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| 26.02.2026 | Edtech M&A activity picks up as investors bet on outcome-led growth | - |
| 12.01.2026 | Obol joins forces with Mastercard to Bring AI-Driven Cash Flow Management to Australian Businesses | Obol launches in Australia, supported by Mastercard Open Finance
NEW YORK, Jan. 12, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Obol, an AI-driven cash flow management platform for modern businesses, announced its official launch in Australia through a strategic ... |
| 12.12.2025 | UK Educators Push Back Against AI Use in the Classroom | Image: Adobe Stock
Artificial intelligence has seeped into nearly every part of modern life, so perhaps it was only a matter of time before it showed up in the classroom.
Across the UK, schools are now finding new ways to incorporate techno... |
| 09.10.2025 | Когнитивный аутсорсинг: как технологии отучают нас думать | Представьте пилота, который летает исключительно на автопилоте. Но однажды, в сильную турбулентность, автопилот отключается. Сможет ли он посадить самолет вручную?Мы с вами - пассажиры такого лайнера и наши будущие пилоты только что провали... |
| 31.08.2025 | 10 Must-Have AI Tools Every Student Should Use in 2025 | Share
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Life as a student has never been simple. However, AI tools have transformed tedious duties into intelligent ones and time-consuming procedures into time-saving techniques.
With automation at the forefront and s... |
| 10.07.2025 | Headway Inc raises Series A to scale personalised lifelong learning worldwide | Consumer edtech platform focused on lifelong learning Headway Inc has raised Series A funding from Bullhound Capital to accelerate product development, expand internationally, and strengthen its knowledge-driven ecosystem. This funding amou... |
| 15.06.2025 | The Rise of AI Tools Since GPT: A New Era in Images, Text, and Education | Share
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The advent of GPT models has ushered in a new era of artificial intelligence tools across various fields. In the few years since advanced GPT models like GPT-3 and GPT-4 became available, AI-powered application... |
| 04.06.2025 | Prepia: The Future of Exam Preparation in a Digital Age | In the heart of Belgrade, a revolution is brewing. Prepia, a Serbian edtech startup, has just secured €1.5 million in seed funding. This isn’t just another tech story; it’s a glimpse into the future of learning. With a mission to transform ... |
| 03.06.2025 | Belgrade-based Prepia Lands €1.5M to Become the Duolingo of Professional Exams | Serbia ~
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Serbian edtech startup Prepia raises €1.5M seed funding from CEE firms Inovo and Silicon Gardens to scale its AI-driven exam prep platform, already used by 100,000+ learners and generating €1.2M ARR in under nine months.
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| 07.05.2025 | The Legal Showdown at St James’ Park: Newcastle United Takes Action | Newcastle United, a titan in the Premier League, has thrown down the gauntlet. The club has initiated legal proceedings against St James Terrace Land Ltd, the owner of the East Stand at St James’ Park. This isn’t just a squabble over proper... |
| 03.05.2025 | Ways to Improve Your English Grammar Without Feeling Overwhelmed | Share
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Let’s be honest: grammar can feel like a maze. One moment you think you’ve nailed it, and the next, you’re second-guessing whether to use who or whom, or if that rogue comma just changed the whole meaning of yo... |
| 16.04.2025 | Edtechs see rebound in enrolments in school season | - |
| 01.04.2025 | The best April Fools’ pranks in food and beverage, from quiet Crunch bars to BodyArmor shampoo | Listen to the article 5 min
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| 11.12.2024 | Gentrace: $8 Million (Series A) Secured By GenAI Testing And Monitoring Company | Gentrace – a developer platform for testing and monitoring generative AI applications – announced an $8 million Series A funding round led by Matrix Partners, with participation from Headline and K9 Ventures. The funding round, bringing Gen... |
| 10.12.2024 | Generative AI app testing platform Gentrace raises $8M to make LLM development more accessible
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| 16.11.2024 | Как я работала в стартапе и обучила 60 человек английскому языку | Меня зовут Юля, и я преподаю бизнес-английский язык как индивидуально, так и в корпоративном формате. Мои клиенты — это компании, которые стремятся обучить своих сотрудников английскому, а также ребята, желающие подготовиться к собеседовани... |
| 05.11.2024 | The Language Labyrinth: Navigating the Spanish Learning Journey | Learning a new language is like stepping into a labyrinth. At first, the paths seem clear. You can see the exit. But as you delve deeper, the walls close in. Confusion reigns. Spanish, with its melodic sounds and intricate grammar, is no ex... |
| 04.11.2024 | Испанский без иллюзий: мой опыт изучения языка. Часть 2 | Hola, Хабр! Это Женя Сильянова, автор команды спецпроектов в МТС Диджитал. В прошлый раз я рассказывала, как начала учить язык Гарсиа Лорки. Напомню: сначала мне казалось, что все просто, но к третьему месяцу я поняла, что ад существует. Эт... |
