Education
The Business of Ed-Tech (Journalism)
Funding news -- October - November 2012 via the "edtech" and "education" tags on Techcrunch.
Always Prepped Grabs $650K From True Ventures, Former Blackboard EVP To Launch A Mint.com For EducationIn what is the most-watched TED Talk to date, Sir Ken Robinson makes a convincing case for why the educational system in the U.S. needs t...
LearnStreet Launches With $1M From Vinod Khosla To Help You Learn How To Build, Test And Push CodeFor more than a few years now, engineering talent has been in high demand but it also seems that, of late, coding has become cool. Okay, ...
Crowdsourcing In The Classroom: Flashnotes Gets $1.8M Seed Round From Atlas, Softbank And Angels For Its Study MarketplaceFlashnotes, a marketplace where students can buy and sell their notes and other course materials, has closed a seed round of $1.8 million...
Software Eats Education: With $15 Million In Series B Funding, Andreessen Horowitz Bets On UdacityUdacity, a startup focused on bringing free university-level educational worldwide, is today announcing a significant new investment: $15...
Twilio For Education Data, Clever, Lands $3M From Kevin Rose, Mike Maples & Ashton Kutcher, Now In 2K SchoolsClever, 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....
Used By 30% Of U.S. High Schools, Parchment Lands $23.5M To Bring Transcripts & Student Data OnlineIt's been a good year so far for venture capital investment in education, as both the total number of deals and total capital flowing int...
Goalbook Nabs $915K From NewSchools & More To Help Teachers Transform Special EducationWhen it graduated from Imagine K12's edtech accelerator last year, Goalbook was tapping into the excitement over technology's ability to ...
Grantoo Nabs $1.7M, Steals EA Canada CTO To Help Students Pay Tuition By Playing Social GamesI don't always play social games, but when I do, I like them to help me pay for my education. If "The Most Interesting Man In The World" ...
With $20M Raised, MyEdu Launches New Tools To Help College Students Actually Connect With EmployersLaunched in 2010, Austin-based MyEdu set out to help students reduce the cost of earning a college diploma and remove the friction from e...
CreativeLIVE Lands $7.5M From Greylock For Its Free, Online Classroom For Creative EntrepreneursWith the rise of massive online open course platforms (a.k.a. "MOOCs") like Khan Academy and Coursera, a new model of online learning has...
Wiley Beefs Up Higher Ed Biz: Partners With Knewton, Buys Online Degree Veteran Deltak For $220MJohn Wiley & Sons, the 200-year-old publishing giant best known for its scientific, technical and medical texts and journals geared towar...
Libboo Lands $1.1M From HubSpot, Avid Founders To Find The Next Digital BestsellerBy 2007, the Internet was well on its way to transforming the music industry, with musicians beginning to take advantage of its perks, in...
