| Date | Title | Description |
| 06.04.2018 | Cost vs Quality in Edtech – Keith Schacht, Avichal Garg, and Geoff Ralston | Keith Schacht is the cofounder of Mystery Science, which makes lessons that inspire kids to love science. They were part of the Summer 2017 YC batch.
Avichal Garg is an Expert at YC and prior to that he was the Director of Product Manageme... |
| 06.04.2018 | Cost vs Quality in Edtech - Keith Schacht, Avichal Garg, and Geoff Ralston
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Transcript | Keith Schacht is the cofounder of Mystery Science, which makes lessons that inspire kids to love science. They were part of the Summer 2017 YC batch.
Avichal Garg is an Expert at YC and prior to that he was the Director of Product Manageme... |
| 07.02.2018 | Startup Investor School Preview with Geoff Ralston | This episode covers Startup Investor School. Startup Investor School is a free, 4-day course designed to educate early stage investors interested in investing in startups. You can sign up at investor.startupschool.org.
Geoff Ralston is a P... |
| 07.02.2018 | Startup Investor School Preview with Geoff Ralston
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Transcript | This episode covers Startup Investor School. Startup Investor School is a free, 4-day course designed to educate early stage investors interested in investing in startups. You can sign up at investor.startupschool.org.
Geoff Ralston is a P... |
| 04.01.2018 | Accelerators targeting EdTech companies | They include acclerators from Intel, AT&T, Y Combinator and NYU
For startups, there are numerous paths for getting their name out there. One way, which Vator has been covering recently, are startup competitions, but another popular meth... |
| 21.10.2016 | Announcing Our Guidelines for Edtech Products | Karen Lien is an Edtech Principal at Y Combinator.
At YC / Imagine K12, we work with an educator advisory board that guides our work with edtech companies. Over the past year, the advisory board has helped us compile a collection of guidel... |
| 25.07.2016 | A Guide to Demo Day Presentations | In 2005 Y Combinator held its first Demo Day. Eight companies showed off their products and sold their vision to an audience of about 15 investors. Today, accelerators and incubators around the world hold their own demo days, and in 2016 ov... |
| 15.04.2016 | ClassDojo raises $21 million for app to make parent-teacher meetings obsolete | ClassDojo has raised $21 million in a Series B round of venture funding for tech that connects educators to students’ parents, and helps them communicate consistently about student’s activities, social and behavioral development at school.
... |
| 04.04.2016 | Six Ways to Land a Job in the Diverse and Crazy World of Edtech | Tell me if this sounds familiar: You’ve been reading EdSurge for years now. You’ve closely followed the rise of Khan Academy, the MOOCs, and every other hot education technology trend. And now you’re considering getting into edtech yourself... |
| 13.02.2016 | M&A roundup - week ending 2/13/16 | Time acquired Viant; YouTube bought BandPage; Microsoft purchased Groove
Microsoft acquired Groove, a music service that powers music recommendations and generates personalized playlists using machine-learning. No financial terms of the dea... |
| 10.02.2016 | Imagine K12 Merges with Y Combinator | Imagine K12, the accelerator that sparked both edtech startups and other incubators, is merging with that granddaddy of accelerators, Y Combinator. Instead of a standalone entity, the program will be known as: "YC/Imagine K12."
