Who's Funding Education Technology?

"New Coding Bootcamp Guarantees Jobs for Gradates," Edsurge wrote on January 5, 2017. Spelling mistake in the headline aside, the problem here is the lack of disclosure. Springboard, the company in question, shares an investor with Edsurge: John Katzman. For more information about this disclosure alert, read this blog post....

Edsurge covers Forbes' 30 Under 30 list. No disclosure about the publication's connection to Forbes' contributor George Andres. Andres, husband of founder Betsy Corcoran, is an investor in Edsurge. For more information about this disclosure alert, read this blog post.

I created a new Twitter account today, @disclosedtech, that I'll be using to point out the shared funding connections between ed-tech products and ed-tech publications. I've noticed that Edsurge rarely adds disclosures to its articles (perhaps because it shares investors with almost every product it covers). I'm not sure sure...

2015 was a record-setting year for ed-tech investment. 2016, not so much. Indeed, the amount of money invested in ed-tech this year fell by 47%. Total dollar amount: $2,177,833,280 The number of investments fell by 11%. Total deals: 201 (For comparison: in 2015, there were 225 funding deals totaling $4,147,226,000.)...

The following venture capital firms were the most active investors in ed-tech this year: Reach Capital – investments include Abl Schools, BetterLesson, ClassDojo, Freshgrade, Gradescope, KickUp, Piper, SchoolMint, Tynker, Volley Learn Capital – investments include Andela, CourseHorse, Fluent City, Schoold, SoloLearn, Teachable, VIPKID, Wonder Workshop University Ventures – investments include...

This article provides funding data for the tenth article in my “Top Ed-Tech Trends of 2016” series. Never forget: private tutoring exacerbates educational inequalities. The following tutoring startups raised venture funding in 2016: Zhiyou Education ($9,200,000) – investors include Legend Capital Jerry Education ($40,000,000) – investors include Sailing Capital and...

This article provides funding data for the tenth article in my “Top Ed-Tech Trends of 2016” series. Never forget: test prep exacerbates educational inequalities. The following test prep startups raised funding in 2016: BYJU’s ($140,000,000) – investors include Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Sequoia Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, the IMF, Sofina, and...

This article helps provide funding data to help give context to my annual review of the year in ed-tech The following organizations are among those which have received grant money from the Gates Foundation in 2016 for education and education technology-related initiatives: Edsurge ($600,000) MindWires Consulting ($650,000) Khan Academy ($10,500,000)...

This article helps provide funding data for part 2 and part 10 of my annual review of the year in ed-tech I covered the expansion of (and rebuke to) Bridge International Academies in two of the articles in this series. That chain of private schools did not raise funding this...

This article helps provide funding data for part 10 of my annual review of the year in ed-tech The following “predictive analytics” startup raised funding in 2016: Full Measure Education ($6,000,000) – investors include Safeguard Scientifics Acquisitions in “predictive analytics” this year include the PAR framework (acquired by Hobsons). (Related:...