Edsurge

MAY 13, 2021

Amidst the hype, two competing entities were formed within a few weeks of each other: One of them was Coursera, a for-profit startup backed by the biggest-name investors in Silicon Valley, who argued that they were building a billion-dollar company, a rare “unicorn,” as venture capitalists say. And how is edX doing by comparison?

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Coursera MOOC Company Course 162

Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2017

The team in charge of managing these sponsor relationships is “relatively small,” she adds, in comparison to the company’s K-12 implementation team that has footprints across the country, from urban metropolises to coal country and the Mississippi Delta. So, too, do companies such as AirBnB, Google, Oracle and Whole Foods.

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Industry EdTech Coursera Company 134

Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2022

One of our portfolio companies LearnPlatform publishes a regular “ Edtech Top 40 ” list of the most used edtech products in K12 schools nationwide: perhaps unsurprisingly, Google products take 8 of the top 10 spots. But as a point of reference: Google did not yet exist. NYSE: INST), Coursera, Inc. NYSE: PWSC), Duolingo, Inc.

EdTech 180

EdTech Chegg Udemy Company 180

Hack Education

DECEMBER 4, 2016

Daphne Koller left Coursera this year. “Apple, Microsoft, Amazon and Google Are Fighting a War for the Classroom,” Edutechnica wrote in June , with a look at how many colleges have adopted their competing “pseudo-LMSes.” Sebastian Thrun stepped down as Udacity’s CEO.

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Technology Education Common Core Company 40