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| 09.08.2024 | Feeling Great: Mental Health App Company Raises $8 Million (Seed) | Dr. David D. Burns, a world-renowned psychiatrist and best-selling author of many self-help books like Ten Days to Self-Esteem, Feeling Good, and Feeling Great, announced a new tool in the fight against depression and anxiety – which is the... |
| 14.12.2021 | No longer a nice-to-have – EdTech is now essential for skills development | Email
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Education and training systems need to do more to keep pace with technological change and provide access to lifelong learning pathways. Photo: © Dominic Chavez/IFC
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| 28.11.2021 | Is Poland The New Tech Hub? | Fifteen Polish startups got investments this year. Some experts believe the fourth quarter will also be successful for Polish startups. The investments have been on the same level within the last couple of months. Poland is believed to beco... |
| 25.05.2021 | Systematize The Hustle: How Pathrise Raised A $9mm Series A | Systematize the inputs to your job searchgetty |
| 27.04.2021 | Polish VC Market Reaches 53 million EUR in Q1 2021 | Highlights of the first quarter of 2021:
53 million EUR invested capital
93 startups funded
65 funds involved
-2.5% value of transactions (YoY)
+40.3% number of transactions (YoY)
Polish startups have raised more money in Q1 2021 than in a... |
| 07.08.2020 | Edtech startup Springboard secures USD 31M from Telstra Ventures | San Francisco based edtech startup, Springboard, announced on Wednesday (5th August, 2020) that it has secured USD 31 million in series B funding round led by new investor Telstra Ventures. a mentor-guided online learning platform, on Wedne... |
| 16.07.2020 | Стартапы в форме B-Corp: для кого и зачем | В этой заметке разберемся, почему все больше компаний в США учреждается в форме B-Corp, а инвесторы несут в них все больше денег.
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| 18.12.2017 | Springboard raises $9.5M to offer an online alternative to the master’s degree | Springboard is a platform that helps people advance their tech skills, and ultimately career. Today it took a step further to realizing its own potential after it landed a $9.5 million Series A round to develop specialisms.
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| 18.10.2016 | SoloLearn raises a $1.2M seed round to socialize mobile code learning via its app | There are of course plenty of ways to learn to code online these days. But recently there’s been a trend to allow would-be developers to learn it on the go. We’ve already covered the efforts of Enki to create a ‘snackable’ mobile learning a... |
| 08.09.2016 | Fluent City raises $2.5 million to teach Brooklyn hipsters about French culture | 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!
Fluent City, the most New York startup you’ll rea... |
| 08.09.2016 | Fluent City raises $2.5 million to teach Brooklyn hipsters about French culture | Fluent City, the most New York startup you’ll read about today, announced today that it scored a $2.5 million.
Fluent City started as a service offering language classes in Manhattan and Brooklyn. However, with the new funding, the startup ... |
| 14.07.2016 | The 3 biggest sales mistakes enterprise software companies make | Philip Levinson Contributor
Philip Levinson is a venture advisor at Learn Capital.
Clint Chao Contributor
Clint Chao is a co-founding managing partner at Moment Ventures.
For early- to mid-stage B2B software and SaaS companies, selling in t... |
| 08.07.2016 | DIY Co. launches JAM to help kids learn what they don’t in school, with a little help from Cartoon Network | DIY Co., the education tech startup led by Vimeo designer and co-founder Zach Klein, has launched a new online learning platform for kids called JAM.com.
The company also quietly closed a $4 million round of venture funding led by Learn Cap... |
| 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... |
| 14.01.2016 | Daily funding roundup - January 14, 2016 | Anaplan secured $90M; PolicyGenius landed $15M; Everlaw raised $8.1M funding
Online insurance broker PolicyGenius, which guides users through a five-minute Q&A to develop a personalized, in-depth review of all their insurance needs base... |
| 13.11.2015 | Daily funding roundup - November 13, 2015 | White Star Capital closed $70M funding; GetYourGuide bagged $50M; Zola raised $10M
WriteLab, a browser-based tool that provides feedback on writing, has raised $2 million in a series A round led by Reach Capital with participation from Kapo... |
| 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... |
| 23.06.2015 | Tom Vander Ark: Why Private Capital Wins Out Over Philanthropy in the Game of Innovation | Tom Vander Ark has worn many education hats over the years. He’s been a superintendent, worked for the Gates Foundation, and served as a finance guy for a startup. But more recently, he’s got street cred as CEO of Getting Smart and Partner ... |
| 23.12.2014 | 2014 US Edtech Funding Hits $1.36B | US edtech companies hit paydirt in 2014, raising $1.36B in 201 rounds from more than 386 unique investors, according to analysis by EdSurge.