| 02.10.2024 | Educators worry about the ethics of AI in education, while students are concerned about privacy | Over 50% of students said they've violated their school's AI policy, including 63% of high schoolers
There seems to be a growing divide between how different players within education see artificial intelligence, namely that educators are co... |
| 11.09.2024 | Teaching in the Digital Age: Essential Education Tools for Effective | Share
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The digital age has transformed the education sector, offering a plethora of tools and resources to enhance teaching and learning. Effective instruction in this era requires educators to leverage te... |
| 08.08.2024 | Olympics | Breaking is finally set to make its Olympic debut. How will the competitors be judged? | Breaking is judged qualitatively because of its roots as an art form, and judges use a sliding scale to score each round and battle, adjusting the scale towards the breaker who is winning in each of the above criteria. Throughout, an emcee ... |
| 22.07.2024 | Quizlet report: students more likely to see AI as beneficial to learning than teachers | While 82% of college students say they've used AI technologies, just 58% in high school say the same
Artificial intelligence is touching literally every industry right now, from healthcare to logistics to eductation: globally, the AI in edt... |
| 24.06.2024 | 10 Must Have SQE Study Materials [Free Mock Included] | Share
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Are you an aspiring solicitor in England and Wales looking for SQE study material? This guide provides an exhaustive list of the 10 most essential Study materials you need to pass the SQE1 and SQE2 exams in 202... |
| 25.05.2024 | Как можно увеличить словарный запас и прокачать аудирование по отрывкам фильмов и сериалов | Многие, очень многие люди любят фильмы и сериалы и готовы тратить огромное количество времени на их просмотр. В связи с этим возникает вполне закономерный запрос на фильмы и сериалы на английском языке для тех, кому интересно его изучение. ... |
| 21.04.2024 | Игры для взрослых | (Геймификация в образовательных и рабочих процессах: обзор полезных сервисов. Формат квиза)
Ключевая суть геймификации (или геймизации/игрофикации) – внедрить игру в неигровой процесс. Делается это с корыстной целью. Аудитория играет, а орг... |
| 18.04.2024 | Advantages of using flashcards to enhance your vocabulary | Share
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It is daunting to learn a new language, especially when it is about understanding a big vocabulary. It may be tough to remember all the new words and grammar, especially when it is so different from the languag... |
| 11.04.2024 | Former Dreambox CEO Jessie Woolley-Wilson Joins Owl Ventures as Operating Partner | SAN FRANCISCO, April 11, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Owl Ventures, the largest EdTech venture capital firm globally with over $2 billion assets under management, announced the addition of Jessie Woolley-Wilson as Operating Partner. Jessie brings a... |
| 16.02.2024 | Английский язык: расширяем словарный запас с помощью выступлений и лекций, доступных в интернете | Вы наверняка слышали уже не раз о том, что для увеличения словарного запаса (а это важно как для международных экзаменов, так и для повседневного общения с коллегами, которые не говорят на вашем родном языке) надо много читать и слушать на ... |
| 04.11.2023 | Как выучить английский самостоятельно и с чего начать? | Содержание:
Шаг первый: определяемся с желаемым уровнем
Шаг второй: определяем количество свободного времени
Шаг третий: составляем расписание
Шаг четвертый: отслеживаем достижения
Учебные материалы
Дополнительные ресурсы
Онлайн-платформы д... |
| 23.10.2023 | Нейросети для изучения языков: какими сервисами пользоваться и что пока нельзя поручить алгоритму | Использовать искусственный интеллект для изучения иностранного языка на первый взгляд кажется заманчивой идеей. Чат-бот можно установить на любой носитель, с ним не надо договариваться о времени общения, наконец, ему не надо платить деньги!... |
| 17.08.2023 | Back to school: The best apps for students | Summer is coming to an end, which means students will (hopefully) be in air-conditioned classrooms and away from this unrelenting heat wave. It also means that they’re probably on the hunt for mobile apps that can help prepare them for the ... |
| 14.08.2023 | 5 лучших генераторов вопросов с искусственным интеллектом для онлайн-обучения | Онлайн-обучение в сочетании с викторинами может значительно повысить продуктивность и эффективность учебного процесса. Включая викторины в сеансы онлайн-обучение, преподаватели могут создать более увлекательную и интерактивную учебную среду... |
| 09.08.2023 | Quizlet Launches Advanced AI-Powered Tools for Next-Gen Studying | Ahead of back-to-school season, global learning platform Quizlet announced a series of new study tools designed to help students return to the classroom with renewed confidence this school year. These new product launches deliver more AI-po... |
| 11.05.2023 | Как уже выучить этот Инглиш (часть 2) | Здравствуйте, коллеги! Мы продолжаем наш рассказ о том, как максимально быстро и эффективно выучить английский язык.
