Edsurge
JUNE 11, 2020
Soon, schools would be inundated with sales pitches from edtech companies, and it didn’t take long before they started pushing back against those that seemed predatory. For the edtech industry, the pandemic poses a paradox. Yet this reality seems not to have dampened investor enthusiasm for private edtech companies.
Edsurge
APRIL 6, 2022
While they’re both ostensibly working to make education as strong as possible, educators and edtech don’t always see eye to eye. Observers of the space, for instance, have long noted that teachers are often excluded from edtech procurement , as are higher ed faculty and staff. during a panel at ASU-GSV on Monday.
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Edsurge
FEBRUARY 27, 2023
The homework-help business — led by giants like Chegg and Course Hero — has long been both profitable and controversial. The popularity of Chegg’s subscription service even became a verb: “Chegging.” I think that's a naively optimistic take,” Hill says of the notion that AI will help rather than hurt Chegg. “[But]
Edsurge
APRIL 1, 2022
In the next few days, thousands of edtech entrepreneurs, investors, educators and policymakers will flood a hotel in San Diego to attend the Mecca of Education Innovation Optimism known as ASU GSV. So now is the perfect time to reflect on the state of edtech. A small but mighty movement was building – and it needed time to grow.
Edsurge
JANUARY 27, 2021
That leaves 2U, Chegg and Stride (formerly known as K12 Inc.) as the remaining trio of prominent edtech companies on the U.S. He was an early investor in Chegg, which went public in 2013 and whose stock more than doubled in 2020. edtech startups raised $2.2 Adit EdTech Acquisition Corp., public market.
Edsurge
AUGUST 21, 2019
But 2U wasn’t the only edtech player to get Wall Street talking. Here’s how the other edtech companies that went public earlier this decade fared. Chegg The numbers: For the second quarter, ended June 30, Chegg reported an adjusted EBITDA of $31.1 Chegg now has about $1.1 -based company tumbling to historic lows.
Edsurge
JULY 28, 2021
It’s got an effective mobile app that really changes the context in how people access language, a critical mass in consumer interest in learning applications and since the pandemic hit, it put edtech into the minds of investors as a real investable category,” says Trace Urdan, an edtech analyst and managing director at Tyton Partners.
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