Yes, you read that right. Billion. With a “B.”
How does $1.36B compare to edtech funding in years p... |
| 24.06.2014 | Edtech Europe Highlights Promising Startups, Calls for More Investments | The “Who’s Who” of the European edtech scene descended on London on June 12 at Edtech Europe 2014, a conference organized by Edxus Group, a London company formed to acquire and consolidate European edtech companies, and IBIS Capital, a Lond... |
| 04.03.2014 | UK publishing giant TSL snaps up ed-tech startup Wikispaces (exclusive) | 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!
Digital publishing giant TSL Education has acquir... |
| 04.03.2014 | UK publishing giant TSL snaps up ed-tech startup Wikispaces (exclusive) | Digital publishing giant TSL Education has acquired scrappy upstart Wikispaces to maintain its hold over educators.
TSL bills itself as the “largest network for teachers in the world.” The UK-based firm claims to provide 60 million educator... |
| 10.12.2013 | Coursera debuts its iPhone app to bring you online education on the go | Coursera appears to be racing ahead of its competition in its quest to bring online education to your smartphone.
The Mountain View-based online education provider released its new iPhone app this morning. Coursera is the best known of the ... |
| 22.11.2013 | Coursera Raises $20M in Series B Funding | Coursera, a Mountain View, CA-based massive open online course (MOOC) platform, raised an additional $20m in funding to its Series B round.
This brings the total Series B raise to $63m. Backers included three universities that offer courses... |
| 27.09.2013 | A Call To Educators and Edtech - Get Connected | Being “connected” gets tossed around a lot these days, usually referring to educators connecting to other educators through social media. But “connection” isn’t just about educator-to-educator development. Another imperative connection must... |
| 10.07.2013 | Coursera nabs $43M to bring online education to emerging markets | Coursera today raised $43 million in funding to market online education to millions of students globally.
In the new wave of education technology, online education providers like Coursera are generating a great deal of hype. It’s not all th... |
| 10.07.2013 | Activate ED Showcases Education's Rock Stars | Education is no longer a walled garden, especially as it seeks to leverage expertise and technology from other industries to improve the teaching and learning process. So it makes sense to bring in talent from outside the traditional pipeli... |
| 08.04.2013 | Resume-Killing Jobs Marketplace HireArt Wants To Help You Find A Job At An Education Startup | If you’re not familiar with hiring platform, HireArt, they’re the startup that inspired this memorable headline, courtesy of my colleague Sarah Perez. Yes, the Y Combinator-incubated startup launched in March last year to provide a new solu... |
| 15.01.2013 | Where's the Money, Jack? | The UK has a long history of innovations in computing and education, from the brilliant minds of Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace to Alan Turing, the Colossus computer, and Sir Ken Robinson. And it’s also got quite a track record when it co... |
| 08.12.2012 | Udemy Completes $12M Series B Financing | Udemy, a San Francisco, CA-based online education marketplace, has completed a $12m Series B financing.
The round, which brings total funding to $16m, was led by Insight Venture Partners, with participation from existing investors Lightbank... |
| 28.06.2012 | Education is undergoing a startling revolution: Let’s support it! | Above: Rob Nail, CEO Singularity University
Education is undergoing an incredible and exciting transformation, but I can’t help but wonder if the “experts” can’t see the forest for the trees. We are continuing to see roiling debates from th... |
| 25.02.2012 | Old Publishers Dive Into The New: Pearson Inks API Billing Deal With Zuora; Adds Food To The Mix | Pearson, the owners of Penguin, the Financial Times Group and a number of education imprints, has made some significant strides into digital with e-books and apps, but it is always on the hunt for more.
So today (Sunday), the publisher is a... |
| 08.12.2011 | Edmodo wants to be the cloud leader in EdTech, raises $15M more | Education technology is a red-hot market, and both startups and investors are taking note.
Edmodo, a social network for education, stands poised to benefit tremendously from the great shifts taking place in educational delivery. The company... |
| 08.12.2011 | Edmodo wants to be the cloud leader in EdTech, raises $15M more | 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!
Education technology is a red-hot market, and bot... |
| 06.12.2010 | Edmodo | Early in 2009 we organized a one-day event in New York which we called “Hacking Education” — the idea was to bring together people from different fields for a discussion on how to disrupt and improve education using technology in general an... |
