| Date | Title | Description |
| 28.08.2024 | Prodigy's New Back to School Features Ensure Every Teacher and Student is Ready for Class! | Leader in game-based learning launches fresh updates to tighten classroom integration and make math and English practice even more fun for students
TORONTO, Aug. 28, 2024 /PRNewswire/ - Prodigy Education ('Prodigy') is making sure every sin... |
| 02.08.2024 | Adobe transforms education with new AI tools in Adobe Express | Adobe has announced the latest update to Adobe Express for Education, a tool designed to be safe for classrooms, utilising responsible generative AI to enhance student engagement and communication.
This tool is freely available for K-12 tea... |
| 26.06.2024 |
Total Expert launches marketplace for marketing technologies | Customer engagement platform Total Expert is launching a marketplace this week for financial institutions to build their marketing technology stack.
Partners will plug into the Total Expert platform to offer solutions such as chats and text... |
| 19.06.2024 | Capstone expands PebbleGo suite with new digital tools to create active learning experiences in K-5 classrooms | Capstone is the nation’s leading educational publisher of K-5 digital solutions, children’s books, and literacy programs for school libraries, classrooms, and at-home reading.
At booth 724 at ISTELive 24, attendees can view new tools for cl... |
| 08.04.2024 | Half of Americans struggling to afford housing, survey finds | Many Americans are struggling to keep a roof over their head amid the high cost of housing in the U.S.
About half of homeowners and renters said they have periodically struggled this year to afford their mortgage payment or rent, according ... |
| 03.08.2023 | How Schools Are Coaching — or Coaxing — Teachers to Use ChatGPT | Six months out from when it broke the internet, ChatGPT — and its numerous clones and adaptations — have drummed up great interest, and concerns, for teachers, school leaders and districts.
The introduction of generative AI into society shi... |
| 21.06.2023 | The Majority of Teachers Polled Said AI Will Make Their Jobs Harder | As artificial intelligence (AI) quickly becomes a focal point in US schools, a new survey of educators and administrators conducted by Clever, the platform powering digital learning for over 75% of US K-12 schools, underscores the need for ... |
| 19.01.2023 | Six Edtech Products Earn Project Unicorn Interoperability Certification | BROOKLYN, N.Y. (PRWEB) January 19, 2023
InnovateEDU’s Project Unicorn announces six education technology products that have earned the Project Unicorn Interoperability Certification. The certification signals that an edtech product prioriti... |
| 30.12.2022 | Five Strategies For EdTech Sales And Lead Generation | Personal networks are a great place to start generating leads.getty |
| 24.06.2022 | EBSCO Information Services Announces Partnership with Clever | Clever provides school districts with a single portal for their digital learning tools, where students and teachers have seamless access, eliminating the need to remember unique usernames and passwords for each tool.
IPSWICH, Mass. (PRWEB) ... |
| 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... |
| 08.05.2021 | KAHOOT! AS
Kahoot : in the news roundup, May 7 | News
May 7, 2021 Kahoot! in the news roundup, May 7
Here is a roundup of selected news coverage Kahoot! has received this week from around the world.
Norway's Kahoot to buy U.S. tech firm Clever for up to $500 mln - Reuters
As announced tod... |
| 07.05.2021 | KAHOOT! AS
Kahoot : Clever CEO Tyler Bosmeny shares thoughts on joining the Kahoot! Group to make learning awesome! | News
May 7, 2021 Clever CEO Tyler Bosmeny shares thoughts on joining the Kahoot! Group to make learning awesome!
The Clever team announces it will join the Kahoot! family to bring even more powerful solutions to schools, educators and learn... |
| 06.05.2021 | Kahoot acquires Clever, the US-based edtech portal, for up to $500M | Kahoot, the popular Oslo-based edtech company that has built a big business out of gamifiying education and creating a platform for users to build their own learning games, is making an acquisition to double down on K-12 education and its o... |
| 06.05.2021 | Kahoot to buy American edtech firm Clever for up to $500 million | Not often that a European tech company buys a US-based company for half a billion dollars, but here we are: Norway’s Kahoot this morning announced that it is acquiring California-based Clever, a K-12 EdTech learning platform.
The combinatio... |
| 06.05.2021 | Kahoot Acquires Clever for $500M, Hoping to Expand Its Presence in the U.S. | Kahoot, it seems, is just heating up. The publicly traded, game-based learning company announced Thursday that it was acquiring Clever, a digital learning platform used widely among K-12 schools in the U.S.
