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

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Publicly traded education technology companies are rare. That leaves 2U, Chegg and Stride (formerly known as K12 Inc.) as the remaining trio of prominent edtech companies on the U.S. CLAS.U), a special purpose acquisition company headed by CEO Michael Moe, raised $225 million in its IPO. public market.

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Platzi Raises $6 Million to Bring More Online Education to Latin America

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Before they founded a company together, Freddy Vega and Christian Van Der Henst were rivals. They had two different companies that provided services to Flash programmers until a combination of the programming language’s decline in popularity with the global recession killed business in the early 2010s. For the U.S.

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Why I'm Still Bullish About the State of Edtech

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In the next few days, thousands of edtech entrepreneurs, investors, educators and policymakers will flood a hotel in San Diego to attend the Mecca of Education Innovation Optimism known as ASU GSV. based education and workforce technology companies, together amounting to more than $150 billion in market capitalization.

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Mark Cuban, ECMC Lead $1.8M Round for Cluster to Develop Industrial Tech Talent

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Yet the likes of Google and Facebook sometimes overshadow sectors that have been—and remain—core to the American economy: industrial manufacturing. million in a seed round led by Mark Cuban and ECMC Group, an education nonprofit. The company is based in Los Angeles, home to many of these companies. The Culver City, Calif.-based

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Springboard Raises $11 Million to Expand Mentor-Driven Coding Bootcamps

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The San Francisco-based company has plans to reach more learners now that it’s raised an $11 million post-Series A financing round. based health care education service for hospitals and health professionals. Earlier this year, the company launched three programs in India, where Tambay and co-founder Parul Gupta grew up.

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GSV Adds Three New Letters to Its Portfolio: MBA

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GSV is making a new investment in education. If we do this right, not only should GSV have a strategy in investing in these companies, we hope other investors see the value of the students coming out of there and are attracted to it as well,” Moe says. But this time, it’s not pouring money into a startup or a conference. Its partner?

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MissionU Says It Can Replace Traditional College With a One-Year Program

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A venture-backed company today announced a new educational offering billed as an alternative to the standard undergraduate experience. The company will hire working professionals to teach the courses. The first cohort is scheduled to start in September, most likely in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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