| Date | Title | Description |
| 23.08.2024 | How does ClassDojo make money? | The company sells a premium version of its free product to parents, schools and districts
ClassDojo was founded in 2011 after co-founders Liam Don and Sam Chaudhary spent a month meeting with hundreds of teachers to find out what their need... |
| 17.08.2023 | Back to school: The best apps for students | Summer is coming to an end, which means students will (hopefully) be in air-conditioned classrooms and away from this unrelenting heat wave. It also means that they’re probably on the hunt for mobile apps that can help prepare them for the ... |
| 15.05.2023 | TechCrunch Live events, but a podcast | TechCrunch Live had some amazing shows over the last few months. I know it’s hard to keep up. Every Wednesday, at 12:00 pm PDT, the live event features top founders and investors talking through issues facing their industries right now. The... |
| 24.04.2023 | Обзор технологических стартапов в образовании за последнюю неделю | Сэм Чаудхари и Лиам Дон, соучредители ClassDojo
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| 21.06.2021 | AGORA, INC.
Agora : How Parent Involvement Leads to Student Success and Business Growth | Since the Covid-19 pandemic began, I have noticed an exponential increase in the communication flow between students, parents, and teachers. While remote learning presented many challenges, it boosted the demand for parent-teacher communica... |
| 09.04.2021 | Meet Yujin Chung, managing director at SignalFire | SignalFire invests from seed to Series C out of a $500 million fund
Venture capital used to be a cottage industry, with very few investing in tomorrow's products and services. Oh, how times have changed!
While there are more startups than e... |
| 08.02.2021 | 10 Tech Leaders Share Their Favorite Edtech Innovations | Getty |
| 26.01.2021 | ClassDojo’s second act comes with first profits | ClassDojo’s first eight years as an edtech consumer startup could look like failure: zero revenue; no paid users; and a team that hasn’t aggressively grown in years. But the company, which helps parents and teachers communicate about studen... |
| 09.12.2019 | SignalFire, just six years old, has raised $500 million across two new funds | SignalFire, a six-year-old, San Francisco-based venture firm that prides itself on mining what it says is more actionable data about, well, the world, has just raised a pair of funds that total $500 million in capital commitments.
One of th... |
| 28.02.2019 | Daily funding roundup - February 28th, 2019 | Coin Metrics raised $1.9M; Ikonopedia raised $2M; Little Spoon raised $7M; Datical raised $10M
Coin Metrics: Coin Metrics is created to publish hard-to-acquire data about major public blockchains, and to promote some ratios. Coin Metrics ha... |
| 28.02.2019 | ClassDojo Raises $35M in Series C Funding | ClassDojo, a San Francisco, CA-based consumer education brand behind the communication app for pre K-8 schools, raised $35m in Series C funding.
The round, which brought the total raised by ClassDojo to date to $65m, was co-led by GSV and S... |
| 28.02.2019 | Now With Revenue, ClassDojo Raises $35 Million to Expand to Homes Across the World | Sam Chaudhary doesn’t like to talk about money. But he’s certainly good at raising it, able to woo investors even though the 8-year-old company only recently started generating revenue.
In describing ClassDojo’s latest fundraise—a $35 milli... |
| 28.02.2019 | Top startup news for today, Thursday, February 28, 2019 | Good morning! Here are some of the top technology startup news stories for today, Thursday, the last day of February.
ClassDojo raises $35 million in Series C funding to accelerate international expansion. ClassDojo, a school communication... |
| 28.02.2019 | Term Sheet — Thursday, February 28 | ‘INVESTING IS HARD’
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| 28.02.2019 | ClassDojo, an app to help teachers and parents communicate better, raises $35M | Messaging apps have become the de facto way that many people today keep in regular contact with each other, and that trend has also found its way into the classroom. ClassDojo, a startup that has built a platform for teachers and parents to... |
| 28.02.2019 | ClassDojo Announces $35M Series C Round |
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Today, ClassDojo - the consumer education brand behind the world's most-widely used communication app for pre K-8 schools - announced it raised Series C funding.
>> Click here for more funding data on ClassDojo
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| 17.12.2018 | Which Apps Are Safe for Kids? Three Tools That Read the Fine Print for You | Some apps do more harm than good. And “free” apps often come with hidden costs. These tenets hold as true for education apps as they do for those in the consumer market, privacy experts contend.
