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01.07.2024 | Centre Stage: Ruby Igwe wants to train the next generation of Africa’s tech changemakers | Ruby Igwe realised corporate legal work wasn’t as hands-on as she wanted, so she transitioned into film production. For many people, that made a lot of sense, as she grew up on movie sets assisting her mother, Amaka Igwe, a renowned Nigeria... |
01.02.2022 | Nigeria’s AltSchool raises $1M pre-seed to build an alternative school for Africans | The demand for software engineers is expected to grow by 22% between 2020 and 2030, according to a report by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. This figure is larger than the 4% average for other careers.
One would be out of touch with re... |
24.09.2019 | Марафон зарубежных EdTech-рынков: многоликая Индия | Мы продолжаем «Марафон зарубежных EdTech-рынков» в преддверии выхода отчёта о российском рынке онлайн-образования. Команда, выпускающая исследования рынка под брендом «Барометр», подготовила материалы, посвященные рынкам образовательных тех... |
28.06.2019 | AltSchool Gets an Alt-Name and New Leadership | AltSchool, a developer of personalized learning software that once operated a chain of “microschools,” is getting a major makeover.
This morning, the San Francisco-based company announced a series of “sweeping changes” that includes a new n... |
19.09.2018 | Life at an Edtech Startup: Six Lessons for Educators | If you would have told me a year ago that I’d be working for an edtech startup in San Francisco, I would have thought you were crazy. I’ve had many jobs as an educator over the past 16 years, but at my core, I’m a 7th-grade middle school te... |
26.03.2018 | “Time to keep going” says Harrison Metal, closing on a new, $68 million fund | Harrison Metal, a 10-year-old, San Francisco-based seed-stage venture fund, has closed its fifth vehicle with $68 million, founder Michael Dearing tweeted out a bit ago.
“Ten years ago this month, I started this business,” he wrote. ” I was... |
14.03.2018 | No Kidding: This Pre-Revenue Edtech Startup Just Raised $15M in Series B Funding | The days of raising tens of millions in venture capital before making a cent in revenue are not over for the education technology industry.
Kiddom, the developer behind a K-12 content management and collaborative learning platform, has rais... |
22.11.2017 | AltSchool wants to change how kids learn, but fears have surfaced that it’s failing students | Business Insider recently reported that numerous families have grown frustrated with the education their children are receiving at AltSchool, an ambitious San Francisco-based edtech company that four years ago began opening physical grade s... |
06.11.2017 | Educators Question AltSchool’s Pivot: Where Does Silicon Valley’s Philanthropy End and Profits Begin? | Just last week David Miyashiro, superintendent of Cajon Valley Union School District, took his colleagues on a tour of AltSchool in Yerba Buena, Calif. Little did they know that the model was struggling and would be closing two schools by t... |
03.11.2017 | Tusk Ventures has closed its debut fund with $36 million | Bradley Tusk, a former political operative who helps companies launch political-style campaigns, runs several businesses. One of them, Tusk Ventures, has been working with startups for a couple of years and until recently, accepted its paym... |
03.05.2017 | AltSchool CEO Max Ventilla Closes First $40 Million in New Funding Round | AltSchool, the “microschools” operator and developer of a personalized learning platform, has raised at least another $40 million, according to a SEC filing first noticed by Axios.
In an interview with EdSurge, AltSchool CEO Max Ventilla de... |
04.04.2017 | Tusk Ventures quietly held a first close on $25 million for its debut fund | Bradley Tusk is a former political operative who currently runs a consultancy that helps Fortune 500 companies launch political-style campaigns, as well as a separate outfit, Tusk Ventures, that that focuses on helping startups do the same.... |
16.02.2017 | What Betsy DeVos means for edtech | Ryan Craig Contributor
Ryan Craig is managing director of University Ventures.
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12.02.2017 | Political strategist Bradley Tusk on his fast rise in Silicon Valley | Bradley Tusk has long been known in political circles. He was once deputy governor of Illinois, working for the now-incarcerated former governor Rod Blagojevich. He also worked for Michael Bloomberg during one of his tenures as mayor of New... |
18.10.2016 | AltSchool Announces 2017 Partner Schools, Gives Insight Into Monetization | AltSchool, a San Francisco-based startup, raised $100 million on the backs of “microschools.” Now, it’s focusing less on building campuses and more on sharing and selling its technology.