Первую часть статьи вы можете прочитать здесь.Содержание статьи
Самый эффективный способ выучить английский
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| 19.04.2023 | AI Learning Summit | Last week USV and Reach Capital co-hosted the AI Learning Summit. We welcomed over 75 builders, founders, educators, students, and policy makers into our library for a day of demoing fresh projects and discussing the ways in which learning ... |
| 27.03.2023 | Large Language Models & AI In Healthcare | Over the past few weeks, we have seen an ever-increasing number of companies that integrate generative artificial intelligence (AI) into their products. ChatGPT or other Large Language models are being added to features from Notion, Salesfo... |
| 01.03.2023 | ChatGPT and Whisper APIs debut, allowing devs to integrate them into apps | Enlarge
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| 01.03.2023 | OpenAI представила API для ChatGPT и своей системы распознавания речи Whisper Статьи редакции | Quizlet уже использует ChatGPT API для своего ИИ-репетитора, а Instacart — для советов по подбору продуктов.
ChatGPT API позволяет разработчикам встраивать бота в свои приложения, сайты и сервисы. Стоимость использования, по данным TechCrun... |
| 09.08.2022 | Advertisers have long struggled to capture Gen Z's attention. Here's how brands can cut through the noise using online education tools. | Sponsored content Advertising Advertisers have long struggled to capture Gen Z's attention. Here's how brands can cut through the noise using online education tools.
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| 02.05.2022 | Quizlet After 4 Years by Alexander Gornyi | The post was originally published in Russian on Startup of the Day. Alexander kindly agreed to republish what we think is of great value to our readers.
One of the most homogenous target audiences is school children. 10-20% of a country’s ... |
| 10.09.2021 | Quizlet plans for IPO over a year after hitting unicorn status | Quizlet, a flashcard tool turned artificial intelligence-powered tutoring platform, is planning an initial public offering nearly a year after it was valued at $1 billion. According to people familiar with the matter, Quizlet is considerabl... |
| 26.08.2021 | Could This Robot Actually Be Your Marketing Writer? | August 26, 2021 7 min read
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So began an innocuous post on the otherwise obscure blog Nothing But Words ... |
| 18.08.2021 | Quizlet Launches New Explanations to Provide Step-by-Step Guidance for Millions of Study Questions | |
| 21.06.2021 | TikTok launches Jump, a third-party integration tool | TikTok announced today the launch of its Jump program, which expands the app’s potential for third-party integrations. TikTok began beta-testing this feature in February with Whisk, a recipe-sharing app, though only select creators could us... |
| 22.02.2021 | The 27 best work-from-home essentials for college students in 2021 | JUMP TO Section
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| 08.02.2021 | Quizlet and TikTok Partner on New Integration Enabling Creators to Build Engaging, Informative Learning Videos | 0 shares
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Quizlet, the global learning platform known for its AI-powered study tools, today announced an integra... |
| 05.01.2021 | Yoga, colouring books and maths lessons: How to survive home-schooling (again) | Homeschooling is back – with all the stresses that can sometimes entail. City A.M. asked the experts at Quizlet for their guide to delivering the best learning experience for children – whilst keeping parents and teachers sane. |
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| 13.08.2020 | Quizlet’s State of Remote Learning Report 2020 | Our portfolio company Quizlet put out a “State of Remote Learning Report” this week based on what they are seeing across their global learning platform during the pandemic. Quizlet wrote a blog post about it as well.
