Tony Wan
EdSurge
Mountain View, CA, United States
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What Investors See in a ‘Highly Fragmented and Under-Teched’ Early Childhood Education Market
With widespread lockdowns and closures last year, the critical role that schools and child care centers play in supporting children may never have been ... → Read More
GSV Ventures Raises $180M Fund in Search of Global Edtech Opportunities
With an investment fund, a conference and a constellation of advisory services, GSV may be the closest thing to an omnipresent brand in education ... → Read More
A New SEL Program Finds Its ‘Way’ to Schools, Survival and $1.5M in Seed Funding
Patrick Cook-Deegan once wanted to build a school, one focused on helping high school students find purpose through attending to their mental health ... → Read More
Newsela Raises $100M to Challenge K-12 Textbook Publishers, Eyes Acquisitions
Business news is packed with unicorns, and Newsela is the latest in education to join the herd after reaching the vaunted billion-dollar valuation.That ... → Read More
Renaissance Learning to Acquire Nearpod in Blockbuster $650M All-Cash Deal
With constant budget pressures, protracted sales cycles and a diffuse web of different purchasing processes, the K-12 education market is not for the ... → Read More
Instructure to Sell Bridge for $50M and Exit Corporate Learning Market
Where Instructure planned to go with Bridge, its learning management system for corporate and enterprise customers, has been an open question for over ... → Read More
Longtime Edtech Investor Reach Capital Raises $165M for Third Fund
Investments in U.S. education technology startups reached a record $2.2 billion in 2020. Across the globe, that figure surpassed $16 billion, marking a ... → Read More
How the Race Between Vaccinations and COVID Variants Affects School Reopening
President Biden has made reopening K-12 schools as one of his top priorities for the first 100 days of his administration, or by the end of April. With ... → Read More
Varsity Tutors to Go Public at $1.7B Valuation Through SPAC Acquisition
Being nerdy pays off, and soon there will be another education technology company on the public market.Nerdy, the parent company of Varsity Tutors, an ... → Read More
Public Edtech Companies Have Been Rare. These SPACs Will Change That.
Publicly traded education technology companies are rare. Soon, there will be one fewer after tech training provider Pluralsight gets taken private ... → Read More
How a $40M Investment Aims to ‘Mainstream and Modernize’ Montessori Education
There is a certain mystique to the Montessori world, which is just as much philosophy as it is pedagogy. For starters, it has its own vocabulary. (The ... → Read More
The Edtech Company Formerly Known as AltSchool Sold Its Tech. So What’s Left?
A learning management system developed by one of the most high-profile, highly funded and overhyped K-12 education startups has found a new home.First, ... → Read More
A Record Year Amid a Pandemic: US Edtech Raises $2.2 Billion in 2020
A most disruptive year to schools and society proved lucrative for the education industry, particularly for those raising private capital.In 2020, U.S. ... → Read More
EdSurge Reflects On a Year of Pandemic-Era Education Journalism
As 2020 fades into 2021, EdSurge journalists offer the following personal reflections about reporting on education during the coronavirus pandemic. ... → Read More
Crises and Capital: The Top Edtech Business Stories of 2020
“Never let a good crisis go to waste,” so the saying goes. The education industry didn’t. In fact, many capitalized on it in 2020.School closures have ... → Read More
What to Know About Miguel Cardona, Biden’s Pick for Education Secretary
Teaching experience. An advocate for programs supporting underserved learners. A focus on tackling the digital divide and resource inequities laid bare ... → Read More
Pluralsight, Vista Equity Partners Agree to $3.5 Billion Acquisition Deal
Pluralsight, the publicly-traded provider of online training courses on technology skills, has reached an agreement to be acquired by Vista Equity ... → Read More
K12 Inc. Acquires Another Coding Bootcamp and Adopts a New Name: Stride
K12 Inc. is growing up, at least in terms of the kinds of students it wants to reach. And with that comes a name change, as its offerings now extend ... → Read More
Duolingo Just Raised $35M. Udemy Got $50M. Both Are Valued Billions More.
Two of the fastest growing and most highly valued education technology companies are going down the alphabet as they raise subsequent rounds at higher ... → Read More
What Gives the Edtech Industry Hope — and Pause — Under a Biden Administration
When President-elect Joe Biden gave a shoutout to the education profession early on in his acceptance speech, the teaching community cheered and ... → Read More