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| May 1, 2020 | As lockdowns stretch on, is edtech passing or failing? | Back in January, Georgia Tech professor David Joyner got a cryptic email from a student based in Wuhan, China.
“I’m under quarantine, but my internet access is okay so I have more time to spend on classwork, I wanted to let you know,” the m... |
| Sep 28, 2018 | Peerstachio Aims to Help College Students Access Help From Classmates | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Scarlett Ong Rui Chern, an international student attending the University of Michigan, says she initially felt a little discombobulated by the college experience.
“I had a rou... |
| Jun 19, 2018 | The top 30 companies where Ivy League graduates who studied computer science say they most want to work | Spencer Platt/Getty Images
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The race to snag top tech talent from prominent schools is competitive. Typically, tech giants like Facebook, Amazon, Google, and Microsoft are all vying for the same pool of graduates.
A recent from... |
| Oct 26, 2016 | Pursuing Academic Freedom and Data Privacy Is a Balancing Act | Last week undergraduates at Harvard University raised concerns about the institution handing over their data to an anti-affirmative action group as part of a lawsuit. Students for Fair Admissions, which is suing the university for allegedly... |
| Sep 9, 2015 | Piazza Rolls Out Recruiting Tool to Identify “Superstar” Programming Students | Piazza, a Palo Alto, Ca.-based class discussion platform, has more than 30,000 educators, 1 million students and 1,200 universities in 70 countries using its platform.
That’s not too shabby for a six-year-old company. But Piazza is now roll... |
| Jun 29, 2015 | Where Computer Science, Engineering And Math Majors Want To Work | If 17-year-old Google is at all worried that it’s losing its mojo, it should find some new data highly reassuring. According to a survey of 19,000 students across 340 universities around the world, Google is still their top choice when aske... |
| Feb 28, 2015 | Trying To Hire A Diverse Team Of Engineers? It’s Not Just A Pipeline Issue | Omotayo Olukoya Contributor
Editor’s note: Omotayo Olukoya is an electrical engineering and computer science student at UC Berkeley.
Recently, there have been a flurry of articles discussing the lack of diversity in tech. Many reference “pi... |
| Feb 18, 2015 | 50 Women in Tech Dominating Silicon Valley | “One of the things that I really strongly believe in is that we need to have more girls interested in math, science, and engineering. We’ve got half the population that is way underrepresented in those fields and that means that we’ve got a... |
| Mar 28, 2014 | These Are The Most Amazing Indians Working In US Tech | Reshma Saujani with one of her Girls Who Code students. Reshma Saujani
Earlier this year, Satya Nadella replaced Steve Ballmer as Microsoft's CEO, underlining the rise of Indians and Indian-Americans in the U.S. tech world.
Today, arou... |
| Feb 26, 2014 | Piazza Raises $8M in Series B Funding | Piazza, a Palo Alto, CA-based social learning platform, raised $8m Series B funding.
The round was led by Khosla Ventures with participation from previous investor Bessemer Venture Partners. In conjunction with the funding, Keith Rabois, a ... |
| Feb 25, 2014 | With Box, Yelp And Palantir On Board, Piazza Lands $8M From Khosla To Bring Recruiting To Its Social Q&A Platform For Students | As free online social tools now play a central role in how we communicate, interact and manage our interpersonal relationships, and as consumerization sweeps through IT and learning, the traditional boundaries between the tools we use to le... |
| Feb 25, 2014 | Piazza raises $8M from Khosla, launches Piazza Careers | Piazza Careers is a recruitment tool that allows companies to fish where the talent is
For many college students, the assumption is that you’ll graduate and play one of those trust games where you’ll fold your arms over your chest and fall ... |
| Mar 24, 2013 | The TechCrunch ‘Lean In’ Roundtable: Full Video And Transcript | This past week, TechCrunch TV was honored to host an intimate roundtable discussion of Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg’s new best-selling book Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead.
The idea behind this was that while there has been a lot... |
| Mar 22, 2013 | The TechCrunch ‘Lean In’ Roundtable, Part 4: Are We Our Own Worst Enemies? | Welcome back for the last segment of our roundtable discussion of Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg’s new best-selling book Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead.
In part one, posted Tuesday, we discussed the controversy surrounding Lean In... |
| Mar 21, 2013 | The TechCrunch ‘Lean In’ Roundtable, Part 3: Linking Up With Real Mentors — And The Right Life Partner | Welcome back for part three of our four-part roundtable discussion of Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg’s new best-selling book Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead.
In part one, posted Tuesday, we discussed the controversy surrounding Lea... |
| Mar 20, 2013 | The TechCrunch ‘Lean In’ Roundtable, Part 2: Guilt And The Myth Of Doing It All | As we mentioned yesterday, we took an in-depth look at Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg’s new book Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead with a number of Generation Y women who are part of the Silicon Valley’s rising new guard. “You start ... |
| Mar 19, 2013 | The TechCrunch ‘Lean In’ Roundtable, Part 1: Controversy, Fear, And How To Fight It | There has been a lot of buzz about Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg’s new book Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead, which made its chart-topping debut in bookstores on March 11th.
