Edsurge
FEBRUARY 17, 2021
There’s been a lot of great edtech serving the knowledge worker, such as tools like Pluralsight. His company has set out to create a digital education platform similar to Lynda.com, but focused on hands-on trades. But there’s a vacuum in the digital marketplace for skills for hands-on workers.”
Edsurge
FEBRUARY 1, 2021
TPG, the private equity firm behind the deal, is an investor in other edtech companies through its social-impact arm, The Rise Fund. TPG was also a backer of Lynda.com, an early pioneer in online video instruction, which was acquired by LinkedIn for $1.5 These include Adit EdTech Acquisition Corp. billion in 2017.
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Edsurge
NOVEMBER 9, 2016
New Markets has supported 43 companies since its launch in 2003; edtech startups make more than 90 percent of its deals in the past five years, Palmer adds. Investments in edtech companies in 2016 totalled $945 million, according to estimates from GSV Capital, less than half of the $2 billion tally last year.
Edsurge
JANUARY 10, 2017
billion purchase of Lynda.com and Instructure’s initial public offering, both of which took place in 2015. These statistics offer a somber reminder that the edtech industry does not produce quick, home run hits. Other EdSurge stories about edtech venture capital. 2016 US Edtech Funding Totals $1 Billion.
Edsurge
OCTOBER 11, 2016
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eSchool News
FEBRUARY 10, 2021
San Francisco based Owl Ventures is the largest edtech sector-focused venture capital firm in the world. SplashLearn fits into our objective of supporting innovative companies in the edtech space, helping drive a paradigm shift in the way education is imparted, bringing it to scale” said Amit A. SplashLearn was incorporated in 2010.
Edsurge
FEBRUARY 4, 2019
That tool is data, and it marks the focus of Microsoft’s first edtech acquisition of 2019: DataSense , a data management platform developed by Brightbytes. It also offers a rostering solution that expedites how student and educator accounts for third-party edtech applications are created and managed.
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