| Date | Title | Description |
| 11.06.2025 | Ibstock hikes brick production as UK construction market picks up | Brick manufacturer Ibstock has reinstated production capacity at several factories, providing a boost to Britain’s building materials shortage.
The move is a bet on the building market’s recovery, with higher production capacity ensuring th... |
| 20.12.2022 | Why College Students Turned From Being Down on Remote Learning to Mostly in Favor of It | If you go back to the first days of the COVID crisis, when campuses across the country were shutting down, college students weren’t very happy with emergency online learning. Surveys conducted then showed deep dissatisfaction, with as many ... |
| 05.12.2022 | Top Hat is Acquiring Aktiv Learning to Transform STEM Education at Scale | The addition significantly expands Top Hat’s reach and leadership as the modern course engagement platform for higher education.
Top Hat, the market leader in student engagement solutions for higher education, has entered into an agreement ... |
| 11.04.2021 | Top Hat in 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.
As it was well known even in Ancient Rome, today’s youth is completely different from ... |
| 18.02.2021 | Tired of ‘Zoom University’? So is edtech | The rise of “Zoom University” was only possible because edtech wasn’t ready to address the biggest opportunity of the past year: remote learning at scale. Of course, the term encapsulates more than just Zoom, it’s a nod to how schools had t... |
| 08.02.2021 | Top Hat Raises $130M in Series E Funding | Top Hat, a Toronto, Canada-based active learning courseware platform for higher education, raised $130M USD in Series E funding.
Existing investor Georgian is providing the new round of funding.
The company intends to use the funds to conti... |
| 04.02.2021 | Digital Courseware Provider Top Hat Gets $130M and a New CEO | Another balding founder of a tech company is passing the baton off to a successor.
No, this is not the same shellshock as Jeff Bezos’ resignation letter, nor is the company anywhere as big as Amazon. But it could prove just as disruptive in... |
| 04.02.2021 | Daily funding roundup - February 4th, 2021 | Latitude raised $3.3M;Waitwhile landed $12M; Garner Health secured $12.5M; Class picks up $30M
Aflorithmic: Aflorithmic is a London-based SaaS-based startup that makes hyper-personalized audio experiences using AI voice synthesis and voice ... |
| 15.01.2021 | Lessons from Top Hat’s acquisition spree | Top Hat, a startup that digitizes textbooks and turns them into an interactive experience for college students, announced on Wednesday that it has acquired yet another business: Fountainhead Press. The acquisition marks Top Hat’s third scoo... |
| 09.12.2020 | For College Faculty And Students, A ‘Socially Sensitive’ Alternative To Zoom | As we look towards a spring semester that will be comprised of largely online classes, how will the sector contend with ongoing “Zoom fatigue?” |
| 27.08.2020 | Top Hat Buys bluedoor | Top Hat, a Toronto, Canada-based active learning platform for higher education, acquired bluedoor, a US independent press that specializes in educational content for the sciences in higher education.
Details of the transaction were not disc... |
| 26.05.2020 | Top Hat Buys Canadian Textbook Business to Compete With Publishers in Digital Courseware | Top Hat got its start in the “clicker” business, offering a web-based and mobile classroom response tool that lets instructors gauge whether students understood the lesson (or paid attention). The term comes from the physical devices that o... |
| 29.03.2020 | Стартапы недели: пересадка органов от животных, в космос на воздушном шаре, экономия топлива для морских судов... | А также обзор проектов из прошлогодних выпусков.
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На этой неделе в #стартапдня были три стартапа обычных, один корпоративный, одно объявление и ролик на YouTube.
EGenesis хочет решить проблему нехватки органов для ... |
| 23.02.2020 | The Sunday Briefing | #93 | The Vancouver Tech Journal brings you news, insight, opinions, and the lesser-known stories from Vancouver's innovation ecosystem. This is The Sunday Briefing. Enjoy.
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Vancouver-based Semios, which has developed a platform for cr... |
| 09.02.2020 | Обзор технологических стартапов в образовании за прошедшую неделю | Что стало известно об инвестировании в стартапы EdTech.
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Embibe
Embibe
Кластер подготовки к тестам и экзаменам.
Embibe помогает студентам готовиться к конкурсным э... |
| 04.02.2020 | Top Hat raises $55M Series D for its higher ed learning platform | Toronto-based Top Hat, a company that makes a number of software tools for teachers in higher education, today announced that it has raised a $55 million Series D funding round co-ed by Georgian Partners and Inovia Capital. All of the compa... |
| 04.02.2020 | Top Hat Raises $55 Million to Take on Big Textbook Publishers | Mike Silagadze isn’t shy about his desire to take market share from the largest college textbook publishers through his classroom software company Top Hat. He believes his company’s brand of digital textbooks beats anything Pearson, McGraw-... |
| 04.02.2020 | Top Hat Secures $55M in Series D Funding | Top Hat, a Toronto, Canada-based active learning platform for higher education, raised $55M USD in Series D equity and debt financing.
