Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2022

I enrolled in my first online course in 1998—an awful Frankenstein of assignments and web-based textbook chapters—and never finished it. NYSE: COUR), Udemy, Inc. Udemy (NASDAQ: UDMY) is down 52.4 Of course these recent corrections aren’t unique to the education market. NASDAQ: DUOL), Instructure Holdings, Inc.

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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. There are roughly 1,000 courses available on Skillshare for free. The rationale, according to Cooper, is to provide another opportunity for learners to find relevant courses. “If

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Edsurge

JANUARY 13, 2021

Roblox is followed by Coursera and CampusLogic, which respectively offer online courses and financial management tools to colleges and universities. Just ask Duolingo and Udemy, which each closed a pair of investment rounds in 2020. Former edtech entrepreneurs who returned for another stint were also greeted with big checks.

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Hack Education

JULY 1, 2017

Here’s a comparison of what funding looked like in Julys of previous years: What Kind of Companies Are Raising Money? Udemy (skills training marketplace) – $173 million. I mean, it has to pay its investors back, of course. The average investment this year has been $21.2 The median investment size: $4 million.).

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 4, 2016

Even without providing you the final tally of funding for 2016, I can point to other signals about what’s happened to ed-tech startups over the course of the last twelve months – their sustainability, their viability. (Or These are just the ones that were reported by the press, of course.). Why, schools of course.

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