Kahoot will snap up Clever for a ... |
| 30.04.2021 | Daily AI Roundup: The 5 Coolest Things on Earth Today | AI Daily Roundup starts today! We are covering the top updates from around the world. The updates will feature state-of-the-art capabilities in artificial intelligence, Machine Learning, Robotic Process Automation, Fintech, and human-system... |
| 29.04.2021 | Clever and Google Partner to Streamline Access to Google Classroom | New partnership will provide automated rostering to simplify workflows and save teachers time
Google has selected Clever, one of the most widely used digital learning platforms in the U.S., to provide automated rostering for Google Classroo... |
| 25.02.2021 | Clever Launches New Identity Management Solution For K-12 School Districts | |
| 19.11.2020 | Why the Pandemic Forces Administrators to Rethink Attendance — and Interoperability | When COVID-19 forced the mass closure of schools across the U.S. during the early months of 2020, we all wondered how—or if—students would continue to learn amid the turbulence. Seemingly overnight, educators, parents and edtech companies c... |
| 03.11.2020 | TOP 10 EdTech Startups in the USA | EdTech startups are on a rise throughout the world and especially with the onset of the novel coronavirus and the subsequent shutdown of schools and colleges everywhere. Students have been studying and learning online for the last 5-6 month... |
| 18.09.2020 | Outschool, newly profitable, raises a $45M Series B for virtual small group classes | Outschool, which started in 2015 as a platform for homeschooled students to bolster their extracurricular activities, has dramatically widened its customer base since the coronavirus pandemic began.The platform saw its total addressable mar... |
| 24.06.2019 | Take Two: Clever’s Newest Effort to Help Teachers Try Before They Buy Edtech | There are at least two truisms when it comes to education technology:
1. Teachers don’t always use what their district purchase. And 2: Many scour the web to find tools to use on their own—often without the knowledge or approval of school l... |
| 07.06.2019 | A peek inside Sequoia Capital’s low-flying, wide-reaching scout program | Ten years ago, Sequoia Capital began quietly encouraging founders of its portfolio companies to consider which of their founder friends they might like to get behind financially. Sequoia would let them write checks to those companies, and i... |
| 26.09.2018 | How to Sell by Tyler Bosmeny | Tyler Bosmeny from YC alumnus Clever shares his expertise on how an early stage company should think about sales and about building an enterprise sales team.
Learn more at https://www.startupschool.org/ |
| 19.01.2018 | Clever looks to give teachers and students an easy-to-track progress report | The classic problem of how teachers should devote resources to their students, such as helping students that are struggling in specific areas, is one that’s still ever-present — but it needs a deceptively-simple approach to making that more... |
| 19.09.2017 | Request for Education Startups | At YC, we’re deeply interested in education because of its power to transform lives and societies and to maximize human potential. On a micro level, we believe technology can help reverse the trend in K-12 of spending more and more money to... |
| 14.08.2017 | Not Another Dashboard: K-12 Interoperability Efforts Aim to Inform (Not Just Report) | Data interoperability should be invisible. Perhaps we’ve grown too accustomed to paying for purchases with a mobile app, or booking reservations online, or using Google to plan our daily commutes. These conveniences, which we often take for... |
| 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... |
| 29.03.2017 | NVM invests £3 million in 'clever' communications company Intelling | Intelling offers a range of inbound and outbound telemarketing and customer care services, specialising in the business to consumer market. Headquartered in Manchester with additional premises in Belfast and Burnley, the Company currently h... |
| 28.12.2016 | Unbundling Higher-Ed Tech: “The Place We Will Go” in 2017 | “Oh, The Places You'll Go” is one of the most popular books by Dr. Seuss. Where do you hope education technology will go in 2017? What aspects of curriculum or community might get us there? (Dartmouth College)
Dr. Seuss’s final published wo... |
| 16.09.2016 | Forbes Releases First List of Top 100 Cloud Companies + 20 Rising Stars | Forbes has released the first-ever Forbes 2016 Cloud 100, the list of the top 100 private cloud companies in the world, which has developed in partnership with global venture capital firm Bessemer Venture Partners. In addition to the leadin... |
