| Date | Title | Description |
| 16.04.2025 | Edtechs see rebound in enrolments in school season | - |
| 06.02.2025 | Suki: Healthcare AI Company Raises Funding From Zoom Ventures, Bringing Total To $168 Million | Suki, a leader in AI technology for healthcare, announced an investment from Zoom Ventures (the investment arm of the AI-first work platform and leading healthcare collaboration platform Zoom Communications). Suki will join Zoom Ventures’ A... |
| 21.05.2021 | Daily AI Roundup: The 5 Coolest Things on Earth Today | AI Daily Roundup starts today! We are covering the top updates from around the world. The updates will feature state-of-the-art capabilities in artificial intelligence, Machine Learning, Robotic Process Automation, Fintech, and human-system... |
| 15.04.2020 | How Nigeria is handling interruption in school activities | Share this article:
Globally, one of the sectors disrupted by the effect of the ongoing pandemic is education. Specifically, students and teachers have been adversely impacted, especially since affected countries had to declare the closure ... |
| 07.04.2020 | Traffic Is Booming for Online Education Providers. But So Are Costs. | A celebrity among education nonprofits, Sal Khan is used to hitting the fundraising trail. Throughout the years, the founder and CEO Of Khan Academy has secured tens of millions of dollars from individuals, wealthy philanthropists and corpo... |
| 09.03.2020 | Preparing to Take School Online? Here Are 10 Tips to Make It Work. | This article was originally published on Global Online Academy's (GOA) Insights blog on March 4, 2020.
In response to the evolving COVID-19 situation, we offer this reference in support of schools and other organizations engaged in planning... |
| 10.12.2019 | With a New CEO, Can Edmodo Regain Its Ed Mojo? | After two “salvage operations” where she turned around struggling companies, Susan Kim wanted a break from the fervor of startup life. But when she got a call a year ago about an education company with a vibrant community of teachers, she r... |
| 15.07.2019 | ‘The Operators’: Understanding your user – The art and science of UI/UX behind Facebook, Google, Mint, and Edmodo | Tim Hsia & Neil Devani Contributor
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Tim Hsia is the CEO of Media Mobilize and a Venture Partner at Digital Garage. Neil Devani is an angel investor and venture capitalist focused on companies solving hard problems.
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| 26.06.2018 | IBM’s Watson Education partners with Scholastic and Edmodo for classroom content recommendations | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
IBM today announced a strategic partnership with Scholastic and Edmodo that will integrate the two companies’ technologies with IBM’s W... |
| 09.04.2018 | China’s NetDragon to Acquire Edmodo for $137.5 Million | China’s NetDragon has gobbled up another education technology company. This time, it’s Edmodo, one the largest online social communities of teachers and students in the world.
NetDragon Websoft, a publicly-traded company based in Fuzhou, Ch... |
| 14.03.2018 | No Kidding: This Pre-Revenue Edtech Startup Just Raised $15M in Series B Funding | The days of raising tens of millions in venture capital before making a cent in revenue are not over for the education technology industry.
Kiddom, the developer behind a K-12 content management and collaborative learning platform, has rais... |
| 21.01.2018 | 6 top apps for teachers in 2018 | Fact of life: teachers are busy, both in the classroom and outside of it. Apps can be a godsend to help keep organized and improve the classroom experience for students. But there are so many apps out there—which ones are tops for teachers ... |
| 15.05.2017 | Edmodo’s Tracking of Students and Teachers Revives Skepticism Surrounding ‘Free’ Edtech Tools | Edmodo’s investigation into its alleged massive data breach, in conjunction with reports from bloggers that the company has been tracking student and teacher users for advertising purposes, is more than a public relations nightmare. It rais... |
| 06.09.2016 | Back To School | Many children are heading back to school today.
It is the top trending hashtag on Twitter right now (in my feed).