The round was co-led by existing investors Georgian Partners and Inovia Capital, with participation from ... |
| 10.10.2019 | Nearpod Expands Into Higher Education | In the K-12 education market, Nearpod boasts a far reach, claiming its tools are used by about 7 million students in 60 percent of U.S. K-12 districts.
Now it has set its sights higher—literally—by looking at colleges and universities.
Orig... |
| 30.12.2018 | Nontraditional but More Collaborative: Edtech Trends for 2019 | Eran Ben-Ari was nominated to share his thoughts by Mike Silagadze, who wrote for the project in 2017.
As we look ahead to the future in edtech, we see an industry marked by significant change and stubborn challenges. Within this framework,... |
| 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... |
| 15.06.2017 | Top Hat Raises $7.5M in Funding | Top Hat, a Toronto, Canada-based digital teaching platform, secured $7.5m in funding.
Leaders Fund made the investment.
The company intends to use the funds to continue to expand operations.
Led by Mike Silagadze, co-Founder and CEO, Top Ha... |
| 14.06.2017 | With $7.5M Funding Boost, Top Hat Launches Marketplace to Challenge Textbook Publishers | As a medium, print is incompatible with the blistering pace of change and new discoveries. Textbooks are outdated as soon as they go to press. So why should students fork out hundreds of dollars for them?
That’s the question Top Hat has bee... |
| 14.06.2017 | Term Sheet — Wednesday, June 14 | ET CETERA
Uber CEO Travis Kalanick has taken an indefinite leave of absence from the company, which means this site was not helpful at all (you had one job…). As we noted on Monday, the company will be run by a committee, which is not ideal... |
| 14.06.2017 | Top Hat raises $9 million, launches collaborative platform to disrupt textbook publishing industry | Top Hat has raised $9 million in its Series C follow-on funding from Toronto-based Leaders Fund. The company raised its $29.5 million Series C back in February.
At the same time, the company also announced the launch of its Top Hat Marketpl... |
| 14.06.2017 | Top Hat takes on textbook publishers with the launch of its content marketplace | What it launched back in 2012, Toronto-based Top Hat (or “Top Hat Monocle,” as it was still known then) offered a phone-based classroom response system but little else in terms of content for teachers to use in their classes. In a way, thou... |
| 06.04.2017 | Canadian SaaS startups, you don’t need U.S. funding | Time and time again, SaaS startups contemplate who they should approach for investment. There’s a general sense in our community that it’s difficult to raise money in Canada. Software startups have this misconception before they do their ow... |
| 06.04.2017 | Canadian SaaS startups, you don’t need U.S. funding | 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!
Time and time again, SaaS startups contemplate wh... |
| 16.02.2017 | Top Hat and Toronto | We announced an investment in Toronto based Top Hat yesterday. I RT’d my partner Albert‘s post on the investment with this bit:
“We now have five investments there, placing Toronto third as a location in the USV portfolio after New York and... |
| 15.02.2017 | Top Hat raises $22.5 million for digital platform that replaces pricey college textbooks | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Cloud-based teaching platform Top Hat has raised $22.5 million in a series C funding round from Union Square Ventures, in addition to e... |
| 15.02.2017 | Top Hat Raises $22.5M Series C from USV | TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Top Hat, the interactive, cloud-based teaching platform provider, today announced it has raised $22.5M (USD) in Series C financing. Union Square Ventures joined Top Hat’s existing investors Emergence Capital, Georg... |
| 15.02.2017 | Top Hat Raises $22.5M in Series C Financing | Top Hat, a Toronto, Canada-based interactive teaching platform provider, raised $22.5M in Series C financing.
Union Square Ventures joined existing investors Emergence Capital, Georgian Partners, iNovia Capital, Golden Venture Partners, Ver... |
| 15.02.2017 | Top Hat raises $22.5 million for digital platform that replaces pricey college textbooks | Cloud-based teaching platform Top Hat has raised $22.5 million in a series C funding round from Union Square Ventures, in addition to existing investors Emergence Capital, Georgian Partners, iNovia Capital, Golden Venture Partners, Version ... |
| 15.02.2017 | Top Hat | Even back when I was in graduate school, I found the price of textbooks to be high and their quality to vary widely. Now that I have children taking college courses, I was shocked to find textbooks that cost over $200 and are still large ph... |
| 15.02.2017 | Term Sheet — Wednesday, February 15 | THE BOLD AND THE DISCIPLINED
Soft-Tress: The big news in Term Sheet’s world this morning is SoftBank Group’s after-hours acquisition of Fortress Investment Group for $3.3 billion. Takes are rolling in hot and fast! (“Neither cheap nor wise!... |
| 03.11.2015 | 4 Toronto Startups That Want to Hire You | There was a time when young people from all across Canada had big dreams of moving to Toronto to make their mark in the world. Over time, jobs became more and more scarce, and the cost of living became too high for a lot of young people to ... |
| 08.09.2015 | Emergence Capital, Long A Top SaaS Investor, Shifts Focus To The Next Big Thing | Since its founding a decade ago, Emergence Capital Partners has become among the startup industry’s most highly regarded investors in enterprise software-as-a-service companies.
