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edtech startups in 2017. Once upon a time, she notes, “MOOCs were supposed to displace higher education. Now many MOOCs are embedded within these institutions. Schoolmint, which was acquired by BV Investment Partners in 2017, has also publicly shared its plans to piece together different edtech assets into one platform. “It
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