A recent New York Times investigation found t... |
| 15.11.2018 | ClassDojo Goes ‘Beyond School’ to Launch First Monetization Feature for Parents | Most investors want to exit their investments and get a financial return within seven years. It’s taken ClassDojo that long to announce its first paid offering.
The San Francisco-based company may be one of the last venture-backed education... |
| 24.01.2018 | It's Surprising How Much Small Teams Can Get Done - Sam Chaudhary of ClassDojo
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| 24.01.2018 | It’s Surprising How Much Small Teams Can Get Done – Sam Chaudhary of ClassDojo | Sam Chaudhary is the cofounder and CEO of ClassDojo. They’ve raised $30M and have 30 employees.
Karen Lien is an Edtech Principal here at YC. |
| 21.01.2018 | 6 top apps for teachers in 2018 | Fact of life: teachers are busy, both in the classroom and outside of it. Apps can be a godsend to help keep organized and improve the classroom experience for students. But there are so many apps out there—which ones are tops for teachers ... |
| 29.11.2017 | Could Giving Parents Homework Help Students? Schools Try ‘Family Playlists’ | Here’s a familiar conversation loop, one that gets replayed endlessly in homes across the country:
“How was school today?”
“Um, okay.”
Sure, it reflects the age-old communications gulf between adults and kids. But it also represents an achi... |
| 18.07.2017 | At Louisville Summer Camps, Robots Meet Literacy to Support Vulnerable Students | Shawnta Spencer sits in a tall chair at the front of the classroom, the projector set up behind her. She’s getting ready to show her students a video from California’s Salinas Valley, where giant robots roll through crops of lettuce and use... |
| 17.06.2017 | Stale Words and Hackneyed Ideas That Make Edtech Investors Cringe | If you go to startup pitch events, you’ve seen it happen:
An entrepreneur says something—something so naïve, egregious and hackneyed—that it makes the investors, along with educators who are now increasingly in the audience, physically crin... |
| 19.04.2017 | 6 New Startups Redefining The Educational Space | Tech startups are creating buzz in transportation, gaming, healthcare, and telecommunications sectors. Everybody knows this. What people may not realize is that technology has a huge impact on the educational space as well. In the first qua... |
| 17.04.2017 | These 4 Quirky, Unorthodox Letters Got People Hired at Edtech Startups | Nothing beats personal connections when it comes to landing a job interview. Yet what you know can matter more than who you know, especially at early-stage startups. Employees will likely wear many hats, placing a premium on those with mult... |
| 24.12.2016 | The broken edtech ecosystem investors once avoided is changing | Charles Wiles Contributor
Charles Wiles is CEO and co-founder of education technology firm Zzish and former UK product manager at Google.
“Don’t go into education technology, no one makes any money,” was the advice I once got from an early ... |
| 14.09.2016 | Remind Taps Former Bleacher Report CEO to Take Reins | Not even this summer’s NBA Finals, featuring the Golden State Warriors, could distract Bay Area sports fan Brian Grey from taking this meeting. Back in June, the former CEO of Bleacher Report agreed to have coffee with Brett and David Kopf,... |
| 27.06.2016 | How Do Edtech Products Rate on Safety? Common Sense Education Platform Names the Good and the Not-So-Good | Check out the new Common Sense K12 Edtech Privacy Evaluation Platform.
Here’s a mismatch of a statistic: back in 2013, a Fordham Law School study found that 95 percent of districts used cloud services for various reasons, including data mi... |
| 27.05.2016 | Three Rookie Mistakes That Edtech Entrepreneurs Make | Launching edtech products is challenging—especially when you’re working with something like social-emotional learning.
Last month, the World Economic Forum released a report—“New Vision for Education: Fostering Social Emotional Learning (SE... |
| 24.05.2016 | Bloomz raises $2.3 million to connect teachers and students’ families | Education tech startup Bloomz has raised $2.3 million in seed funding for an app that connects teachers and parents, securely.
The company’s app features tools that help teachers push updates about students or share photos of them from the ... |
| 28.04.2016 | Get Rid of Grade Levels: A Personalized Learning Recipe for Public School Districts | Public schools play a huge role in developing learners to be successful when they leave school. So why are charters and private schools considered the best places for “personalized learning”?