Si... |
| 10.02.2016 | Y Combinator Absorbs Edtech Accelerator Imagine K12, Creating Specialized Vertical | Y Combinator, the popular accelerator program, has made its first acquisition of a kind. The fund is today announcing that it has formed a specialized vertical within Y Combinator by bringing into the fold Imagine K12, an edtech-focused acc... |
| 04.09.2015 | Startup School Radio: YC’s Geoff Ralston On Learning As You Go | In Episode 9 of YC’s Startup School Radio, our host Aaron
Harris first sat down
with YC partner Geoff Ralston to talk about his keen interest in funding education startups both at YC and through the Imagine K12 accelerator he founded. In ... |
| 04.09.2015 | Startup School Radio: YC's Geoff Ralston On Learning As You Go | In Episode 9 of YC’s Startup School Radio, our host Aaron
Harris first sat down
with YC partner Geoff Ralston to talk about his keen interest in funding education startups both at YC and through the Imagine K12 accelerator he founded. In ... |
| 31.03.2015 | Why Edtech Companies Fold | Geddit. Taught It. MommaZoo. In the last six months, all three of these companies have announced that they’re shutting their doors. Two are Imagine K12 graduates--a sobering reminder that not all IK12 companies go on to join the ranks of Cl... |
| 13.03.2015 | Classkick Raises $1.7M | Classkick, a Chicago, IL-based provider of an educational tech platform, raised $1.7m in seed funding.
Backers included Kapor Capital, Lightbank, Yammer founder Adam Pisoni and Great Oaks Venture Capital.
The company intends to use the fund... |
| 02.03.2015 | Y Combinator and Imagine K12 at Princeton, Harvard, MIT & Dartmouth this week | How do you come up with an idea?
Should you start a startup in college?
How do you raise money as an edtech company?
Hear short talks from YC partners Sam Altman, Qasar Younis and Geoff Ralston (YC partner and founder of Imagine K12).
PRI... |
| 07.01.2015 | Building and Scaling an Edtech Company | Since the turn of the second Millennium, the onslaught of the dotcom bubble, and the rise and scale of the Internet, thousands of businesses have been born in order to solve real problems in education using technology, software and web serv... |
| 04.12.2014 | Microscholarship platform Raise.me is rethinking financial aid | Cashing in on good grades.
That’s the idea behind Raise.me, an early-stage startup that helps high school students earn microscholarships for doing well in class. The San Francisco-based startup with a Philadelphia footprint also has the ba... |
| 04.12.2014 | Microscholarship platform Raise.me is rethinking financial aid | Cashing in on good grades.
That’s the idea behind Raise.me, an early-stage startup that helps high school students earn microscholarships for doing well in class. The San Francisco-based startup with a Philadelphia footprint also has the ba... |
| 09.10.2014 | Should You Join an Edtech Accelerator? | The early stages of a startup are always fresh and exciting. Ideas flourish and expectations rise in world of limitless possibilities. Yet the early days are also filled with uncertainty--resources, funding, bringing in the right people, co... |
| 25.08.2014 | Corporate Accelerators Are An Oxymoron | Building a corporate accelerator is certainly in vogue these days. Wells Fargo launched a new accelerator program last week targeting financial services startups and has already unveiled its first class of three participants. The program fo... |
| 25.06.2014 | TeachBoost Gets $1.5M To Simplify Teacher Feedback | Giving feedback to teachers is complicated. It often involves a pre-meeting, where goals are discussed and the lesson plan is provided. The observation then takes place at a designated time, followed by another meeting about debriefing resu... |
| 24.06.2014 | Silicon Valley and the Edtech Revolution | Silicon Valley holds a certain mystique among entrepreneurs and investors. Here, more cool technology was born, more wealth created, and more technology revolutions begun, than anywhere else on the planet. The Valley’s formula for success h... |
| 13.05.2014 | LearnSprout Pivots, Raises $4.2 Million | LearnSprout knows a thing or two about pivots. When the startup first joined the Imagine K12 accelerator in 2012, the team briefly entertained the idea of building a new student information system (SIS).
That plan was quickly scrapped. “The... |
| 25.03.2014 | Your Mission, Should You Choose to Accept It | The New York City-based Robin Hood Foundation has recently announced a $5 million "College Success" prize for anyone who can “spur the development of an innovative, scalable and technology-enabled tool to improve the academic perf... |
| 04.02.2014 | Red Hot Remind101 Gets $15M From John Doerr To Bring Free, Secure Text Messaging To Teachers | Brothers Brett and David Kopf launched Remind101 out of Imagine K12 in late 2011 to tackle what they saw as one of the key problems in primary education: The lack of simple, user-friendly tools that help teachers better communicate with bot... |
| 04.02.2014 | A $15 Million Boost for Remind101 | This is big. Maybe even bigger than, say, a pile of 15 million dollar bills.
