Who's Funding Education Technology?

This article helps provide funding data for part 9 of my annual review of the year in ed-tech The following startups that market themselves as selling “personalized learning” raised funding in 2016. (Now, granted, this is a huge category because almost everyone uses that phrase in their PR materials. Most...

This article helps provide funding data for part 9 of my annual review of the year in ed-tech The following startups that market themselves as selling “character education” curriculum and “social emotional learning” raised funding in 2016. Mightifier ($250,000) – investors include xEdu and Courage Ventures Seed 1 ClassDojo ($20,000,000)...

This article helps provide funding data for part 8 of my annual review of the year in ed-tech The following “proctoring” and testing startups raised funding in 2016: ProctorExam ($550,000) – investors were not disclosed ProctorFree ($1,290,000) – investors include Real Ventures and Task Force X Capital DigiExam ($3,500,000) –...

This article helps provide funding data for part 8 of my annual review of the year in ed-tech The following monitoring companies – some monitor school networks, some monitor social media, some monitor classroom behavior – raised funding in 2016: Securly ($4,000,000) – investors include Owl Ventures ClassDojo ($20,000,000) –...

This article helps provide funding data for part 7 of my annual review of the year in ed-tech There have not been any education technology startups raising money in 2016 that have explicitly described their product as “blockchain for education.” Thank god. There has been general interest from venture capitalists...

This article helps provide funding data for part 7 of my annual review of the year in ed-tech The following startups offer some sort of alternative credential platform or product and raised venture capital in 2016: Degreed ($24,500,000) – investors include Jump Capital, Signal Peak, Rethink Education, Deborah Quazzo, and...

This article helps provide funding data for part 6 of my annual review of the year in ed-tech According to the data I track on education technology startups, more investments flow to those who sell to K–12 than to higher education or to corporations. But I think that’s likely a...

This article helps provide funding data for part 6 of my annual review of the year in ed-tech I confess: this wasn’t a trend that I tracked until the end of the year, and even then I think I’ve missed a lot of funding announcements from job placement startups. The...

This article helps provide funding data for part 5 and part 6 of my annual review of the year in ed-tech The following “learn to code” startups raised funding this year: Galvanize ($45,000,000): Investors include ABS Capital Partners, Colorado Impact Fund, Haystack Partners, Greg Maffei, Aspen Grove Capital, and University...

This article helps provide funding data for part 4 of my annual review of the year in ed-tech These are the student loan companies that raised funding in 2016 (and the investors who participated in this year’s rounds): College Ave ($20,000,000) – investors include Comcast Ventures, Fenway Summer Ventures, and...