There are some very int... |
| 28.07.2020 | An expert shares how to get started in real-estate investing and bring in passive income | Zach Aarons. Zach Aarons This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
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| 19.06.2020 | Virtual Reality Helps Medics Beat Coronavirus | In healthcare, VR can provide clinicians with a high-fidelity, high-stress, yet safe environment to ... [+] make and learn from mistakes.Getty |
| 09.06.2020 | Edtech is surging, and parents have some notes | Unlike most sectors, edtech has been booming over the last few months. Flashcards startup Quizlet is now a unicorn, digital textbook company Top Hat is finding unprecedented surges in usage and student success business Edsights raised nearl... |
| 28.05.2020 | 3 bearish takes on the current edtech boom | Edtech is booming, but a short while ago, many companies in the category were struggling to break through as mainstream offerings. Now, it seems like everyone is clamoring to get into the next seed-stage startup that has the phrase “remote ... |
| 19.05.2020 | Facebook has bought Giphy, Quizlet has attracted series C investments while Uber offers a deal to GrubHub - latest news review of the past week
1. Facebook acquired the largest Giphy gif service valu... | Facebook has bought Giphy, Quizlet has attracted series C investments while Uber offers a deal to GrubHub - latest news review of the past week |
| 17.05.2020 | Обзор технологических стартапов в образовании за прошедшую неделю | Quizlet CEO Matt Glotzbach Quizlet
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| 14.05.2020 | Quizlet raises £24m Series C | Quizlet, the global learning platform known for its engaging AI-powered study tools, today announced a Series C funding round of $30 million, led by General Atlantic, a leading global growth equity firm.
The capital will help fuel Quizlet’s... |
| 14.05.2020 | Quizlet: $30 Million Funding And $1 Billion Valuation | AI-based study platform company Quizlet announced it closed $30 million Series C funding at a $1 billion valuation led by General Atlantic
AI-based study platform company Quizlet announced it closed $30 million Series C funding at a $1 bill... |
| 13.05.2020 | Quizlet Raises $30M Series C Funding |
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Quizlet announced a Series C funding round of $30 million, led by General Atlantic.
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| 13.05.2020 | Quizlet Secures $30M Series C To Further Develop Its Study Platform | 11 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
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| 13.05.2020 | Quizlet Raises $30M in Series C Funding | Quizlet, a San Francisco, CA-based global learning platform providing AI-powered study tools, raised $30m in Series C funding.
The round was led by General Atlantic. As part of the deal, Peter Munzig, Managing Director at General Atlantic, ... |
| 13.05.2020 | Quizlet Just Raised $30M at a $1 Billion Valuation. But Don’t Call It a Unicorn. | Unicorns don’t exist, except as an analogy for private companies supposedly worth at least $1 billion. But as WeWork’s IPO debacle has shown, sometimes those valuations are imaginary, too.
To Quizlet CEO Matt Glotzbach, the mythical creatur... |
| 13.05.2020 | Quizlet Secures $30M Series C To Further Develop Its Study Platform | 12 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
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| 13.05.2020 | Quizlet valued at $1 billion as it raises millions during a global pandemic | As millions of students and teachers shift to learn from home in response to the novel coronavirus disease, modern-day flashcard business Quizlet has raised $30 million in a Series C round led by General Atlantic.
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| 12.05.2020 | Investing In Learning | USV has invested in the education sector for a bit more than ten years. We kicked things off with an event we called Hacking Education back in March 2009.
We have focused on “direct to learner” businesses and have mostly avoided investing i... |
| 11.05.2020 | 4 edtech CEOs peer into the industry’s future | When Zach Sims first started pitching his coding startup, Codecademy, he framed it to investors as a corporate tutoring company. That was intentional, despite the fact that edtech is a $5 trillion business.
“It was much easier for investors... |
| 09.04.2020 | Brainly Hits 200M Monthly Users Across The Globe | The pandemic forces over 1 billion students globally to switch to online learning.
Brainly hits 200 million monthly users in March 2020, it’s a 25% growth comparing to the same period last year.
The Poland-based startup believes that it’s a... |
| 04.01.2020 | 5 unusual resolutions to try this New Year that you might actually be able to stick to | 2020 is your year.
