Bangalore How an Indian small-town boy built a $15 million EdTech start-up livemint.com - ANI Subramanyam Reddy kick-started his career in marketing with a startup in Bengaluru. He was promised a 5% incentive, which was not given to him, …
Education Technology What the Edtech Industry Should Know About the Worst Parts of Remote Learning edsurge.com - Katie Boody Adorno The first time my mom interacted with an iPad was this August, when her 5-year-old grandson—my nephew—brought it home from school. Gus is a …
ForbesVenture Capital Indian EdTech Billionaire’s Byju’s Becomes Decacorn After Funding Round From Mary Meeker Forbes - Anu RaghunathanIndia’s largest edtech company, Byju’s, has achieved that much-coveted decacorn status following the latest funding round led by Silicon Valley venture capitalist Mary Meeker’s Bond Capital. The estimated...
TechCrunchEducation Technology Why I left edtech and got into gaming verified_publisherTechCrunch - Darshan SomashekarNow that COVID-19 has accelerated the adoption of digital education tools, edtech has become one of the hottest areas of investment. As someone who has been in edtech for nearly 20 years, this sounds the...
Education Technology Edtech startup GuruQ is looking to disrupt the online tutoring sector in India yourstory.com - Shreya Ganguly The COVID-19 outbreak has brought unprecedented times and has changed the way businesses, education, and offices operate in the country. With the new …
TechCrunchLearning As edtech grows cash rich, some lessons for early stage verified_publisherTechCrunch - Natasha MascarenhasLast week, Udemy, an online learning marketplace, raised $50 million at a $3.32 billion valuation, up from a $2 billion valuation earlier this year. Language learning app Duolingo raised $35 million on...
TechCrunchLearning As edtech crowds up, Campuswire bets big on real-time learning verified_publisherTechCrunch - Natasha MascarenhasCampuswire was in a fortuitous spot when colleges and universities across the world shut down on short notice because of the threat of coronavirus. Founded by Tade Oyerinde in 2018, Campuswire is a virtual...
TechCrunchVenture Capital Edtech startups flirt with unicorn-style growth verified_publisherTechCrunch - Natasha MascarenhasWhen Quizlet became a unicorn earlier this year, CEO Matthew Glotzbach said he’d prefer to distance the company from the common nomenclature for a startup valued at or above $1 billion. “The way Quizlet...
Moneycontrol South India WhiteHat Jr Founder Karan Bajaj Opens Up About $300 Million Byju’s Deal, Coding, Edtech Startup Boom And More Moneycontrol - M. Sriram Karan Bajaj wears many hats — he is an author of four books, was a consultant and taught yoga. How did he manage to sell his startup, still not two …
EntrepreneurStartups Vedantu Becomes Second Most Valued Edtech Startup After Raising $100 mn in Series D Round verified_publisherEntrepreneur - Shipra SinghThe capital infusion, led by US-based investment firm Coatue, has valued Vedantu at USD 600 million, making it the second most valued edtech startup, after Byju's valued at USD 10.5 billion. You're reading...
TechCrunchInvesting 8 edtech investors talk re-skilling, digital universities, ISAs and other post-pandemic trends verified_publisherTechCrunch - Natasha MascarenhasWe know that the coronavirus has brought unprecedented attention to the edtech market, but now what? What happens when schools are no longer clambering toward an overnight solution? When the surges slow?...
Education Technology Is Amazon Expanding Its Indian Edtech Playbook With Academy? inc42.com - Kritti Bhalla In what appears as a small step for a bigger play in the Indian edtech market, global tech giant Amazon rebranded its JEE Ready app as Amazon …
Education Technology These 5 edtech startups are making learning interactive and fun for children yourstory.com - Ankita Vig COVID-19 has been an inflexion point for the edtech industry. Amidst the pandemic, when many sectors were slowing, numerous Indian edtech startups, …
ForbesBusiness Six Edtech Businesses Leading The Way During Lockdown Forbes - David ProsserAmid the global coronavirus pandemic, record amounts of investment have flowed into the digital education market, with forecasts suggesting the sector will near double in value to $325bn by 2025. Even...
Entrepreneurship (India) Why this edtech startup and WhiteHat Jr rival is taking the animation route to coding yourstory.com - Sohini Mitter Tekie burst into public consciousness in October after its co-founder Naman Mukund alleged that a “senior employee” from a rival coding startup was …
TechCrunchEducation Technology Edtech exits are increasing, but by how much? verified_publisherTechCrunch - Natasha MascarenhasBefore the coronavirus made edtech more relevant, companies in the sector were historically likely to see slow, low exits. Despite successful IPOs by 2U, Chegg and Instructure in the United States, public...
Entrepreneurship (India) This edtech startup aims to instil analytical and scientific skills in children as young as six years yourstory.com - Sindhu Kashyaap After founding two edtech startups — Xcelerator and PurpleLeap — Amit Bansal and his three-member team realised that during the college years, it is …
Education Technology'India can provide teachers to the world, just like software engineers,' says Byju Raveendran as he plans to take his $11... businessinsider.in - Sanchita Dash The world’s most valued edtech startup, BYJU’S, is now aiming for global domination. After riding the wave of online learning in India during the …
TechCrunchVenture Capital VCs pour funding into edtech startups as COVID-19 shakes up the market verified_publisherTechCrunch - Alex WilhelmA few weeks back, The Exchange looked into the pace of edtech exits, noting that over time, the sector has delivered rising exit volume. All startup verticals want to demonstrate a history of liquidity,...
Fast CompanyLearning As schools go remote, two top edtech companies are joining forces verified_publisherFast Company - By Ainsley HarrisAltitude Learning has agreed to merge with the U.S.-based arm of itslearning, a European learning management system. With schools around the world experimenting with digital learning as a result of the...
TechCrunchTechnology Edtech startups find demand from an unlikely customer: Public schools verified_publisherTechCrunch - Natasha MascarenhasSchool district technology budgets are tight. But Kami CEO and founder Hengjie Wang wanted to make his company’s digital classroom product a go-to tool anyway. He landed on trying to disrupt the printers....
TechCrunchStudents Course Hero, a profitable edtech unicorn, raises rare cash verified_publisherTechCrunch - Natasha MascarenhasLike any successful founder, Andrew Grauer had bright, long-term ambitions for Course Hero from the moment he launched it in 2006. He started the business to create a place where students could ask questions...
ForbesStudents From Maths Failure To Global Educator: How Knowledgehook Thinks Edtech Can Transform Teaching Forbes - David ProsserTechnologists have a long history of making grand claims that their innovations will supplant what has gone before – and in this year of all years, it is not difficult to see why edtech businesses are...
TechCrunchEducation Technology Edtech investors are panning for gold verified_publisherTechCrunch - Natasha MascarenhasThe spotlight on edtech grows brighter and harsher: On one end, remote-learning startups are attracting millions in venture capital. On the other, many educators and parents are unimpressed with the technology...