| 19.04.2016 | A Clever Use of QR Codes to Help Students Log In | First introduced in 1994 in Japan, QR codes never quite took off in the U.S. It may speak to our impatience that whipping out a smartphone, launching a scanner app, and focusing the camera on an image of pixelated square proved too big a ha... |
| 19.04.2016 | Clever’s new badges help K-2 students access apps on its education platform | Education technology company Clever has created a simpler way for students in K-2 classrooms to log into their computers, a process that it says will cut down on the time teachers have to spend before actually diving into the day’s lesson p... |
| 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... |
| 31.03.2016 | Sizing Up Your Skills—How You Can Get a Job in the Edtech World | Educators, it can be intimidating trying to decide when you’re ready to move into your next role, whether that be a new teaching gig, a technology coordinator position, or something outside of the classroom—like a job at an edtech startup. ... |
| 09.02.2016 | The Fewer, The Better: Ed-Fi, IMS Global Partner to Unify Class Rostering Standards | Data standards are useful—but only if there aren’t too many different ones competing for market share. Two nonprofits behind education data standards—Ed-Fi Alliance and IMS Global—announced a partnership to work towards creating a “unified ... |
| 16.10.2015 | Startup School Radio: 42Floors' Jason Freedman on How Startups Are Born Out of Problems | In Episode 19 of Startup School Radio,
a podcast that features stories and practical advice about starting,
funding, and scaling companies, our host Aaron Harris first sat down with Tyler Bosmeny, who talked about his experience going fro... |
| 16.10.2015 | Startup School Radio: 42Floors’ Jason Freedman on How Startups Are Born Out of Problems | In Episode 19 of Startup School Radio,
a podcast that features stories and practical advice about starting,
funding, and scaling companies, our host Aaron Harris first sat down with Tyler Bosmeny, who talked about his experience going fro... |
| 04.05.2015 | A Silicon Valley-Based Teach For America Program Dives Into Blended Learning | Teach For America, the national program that recruits graduates from elite colleges to teach in public schools, will for the first time train some candidates in blended learning methods this summer, rather than send them to its own traditio... |
| 21.04.2015 | Education App Development Platform Clever Hires A VP Of Engineering From Square | Clever today said it has hired Ben Adida, previously a director of engineering at Square, to be the company’s VP of engineering.
The company, which creates a third-party development platform that centers around applications for teachers and... |
| 20.01.2015 | Ed tech funding hit record levels in 2014 | The space saw $1.87 billion invested in 350 deals, with funding rising 55% from 2013
We've focusing on health teach around here lately, for obvious reasons (get your tickets to Splash Health now!), but that is obviously not the only space s... |
| 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... |
| 19.12.2014 | Funding roundup - week ending 12/19/14 | Serviz, SurveyMonkey, Clever, Quikkly, First Opinion, Boxbee, Geenio, Adyen, Redfin, Mixpanel, Dots
Seed stage
Quikkly, which creates personalized action tags, received $1 million in seed funding in a round led by Initial Capital, along wit... |
| 16.12.2014 | EdTech app platform Clever raises $30 million | The funding came from Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, GSV Capital and Peter Thiel
One of the more interesting spaces to watch over the last few years has been EdTech. It's one that is ripe for innovation and, as such, it has b... |
| 16.12.2014 | Clever Raises $30M in Third Funding Round | Clever, a San Francisco, CA-based maker of the educational app platform used by more than 30,000 schools, raised $30m in its third round of funding.
The round was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, with participation from existing investor... |
| 16.12.2014 | With $30M Series B, Clever Says ‘We’re Here to Stay’ | Happy Festivus to Clever. The San Francisco startup just closed a $30 million Series B round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and joined by GSV Capital, Peter Thiel and existing investor Sequoia Capital. With a $10.3 million Series A roun... |
| 16.12.2014 | Clever Gets $30 Million From Lightspeed To Become The Login Layer For Education Apps | It’s not often you hear about companies actually disrupting the education market. Conventional wisdom seems to be that due to the bureaucratic nature of the industry, it’s nearly impossible to get wide-scale adoption at the institutional le... |
| 24.09.2014 | Neeru Khosla is out to save the U.S. public school system with free software. Here's how she's succeeding | CK-12 co-founder Neeru Khosla and Clever’s Tyler Bosmeny are out to save the American public school system.
And they’re doing it with free software and tools.