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It's almost the end of 2019, and the end of the year always brings about thoughts of how we can make changes in the next one.
But New Year's resolutions don't always have to be about pain... |
| 20.08.2019 | Going to School While Running a Startup: When Students Build Their Own Edtech | Andrew Sutherland had no idea that the thing he programmed as a 15 year old would become a full-time profession. The kid was just trying to pass high school French.
Fast forward 14 years. Quizlet, the studying tool he built in 2005, is now ... |
| 27.05.2019 | Welcoming Outschool to USV | In the last 25 years, the growth and increased convenience of commercial internet has fundamentally changed how we live most aspects of our lives. It has created new ways for us to connect and transact, and it has turned massive industries ... |
| 23.05.2019 | Sick Day | I woke up sick this morning and could not fly to Toronto where I was planning to do a session at Collision with Matt Glotzbach, CEO of our portfolio company Quizlet.
I sent some emails to let people know I could not make it and went back to... |
| 28.12.2018 | 50 успешных компаний, которые начали бизнес без крупных сторонних вложений Статьи редакции | Подборка от директора фонда Founder Collective Джозефа Флаэрти.
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Среди основателей стартапов есть мнение, что венчурные инвестиции — залог успеха. Да, они служат общей меркой для множества успешных т... |
| 17.12.2018 | Which Apps Are Safe for Kids? Three Tools That Read the Fine Print for You | Some apps do more harm than good. And “free” apps often come with hidden costs. These tenets hold as true for education apps as they do for those in the consumer market, privacy experts contend.
A recent New York Times investigation found t... |
| 05.12.2018 | Quizlet Premium Content | Our portfolio company Quizlet is one of the top mobile apps out there with over 50 million people a month using it to learn something.
Quizlet has existed for over a decade as a wikipedia style learning community with its users creating and... |
| 04.12.2018 | Many Online Education Marketplaces Have Sputtered. Will Quizlet’s Pass the Test? | Content may be king. But distribution determines the fate of kingdoms. For decades, print textbook publishers have owned K-12 distribution channels, usually through fleets of sales representatives that hone relationships with schools and di... |
| 25.10.2018 | Quizlet hits 50M monthly users | Most students in the U.S. have used or at least heard of Quizlet, the website for creating digital flashcards.
The company leverages machine learning to predict in which areas its users need the most help and provides 300 million user-gener... |
| 03.10.2018 | Consumer Learning | I listened to this IBM podcast with Matt Glotzbach, CEO of our portfolio company Quizlet, this morning.
Matt explains that edtech, a long-standing term for the market for software and technology sold to the education market, is fundamentall... |
| 06.09.2018 | Gamification can help education — here’s how | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Teachers and parents hear it over and over again: “make learning fun” to keep kids engaged. Gamified education apps for use outside of ... |
| 01.04.2018 | USV Thesis 3.0 | The commitment to a thesis is part of the fiber of USV–a shared set of ideas creates a framework that allows us to operate with focus and work on what matters most to our team. But what that thesis is has evolved over time and will continue... |
| 09.02.2018 | How does Quizlet make money? | The online study group deploys a freemium model, with users being able to buy an ad-free version
If you talk to EdTech companies, they'll very often tell you that they have a deeper mission than just providing a service. They see their solu... |
| 06.02.2018 | USV Joins $20M Series B for Quizlet | Quizlet, the largest user-generated consumer learning platform used by one in two U.S. high school students and one in three U.S. college students, today announced it has raised $20 million in Series B funding. The round was led by Icon Ven... |
| 06.02.2018 | Quizlet raises $20 million for AI-powered tutoring software | Quizlet, an online learning company best known for its automated study tools, announced today that it is taking on $20 million in a series B round of funding to pursue artificial intelligence products.
Those products include Quizlet Learn, ... |
| 06.02.2018 | Quizlet Raises $20M in Series B Funding | Quizlet, a San Francisco, CA-based user-generated consumer learning platform used by high school students and college students, raised $20m in Series B funding.
The round was led by Icon Ventures, with participation from Union Square Ventur... |
| 06.02.2018 | Quizlet - The World's Largest User Generated Learning Platform | On the occasion of our portfolio company Quizlet‘s announcement of a new round of funding today, I thought I’d talk about what led us to Quizlet and why it is poised to be a game changer in education.