The problem with the current public education mo... |
| 18.04.2016 | ClassDojo Raises $21M in Series B Funding | ClassDojo, a San Francisco, CA-based edtech startup, raised $21m in Series B funding.
The round was led by General Catalyst with participation from GSV Capital, Reach Capital and SignalFire.
The company, which has raised $31.1m to date, int... |
| 18.04.2016 | ClassDojo Raises $21M in Series B |
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, ClassDojo has raised $21 million in a Series B round of venture funding.
>> Click here for more funding data on ClassDojo
>> To export ClassDojo funding data to PDF and Excel, click here
ClassDojo has r... |
| 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.
... |
| 15.04.2016 | Fresh With $21 Million in Funding, ClassDojo Pursues More Users—and a Business Model | Who says you can’t raise a Series B without a business model? ClassDojo has added $21 million in a new venture funding round led by General Catalyst and joined by GSV Capital, Reach Capital and SignalFire. The San Francisco, CA-based startu... |
| 07.04.2016 | With money to invest, General Catalyst promotes four, including Niko Bonatsos | General Catalyst Partners has promoted four people on its team. The announcements come just weeks after the venture firm, which has offices in Cambridge, Ma.; New York; and Palo Alto, closed on $845 million in new capital commitments from i... |
| 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... |
| 19.01.2016 | ClassDojo’s Critters Want to Teach You About Growth Mindsets | Mojo and Katie may resemble characters from the cast of Pixar’s “Inside Out.” But the two critters are stars of their own show: a series of animated shorts, produced by ClassDojo, that aim to help teachers, students and parents learn about ... |
| 19.01.2016 | SoftTech VC Promotes Two To Partner As It Seeks Out Fresh $130M | SoftTech VC, a San Francisco-based seed-stage fund founded 11 years ago by investor Jeff Clavier, has promoted two of its senior investors to full partners, a move seemingly geared to bolster the firm as it seeks to raise a $130 million in ... |
| 13.01.2016 | Can Silicon Valley Save The American Dream? | I met Willie Carter back in December 2012. At the time, I was a speechwriter for President Obama and, as I prepared remarks for an upcoming trip to a manufacturing plant in Redford, Mich., I needed an ending.
The President often finishes hi... |
| 02.12.2015 | Sean Guo – founder of KizKaz | website twitter facebook
Sean Guo is a father of a 3 year-old and the founder of Kizkaz. He started his career as a futures trader and in 2011 co-founded Enigma Capital, backed by both Australian and Chinese investors. He also co-founded Bl... |
| 22.10.2015 | Watch Out, VCs: Chris Farmer Plans To Massively Disrupt The Industry | For years, Chris Farmer worked as a venture partner at General Catalyst Partners, helping develop its then-nascent seed-investing program while simultaneously working on a big idea: a database that could help screen engineering talent.
Toda... |
| 07.10.2015 | The Race to Translate: Which Parent Communication Tool Will Reign Supreme? | First, it was parent-teacher communication by texting. Now, ClassDojo and Remind seem to be in a race to share information with parents in whatever native language they speak.
As if the CEOs had planned it, ClassDojo and Remind both announc... |
| 05.09.2015 | ClassDojo launches new tool to simplify parent-teacher communication | Classroom management tool ClassDojo has publicly launched a new offering called Class Story that it believes streamlines communications between teachers and parents. The aim is to eliminate newsletters and websites that teachers create in o... |
| 12.08.2015 | Classroom Management Enhanced by Technology | Technology affects almost every aspect of our lives. One area which technology has a big impact on is the field of education. As technology evolves, so does the need for teachers to learn how to integrate technology in their classrooms. Tod... |
| 11.07.2015 | The Challenges of Teaching When Silicon Valley Doesn’t Care | I have been on a bit of an EdTech binge writing spree the past few weeks. Part of the reason is that I feel the vast majority of educators and entrepreneurs are finally realizing that Silicon Valley didn’t get it right the first time with o... |
| 09.04.2015 | How Do Teachers Differentiate Between ClassDojo and Remind? | ClassDojo and Remind are two of the biggest names in edtech today, with tens of millions of users each, and $10.1 million and $59.5 million raised, respectively.
