K-12
Kahoot acquires Clever, the US-based edtech portal, for up to $500M
Kahoot, the popular Oslo-based edtech company that has built a big business out of gamifiying education and creating a platform for users to build their own learning games, is making…
Assessing the potential for a gig economy in education
The potential for advances in online learning to enable personalized learning experiences, both in terms of newer platforms and apps that help assess domain-specific knowledge, are much broader than we…
Nearpod raises $9.2 million to help teachers use tech for live instruction
If Nearpod CEO Guido Kovalskys has his way, overhead projectors and PowerPoint presentations will never bore students again. Instead, he wants to see cutting-edge technologies and interactive content become standard tools…
Personalizing The Factory
Winston Churchill said, “Democracy is the worst form of government, except all the others that have been tried.” Until recently, the same could be said for the factory model of…
Securly Raises $1M From NewSchools, Imagine K12 Founder To Help Schools Protect Their Students Online
Launching in the fall of last year as part of education accelerator Imagine K12’s third batch of startups, Securly set out to help K-12 schools across the U.S. prevent their…
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…
Kno Expands Beyond College, Partners With Houghton Mifflin To Bring Digital Textbooks To K-12
Founded in 2009, Kno began its career with ambitious plans to disrupt education with a little mobile hardware — by developing a tablet that was tailor-made for students. Unfortunately, thanks…