At USV, we have been investing in education for a while now and three of our portfolio companies have top apps for K-12 studen... |
| 21.06.2016 | Can Edmodo Turn Virality into Profitability? | With more than 65 million users in 370,000 schools around the world, Edmodo boasts the sort of “viral” adoption that makes entrepreneurs and investors salivate. Yet finding a stable revenue source has proven elusive. “If I can only [make] 3... |
| 20.02.2016 | It’s Time For Edtech Entrepreneurs To Throw Out Stale Business Models | Guido Kovalskys Contributor
Guido Kovalskys is founder and CEO of Nearpod.
We hear it again and again: The U.S. K-12 education system is in crisis.
In its 2015 report, the National Assessment of Educational Progress, otherwise known as “The... |
| 05.12.2015 | Edtech Should Focus On Teacher Evaluation And Accountability | Lucy Boyd Contributor
Lucy Boyd is a Masters in Public Policy candidate at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. She previously taught seventh grade English at a public charter school in Newark, N.J., where she was also an instructional... |
| 17.11.2015 | In Singapore, Bulletproof Coffee, the Forbidden City and Unsung Heroes | Here is a day in Andy Ng life.5:30 a.m. - Morning Coffee
Bulletproof coffee: coffee, butter and coconut oil. It must be the greatest discovery since, well, coffee. Brilliant stuff to start the hectic day of a teacher. Gonna need every ounce... |
| 10.11.2015 | Austin’s EduSync Is Aiming to Compete Against EdTech Giants Like Edmodo | Moving education in the modern technological era has been an ongoing task for school districts and administrators alike. With the ever-evolving education tools at hand, there are so many options from which to choose that paralysis by analys... |
| 20.10.2015 | 'Find Your Yoda' and Other Advice from Your School's Tech Department | People see you as THAT teacher.
You love using technology to enhance learning for your students, and you're always ahead of the curve. You find webquests so 2004, and think QR codes are as old as the Dewey Decimal system. All the software l... |
| 23.06.2015 | Tom Vander Ark: Why Private Capital Wins Out Over Philanthropy in the Game of Innovation | Tom Vander Ark has worn many education hats over the years. He’s been a superintendent, worked for the Gates Foundation, and served as a finance guy for a startup. But more recently, he’s got street cred as CEO of Getting Smart and Partner ... |
| 04.06.2015 | Because You Asked: Three Simple Ways of Inspiring Kids to Finish Their Homework | It’s time for another rousing edition of “Because You Asked,” a space for you to ask those questions weighing you down--the ones you don't even want to ask your friends. Got an edtech question that you want addressed? Send us a note, and it... |
| 17.03.2015 | How to Survive the EdSurge Teacher Tank | The success of shows like “Shark Tank” is very telling of the pleasure we get from watching well-intentioned entrepreneurs have their ideas torn apart by judges.
Each year, EdSurge serves up its own edtech version of Shark Tank, with a twis... |
| 22.12.2014 | Edmodo Turns to Its Roots for a New CEO | In March 2013, Edmodo made its first--and, to date, only--acquisition: Root-1, a small, unassuming startup founded a couple years earlier that built adaptive learning apps.
What Root-1 lacked in a flashy product or large customer base, it m... |
| 17.12.2014 | TeachPitch Helps Educators Around The World Share Learning Resources | Creating lesson plans, learning about teaching methods, and finding new educational material are all part of a normal workday for teachers, but it can be difficult because most educators have extremely tight schedules. TeachPitch.com wants ... |
| 22.10.2014 | A Blueprint for Personalized Professional Development by Teachers, for Teachers | I’m convinced that offering online courses led and constructed “by teachers, for teachers” will improve outcomes for all students. The Blueprint for Personalized Learning in Delaware includes stats on why the need for personalized learning ... |
| 13.10.2014 | Extensions, Add-Ons and Apps, Oh My! How to Utilize Google in Your Classroom | Google Apps for Education has totally transformed the way we teach and communicate inside and outside of the classroom. Through tools like Google Drive, Google Hangouts, Google Earth and Blogger, we can create authentic learning experiences... |
| 07.10.2014 | Plumbing for the Edtech Classroom: How 46 Companies Integrate SIS and SSO | From the public downfall of inBloom in May to the rise of data integration startups such as Clever, Learnsprout, and others, the K-12 data integration space has been among the most dynamic segments of the broader education technology market... |
| 30.09.2014 | Tapping mobile communication between parents and teachers, Remind scores $40M | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
San Francisco-based startup Remind has no revenue... |
| 30.09.2014 | Tapping mobile communication between parents and teachers, Remind scores $40M | San Francisco-based startup Remind has no revenue to date. But that hasn’t stopped the secure broadcasting app for teachers, students, and parents from landing a new $40 million round on top of a previous $19 million.