Remind101, which provides teachers with safe way to send text messages to their students and parents, just landed a $15 million investment led by the Big Kahuna of... |
| 14.01.2014 | Imagine K12 Launches 13 Startups | Fifty-three companies. Over 100 founders. And upwards of $60 million dollars raised.
These were the latest stats from Imagine K12 shared by co-founder and partner, Tim Brady, as he kicked off the fifth demo day for the Palo Alto-based edtec... |
| 09.12.2013 | No VC, No Problem: How TeachBoost Built a Sustainable Business | Upon graduating from Imagine K12’s Winter 2012 program, TeachBoost founder and CEO, Jason DeRoner, was faced with the challenge that most early-stage founders face: spend time raising money or continue building the product?
His meetings wit... |
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| 16.08.2013 | CodeHS to Teach San Antonio Students Programming Skills | In the past, some kids took classes in High School to learn vocational skills like repairing a car in the auto shop class or crafting some cabinets in the woodshop class.
But today’s workforce requires more high tech skills and most public ... |
| 18.06.2013 | Kaplan EdTech Accelerator, Powered by TechStars, Announces First 10 Startups | Today, Kaplan kicked off its first EdTech Accelerator, powered by TechStars, with a crop of 10 startups.
The 3-month program, which takes place in the Kaplan offices in New York City, offers startups $20,000 and mentorship from advisors lik... |
| 24.05.2013 | List of top Bay Area accelerators and incubators | If you want to find one, they're everywhere!
So you have the basics of your startup figured out, but you need a little help getting off the ground? You need a little acceleration, you say? You live in the Bay Area and you need information o... |
| 06.05.2013 | Imagine K12 Unveils Fourth Cohort | Imagine K12’s fourth demo day was, coincidentally, also its second birthday. To celebrate the Terrible (Terrific!) Twos, nine startups presented to a room of over a hundred investors and entrepreneurs. (By show of hands, it appeared that 30... |
| 23.04.2013 | Imagine K12 Gives Startups A $100K Boost | Imagine K12, the first incubator for education technology startups, is upping the funding it provides to entrepreneurs to $100,000 per company beginning with the next cohort of companies, due to start in September 2013. In addition, Imagine... |
| 23.04.2013 | Imagine K12: ‘In just 2 years, 10% of U.S. teachers are using our startups’ products’ (interview) | The founders of Silicon Valley-based accelerator Imagine K12 believe we are amid a radical transformation in education.
Rather than teaching in batches, educators are looking for ways to help individual students learn. Imagine K12 believes ... |
| 23.04.2013 | Imagine K12 Start Fund Launches with Increased Funding | Imagine K12, a Palo Alto, CA-based startup accelerator dedicated to educational technology, announced changes including a new fund and increased funding.
The Imagine K12 Start Fund will be supported by tech veterans including Y Combinator f... |
| 23.04.2013 | Ed-tech startups: Imagine K12 bumps up its accelerator funding to $100K | Ed-tech accelerator Imagine K12 announced that it will increase its initial funding for startups from $20,000 to $100,000.
This additional funding is available from the newly established “Start Fund,” backed by Y Combinator founder Paul Gra... |
| 23.04.2013 | Y Combinator of Education, Imagine K12, Raises A “Start Fund” Of Its Own, Brings Funding For Each Startup To $100K | According to Y Combinator’s estimates, today, there are more than 100 startup accelerators in the U.S., which is almost awe-inspiring considering that there were only four as recently as 2007. While the number of accelerators and incubators... |
| 19.02.2013 | Test Prep Giant Kaplan Launches A New EdTech Accelerator In NYC, With TechStars Providing The Bankroll | With early-stage capital front-loading the EdTech investment spectrum, it’s a good time to start an education business. (Even if investors are still wary about doling out larger rounds, but ssshhh on that bit.) Of course, when it comes to e... |
| 19.02.2013 | The Exhilarating Chaos Between What We Know and What We Don't | Two weekends, two conferences, one high school, and one documentary film later and I am stuffed. Like after Thanksgiving.
