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| 11.09.2024 | Teaching in the Digital Age: Essential Education Tools for Effective | Share
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The digital age has transformed the education sector, offering a plethora of tools and resources to enhance teaching and learning. Effective instruction in this era requires educators to leverage te... |
| 22.07.2020 | Report: One of the Biggest Obstacles to Remote Learning? Finding a Quiet Place to Work | With school plans for the fall focused less on reopening and more on resuming remote learning, the mixed experience with online instruction from the spring offers many lessons for how district leaders can better prepare for this next go aro... |
| 05.02.2019 | Microsoft Inks Two Partner Deals and an Acquisition | News Microsoft Inks Two Partner Deals and an Acquisition By Kurt MackieFebruary 05, 2019
Monday marked a trio of corporate moves for Microsoft involving Accenture, TomTom and BrightBytes.
First, Microsoft announced a deal with longtime part... |
| 05.02.2019 | Microsoft Inks Two Partner Deals and an Acquisition | News Microsoft Inks Two Partner Deals and an Acquisition By Kurt MackieFebruary 05, 2019
Monday marked a trio of corporate moves for Microsoft involving Accenture, TomTom and BrightBytes.
First, Microsoft announced a deal with longtime part... |
| 04.02.2019 | Microsoft Buys Cloud Service DataSense to Expand Education Suite | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
BrightBytes, a San Francisco-based education technology company, announced Monday it has sold a data-management platform used by school districts and software businesses to Mi... |
| 04.02.2019 | Microsoft Buys Startup BrightBytes’s DataSense Service | 16 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
Morning Markets: Microsoft just bought something called BrightBytes, which makes something called DataSense. Let’s explore.
This morning Microsoft announced in a carefully-worded blog post that it i... |
| 04.02.2019 | Microsoft acquires DataSense management from BrightBytes to step up its education play in Azure | One of Microsoft’s oldest and biggest verticals for its Azure cloud business has been education, and today it announced an acquisition that it hopes will help it deepen its reach: it has acquired DataSense — a data management platform that ... |
| 04.02.2019 | Microsoft acquires DataSense from education analytics provider BrightBytes (updated) | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Microsoft today announced that it has acquired DataSense, an integration platform as a service (IPaaS) product targeting education solu... |
| 04.02.2019 | Microsoft Takes a Bite Out of BrightBytes, Acquiring Its DataSense Platform and Team | From launching new tablets to virtual-reality curriculum, Microsoft has added plenty to its educational offerings through a series of new product updates and acquisitions over the past few years. The company’s latest deal involves something... |
| 08.11.2018 | Why Aren’t Schools Using the Apps They Pay For? | With thousands of education apps available today, it can seem like students' success is in the palm of their hands. But easy to forget is that technology is not in itself a solution. For it to work as intended, it must be paired with other ... |
| 31.05.2017 | BrightBytes Tried to Buy Hapara. Then a Better Offer—and a Legal Complaint—Emerged | Financial details in transactions between private companies rarely see the public light. Yet a recently settled legal complaint between two education technology startups offers a glimpse at the numbers and terms involved in the negotiation ... |
| 05.10.2016 | Schoolzilla Acquires Decision Science Labs to Help Districts Make Smarter Spending Choices | Schoolzilla is not a monster. But it boasts a voracious appetite when it comes to ingesting education data and, now, another company.
The Oakland, Calif.-based startup, which offers data warehousing and visualization tools for schools and d... |
| 18.08.2016 | How Can We Measure Edtech's Return on Investment? | One day at Stanford D.School (Institute of Design at Stanford), an Oakland team and I were building paper planes as part of a design thinking activity. We thought our goal was to build the “best” plane so that’s what we built; in actuality,... |
| 27.05.2016 | Venture Investing in the Public Sector | I’ve been at Insight Venture Partners for a year and a half now, and many people I know ask me how about how it compares to the White House.
I tell them, truthfully, that it’s hard to compare things to the White House. The sense of mission... |
| 20.02.2016 | It’s Time For Edtech Entrepreneurs To Throw Out Stale Business Models | Guido Kovalskys Contributor
Guido Kovalskys is founder and CEO of Nearpod.
We hear it again and again: The U.S. K-12 education system is in crisis.
In its 2015 report, the National Assessment of Educational Progress, otherwise known as “The... |
| 14.01.2016 | Imagine All the Startups Pitching at Demo Day | As every student succeeds, so, too, shall companies and their investors. That’s the message delivered by Imagine K12 co-founders, Tim Brady and Geoff Ralston, at the seventh demo day for the edtech accelerator.