During 2016’s SXSWedu, AltSchool CEO and co-founder M... |
09.08.2016 | For the ambitious ed tech company AltSchool, it’s time for phase two | Much has been written about the ambitions of AltSchool, a San Francisco-based startup that’s aiming to change the way that school children learn. Its big idea, broadly, is that personalized learning is far more effective than the standardiz... |
26.05.2016 | Lindsay Unified Joins the Growing Number of Schools Franchising Their Models to Other Systems | There is no clear path to designing a ground breaking personalized learning school. Some leaders begin with a school model tour across America, trying to boil down—in a few short hours wandering school halls—what works and how to replicate ... |
03.05.2016 | Designer Fund, which backs startups founded by designers, has raised $20 million | Designer Fund, a San Francisco outfit that looks to invest in seed-stage startups that feature designers on their founding teams, has raised $20 million in funding from unnamed individual investors, most of them successful designers looking... |
21.04.2016 | AltSchool Pulls New COO From 'Call of Duty' Video Game Company | It’s not often that a school administrator can count the “Call of Duty” video game as one of his or her past workplace pursuits.
But today is that day, as AltSchool has announced that Coddy Johnson, former executive from video game publishe... |
10.03.2016 | Looking to Design Your Own School? AltSchool Launches Partner Program ‘AltSchool Open’ | AltSchool, the San Francisco-based startup that’s captured headlines for creating a chain of unique “microschools” and backed by more than $100 million in venture capital, is taking the next big step: opening up its resources and software t... |
07.03.2016 | How AltSchool Experiments in Education | A version of this post titled “AltSchool’s education experiment” originally appeared in Data Sheet, Fortune’s daily tech newsletter.
Last week I visited AltSchool, the San Francisco-based education-technology firm that has begun its corpora... |
18.12.2015 | The Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative May Be More Important Than Facebook | Ross Baird Contributor
Ross Baird is the founder and executive director of Village Capital.
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13.12.2015 | School Districts Are Standing In The Way Of Public School Edtech | Anthony Kim Contributor
Anthony Kim, CEO of Education Elements.
No gymnasiums, no cafeterias and no administrators. That’s school policy at AltSchools, a chain of private, for-profit schools backed by the likes of Andreessen Horowitz and Ma... |
27.10.2015 | Do Wealthy Communities Breed the Best Education Innovations? | In the education world, there is a great deal of debate about what conditions support the most effective change for students. Some say that top-down, district-based change yields the best results, while others argue that grassroots, bottom-... |
24.08.2015 | Marc Benioff, Salesforce Take A Different Philanthropic Tack Toward Backing SF’s K-12 Schools | As San Francisco’s population rapidly changes with an influx of new tech money and workers, a big question is what happens to the city’s K-12 schools and what tech’s ultimate influence on local education will be. Will tech’s presence improv... |
28.07.2015 | Amplify Your Voice: The Secrets of Rising Edtech Bloggers | Edtech blogs are everywhere these days; from the broad thinking to the subject-specific, teachers, administrators and edtech companies are writing about all aspects of life around schooling. But why is it important that they do so? Is it im... |
30.06.2015 | A Former Stanford Dean On The Danger Of Overparenting By Parents – And Startups | In her new book, “How to Raise an Adult,” former Stanford University Dean of Freshmen Julie Lythcott-Haims argues that overparenting has grown to worrying extremes over the last decade-plus and that unchecked, it will be the ruin of society... |
08.05.2015 | Funding roundup - week ending 5/8/15 | Twistlock, DJI, Cybereason, NatureBox, Twilio, AltSchool, Zenefits, Cursive Labs, Robinhood, Banjo
Seed stage
Twistlock, an enterprise security suite for virtual containers, raised $2.5 million in funding from YL Ventures.
Wag!, which provi... |
07.05.2015 | Big Bay Area Funding Week: Banjo, AltSchool, Twilio, Robinhood | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Big chunks of change were falling into the hands of Bay area companies this week, with three of them netting $100 million capital infusions and others in the multi-million dol... |
04.05.2015 | Mark Zuckerberg, Silicon Valley Investors Bet $100 Million on AltSchool | AltSchool, the startup that’s building a network of “micro-schools” across the country, is attracting major venture capital.
The San Francisco, CA-based company closed a $100 million Series B round from a host of Silicon Valley's blue blood... |
04.05.2015 | AltSchool Raises $100M in Funding | AltSchool, a San Francisco, CA-based company that is building a network of micro-schools that offer personalized, child-centered learning experiences, raised $100m in funding.