Last night, I watched the Eames documentary on Netflix. One particular narrative thread struck me. The narrator pointe... |
| 13.12.2012 | BrainNook For iPad Makes Learning Language & Math As Fun As Club Penguin | BrainNook, a social educational gaming site for children grades 1 through 5, is today expanding to the iPad with the debut of the first in a series of apps from the company. These apps will focus on teaching children math and language skill... |
| 05.12.2012 | Columbia's EdLab Offers Forum for Startups | New York City is home to thousands of teachers, dozens of edtech start-ups and a handful of graduate education programs. Yet, in spite of their common interests, the groups don't always communicate. Now one organization, based at Columbia U... |
| 03.12.2012 | Matter Ventures Aims To Launch “The Next Great Media Institutions” | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Once upon a time, public radio and TV stations were the new kids on the media block, disrupting the commercial media world by offering educational, cultural, and community-bas... |
| 14.11.2012 | Edtech Investors Share Tips on How To Get Funded | They say money draws a crowd. And it surely did on Monday (Nov. 12) when over 200 packed the house at NestGSV for a conversation with three leading edtech investors: Alan Louie (Imagine K12), Jennifer Carolan (NewSchools Venture Fund), and ... |
| 29.10.2012 | Y Combinator Of Education Imagine K12 Launches Its 3rd Cohort, Bringing The Digital Revolution To Classrooms Near You | The number of startup accelerators has grown exponentially over the last few years. There are now over 100 of them scattered throughout the U.S. — a fairly dramatic increase from 2007, when there were just about four, according to Y Combina... |
| 16.10.2012 | Imagine K12 Bringing Tech Closer to Schools | In some ways, Imagine K12 feels a bit like an overgrown kindergarten classroom. You can draw on the walls with color markers. The tables are a bit haphazard and can be moved around depending on the activity. There are snacks in a handy refr... |
| 04.10.2012 | What it Takes to be a Teacherpreneur | Entrepreneurial guru Eric Reis put it something like this: Centuries from now people will laugh about entrepreneurship today, the way we laugh at other industries and processes that were getting their start a century ago. What we know of en... |
| 26.09.2012 | After Squatting At AOL For 2 Months, Eric Simons Launches Claco, A Collaboration Network For Teachers | If you happened to pass through AOL’s offices in Palo Alto last November or December, you might have had your first run-in with the elusive creature “founder squatter.” Say what? Following in the grand boot-strapping, couch-surfing traditio... |
| 14.08.2012 | Educreations Grabs $2.2M From Accel, NewSchools To Turn Your iPad Into Your Classroom | Khan Academy has attracted the attention of millions of students and parents (and has even impressed Bill Gates) by flipping the traditional classroom and homework model on its head with videos on a variety of academic subjects. While it’s ... |
| 11.07.2012 | Andreessen-Backed LearnSprout Wants To Help Developers Unlock Educational Data | APIs are marching into education, and it’s about time. Education is rife with legacy infrastructure, with one of the primary offenders being Student Information Systems (SIS). Schools use these systems to store huge amounts of sensitive stu... |
| 25.06.2012 | Resetting Education: How tech is changing the paradigm | U.S. schools are struggling, and Silicon Valley is emerging as an unlikely hero
Every day in the United States, 7,200 students drop out of high school. That adds up to 1.3 million a year. Dropout rates are even higher among certain minority... |
| 22.02.2012 | First Floor Labs Sold A Company To Facebook, Graduated Three YC Startups, And Is Accepting Applications | Last Friday I visited the Aol* building on Page Mill Road in Palo Alto. But instead of the stench of death and decay you would normally find at a dying company, I found joy and the hustle and bustle of youth. More importantly, I found start... |
| 29.01.2012 | Meet Y Combinator’s newest partner, Geoff Ralston | The newest member of Y Combinator’s team is angel investor and successful entrepreneur Geoff Ralston.