Now in its fifth year, Imagin... |
| 21.07.2015 | BrightBytes raises $33M to help schools everywhere gauge the impact of technology in classrooms | 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!
BrightBytes, a software-as-a-service (SaaS) data-... |
| 21.07.2015 | Daily funding roundup - July 21, 2015 | Bright.md raises $3.5M; Medallia bagged $150M; BrightBytes landed $33M
Bright.md, which makes software that enables communication between doctors and patients, closed a $3.5 million Series A funding round. Oregon Angel Fund led the round, w... |
| 21.07.2015 | 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... |
| 21.07.2015 | BrightBytes Secures $33M Series C Round |
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, BrightBytes, an award-winning educational research and analysis organization today announced a $33 million Series C financing.
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| 21.07.2015 | BrightBytes Raises $33M in Series C Financing | BrightBytes, a San Francisco, CA-based educational research and analysis organization, raised $33m in Series C financing.
The round was led by Insight Venture Partners with participation from Bessemer Venture Partners, Rethink Education and... |
| 21.07.2015 | 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. Medallia lands a whopping $150M to help companies keep customers happy
Keeping customers happy is a company’s first order of... |
| 21.07.2015 | BrightBytes raises $33M to help schools everywhere gauge the impact of technology in classrooms | BrightBytes, a software-as-a-service (SaaS) data-analytics company that measures the impact of technology in K-12 education, has raised $33 million as part of a series C financing.
The San Francisco-based company had raised $18.5 million si... |
| 22.12.2014 | A Closer Look at K12 Edtech Funding in 2014 | Bolstered by a strong Q1 and Q3, venture investment in K12 education technology was up 32% in 2014 totaling $642 million. The top ten investments accounted for over half the funding, featuring large rounds in Desire2Learn, TeachersPayTeache... |
| 29.10.2014 | Educators and Entrepreneurs: Get Thee to a Classroom and Observe Students | Forget policy. Forget expertise. Want to design better schools? Force yourself to sit in a classroom and see what it is actually like to be a student.
Alexis Wiggins, a veteran high school teacher, shadowed students for two days and recentl... |
| 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... |
| 30.04.2014 | NSVF: Spotlights Innovator Teachers and Entrepreneurs for Annual Awards | On the Tuesday evening before its grand annual education Summit, the NewSchools Venture Fund convened a dinner for the schools and companies that NewSchools has supported during its 15 year history. It was an emotional meeting, particularly... |
| 13.03.2014 | With 10K Schools On Board, BrightBytes Lands $15M To Help Measure The Real Impact Of Technology In Education | Over the last year, BrightBytes has become a personal favorite in the ballooning world of education startups. The reason for this begins with the fact that when it comes to our beleaguered education system — from its skyrocketing costs to i... |
| 12.03.2014 | BrightBytes Closes $15M Series B Funding | BrightBytes, a San Francisco, CA-based educational analytics company, closed a $15m Series B funding.
The round was led by Bessemer Venture Partners (BVP) with participation from existing investors Rethink Education and Learn Capital. Previ... |
| 12.03.2014 | BrightBytes Raises $15M |
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Fast-growing educational analytics organization that counts almost 1 in 10 U.S. schools as customers, announced today that it closed $15 million in Series B funding.
>> Click here for more funding data on BrightB... |
| 16.07.2013 | BrightBytes Raises $2.5M in Series A Funding | BrightBytes Inc., a NYC-based learning analytics company that measures student-learning outcomes using data analysis and educational research in the form of technology surveys delivered through its proprietary engine, raised $2.5m in Series... |
| 16.07.2013 | BrightBytes Raises $2.5M in Series A |
NEW YORK, NY, BrightBytes has announced $2.5 million in Series A funding by Rethink Education.
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| 19.02.2013 | BrightBytes Grabs $750K To Help Schools Measure The Real Impact Of Technology On Student Learning | BrightBytes has been on a mission to “improve the way the world learns through data” — and, in turn, to help schools solve their technological woes. To do that, the San Francisco-based learning analytics startup provides schools with the to... |
| - | Resource: How to Find Edtech Tools | There’s no getting around it. Choosing the tech tools for a school or district, ones best for the organization’s plans, goals and budget, requires delving into the details of what products do.
Here’s EdSurge’s shortlist of the sources emerg... |
