Education
Innovamat tallies up $21M to reinvent math education
When it comes to education, mathematics has long been considered one of the most challenging of subjects both to learn and to teach. A startup out of Barcelona called Innovamat believes it’s com
Edtech MindX wants to build ‘little Silicon Valleys’ across Vietnam
Founded in 2015, MindX was created to address the lack of coding in Vietnamese school curriculums. The startup’s goal is to create “small Silicon Valleys” across Vietnam, with educational center
Google Chrome and Classroom add new features for educators and students, including ‘reading mode’
Google is rolling out new Chrome and Classroom features for teachers and students, the company announced on Tuesday. The tech giant is adding a new “reading mode” for Chrome, an AI-powered
Course Hero, once an edtech unicorn valued at $3.6B, conducts layoffs
Course Hero, a tutoring business last valued by investors at $3.6 billion, has cut 15% of staff, or 42 people — its first round of layoffs in 17 years, TechCrunch has learned from numerous sources.
Fynn raises $36M for a platform to finance students in vocational education
When people think of the funding crisis in further education, thoughts normally turn to the rising price of a typical four-year college degree. But that’s not the only financial gap that exists:
As NYC public schools block ChatGPT, OpenAI says it’s working on ‘mitigations’ to help spot ChatGPT-generated text
New York City public schools have restricted access to ChatGPT, the AI system that can generate text on a range of subjects and in various styles, on school networks and devices. As widely reported th
Proposed legislation would force US higher education endowments to reveal where they invest
Higher education institutions have been notoriously secretive about where and to whom they invest money, and, despite calls for change, many have refused transparency.
Sequoia India eyes $50 million investment in K12 despite market slump
Sequoia India is in advanced stages of deliberations to invest over $50 million in K12 Techno Services, a startup that offers a range of services to education institutions and also runs its own chain
Revyze is building the TikTok of educational videos
Meet Revyze, a French startup that is developing a mobile app for iOS and Android at the intersection of education and social. In many ways, Revyze looks just like TikTok — but it is focused spe
With over 43M K-12 users, Adobe Express for Education gets new AI and safe search tools
Adobe Express, the company’s template-centric tool for helping anyone quickly create logos, banners, flyers, ads and more, has always long offered a free version for schools. As the company anno
Hackers leak 500GB trove of data stolen during LAUSD ransomware attack
Hackers have released a cache of data stolen during a cyberattack against the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) in what appears to be the biggest education breach in recent years. Vice Socie
Maven’s a16z-backed live learning platform pivots from creators to experts
Maven, co-founded by Udemy’s Gagan Biyani and AltMBA’s Wes Kao, began in 2020 with a startup idea that perfectly combined two booming sectors: the creator economy and edtech. The startup sold coho
Online university Nexford will use $8M to plug affordability and relevance gaps in education
U.S.-based online university platform Nexford University has raised $8 million in a Series A round co-led by New Markets Venture Partners and Learn Capital, two prominent edtech venture capital firms
$10B crypto developer platform Alchemy buys coding bootcamp in first-ever acquisition
Web3 developer infrastructure startup Alchemy, which last raised a $200 million Series C1 last February, has just made its first acquisition ever — and it’s in the education space. The co
Disney accelerator alum Miko celebrates 140-country launch
It looks like Miko’s participation in the Disney Accelerator is paying off in a big way, as the company is bringing Disney and Pixar characters to its Miko 3 robot for kids. The company launched
India’s higher education startup Sunstone raises $35 million
Sunstone, a higher education startup that collaborates with academic institutions to help upskill their students for employability, has raised $35 million in a new financing round as it looks to expan
Black Girls Code founder Kimberly Bryant has been fired by her board
Kimberly Bryant is officially out from Black Girls Code, eight months after being indefinitely suspended from the organization that she founded. In a statement provided to TechCrunch, a Black Girls Co
Emerge Career’s tech-forward job training lets incarcerated folks hit the road on release
Reentering society after years in prison is difficult for many reasons, among which perhaps the most prosaic is simply that it’s hard to get a job — and what training and transition programs e
TechCrunch+ roundup: Down-funnel growth metrics, RIF planning, is e-commerce aggregation over?
It’s hard to argue with the proverb “measure twice and cut once,” especially when it comes to laying off employees.
Google launches a website version of its Read Along education app for children
Google has launched a website for its Read Along app for encouraging young children to practice reading. The website, which is introduced as a public beta, works with Chrome, Firefox and Edge browsers