The round, which also included a new debt facility to fund schoo... |
04.05.2015 | Funding Daily: Today’s tech funding news, in one place | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Here’s a list of today’s tech funding stories, up... |
04.05.2015 | Funding Daily: Today’s tech funding news, in one place | Here’s a list of today’s tech funding stories, updated as the day unfolds. Tip us here if you have a deal to share. AltSchool gets $100M to reinvent education in the U.S.
AltSchool, a startup that’s attempting to change the way school works... |
04.05.2015 | Altschool Raises $100M From Founders Fund, Zuckerberg To Scale A Massive Network of Schools Around Personalized Learning | In one of the biggest funding rounds of the year in education and technology, Altschool is raising $100 million from Founders Fund, Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan’s foundation along with other venture backers and philanthropic organizat... |
04.05.2015 | AltSchool raises $100M to overhaul the education system | Investors in the edtech company include Founders Fund, Mark Zuckerberg and John Doerr
My mother has worked in the New York City school system for many years, so I have a pretty good understanding of what some of the fundamental problems are... |
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... |
26.02.2015 | How AltSchool Blends Old-Fashioned Learning with New Technology | Everyone wants to see what AltSchool is doing with its $20,000 yearly tuition fee for students—on top of $33 million in venture funding from legendary Silicon Valley investors like Andreessen Horowitz and John Doerr.
Indeed, there are a lot... |
12.02.2015 | The 8th Annual Crunchies Awards | The 8th Annual Crunchies Awards ceremony took place on February 5th at the Louise M Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco.
In case you missed the chance to watch it online, you can watch it here:
Welcoming the winners
Showcasing and rewa... |
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... |
23.05.2014 | How Blended Learning Leaders Choose What to Use | What happens when you ask a private Catholic school, a public district, and out-of-the-box schools like Rocketship and AltSchool what the word "blended" actually means? You get different definitions that vary based on the needs of... |
01.05.2014 | Meet AltSchool, The Startup That Is Going To Reinvent Primary Education | Education is one of the last industries that is still going through massive change and disruption with the introduction of technology. In particular, we’ve seen the rise of iPads, the introduction of learning technologies and educational ga... |
18.03.2014 | Funding Daily: ‘Step off me, dog-bro!’ edition | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Today’s roundup of funding news includes investme... |
18.03.2014 | AltSchool Raises $33M in Series A Financing | AltSchool, a San Francisco, CA-based network of micro-schools focused on personalized learning for children in grades K-8, raised $33m in Series A financing.
The round was led by Founders Fund and Andreessen Horowitz with participation from... |
18.03.2014 | Funding Daily: ‘Step off me, dog-bro!’ edition | Today’s roundup of funding news includes investments in startups involved in big data, IT infrastructure, “micro-schools,” data mining, and more. Check out the details below.
Cloudera snatches a massive $160M to lead the business of big dat... |
18.03.2014 | AltSchool Raises $33M in Series A |
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Network of micro-schools that emphasizes personalized learning for children in grades K-8, announced that it has raised $33 million in Series A financing.
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18.03.2014 | Elementary school with a startup twist: AltSchool raises $33M | A former Google executive’s quest to create better education options for his children now has some big investor backing.
AltSchool, a startup focusing on private “micro-schools” that offer personalized education options for elementary stude... |
18.03.2014 | Elementary school with a startup twist: AltSchool raises $33M | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
A former Google executive’s quest to create bette... |
18.03.2014 | Former Googler’s AltSchool Raises $33M From Founders Fund And A16Z To Reimagine Primary Education | AltSchool, a new startup aiming to transform K-8 education and schools, has raised $33 million in Series A financing led by Founders Fund and Andreessen Horowitz, with follow-on investment from First Round Capital and Harrison Metal and par... |
29.11.2013 | Aardvark Founder Max Ventilla Is Trying To Turn Education On Its Head With AltSchool | Alice, a single mom living in Daly City, was facing major roadblocks with her public school system. Her five-year-old son was advanced enough to enter first grade instead of kindergarten. And her older son, who was about to enter third grad... |
- | After Housing, Advitiya Plans To Reimagine K-8 Education With Launch Of His New Startup GeniusTeacher | Just a month after moving out of one of the most controversial Indian startups, Housing co-founder Advitiya Sharma has made a comeback. The IIT Bombay alumnus has now launched an EdTech startup GeniusTeacher to reimagine how education is de... |