Khosla, of course, is the head of tech-centric education non-profit CK-12, co-fou... |
| 29.08.2014 | Clever Launches New Instant Log In Feature | When adults are struggling to remember all of their passwords, how can second graders?
After launching to provide a common API for K-12 education two years ago, Clever wants to help instructors teach more and worry about resetting students’... |
| 14.08.2014 | Ed-tech platform Desire2Learn raises $85M | Desire2Learn will use the funding to build out predictive models, and to expand internationally
If I ever wind up having kids, I'm pretty sure that the school that they go to will look nothing like it did when I was child. Technology in edu... |
| 25.07.2014 | Open data and crowdfunding can breathe new life into democracy | 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!
Democracy may be one of man’s greatest inventions... |
| 25.07.2014 | Open data and crowdfunding can breathe new life into democracy | Democracy may be one of man’s greatest inventions, but it has suffered lately in many developed countries due to low citizen participation and general distrust of politicians and government institutions.
In the U.S., only about 40 percent o... |
| 21.07.2014 | How to Protect Student Data in Education | The issue of data privacy touches a nerve for many, triggering visions of an internet-era Big Brother beyond Orwell’s wildest predictions. And no privacy issue raises an emotional response—or requires a thoughtful approach—more than the sen... |
| 25.06.2014 | Investments Decline As Education Technology Grows Up | School may be out for summer, but the nation’s education-focused technology startups are still hitting the books, drumming up new business and new investments to capitalize on overwhelming demand for innovation from primary and secondary sc... |
| 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 | Clever bags $10.3M for digital learning platform | Clever grows 9x in a little over a year
Tracking a couple thousand students in your school can be a pretty daunting task, which is why it was surprising for former school IT director Dan Carroll to learn that there is no standardized softwa... |
| 25.03.2014 | Clever Raises $10.3M in Series A Funding | Clever, a San Francisco, CA-based K-12 education technology platform company, raised $10.3m in Series A funding.
The round was led by Sequoia Capital with participation from Y Combinator founder Paul Graham, Y Combinator President Sam Altma... |
| 25.03.2014 | Clever, ‘one of the unsexiest ever’ education startups, solves real problems & raises $10.3M | A small startup called Clever is helping teachers avoid one of the most painstaking parts of the job: Manual data entry.
Clever’s product is designed to make it easier for teachers to enroll and track students. Using a single sign on, stude... |
| 05.12.2013 | Clever Gets $10 Million From Sequoia To Provide A Standardized API For School Data | Clever launched about a year and a half ago to provide a standardized API for K-12 schools that allows them to unlock and share data with outside developers. It’s managed to get 10,000 schools signed up to use its tools since then. Now, acc... |
| 05.12.2013 | Clever (YC S12) Gets $10 Million From Sequoia To Provide A Standardized API For School Data | Clever launched about a year and a half ago to provide a standardized API for K-12 schools that allows them to unlock and share data with outside developers. It’s managed to get 10,000 schools signed up to use its tools since then. Now, acc... |
| 28.10.2012 | Clever Raises $3M in Seed Funding | Clever, a San Carlos, CA-based provider of an API that allows developers to access school data, has raised $3m in seed funding.
Backers include:
– Bessemer Venture Partners,
– SV Angel,
– Mike Maples (Floodgate) ,
– Jeff Clavier (SoftTech V... |
| 22.10.2012 | Twilio For Education Data, Clever, Lands $3M From Kevin Rose, Mike Maples & Ashton Kutcher, Now In 2K Schools | Clever, a graduate of Y Combinator’s most recent batch of startups, launched in late June to bring a bit of Twilio’s vision to education. That is to say, the startup has been developing a standardized API that makes it easy for K-12 schools... |
| 22.10.2012 | Clever (YC S12) raises $3M, has now unlocked K12 data in over 2,000 schools | Clever, a graduate of Y Combinator’s most recent batch of startups, launched in late June to bring a bit of Twilio’s vision to education. That is to say, the startup has been developing a standardized API that makes it easy for K-12 schools... |
| - | Kahoot to buy American edtech firm Clever for up to $500 million | Not often that a European tech company buys a US-based company for half a billion dollars, but here we are: Norway's Kahoot this morning announced that it is acquiring California-based Clever, a K-12 EdTech learning platform.
The combinatio... |
| - | 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... |