Of course, there’s the... |
| 09.09.2014 | Edmodo Co-Founder Explains Top 10 Edmodo Store Offerings | Edmodo--created by two school district IT professionals--offers a social network for students, teachers, parents and schools. As well as providing a connecting tool for communication, questions and tracking progress, Edmodo began to offer a... |
| 09.08.2014 | Edmodo Raises $30M in Series D |
SAN MATEO, CA, Edmodo has raised $30 million in a Series D round led by Index Ventures.
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Edmodo has raised $30 mil... |
| 06.08.2014 | Edmodo Raises $30M Round Led by Index Ventures | San Mateo, CA-based Edmodo has raised $30 million in a Series D round led by Index Ventures; Japanese telecom company, KDDI, also chipped in from its KDDI Open Innovation Fund. Edmodo, which currently has 117 employees, has now raised $87 m... |
| 04.08.2014 | Edtech Companies Foresee Boost from New K-12 Standards | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
[Corrected 8/4/14, 10:24 am. See below.] As California teachers prepare for the start of classes this fall, many will face new uncertainties and demands. Starting in the 2014-... |
| 19.07.2014 | KDDI's Open Innovation Fund invests in 4 U.S. startups, will bring them to the Japanese market | KDDI Open Innovation Fund (KOIF), managed by Japanese venture capital Global Brain Corporation, announced that it has invested a total of 800 million yen (roughly $8 million) in four U.S. startups. Global Brian and KDDI, the Japanese teleco... |
| 10.07.2014 | Sokikom Gets $1M from the Dept. of Ed. to Make Math Games Work | Sokikom continues to soak up the grants. The Mountain View, CA-based developer of game-based math exercises and lessons for grades K-6 has received another $1 million from the U.S. Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences i... |
| 25.06.2014 | EdSurge's Edtech Edcamp @ Edmodo | Oh, this was fun. On Tuesday night, about 120 educators, entrepreneurs, EdSurgents and Edmodeans gathered in San Mateo, Calif., to share thoughts about where education is headed at our monthly edtech meetup--with a very special twist.
As Ed... |
| 24.06.2014 | Silicon Valley and the Edtech Revolution | Silicon Valley holds a certain mystique among entrepreneurs and investors. Here, more cool technology was born, more wealth created, and more technology revolutions begun, than anywhere else on the planet. The Valley’s formula for success h... |
| 16.06.2014 | Waverly teacher seeks Chromebooks [Crowdfunding] | A Waverly Elementary third-grade teacher needs help buying eight Chromebooks to enhance his classroom experience.
“The third grade students here represent the brightest and most intelligent students of Baltimore City Public School students,... |
| 31.03.2014 | How We Incorporate Teacher Feedback | Actively Learn was built with teachers in mind in 2012. And since Day One, we have been completely obsessed with learning how we can make a better tool to improve close reading and student learning from a text.
As a update, Actively Learn h... |
| 26.01.2014 | This For That | My partner Brad, who is the conscience of USV, said something in one of our recent monday team meetings that has been rattling in my brain ever since. It was a throwaway line for him. He probably doesn’t even remember it. But I do.