Quizlet is the world’s largest user gen... |
| 06.02.2018 | Quizlet raises $20 million for virtual flash cards | If you’re in high school in the United States, there’s at least a 50% chance you’re using Quizlet. And there’s an even better chance you’re at least familiar with it.
But for the rest of the adult population, times have changed since we wer... |
| 06.02.2018 | Quizlet Raises $20 Million to Bring More Artificial Intelligence to Its Study Tools | Big numbers are nothing new to Quizlet, one of the most widely-used digital study tools in the United States. The San Francisco-based developer behind the platform claims more than 30 million monthly users, including 1 in 2 high schoolers, ... |
| 06.02.2018 | Quizlet raises $20M to build out its AI capabilities | The online tutoring company will also be expanding its footprint to Europe and Asia
While seemingly every company nowadays wants to tout its artificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities, the truth is that both of those things r... |
| 06.02.2018 | Quizlet raises $20 million for AI-powered tutoring software | 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!
Quizlet, an online learning company best known fo... |
| 19.11.2017 | The Top Of The Funnel | Whether you have a e-commerce business, a SAAS business, a media business, a marketplace business, or some other business model, you are going to start thinking about customer acquisition at some point.
And there are a lot of options out th... |
| 19.10.2017 | Owl Ventures, which funds edtech exclusively, just raised $185 million for its second fund | Plenty of investors have broken their picks, trying to find gold in education technology. That doesn’t seem to concern the limited partners of Owl Ventures, a three-year-old venture firm that’s focused only on edtech, and which just closed ... |
| 27.09.2017 | 20 By 2020: Quizlet’s Big Revenue Ambitions From Third-Party Content Partners | For its first 10 years, Quizlet was humming along just fine. The bootstrapped, San Francisco-based company claimed it was profitable thanks to its free popular digital flashcards, for which users could pay an annual subscription to get addi... |
| 30.08.2017 | Monetizing A Free App | A number of our portfolio companies that have free web/mobile apps that are monetized by advertising have offered a low-priced subscription offering that removes the ads and, often, offers offline sync on the mobile apps.
Here are some exam... |
| 22.08.2017 | Go Back To School With Quizlet | If you or someone in your family is going back to school in the next few weeks, I strongly suggest putting the Quizlet mobile app on your/their phone as part of the back to school preparation process.
Quizlet (a USV portfolio company) has a... |
| 21.08.2017 | Sunblock | From roughly 1pm ET to roughly 3pm ET today there will be an eclipse of the Sun by the Moon over the US.
I like this map which shows when and where the eclipse will take place:
I spent a half hour this morning on the Internet and learned ev... |
| 16.05.2017 | Using Your Data To Make Your Product Better | One of my favorite uses of AI is to use the data in your product to make your product better. I am talking about making a better UI using AI on your data.
Our portfolio company Quizlet did just that and wrote about it here.
They used the ~1... |
| 10.03.2017 | Feature Friday: Learn Mode | Our portfolio company Quizlet, which is the world’s most popular studying tool, launched learn mode yesterday.
Here’s how it works:
The team at Quizlet has built a way to go from cramming to studying, delivered via technology that’s in our ... |
| 19.01.2017 | S'Cool Tools of the Week: Quizlet, Listenwise | Quizlet
Freemium! Quizlet—This past Tuesday marked the ten-year anniversary of the launch of Quizlet.com to the public. Quizlet offers online study tools starting with flashcards and other games, aimed at helping students learn material. Cr... |
| 12.12.2016 | Numerai | Part of the genius of the Internet is its ability to coordinate the actions of many disparate and geographically diverse people by eliminating the marginal cost of sharing information. In the last few decades alone, we’ve seen this happen a... |
| 01.12.2016 | Who Thinks Tech Makes Learning More Fun? | Who thinks technology makes learning more "fun"?
Surprise answer: Teachers.
According to a survey of more than 20,000 students and teachers conducted by Quizlet, 83 percent of teachers--particularly those ages 32 or younger--say t... |
| 06.10.2016 | Chromebooks in K12 | I started working actively on K12 education about five years ago when a few of us helped start The Academy For Software Engineering. Early on in that process, I made it a point to visit about a dozen high schools around NYC and talk to the ... |
| 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... |
