Who's Funding Education Technology?

I have updated this project with September 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 September was down by almost half from August. But do remember: August saw more money flow into ed-tech...

I have updated this project with August funding information. As always, the data is freely and openly available via the GitHub repository that powers this site. August saw more money flow into ed-tech than any other month this year, giving the sector a rebound from July’s dip in both dollars...

When I wrote about funding for the year-to-date for ed-tech companies at the end of June, I noted that there had been a significant downturn in the amount of investment dollars flowing into the sector as well as the number of deals being made. A couple of factors were a...

2015 was a record-setting year for ed-tech investment. But funding has fallen off precipitously since the calendar rolled over to 2016. There have been predictions all year long that the ed-tech boom has turned to bust. Startup funding totals are about $350 million behind where they were this time last...

The Chronicle of Higher Education published a story today on ed-tech funding – “What the Slowdown in Ed-Tech Investment Means for Colleges” – and I’m quoted in it, saying that we are witnessing a “real slowdown” in investment. Now that I’ve calculated the ed-tech investment totals for May, however, the...

A special thanks to Robb Doub from New Markets Venture Partners, who wrote to correct me about my list of “top ed-tech investors.” He had more data than I did – obviously – about what his firm had invested in. From Doub’s email, here are the companies that the firm...

An updated version of this post is available on Hack Education Some Background… Way back in 2012, I wrote an article “Who’s Investing in Ed-Tech?” It remains one of the most popular posts on Hack Education, even though it’s totally out-of-date. The article explains a bit how venture capital works,...

It’s the last day of the month, so I’ve spent the last few hours calculating how much funding was plowed into ed-tech startups over the last 30 days. There’ve been quite a few warnings in recent weeks that investment dollars are drying up, and I was expecting to see that...

I’ve spent the last few days compiling a list of all the investors who’ve funded ed-tech startups since I launched Hack Education back in 2010. (2010 is close to the beginning of the most recent resurgence in ed-tech funding. I’d actually peg the very start of it at 2008. But...

I’m starting a new report on ed-tech startup funding – it’s related to this one – that tracks all investors and all their education-related investments since 2010 (the year I started Hack Education). I haven’t quite decided yet how I’ll present the data – I think sorted by investor, but...