Although the companies began by tackling different problems in education (Remi... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
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| 06.01.2015 | Where Are All the Venture Dollars Going in Ed-Tech? | The education technology industry is celebrating a record-breaking 2014, with companies having raised a collective $1.36 billion in the United States alone. Within that figure is another historic number, however — one symbolizing significan... |
| 19.08.2014 | How NewSchools Picks Its Investments | Our Seed Fund supports high potential entrepreneurs developing technology solutions for the biggest challenges in K-12 education. We look for areas where the power of technology can improve our education system and its ability to maximize t... |
| 25.06.2014 | EdSurge's Edtech Edcamp @ Edmodo | Oh, this was fun. On Tuesday night, about 120 educators, entrepreneurs, EdSurgents and Edmodeans gathered in San Mateo, Calif., to share thoughts about where education is headed at our monthly edtech meetup--with a very special twist.
As Ed... |
| 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... |
| 05.03.2014 | ClassDojo Raises $8.5M |
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Classroom behavior feedback platform raised $8.5 million.
>> Click here for more funding data on ClassDojo
>> To export ClassDojo funding data to PDF and Excel, click here
ClassDojo, a classroom behavio... |
| 04.03.2014 | ClassDojo Raises $8.5M in Series A Funding | According to Re/code, ClassDojo, a San Francisco, California-based provider of tools that help teachers improve behavior in their classrooms, raised $8.5m in Series A funding.
Backers included Shasta Ventures, General Catalyst, SoftTech VC,... |
| 03.03.2014 | ClassDojo raises $8.5M to put digital gold stars on your kid’s digital folder | 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!
ClassDojo, a behavior feedback platform for the t... |
| 15.08.2013 | Classroom Behavior Platform ClassDojo Adds Full Website Functionality To Its Mobile App | ClassDojo, software for tracking classroom behavior and incentivizing students, has updated its mobile app to allow teachers to access all the desktop features from a mobile device. Now teachers can use ClassDojo on the playground, on field... |
| 15.08.2013 | Now get ClassDojo on-the-go for classroom management | ClassDojo launches its 2.0 app to make first real jump into mobile
Anyone who has ever tried to teach a group of elementary school kids anything knows how complex the challenges can be. For example: bad behavior. If one kid is acting out, d... |
| 13.08.2013 | Teachers Say More | Memo to Sam at ClassDojo, Amy at EdCanvas, Dan at Newsela, Chris at Educreations, Jen at Kickboard, Jeff at NoRedInk and others: Want to hear what teachers think about your product?
We love it when people "kick & tell"--try ou... |
| 05.08.2013 | Focus is key: 6 cloud startups kicking ass by going narrow | Venture capitalists are betting on cloud startups with a specific focus: health care, financial services, real estate, and other industries.
This more specialized, “vertical” industry approach is a stark contrast to the more horizontal appr... |
| 05.08.2013 | Focus is key: 6 cloud startups kicking ass by going narrow | 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!
Venture capitalists are betting on cloud startups... |
| 25.06.2013 | ISTE13: Edtecher & Educators Mashup | EdCanvas, Showbie, and Smarter Cookie, all Imagine K12 alums, threw a collective “Martini Monday” at ISTE13, featuring specialty branded drinks designed for their early adopters and supportive bloggers. School-based educators mixed it up wi... |
| 03.06.2013 | 100 AngelList Startups To Watch In 2013: How Many Are New To You? | AngelList. It’s the place for startups to connect with funding and talent. Just this month, the site has helped raise $12 million in venture funding for a wide collection of startups. It may be the one site that best represents all players ... |
| 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... |
| 06.03.2013 | News Corp’s Education Tablet May Be The Bureaucratic Fit Schools Need To Adopt Tech | Public school systems are cheerfully decorated dictatorships: discipline, standards, and testing are the driving concepts of modern k-12 education. The very reason why districts purchase bundles of the same textbooks is so they can keep cla... |
| 30.10.2012 | To empower students, let’s bring interactive learning tools into the classroom | 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!
