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

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Gonzalez’s firm last invested in student services provider Chegg, but hadn’t found another education company that piqued his interest until his firm started talks with Platzi. The company also refreshes courses and gets rid of ones that are older than eight months to ensure that the content is relevant and up to date for students.

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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.) Those funds will be used to purchase a privately held education company, which will then become public as a result of the transaction. Moe has picked some winners in education. public market.

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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. It’s in this niche where Cluster operates, and is growing. The Culver City, Calif.-based

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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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GSV Adds Three New Letters to Its Portfolio: MBA

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GSV is making a new investment in education. Over the years, GSV has invested in the likes of Facebook, Spotify and Twitter alongside education companies including Chegg and Coursera. But this time, it’s not pouring money into a startup or a conference. Its partner? A small, Christian college in Jackson, Mississippi.

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

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based health care education service for hospitals and health professionals. Graduates have landed jobs with employers like Microsoft, Facebook and Boeing. As for corporate learning, Springboard boasts that it’s trained teams at the likes of Facebook, Visa and Target. In a statement Monday, Pearson announced its $2.2

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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 inspiration for Braun’s foray into higher education came partly from his wife, who he says wracked up so much college-loan debt that it became “crushing to so many aspects of her life.”

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