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Duolingo Just Raised $35M. Udemy Got $50M. Both Are Valued Billions More.

Edsurge

Two of the fastest growing and most highly valued education technology companies are going down the alphabet as they raise subsequent rounds at higher and higher valuations. This latest investment gives the Pittsburgh-based company a valuation of $2.4 To date, the company has raised $183 million in outside capital.

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

Edsurge

Publicly traded education technology companies are rare. 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. At the top of the iceberg, above the water, are the public companies, and that’s pretty limited.

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3 SEO Strategies for Edtech Business

EdTech4Beginners

The Edtech industry is worth over $340 billion , and its value will keep rising as digital learning becomes even more common. On the flip side, this high demand also means an increase in the number of startups and new companies, making it a more competitive market. Its adoption cuts across all sectors of the society.

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Why I'm Still Bullish About the State of Edtech

Edsurge

This year’s 1 3th edition will swamp San Diego’s waterfront for four days and feature 1,000 speakers, including Thomas Friedman and Margaret Atwood, plus the buzziest for-profit companies in our industry. based education and workforce technology companies, together amounting to more than $150 billion in market capitalization.

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K-12 Dealmaking: Udemy, Tynker Raise Funds; PeopleAdmin Acquires TeacherMatch

Marketplace K-12

A number of ed-tech companies, including Udemy and Tynker, have raked in funds from investors over the past week. Udemy Raises $60 Million: Udemy , a San Francisco-based online provider of courses, received a $60 million strategic investment from Internet and entertainment group Naspers through its Naspers Ventures division.

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Bigger Deals, Bigger Bets: EdTech Venture Funding Trends Continue in 2018

EdNews Daily

The key difference in the past few years, however, has been larger funding rounds and valuations across a fewer number of EdTech companies. This distorts the total private placement numbers we see since the well-funded companies completing the larger private placements pre-IPO comprise a large portion of the overall deal volume.

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As the world goes virtual, big education technology players tighten their grip

The Hechinger Report

The company’s business model calls for giving its services to schools for free but charging families for them. We woke up on a Monday and saw 10 to 15 times” the number of customers the company had served at the same time the year before, he remembered. “It Credit: Araya Diaz/Getty Images for TechCrunch. “We It was nuts.”.