This is a guest post by Troy Williams, President ... |
| 30.10.2012 | To empower students, let’s bring interactive learning tools into the classroom | This is a guest post by Troy Williams, President of Macmillan New Ventures
The past five years have seen a tremendous boom in education technology (“ed-tech”) startups that are pushing the boundaries of online and hybrid content delivery an... |
| 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... |
| 10.09.2012 | ClassDojo launches iOS app to help teachers manage their students | Can technology save the classroom? With its new iOS app, ClassDojo aims to do just that.
ClassDojo allows teachers to track and manage the behavior of their students in real time. The service does this by assigning each student a funky cart... |
| 10.09.2012 | ClassDojo launches iOS app to help teachers manage their students | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Can technology save the classroom? With its new iOS app, ClassDojo aims to do just that.
ClassDojo allows teachers to track and manage ... |
| 20.08.2012 | Resetting Education: an app for classroom management? | How teachers are using technology to simplify behavior management
For those who have considered K-12 teaching, a few concerns immediately come to mind. Is the pay worth it? What if you’re not effective? And probably most importantly, how do... |
| 17.08.2012 | ClassDojo Raises $1.6M in Seed Funding | ClassDojo, a San Francisco, Calif.-based education startup, has raised $1.6m in seed funding.
Backers include Paul Graham, Ron Conway, Jeff Clavier, General Catalyst, the Start Fund, Kapor Capital, NewSchools Venture Fund, Lerer Ventures, M... |
| 16.08.2012 | ClassDojo Grabs $1.6M Seed Funding |
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, First free digital character building and behavior management service for teachers, is officially launching out of beta and announcing $1.6 million in seed funding.
>> Click here for more funding data on ClassDoj... |
| 15.08.2012 | ClassDojo raises $1.6M for easy classroom management | ClassDojo offers an ingenious solution to an age-old problem in education
It’s not often that you come across a product that’s being used by some 3.5 million people in more than 30 countries before it’s even out of beta. But that’s the case... |
| 15.08.2012 | Funding Daily: watch out for spies and ninjas | 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!
Secret agent startup Hopper peaked out from steal... |
| 15.08.2012 | ClassDojo Lands $1.6M From Paul Graham, Ron Conway To Help Teachers Control Their Classrooms | Before Sam Chaudhary and Liam Don began building what would eventually become ClassDojo, they set out to identify the biggest problems teachers face in the classroom every day. After interviewing several hundred educators, a pattern quickly... |
| 15.08.2012 | A Day In The Life Of: Mrs. Lisa Mims | Transforming classrooms through technology is not a new practice for Mrs. Lisa Mims, who teaches 5th grade at a public elementary school in Delaware. Long before Dropbox--even long before flashdrives--Mrs. Mims was engaging young minds with... |
| 02.07.2012 | Resetting Education: The rebounding edtech ecosystem | Edtech is finally seeing a revival after the burst of the Internet bubble
The term “edtech” seems like an easy blanket term that covers all things “educational” and “technological.” But a peek beneath the surface reveals a rich, blooming ec... |
| 16.03.2012 | An Hour in the Life of a One-to-One Teacher in Baltimore | Last week I was fortunate enough to sit in on an 8th grade math class led by Kevin Tame, a Teach for America corps member that’s in his 2nd year of teaching at Booker T. Washington Middle School. Booker has had some tough years and is sadly... |
| 23.09.2011 | Imagine K12’s 2011 Startup Class Aims To Invigorate Education With Technology | [tc_speakertext_off]One of my favorite bits from Disrupt SF was the set of rapid-fire presentations from Imagine K12, an incubator for education-related startups. We heard in June that some 200 applicants had been narrowed down to 10 compan... |
| 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... |
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| - | Crunchies Awards: стартап года Uber бойкотировали во время церемонии | В Сан-Франциско, США состоялась 8-я ежегодная премия Crunchies Awards 2015, организованная TechCrunch и VentureBeat. Утром в пятницу стали известны победители в 20 номинациях.
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| - | Рост до $404 млрд к 2025 году, микрообучение и гонка маркетинговых бюджетов — как обстоят дела в EdTech | Индустрия EdTech или education technology подразумевает использование компьютерных технологий для упрощения и повышения эффективности образования. Это одна из индустрий, которая выиграла от режима изоляции во время пандемии коронавирусной и... |
