Who's Funding Education Technology?

It’s time once again to assess “the business of ed-tech” – or at least, calculate the “deal flow” in ed-tech startup-land over the last 30 days or so. tl;dr: things aren’t looking so good if your ed-tech startup’s revenue model primarily involves raising venture capital. I noted in both January...

This article first appeared on aud.life As my own records about ed-tech funding only go back a year, I’m struggling to answer a question: which ed-tech startups have not raised money in the past couple of years? That’s a prelude to the real question, I suppose: which ed-tech startups might...

Last week, the investment analysts at CB Insights released a report on venture capital trends, noting that the number of ed-tech deals are declining. This is echoed in my own calculations about recent trends in ed-tech funding. But CB Insights’ report has also made me think about the converse of...

It’s time once again to calculate the “deal flow” in ed-tech startup land. And as I noted last month, 2016 seems to be off to a far less auspicious start than 2015. Last year, there were 26 funding rounds in February, totaling almost $430 million. By my calculations, there were...

I’ve crunched the numbers on the year-so-far for ed-tech funding, and 2016 certainly seems to be off to a less auspicious start than 2015. Last year, there were 23 funding rounds in January, totaling over $358 million. By my calculations, there were just 17 this past month, with a total...

This post first appeared on matrix.hackeducation.com. I’ve updated the Google spreadsheet detailing the year’s investments and acquisitions in education companies one final time. And I’ve exported the data (in JSON format) too; it can be found in this project’s repo on GitHub. According to my calculations, these are the startups...

I started paying closer attention to the investment in ed-tech companies in 2014 in a separate site: matrix.hackeducation.com. I wanted to start a new project this year as there were some flaws with how I organized the project and with the data that I collected (or failed to collect).