10/21/2022
INVESTORS ADORE EDTECH
$10.76 billion is a figure of record-breaking venture capital investments that took off at an unprecedented clip by 2020.
Yet on a pre-seed round, figures count $2.1 million to support Maqsad, a startup from Pakistan, aiming “to make education more accessible to 100 million Pakistani students.” It is a good ground for R&D and growth activities, isn’t it?
Leap, a US-Indian two-year-old startup focused on helping students with abroad education issues, raised $75 million in total in 2021 in Series B and C. Apart from intensive investors Sequoia Capital India and Jungle Ventures, Owl Ventures and Harvard Management Company joined the forces to supported EdTech undertaking, finding it promising.
Another example, Panorama Education, serves 25% of American schools, having backed with $60 million funding to provide an education software platform helping educational institutions to understand their K-12 students with surveys. In its turn, NoRedInk, a San Francisco-based startup, got a $50 million Series B support to help students get back on track with writing skills, which demonstrates the renewed interest of investors in the sector.
10/21/2022
I'm organizing an event and would like to invite you or ask you to share a post with someone who might be interested in my networking event on the topic "Trends in EdTech investments in 2023."
The event is for 10–15 people who are angel investors, family offices, and other allocators who are accredited. Also, we invited Kevin Zhang and Alexandra Argo from GSV Ventures for the discussion.
It will be an informal event with cocktails and light snacks in a nice and cozy place surrounded by like-minded people. There is no agenda or pitches from anyone here. The night's goal is to bring together a group of edtech investors for great conversations.
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10/21/2022
Starting your own edtech business is not as scary as it seems.
The stories of Duolingo, MasterClass, and Chegg show us that the education sector offers endless opportunities for building digital products which will surely find their target audience.
If you want to launch your own edtech startup, you need to think about how your company will share knowledge in an entertaining manner, how it will differ from the other services, and whether it can offer more benefits in the long run.
Now with so many new insights about starting an edtech business, a technical aspect of edtech product development is another thing to take care of. That’s why you need a vetted IT company that can develop a solution according to your business idea.
10/21/2022
The Hottest Topics in Edtech for 2023
When you have a monumental event like a global pandemic, it’s really easy to focus on the negative disruptions and miss the positive impacts.
And no one would argue that COVID-19 has had a devastating effect on learning. But there are also promising trends happening in education — many of which are the result of innovation spurred by necessity during remote and hybrid learning.
Last year, after many months of remote learning under their belts, educators were eager to share their best practices about online learning, as well as how to build equity and boost social-emotional learning, which was three of the hottest topics going into 2021.
While those topics made the list again this year, there were some surprises at the top of the list. Here are the eight hottest topics for 2023, starting with No 8.
8. Augmented, mixed and virtual reality
7. Social-emotional learning
6. Equity and inclusion
5. Online tools and apps
4. Distance, online, blended learning
3. Computer science and computational thinking
2. Instructional design and delivery
1. Project-based learning
