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Varsity Tutors to Go Public at $1.7B Valuation Through SPAC Acquisition

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In 2020, users logged over 4.7 According to its SEC filing , revenue for the fourth quarter of 2020 grew 87 percent over the same period in 2019, and its numbers of paying active learners and paid online sessions also grew, by 59 percent and 169 percent, respectively. million hours of live instruction. Louis Post-Dispatch.

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SplashLearn Raises $18 Million in Series C Funding Round From Owl Ventures & Accel

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In 2020, more than 10 million new users joined the SplashLearn program. In the latter half of 2020, SplashLearn expanded its offering beyond the math program to include reading and also launched a personalized tutoring product, owing to growing demand from parents and teachers.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” – “ China’s STEM learning industry may reach $15 billion by 2020.” Via Venture Beat : “ LinkedIn resets some Lynda.com users’ passwords following data leak.” ” The Business of Ed-Tech. The IMF has invested $15 million in test prep company BYJU’s.