Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

In the most recent cohort of startups graduating from Y Combinator, Silicon Valley’s famed start-up business accelerator program, at least seven companies billed themselves as a “ Shopify for X.” The company just closed $1.75 Many other companies already let instructors run their own classes and programs.

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Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2022

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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Edsurge

JUNE 14, 2022

A consultant recently noticed a company announcement about the features in the U.K. The company did not respond to questions about the program. But recent reports have speculated that the company could “bootstrap an online course ecosystem.” version of the platform and shared a screenshot on Twitter.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

But now, with much of regular schooling happening in homes, the company has seen a dramatic expansion of its audience. To date, the company has raised $55 million. In the edtech industry, venture capital flows where business grows, and that’s been the case for the San Francisco-based company.

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techlearning

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Gale, a Cengage company, today announced the launch of Gale Presents: Udemy, a new online learning platform for public libraries – powered by Udemy for Business –that provides patrons access to over 4,000 on-demand video courses across more than 75 categories. 

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Edsurge

JUNE 30, 2020

That’s the industry lingo for companies valued at $10 billion or more. It’s an ultra-exclusive club of two dozen companies across the world, according to CB Insights. Byju’s is the newest member—thanks to an investment from technology investment firm Bond, which values the company at $10.5

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Edsurge

JULY 23, 2018

Investors who are fond of analogies and comparisons to consumer technology successes are betting on one New York City-based company to find out. The company claims that the average Skillshare teacher makes about $3,000 a year, with top earners raking in as much as $40,000. Then we’re going work toward cashflow positive.”

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 30, 2020

It may not be the only publicly traded edtech company to be taken private. That led to record-setting traffic for many providers—along with a flurry of pitches from companies trying to capitalize on the moment (annoying more than a few school leaders in the process). Udemy Got $50M. Ultimately, the sale went through in March.

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Edsurge

JULY 29, 2020

“With COVID-19 jeopardizing in-school learning, we expect the widespread adoption of edtech software to continue, and this is not a short-term trend,” says Jeff Lieberman, a managing director at Insight Partners, a private equity firm that has backed nearly two dozen education companies. In the first half of 2020, U.S.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

And the idea has caught the attention of investors: Insight Venture Partners is slated to acquire the DC company for more than $110 million, the Washington Business Journal reports. Insight, which is headquartered in New York, has invested in at least 300 companies around the globe. The deal is expected to close by the end of 2018.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Unicorns such as Coursera, Udemy, Varsity Tutors and VIPKid led the way with innovative solutions. We will see the acceleration of $1 billion companies created from about 20 unicorn transactions from 2015 to 2019 to more than 50 in the next five years, which will continue to increase as this next decade unfolds.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 19, 2023

–MLA judge Gale Presents: Udemy (gold award) : Public libraries can connect patrons to nearly 20,000 on-demand video courses for upskilling or reskilling in business, technology, and personal development. We love Udemy and recommend it highly…Our library patrons appreciate the diversity of classes that are offered.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 19, 2023

–MLA judge Gale Presents: Udemy (gold award) : Public libraries can connect patrons to nearly 20,000 on-demand video courses for upskilling or reskilling in business, technology, and personal development. We love Udemy and recommend it highly…Our library patrons appreciate the diversity of classes that are offered.

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Libraries Udemy Industry Secondary 52

EdNews Daily

MARCH 26, 2019

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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Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

We were in the early innings of what I argued at that time was more of a supply-side-driven phenomenon: universities and companies were experimenting with new offerings, and the groundwork was being laid for a more digitally-oriented, shorter-form credentialing future.

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MOOC Coursera Trends Survey 199

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

The onus lies in finding out what skills companies are looking for in online teachers and working on having them. Coursera, edX, Udemy, are good places to start looking for specialized teaching courses. Sometimes recruitment agencies for online tutors require specific kinds of skills and technical abilities.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 5, 2016

Dennis Yang, CEO of Udemy, notes that. In short, as more companies choose to depend on contract workers for key parts of their business, those freelancers will see increasing competition for those gigs and, therefore, more pressure to differentiate themselves and their skills.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2016

edtech companies, which altogether raised an estimated $1.03 edtech companies raised roughly 57 percent of what Snapchat did in its $1.8 edtech companies raised roughly 57 percent of what Snapchat did in its $1.8 The market uncertainty has led some high-profile companies to hit pause on bigger plans.

EdTech 85

EdTech Udemy Company Coursera 85

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

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.”.

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Technology Coursera Company Education 121

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

The companies presented have agreed to support the latest research-based standards, and evolving global best practices in flipped learning. The companies include professional development partners: MT Groupo in Spain, IWBNET in Australia, TES in the United Kingdom and Udemy and Project Tomorrow in the United states.

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Udemy Learning Company Groups 79

Marketplace K-12

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

million to Ellevation , a company focused on building the skills of English-language learners. Here’s a roundup of the past week’s activity: Udemy Acquires Talentbuddy. Udemy, a San Francisco-based online provider of courses, acquired Talentbuddy , a platform for programmers and others to acquire skills.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

And in the market of companies tackling the infamous employment gap between willing workers and open jobs, this maxim appears correct. The collection of edtech companies aimed at prepping educated, but still underprepared workers represents a virtual stampede of unicorns. This dichotomy is not lost on investors.