We were ... |
| 02.12.2013 | Education App Store Chalkable Acquired by STI | NYC-based Chalkable has been acquired by STI, an Alabama-based provider of school services including student information systems, professional development and financial management. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed; the startup... |
| 15.10.2013 | What Can Farmville Teach Educational Game Developers? | Zynga built the social gaming industry around what used to be an overlooked demographic: middle-age females. Now it hopes to repeat its success in another sector where many big game companies have fallen: education.
In October 2012, Zynga.o... |
| 03.09.2013 | Edtech Business Models That Work | Whether your startup has raised venture capital or is completely bootstrapped, the clock is still ticking in the search of a repeatable business model. So what do we know works so far?
We posed that question at a sold-out house for our Augu... |
| 02.09.2013 | Sebastian Thrun And Gavin Newsom To School Us At Disrupt SF | Former Stanford professor Sebastian Thrun believes that in 50 years there will only be ten institutions in the world that offer higher education, and that Udacity — a startup that offers STEM-heavy free online courses — will be one of them.... |
| 08.08.2013 | Box brings cloud collaboration to schools and universities | Earlier this summer, Box announced it would push its cloud collaboration tools into a notoriously tricky sector, health care. Now, the Silicon Valley-based startup has announced it’s trying its luck in education.
Box believes it can help cr... |
| 05.08.2013 | Focus is key: 6 cloud startups kicking ass by going narrow | Venture capitalists are betting on cloud startups with a specific focus: health care, financial services, real estate, and other industries.
This more specialized, “vertical” industry approach is a stark contrast to the more horizontal appr... |
| 05.08.2013 | Focus is key: 6 cloud startups kicking ass by going narrow | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Venture capitalists are betting on cloud startups... |
| 05.05.2013 | Zynga.org Teams Up with NewSchools Venture Fund to Create Ed-Tech Accelerator | According the the company’s blog (read here), Zynga.org is partnering with NewSchools Venture Fund to create a new ed-tech accelerator.
The initiative, which will officially kick off this summer, will focus on enhancing the quality and reac... |
| 06.03.2013 | Now 18M Users Strong, Edmodo Makes Its First Acquisition In Root-1 To Become The App Market For Education | After spending years working as technicians at public schools, Jeff O’Hara and Nicolas Borg launched Edmodo in 2008 to address what they had come to see as a huge gap in the teacher-student relationship: The need for a better, safer way for... |
| 05.09.2012 | Edmodo: Fresh Look, More Social | Oh, it's just like watching a kid graduate from elementary school and saunter off to middle school. Today (Wednesday), Edmodo, the social networking site for teachers and students shows off a fresh look and beefed up functionality.
Two feat... |
| 04.09.2012 | Desire2learn pulls in $80M, the largest-ever VC investment in a Canadian software startup | Ed-tech is on fire! Desire2Learn, a startup that has bootstrapped for over a decade, has raised its first round of venture capital funding from New Enterprise Associates (NEA) and OMERS Ventures, the venture arm of one of Canada’s largest p... |
| 04.09.2012 | Desire2learn pulls in $80M, the largest-ever VC investment in a Canadian software startup | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Ed-tech is on fire! Desire2Learn, a startup that ... |
| 31.08.2012 | Anticipating a Blended Classroom Boom Led by Education Startups | As kids head back to school this month and next, some will find a rather new arrangement greeting them: blended classrooms.