Many reporters, thought leaders and others have weighed i... |
| Feb 20, 2013 | Founder Stories: Piazza’s Pooja Sankar Proves That If You Can’t Find The Right Co-Founder, Build It Yourself | I recently had the pleasure of meeting Piazza founder Pooja Sankar and learned how her struggles in school inspired her to build an online question-and-answer platform for students to learn together. During our discussion, Pooja shared her ... |
| Feb 19, 2013 | Rethinking the online education revolution | Pooja Sankar
I met Pooja Sankar two years ago after she founded Piazza, a collaboration platform that facilitates class discussion among students and teachers. Starting with a few students at Stanford, Piazza now is used at top universities... |
| Oct 30, 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 ... |
| Oct 30, 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... |
| Aug 12, 2012 | Answer Underground Aims To Be A Mobile-Focused Quora For Education, Hits The iPad This Week | There are some 3.7 billion web searches every month for education-related topics. However, ask a student how easy it is to find answers to their burning academic questions, and they’ll probably just roll their eyes. Sure, there’s Wikipedia,... |
| Jul 24, 2012 | Students Connect Outside the Classroom in Piazza’s Online Forums | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
This spring, Piazza founder and CEO Pooja Sankar accepted an invitation to an event at the U.S. Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C., celebrating the achievements of women. T... |
| Jun 19, 2012 | Stanford Teams Up With Piazza, Apple To Bring Social Features To Its iTunes U iOS Development Class | With over 700 million downloads, Apple’s iTunes U has been a massive success, but unlike other new online learning services like Udacity or Codecademy, it’s missing a social component where students can ask questions and learn from each oth... |
| Jun 19, 2012 | Learn how to code with Stanford and Piazza | Stanford's free iOS app-making course is back with help from Piazza
Sometimes, while talking to amazing app creators, I start thinking: "I should create an app. I could create some kind of gardening app that will help me keep plan... |
| Jan 6, 2012 | Bessemer Leads $6M Round In Q&A Platform For Students And Teachers, Piazza | Piazza, a Q&A platform for students and instructors, has raised $6 million in Series A funding from Bessemer Venture Partners with Kapor Capital and Felicis Ventures also participating in the round. The company is also backed by Sequoia... |
| Jan 6, 2012 | Piazza raises $6M for social-learning network | Bessemer, Kapor Capital and Felicis Ventures back start-up to help college students get engaged
When I was in college, we didn't have this great ball of knowledge that we could access for information to help us with our studies. Today,... |
| Jan 6, 2012 | Piazza Raises $6M in Series A Funding | Piazza, a Palo Alto, CA-based social learning network for students and instructors, has raised $6m in Series A funding.
Backers include Bessemer Venture Partners (BVP), Kapor Capital and Felicis Ventures.
The company intends to use the fund... |
| Jan 6, 2012 | Social network Piazza connects students with their teachers, raises $6M | 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!
Piazza, a social network that connects students t... |
| Jan 6, 2012 | Piazza, Klout, Lithium: Bay Area BizTech Deals by the Numbers | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Time for our first deals roundup of 2012. As usual, we’re gathering some of this week’s most interesting investment and M&A updates from around the San Francisco Bay Area,... |
| Jan 6, 2012 | Piazza Closes $6M Series A |
PALO ALTO, CA, Social learning network for students and instructors, today announced that it has secured $6 million in Series A funding from Bessemer Venture Partners (BVP). Seed investors Kapor Capital and Felicis Ventures also participa... |
| Nov 8, 2011 | Classroom interface Piazza launches free mobile app | Free Piazza mobile app for Android and iOS takes college classrooms to the cloud
Piazza, the online Q&A interface for college students and instructors, released Tuesday a mobile app for Android and iOS. Founded in 2009, Piazza offers a ... |
| Nov 8, 2011 | Sequoia-Backed Piazza Takes Q&A Platform For Students Mobile With iOS And Android Apps | Piazza, a Q&A platform for students and instructors, is debuting iOS and Android mobile apps, allowing students to share ideas and get answers on the go.
Piazza’s platform helps classmates share their questions and answers in a format t... |
| Aug 25, 2011 | Ed. network Piazza sees 100% growth in one month | The educational social network sees explosive growth in one month over the last six months
In a Wednesday morning post about education-focused social network Edmodo, I noted that teachers everywhere can attest to the usefulness of social me... |
| Jul 7, 2011 | A $1.5M Light in the Piazza | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Piazza, a two-year-old Palo Alto startup building an online collaboration platform for students and teachers, said this week that it has raised $1.5 million in seed funding fr... |
| Jul 6, 2011 | Piazza Raises $1.5M in Seed Funding | Piazza, a Palo Alto, CA-based online Q&A platform for students and instructors, has raised $1.5m in seed funding.
Investors include Sequoia Capital, Felicis Ventures, Kapor Capital and SV Angel.
Founded in 2009 by CEO Pooja Nath, Piazza... |
| Jul 5, 2011 | Piazza gets $1.5M infusion for student Q&A forum | The online community is backed by Sequoia, Felicis, Kapor, and SV Angel
As a college student, you walk a fine line. On the one hand, you want to fully assimilate the material so that your knowledge of the subject, quick thinking, and charmi... |