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Udemy Coursera Company Training 81

TeachThought - Learn better.

APRIL 1, 2021

Thankfully, there are technology companies offering more niche educational tools to insert some flexibility, spontaneity, and creativity into the blended learning environment. One such company is XP-Pen and their series of tablets. It’s also easy to use the tablets with Microsoft Onenote, PowerPoint, and interactive whiteboards.

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Tablets Classroom Khan Academy Chromebook 88

Marketplace K-12

JULY 18, 2016

Additionally, two coding education companies raised money. The total amount raised will be used to extend and introduce new core functionality to the Schoold app in advance of the fall college application season, the company said in a statement. ” Earlier this year, the company closed a seed round of approximately $4.5

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techlearning

AUGUST 1, 2018

Luis Pinto, Director of Global Business Development for Government at Udemy; and ?Inspiring The company is headquartered in San Mateo, Calif. , Professor in the Stanford Graduate School of Education and Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs; ? Associate Chair for Education, Dept of Computer Science, Stanford University; ?

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Edsurge

AUGUST 13, 2016

If the views expressed by leading edtech companies are any indication, the race to become the first 'Netflix of Education' is gathering steam. One feature of Netflix in particular seems to have captured the imagination of edtech companies. satisfaction, engagement, grades, mindsets, attitudes, persistence, views, logins, clicks, etc.

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Education Udemy EdTech E-rate 60

EdTechSandyK

MARCH 4, 2013

All of the panelists are from companies that connect teachers directly to students. Udemy - 80% male because focuses on tech space. A: Udemy has a few professors who use their online courses as part of blended learning. If company receives a DMCA notice they remove the content. Course Hero - 80% higher Ed students.

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Udemy Education MOOC Survey 49

Marketplace K-12

MARCH 14, 2016

In addition, investment company Weld North Holdings acquired Performance Matters , a student assessment and data-analytics company that it will merge with K-12 ed-tech business Truenorthlogic, which provides data on teachers’ performance and tracks their professional development. The post K-12 Dealmaking: Barnes & Noble Ed.

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Udemy Blackboard Company Facebook 40

Edsurge

JANUARY 6, 2017

Quickly I found that even as I logged runs on Strava daily, I struggled to find the time to log into platforms like Coursera, Udemy or Udacity to finish courses produced by my fellow instructional designers. A few companies are heading that way. I became a Strava user in 2013, around the same time I became an online course designer.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Tom Webster, the VP of strategy at the market research firm Edison Research, argued that the report should be viewed as “an extremely effective piece of content marketing,” pointing to the number of slides that cite data about or by a portfolio company of Meeker’s employer, the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Smith Caulfield.

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Trends Coursera Company Personalized Learning 56

Edsurge

MAY 13, 2020

Unicorns don’t exist, except as an analogy for private companies supposedly worth at least $1 billion. But Glotzbach’s point is that camels are hardy and steady—just as he hopes his company can be. Udemy ( $2B ). With this latest fundraise, the San Francisco-based company has raised $62 million in venture capital to date.

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Udemy Company Coursera Data 190

Edsurge

AUGUST 25, 2020

As EdSurge reporter Rebecca Koenig points out , some companies have satisfied the demands of parents and their school clients. According to EdSurge data, edtech investments over the past couple years largely favored companies with enterprise or direct-to-consumer sales strategies over those selling directly to K-12 institutions.

EdTech 165

EdTech PresenceLearning Udemy Company 165

Neo LMS

APRIL 5, 2022

Today, edtech companies are actively working on taking digitization even further by converting the traditional LMS into an intelligent learning platform (ILP). For example, an Art student who’s interested in product design can get different class recommendations on Udemy in addition to their regular university classes. .

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LMS Gamification Learning Dropout 345

Edsurge

JANUARY 13, 2021

companies reached a record $130 billion in 2020 , or up 14 percent from 2019. edtech companies that support educators and learners across preK-12, postsecondary and workforce education. edtech companies selling their services directly to consumers. A report from CB Insights showed that investments for all venture-backed U.S.

EdTech 195

EdTech Coursera Company Industry 195

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 17, 2011

Ethics and Legalities The New York Times continues its investigation of education giant Pearson and ethics concerns surrounding lavish trips that the company''s foundation has sponsored for state education officials. Valve , the company behind the video game hit Portal, is working on an educational game.

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Knewton Pearson E-rate Education 43

eSchool News

APRIL 20, 2021

Winners in other categories include Discovery Education, National Geographic, Cengage Learning, Udemy, Classlink, and IXL. The company has also been recognized at the enlightED Awards , BETT’s GESA Global EdTech Startups Awards, and Digital Skills Awards 2020. This is the 4th award Genially has received in the past year.

EdTech 109

EdTech Udemy Tools Industry 109

Hack Education

DECEMBER 31, 2018

When I first started working as a tech reporter, I assumed – naively – that venture capitalists were smart people who did thorough research before funding a company. I assumed that they looked to see if the company could do what it promised – financially, technologically. One should be conscientious, as such.

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Trends MOOC Company Edmodo 93