Who's Funding Education Technology?

Beginning December 2018, I am taking a break from regular updates to Hack Education (in the form of the “Hack Education Weekly News” and the monthly “Business of Ed-Tech” venture funding analysis, specifically). This project will also be dormant. Maybe I’ll pick it up after I’ve finished writing Teaching Machines....

Edsurge announced in July that it had received grants from the Gates Foundation and from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative totaling $1.45 million. And in December, the media company announced it had raised $2.5 million in venture capital. The latter brings the total of its venture funding to $8.2 million (according...

I realize it’s not quite the end of the month, and perhaps there will be a few more investments announced before the year comes to a close. Nonetheless, here is the latest (we’ll call it “preliminary”) data on “the business of education” for December 2018: Amount of venture capital invested...

Here is the latest data on “the business of education” for November 2018: Amount of venture capital invested during the month: $550 million Number of investments: 16 Average investment size: $34.3 million / Median investment size: $2.5 million Number of acquisitions: 6 Number of mergers: 0 Number of IPOs: 0...

Here is the latest data on “the business of education” for October 2018: Amount of venture capital invested during the month: $242.6 million Number of investments: 12 Average investment size: $20.2 million / Median investment size: $11 million Number of acquisitions: 10 Number of spinoffs: 1 Number of mergers: 1...

Here is the latest data on “the business of education” for September: Amount of venture capital invested during the month: $93.4 million Number of investments: 7 Average investment size: $23.3 million / Median investment size: $5.6 million Number of acquisitions: 6 Number of mergers: 2 Number of IPOs: 1 Number...

Here is the latest data on “the business of education” for August 2018: Amount of venture capital invested during the month: $122,500,000 Number of investments: 14 Average investment size: $10.2 million / Median investment size: $4.2 million Number of acquisitions: 6 Number of mergers: 0 Number of IPOs: 0 Number...

Here is the latest data on “the business of education” for 2018: Amount of venture capital invested during the month: $627,500,000 Number of investments: 17 Average investment size: $39.2 million / Median investment size: $15 million Number of acquisitions: 8 Number of mergers: 1 Number of IPOs: 0 Number added...

Just a quick note to say that I have updated my list of all education-related grants by the Gates Foundation – issued through June 2018, that is. By my calculations, the foundation has made some $62 million in grants so far in 2018, which strikes me as quite low compared...

Here is the latest data on “the business of education” for June 2018: Amount of venture capital invested during the month: $$584.4 million Number of investments: 13 Average investment size: $44.95 million / Median investment size: $5 million Number of acquisitions: 15 Number of mergers: 1 Number of IPOs: 0...