Y Combinator founder Paul Graham announced the addition of Ralston in a blog post yesterday, writing that Ralston is “a perfect match for ... |
| 27.01.2012 | Y Combinator Names Seasoned Entrepreneur Geoff Ralston As Its Newest Partner | Y Combinator has just announced the newest partner to join the prestigious firm: Geoff Ralston. Ralston’s previous credentials include founding Four11, which was acquired by Yahoo back in 1997 for $96 million and served as the foundation fo... |
| 27.01.2012 | Welcome Geoff | We’re happy to announce that Y Combinator has recruited Geoff Ralston as our newest partner.
I’ve known Geoff for 13 years. The company he founded, Four11, was acquired by Yahoo just before Viaweb was. Their product, RocketMail, became Yah... |
| 21.11.2011 | A Recap of Education Hack Day | We came, we saw, we hacked
The weekend before last, roughly 70 software designers, developers, makers, and educators convened at Digital Harbor High School for an Education Hack Day. The mission was simple: listen to problems sourced by tea... |
| 21.09.2011 | ImagineK12 hatches its first class of education tech startups | Last week the first cohort of the ImagineK12 incubator demoed at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference with high hopes and soaring self-predictive expectations to transform, disrupt and revolutionize K-12 education with the help of internet and... |
| 14.09.2011 | Remind101 Is A Private Twitter For Teachers | Ten companies from the Imagine K12 incubator in Palo Alto pitched their wares onstage this morning at TechCrunch Disrupt SF. In order to participate in the three-month Imagine K12 program, which runs out of the AOL offices, a startup has to... |
| 16.06.2011 | Education Incubator Imagine K12 Picks Ten Startups For Its First Class | In March we wrote about the launch of Imagine K12, a new startup incubator modeled on Y Combinator that is focused on the education space. It was founded by startup veterans Geoff Ralston, Tim Brady and Alan Louie.
The company sorted throug... |
| 01.04.2011 | Super angels create incubator for incubators | Paul Graham (Y Combinator) and Dave McClure (500 Startups) want to help new incubators incubate
Angel investors Paul Graham and Dave McClure announced Friday the launch of 25 Incubators, the first-ever intensive program dedicated entirely t... |
| 17.03.2011 | Imagine K12 Launches a New Incubator for Ed-Tech Startups | A new incubator program, Imagine K12, launched today in Palo Alto aimed specifically at building entrepreneurship in the education space. Founded by three Silicon Valley veterans – Tim Brady, Alan Louie, and Geoff Ralston – Imagine K12 will... |
| 17.03.2011 | Startup Veterans Launch Imagine K12, A "Y Combinator For Education Startups" | Startup veterans Geoff Ralston, Tim Brady and Alan Louie are launching Imagine K12 today, an education focused startup accelerator/investor that is modeled closely after Y Combinator. The goal of the new project is simple – “To effect posit... |
| 17.03.2011 | What you need to know - 03/17/11 | Facebook may have patented social search; study finds correlation between social media and stock
Look out rest-of-the-Internet, Facebook might now own social search, according to a patent first filed in October 2004 and awarded a month ago.... |
| 17.03.2011 | Imagine K-12 is a Y Combinator for education | New Silicon Valley-based incubator founded by three entrepreneurs wanting to change education space
Launching Thursday is a brand new incubator called Imagine K-12, which will provide seed funding and mentoring to startups looking to change... |
| - | A Guide to YC Demo Day Presentations | In 2005 Y Combinator held its first Demo Day. Eight companies showed off their products and sold their vision to an audience of about 15 investors. Today, accelerators and incubators around the world hold their own demo days, and in 2016 ov... |
