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 164

Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2019

By comparison, in the first six months of 2018, companies raised $750 million across 62 deals. Coursera, the Mountain View, Calif.-based Coursera, Andela, Degreed, A Cloud Guru and Lambda School all offer courses tailored for people who want to pick up new professional skills (usually involving programming and computer science).

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EdTech Coursera Knewton Analysis 139

Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2017

not just deliver software, but also be able to engage with big brands and marry our interests.” Education Secretary Arne Duncan, and Coursera CEO Rick Levin. Making this model work, Wincup says, is one of the company’s “trade secrets.to Sustainable Growth Fund) will lead the team, advised by former U.S.

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Industry EdTech Coursera Company 135

Edsurge

JANUARY 13, 2021

Roblox is followed by Coursera and CampusLogic, which respectively offer online courses and financial management tools to colleges and universities. Engageli, a similar effort led by the husband of Coursera co-founder Daphne Koller (who is an advisor), raised $14.5 Some orders were backlogged for months.) million in 2020. While the $2.2

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 4, 2016

Daphne Koller left Coursera this year. The pressure to move towards digital assessments has fueled schools’ investments in hardware and software more than any other argument about the importance of ed-tech. The learning management system is a piece of “enterprise” software after all. The Procurement Problem.

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