Fact is, few firms are as specialized. But the approach has pa... |
| 08.05.2014 | Top Hat Raises $10M in Series B Funding | Top Hat, a San Francisco, Ca.- Chicago, Ill. and Toronto, Canada-based provider of an innovative teaching platform, raised $10m in Series B funding.
The round was led by Georgian Partners, a growth equity firm investing in expansion-stage s... |
| 06.05.2014 | Top Hat Raises $10M Series B Round For Its Classroom Response System | Top Hat, the mobile and web-based classroom response and engagement tool, today announced that it has raised a $10 million series B led by Georgian Partners, with participation from Emergence Capital Partners, iNovia Capital, SoftTech VC, V... |
| 06.05.2014 | Toronto’s Top Hat Gets $10 Million in Series B Money | Toronto’s Top Hat has raised a $10 million series B round from Georgian Partners.
Funny, we just wrote about the guy who founded the company but has since moved on to fellow Toronto startup Bionym. Andrew D’Souza told a crowd last week how ... |
| 18.08.2013 | Vancouver’s GROW Conference Shines A Spotlight On Canada’s Growing Startup Scene | When it comes to the tech conference circuit outside of Silicon Valley, Canada is probably not top of mind for most people, but I’ve got a feeling that’s slowly changing. Last week, Vancouver hosted the fourth edition of the GROW conference... |
| 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... |
| 05.08.2013 | 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... |
| 01.08.2013 | Countdown to GROW: How to recruit top talent for your startup | Article content
After sitting through countless university lectures, University of Waterloo grads Mike Silagadze and Mohsen Shahini came up with a more productive way for students to use their smartphones, notebooks and tablet computers tha... |
| 31.07.2013 | Socrative Gets $750K From True Ventures, NewSchools To Bring Realtime Student Response System To K-12 Education | TechCrunch has learned today that Socrative, an intelligent student response system aimed for K-12 classrooms, has quietly raised $750K in seed financing from True Ventures, NewSchools Ventures and a handful of angel investors in Boston — w... |
| 30.07.2013 | Pearson Travels to 1776 to Find Education's Future | Pearson announced on July 29 a "three-pronged partnership" with Washington, D.C.-based tech incubator, 1776, as part of its ongoing efforts to tap into edtech innovations at the startup level.
1776 wants to be D.C.'s ground zero f... |
| 29.07.2013 | Countdown to GROW: Vancouver conference brings Silicon Valley to Vancouver | Article content
For Canadian tech startups that can’t all get to the Silicon Valley, Debbie Landa is bringing the Valley to them.
The Saskatoon-raised Landa, founder and CEO of Dealmaker Media is among 300,000 Canadians living and working i... |
| 16.05.2013 | Class App: Can Smartphones Make Students Pay Attention? | Ah, college — also known as “the most expensive wi-fi connection you’ll ever have.” The modern classroom is alive with the clicking of laptops and tapping of smart phones, and it’d be naive to think their owners are just dutifully taking no... |
| 09.05.2013 | Top Hat Monocle Launches Freemium Accounts For Classes With Fewer Than 30 Students, Changes Name To ‘Top Hat’ | Top Hat Monocle, the Toronto-based provider of mobile-based classroom response systems, has decided to get Lasik and has dropped the ‘monocle’ from its name and logo. Top Hat, as the company will now be known, is celebrating this move with ... |
| 18.03.2013 | Top Hat Monocle Takes Its Classroom Response System International, Signs Up 25K Students In Asia-Pacific Region | Top Hat Monocle, the Toronto, Canada-based service that provides a web-based clicker and online homework tool that aims to make large lecture-based classes more engaging, just announced that it is expanding its reach to the Asia-Pacific reg... |
| 18.01.2013 | Top Hat Monocle Adds $1.1M Follow-On From Felicis To Reimagine The Lecture Hall Experience In Higher Ed | If you attended a university, you likely took at least one class where you sat in a lecture hall with at least 50 other bedraggled, hungover students. In that case, you may be familiar with those handheld clickers distributed by professors ... |
| 15.03.2012 | Interactive Learning Startup Top Hat Monocle Wants To Turn Your Homework Into A Tournament | Over the last few years, we’ve seen technology start to play an increasingly disruptive role in both primary and secondary education. There’s still a long, long way to go, but schools are becoming more receptive to integrating mobile, web, ... |
| - | Обзор технологических стартапов в образовании за последнюю неделю | Chuck Cohn, founder and CEO of Varsity Tutors
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| - | Рост до $404 млрд к 2025 году, микрообучение и гонка маркетинговых бюджетов — как обстоят дела в EdTech | Индустрия EdTech или education technology подразумевает использование компьютерных технологий для упрощения и повышения эффективности образования. Это одна из индустрий, которая выиграла от режима изоляции во время пандемии коронавирусной и... |
