Who's Funding Education Technology?

This article helps provide funding data for part 4 of my annual review of the year in ed-tech New MOOC Partners The following partnerships were announced this year: Edinburgh University joined edX. Ural Federal University joined edX. The University of Newcastle joined edX. Imperial College London joined edX. Teach for...

This article helps provide funding data for part 3 of my annual review of the year in ed-tech The following investments were made by Zuckerberg Education Ventures this year: Volley ($2,300,000) – Learning assistant camera app Ellevation Education ($6,400,000) – English language learning software Previous years’ investments include Newsela, MasteryConnect,...

This article helps provide funding data for part 3 of my annual review of the year in ed-tech These are the education companies that the Emerson Collective, a venture philanthropy fund founded by Laurene Powell Jobs, invested in this year: Ellevation Education ($6,400,000) – English language learning software Nearpod ($9,200,000)...

This article helps provide funding data for parts 3 and 5 of my annual review of the year in ed-tech These are the current stock prices – as of 4 December, 2016 – of publicly traded education companies. You can compare the performance of these stocks to the snapshots I...

This article helps provide funding data for part 2 of my annual review of the year in ed-tech Education Demographics The Census released data on educational attainment in March. “In 2015, the majority of adults, 88 percent, were at least high school graduates and more than half, 59 percent, had...

This post is a supplement to my "Top Ed-Tech Trends of 2016" series ActiveGrade was sunsetted, after being acquired by Haiku Learning two years ago. Language learning community Livemocha closed in April. Rosetta Stone had acquired Livemocha in 2013. Shuddle, an "Uber for kids," closed its doors in April. It...

This article helps provide funding data for part 1 of my annual review of the year in ed-tech Among the major corporations invested in VR: Facebook, Pearson, Google, Samsung, Discovery. Other VR companies: Owl VR (a startup founded by Queen’s Brian May), Model VR (a startup founded by Nolan Bushnell,...

I have updated this project with November funding information. As always, the data is freely and openly available via the GitHub repository that powers this site. The amount of money raised in November was the lowest of any month so far this year: just $85 million. I wrote almost the...

I have updated this project with October funding information. As always, the data is freely and openly available via the GitHub repository that powers this site. I should note that I’ve revised a little bit how I calculate each month’s totals. I no longer count debt financing. If I did,...

When news broke this weekend about billionaire Peter Thiel’s donation to the Donald Trump presidential campaign, David Heinemeier Hansson (@dhh) – the creator of Ruby on Rails – Marco Arment – the co-founder of Tumblr – and others challenged the startup accelerator Y Combinator about the organization’s ongoing relationship with...