These don’t feel like the ways that many of us attended class, with a single teacher lecturing at students from fron... |
| 30.08.2012 | Networks And The Enterprise | Many think that USV is a consumer web investor. We don’t think of ourselves that way. We invest in networks and for most of our short history, that has meant investing in networks of individuals connecting with each other. Thus the consumer... |
| 30.08.2012 | Networks And The Enterprise | Many think that USV is a consumer web investor. We don't think of ourselves that way. We invest in networks and for most of our short history, that has meant investing in networks of individuals connecting with each other. Thus the consumer... |
| 15.08.2012 | A Day In The Life Of: Mrs. Lisa Mims | Transforming classrooms through technology is not a new practice for Mrs. Lisa Mims, who teaches 5th grade at a public elementary school in Delaware. Long before Dropbox--even long before flashdrives--Mrs. Mims was engaging young minds with... |
| 12.08.2012 | Answer Underground Aims To Be A Mobile-Focused Quora For Education, Hits The iPad This Week | There are some 3.7 billion web searches every month for education-related topics. However, ask a student how easy it is to find answers to their burning academic questions, and they’ll probably just roll their eyes. Sure, there’s Wikipedia,... |
| 30.07.2012 | Resetting Education: Social networks for the classroom | Learning doesn't happen in a vacuum; how social networks are adding a new dimension
These days, there are social networks for every kind of social circle—whether its friends and family (Facebook), shared interests (Twitter, Pinterest), heal... |
| 19.07.2012 | Edmodo exec: New $25M funding is just the beginning of spike for edtech | Edmodo‘s campaign to bring collaborative, social media tools to the classroom was bolstered today with a $25 million funding round led by new investor, New Enterprise Associate’s Tony Florence.
The digital education startup uses a social ne... |
| 19.07.2012 | Edmodo Closes $25M Series C Funding | Edmodo, a San Mateo, CA-based provider of a K-12 social learning network, has closed a $25m Series C funding.
The round was led by new investor New Enterprise Associates, with participation from existing investors Greylock Partners, Benchma... |
| 19.07.2012 | Edmodo Secures $25M in Series C |
SAN MATEO, CA, K-12 social learning network, today announced it has closed a $25 million Series C funding round led by new investor New Enterprise Associates.
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| 19.07.2012 | NEA Leads Educational Network Edmodo’s $25 Million Series C | Edmodo, the collaborative learning network for teachers and students, is announcing today it has closed a $25 million Series C round of funding. The round was led by new investor New Enterprise Associates, Inc. (NEA), and included participa... |
| 19.07.2012 | Funding Daily: VC helping hands lead to startup happy feet | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Good thing we start happy hour late here at Ventu... |
| 19.07.2012 | Funding Daily: VC helping hands lead to startup happy feet | Good thing we start happy hour late here at VentureBeat, or we would have missed Fab.com’s big news yesterday afternoon. In other $100+ announcements, Penguin took an independent, self-publishing platform under its wing, and Microsoft and Y... |
| 11.07.2012 | Putting education technology to the test | Mrs. Catherine Flippen has a bittersweet memory of the time she led the students in her Spanish class through a classic hands-on activity of making sugar skulls to celebrate the Day of the Dead. A painful hour after the unit’s allotted 30 m... |
| 30.04.2012 | As It Graduates From Network To Platform, Edmodo Now Serving 7M Users, 80K Schools | Edmodo is one of the startups whose name pops up a lot when you talk about “edtech.” Founded in 2007, the company is almost old school, yet, in spite of the influx of new education-focused startups, Edmodo continues to press forward. This i... |
| 16.04.2012 | Schoology pockets $6M round led by FirstMark Capital | In an effort to bring more tech to the education sector, Schoology snags funding for expansion
Schoology, a cloud-based learning management system for schools, just announced its $6 million Series B round of funding. The round, led by First... |
| 06.03.2012 | Edmodo Launches Third-Party Platform For Education Apps | Edmodo is a startup looking to disrupt the education industry with its social networking tools for the classroom. Today Edmodo is opening up its API and providing a platform for third-party developers to publish educational apps to Edmodo's... |
| 06.03.2012 | Social Collaboration Platform For Classrooms Edmodo Opens To Third-Party Developers With New API | Edmodo, an online social learning and communications network for teachers and students in K-12 schools, is opening up its API to third–party web developers to enable the creation of educational applications built on top of the platform.
