and is on track to exceed that in 2020.

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Top Trends Higher Education Textbook Publishers Must Follow

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The budget proposal for the 2020 fiscal year requested an approximate $7.1 This has led to higher education textbook publishers facing the brunt as that’s the only area where students and institutes can reduce their spends, by opting for digital textbooks instead.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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In 2011, the Mozilla Foundation unveiled its “Open Badges Project,” “an effort to make it easy to issue and share digital learning badges across the web.” Kno was headed by Osman Rashid, the co-founder of the textbook rental company Chegg, and the tablet was aimed at the college market.

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