Chegg EdTech Information Technology 
Edsurge
FEBRUARY 27, 2023
The homework-help business — led by giants like Chegg and Course Hero — has long been both profitable and controversial. The popularity of Chegg’s subscription service even became a verb: “Chegging.” In their current form, AI chatbots are prone to giving incorrect information.) Others think Chegg may deserve more credit.
Edsurge
JANUARY 27, 2021
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. He was an early investor in Chegg, which went public in 2013 and whose stock more than doubled in 2020. edtech startups raised $2.2
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Edsurge
JUNE 11, 2020
Soon, schools would be inundated with sales pitches from edtech companies, and it didn’t take long before they started pushing back against those that seemed predatory. For the edtech industry, the pandemic poses a paradox. Yet this reality seems not to have dampened investor enthusiasm for private edtech companies.
Edsurge
NOVEMBER 12, 2019
Back in 2014, more competition from Amazon had led the Santa Clara, Calif-based Chegg to a deal with book distributor Ingram Content Group. Ingram bought Chegg’s textbook inventory to sell and distribute, and the companies shared the revenues. The Ingram deal was framed as part of Chegg’s strategy to 100 percent digital revenue.
Edsurge
MAY 16, 2018
Chegg announced today that it bought the Berkeley-based startup for about $15 million in an all-cash transaction. Even so, Ramirez described the edtech environment as “extremely challenging.” His advice to other edtech entrepreneurs? Prior to buying WriteLab, in October 2017 Chegg paid €12.5
Edsurge
JULY 30, 2018
These meetings, she says, inform how they interact with entrepreneurs. based firm has established itself as a familiar name within the education technology industry. Earlier in 2018, Pluralsight, which provides online classes for technology and business professionals, went public. WriteLab (Chegg). Zaption (Workday).
Edsurge
JUNE 17, 2017
Dreamit Edtech network to get their “lemon lists” of concepts, statements, and business models that edtech entrepreneurs may want to think twice—or thrice—about. Chegg (or Amazon for that matter)? So now that you know how to make an edtech investor cringe… please don’t. Peer-to-peer or crowdsourced tutoring network.
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