Edm... |
| 03.01.2012 | Edmodo's K-12 Social Network Helps Teachers Connect with Students---and One Another | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Back in 2008, when Edmodo co-founders Nic Borg and Jeff O’Hara were still working in IT for Chicago-area school districts, they noticed a big problem. Teachers were increasing... |
| 08.12.2011 | Greylock And Benchmark Lead $15M Round In Social Collaboration Platform For Classrooms Edmodo | Edmodo, an online social learning and communications network for teachers and students in K through 12 schools, has raised $15 million in Series B funding led by Greylock Partners and Benchmark Capital. In conjunction with the investment, R... |
| 08.12.2011 | Edmodo wants to be the cloud leader in EdTech, raises $15M more | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Education technology is a red-hot market, and bot... |
| 08.12.2011 | Twilio, Edmodo, Uber: Bay Area Biztech by the Numbers | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Here’s your one-stop, data-driven roundup of deals news around the San Francisco Bay Area in the last few days.
$110 million—The cash price fetched by Jobs2Web, the San Mateo,... |
| 08.12.2011 | Edmodo Completes $15M Series B Venture Capital Financing | Edmodo, a San Mateo, California-based free and secure network for teachers and students in K12 schools, completed a $15m Series B venture capital financing.
The investment was led by Greylock Partners and Benchmark Capital, with participati... |
| 08.12.2011 | Edmodo wants to be the cloud leader in EdTech, raises $15M more | Education technology is a red-hot market, and both startups and investors are taking note.
Edmodo, a social network for education, stands poised to benefit tremendously from the great shifts taking place in educational delivery. The company... |
| 08.12.2011 | Edmodo Nabs $15 Million From Benchmark, Greylock For Educational Technology | Image via CrunchBase |
| 08.12.2011 | Edmodo nabs $15M for bulking up 'Facebook' of education | Greylock, Benchmark enroll in translating social media familiarity into interactive learning network
Technology focused on the educational field is often hard to spread across the slow-to-change and under-funded districts and schools but on... |
| 08.12.2011 | Edmodo Raises $15M Series B |
SAN MATEO, CA, Network for teachers and students in K12 schools announced the completion of a new round of venture capital financing led by Greylock Partners and Benchmark Capital.
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| 15.11.2011 | Polar bears visit the classroom with Edmodo’s digital technology (exclusive) | Edmodo, a social network for education, has teamed up with Polar Bears International for live, interactive online lessons about the creatures that bring kids and scientists together. This type of collaboration reinforces how digital educati... |
| 15.11.2011 | Polar bears visit the classroom with Edmodo’s digital technology (exclusive) | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Edmodo, a social network for education, has teame... |
| 24.08.2011 | Edmodo brings social media back into the classroom | The site adds a bunch of new features to make learning more social
Social media can be risky when it comes to the classroom. You never know what kind of shenanigans students might be getting up to on Facebook or YouTube. Suggestive winky em... |
| 07.03.2011 | Innovation in Education | Today, President Obama will visit TechBoston Academy together with Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and Melinda Gates. The President is likely to renew his call for more innovation in education, with initiatives such as the creation of a ... |
| 15.12.2010 | Edmodo Brings Social Platform To Education And Gets Funded | Working in the education field for years in the Chicago area, Jeff O'Hara got frustrated seeing that social networking and sharing sites were blocked in the classroom. This did not seem right to Jeff as he thought that education was the ide... |
| 06.12.2010 | Edmodo | Early in 2009 we organized a one-day event in New York which we called “Hacking Education” — the idea was to bring together people from different fields for a discussion on how to disrupt and improve education using technology in general an... |
| 01.06.2009 | How One Teacher Uses Twitter in the Classroom | Teachers are always trying to combat student apathy and University of Texas at Dallas History Professor, Monica Rankin, has found an interesting way to do it using Twitter in the classroom.
Rankin uses a weekly hashtag to organize comments,... |
| 01.03.2008 | Twitter In The Classroom | Edmodo says it’s going to be Twitter for teachers and students, with features like calendaring events that are tailored to the classroom. Personally, I think Twitter itself works just fine as the Twitter for teachers and students, but give ... |
