TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2020

IntellectoKids , a developer of educational apps for children aged 3 to 7 years, has raised $3 million in a Series A financing led by U.S.-based The startup will now launch a Classroom feature with learning tracks in five core Kindergarten and Grade 1 courses, including Math, Phonics, Science, Arts and Logic.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

At its core, Transfr is building a “classroom to career pipeline,” Rajakumar says. The company raised money in August to expand to Asia. It’s an ambitious goal, and one worth raising financing to achieve. Transfr today announced that it has raised $12 million in a round led by Firework Ventures.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Previously, Udacity had raised nearly $170 million from a pretty illustrious group of investors that include Andreessen Horowitz , Ballie Gifford, CRV, Emerson Collective and more. But that’s not the only classroom where online education is getting called on.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Giving Days organized by local communities are being adopted by many more communities than ever before and a stronger understanding how these efforts can help build the capacity of nonprofits to embrace social media and online giving, engage more donors, and raise awareness of charity giving. The Giving 2.0

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2021

The back-to-back raises are a reminder that edtech’s relevance in LatAm isn’t just growing in classrooms, but also within organizations across LatAm. The company announced this week that it has raised a $13.5

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2021

Agora , a startup that has built a materials management platform for contractors, has raised $33 million in a Series B round of funding led by Tiger Global Management. The startup wasn’t actively raising for the Series B — instead, investors were proactively offering term sheets, Rioumine said. “A

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The NonProfit Times

DECEMBER 3, 2024

At DonorsChoose in New York City, a platform through which public schoolteachers submit “wish lists” for classroom and student supplies, GivingTuesday had an early start through a promo code sent to previous donors on Monday. The platform’s donors raised $1.2 million raised through 9.368 donations. million via 15,500 donations.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2021

Bangalore-based Teachmint said today it has raised $16.5 CM Ventures, and existing investors Better Capital, which first invested in Teachmint before the startup had even registered itself, and Lightspeed India Partners also participated in the new round, which brings the Indian startup’s to-date raise to $20 million.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2022

FundamentalVR , an immersive simulation platform for medical and health care professions, has raised $20 million in a round of funding to “accelerate skill-transfer and surgical proficiency” through virtual reality (VR) and mixed reality (MR) applications. The company has now raised just over $30 million in total.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

NoRedInk announced today that its digital writing curriculum, which pairs adaptive learning with Mad Libs-style prompts, has helped it raise a $50 million Series B led by Susquehanna Growth Equity, with participation from True Ventures. Other investors in the company include GSV, Rethink Education and Kapor Capital.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

Stacey is one who launched the first social media infused gratitude campaign during Thanksgiving back in 2008,successfully raising money for a school project Tanzania. With $250, you can make room for a student in a classroom. With $10,000, you could build an entire classroom – out of pure gratitude. Happy Thanksgiving!

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2021

In the process, the accelerator started building tools that could be used outside of the classroom. That will surely change now that Sololearn has raised this big round…). Through all of that, Hyusyan said she realised that there was an opportunity in itself to focus just on this. And thus Sololearn was born.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 20, 2008

The classrooms have doors that open to the outside, because of the warm weather. Most classrooms have desks and textbooks and all have chalkboards. We went into a classroom where I could immediately tell that the teacher there as well as one of the students both had the condition. Instead of windows, they have heavy screens.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2021

And now, the company has raised $9 million in a Series B led by SignalFire and with participation from existing backer Builders VC to help it continue its momentum. . That struggle was particularly challenging for trade schools, many of which were not designed to teach online and were mostly paper-driven. .

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TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2021

The Moku:Go combines several commonly used tools into one compact package, saving room on your workbench or classroom while also providing a modern, software-configurable interface. Creator Liquid Instruments has just raised $13.7 But why use two, or eight for that matter, where one will do? Image Credits: Liquid Instruments.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

People donate to a shared cause in honor of that for which they are most grateful Funds raised will go to support the work of Mama Lucy Kampton ( @MamaLucy ), a ChangeMaker who has transformed her community in Arusha, Tanzania through her school Shepherd’s Junior. Last year, funds from TweetsGiving helped build a classroom in Tanzania.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

They offer a chance to dress up, get together with others, and have a good time — while also raising money for a good cause. Anything people might want to learn, from hands-on activities such as painting to more classroom-type settings such as Spanish lessons. Events are many people’s favorite thing about charity fundraising.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2020

But they’re not apps necessarily designed for classrooms, and that fact has opened a gap in the market for those looking to build something more fit to the purpose. But perhaps Engageli’s most unique feature is how it views the virtual classroom. million in seed funding from Benchmark and others.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2021

While some teachers use Google Classroom, Gredu was created to work with Indonesia’s K-12 National Curriculum and Islamic Curriculum programs, used in both private and public schools. The startup is also developing new verticals, including software for preschools and university programs. . “We

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

The six-year-old company, which has raised upwards of $40 million in venture funding and served over 2 million students, is now being used across more than 1,800 districts and in 3,000 schools. To date, the company has activated 5 million robots, and its products are employed by more than 40,000 educators in 20,000-plus schools.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

million monthly active users, and now it has raised $2.7 And from what we understand, EWA is already working on its Series A, a $30 million round that it will be raising at a $150 million valuation, with Softbank among the VCs talking to the startup. (I’ve million in its first outside funding.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 3, 2009

Phase two will run for six months from March to August 2009 and we are asking potential participants to make a commitment to raising at least one thousand dollars. All funds from phase two will go directly toward supporting the Darfur Peace & Development Organization’s (DPDO) school project.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

It signals a shift from startups playing in the supplemental education space and searching to win a spot in the largest chunk of a students day: the classroom. Engageli, a new startup founded by Avida, Daphne Koeller and Serge Plotkin, raised $14.5 million in October to bring digital learning to college universities.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Founded by Tade Oyerinde in 2018, Campuswire is a virtual solution for any teacher who wants to digitize their internal classroom communications, from Q&A time to the lecture itself. Microsoft Teams and Google Hangouts filled in the gap for classrooms that couldn’t afford fancy licenses. The strategy, for the most part, has worked.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

The startup has now raised more than $47 million and is not disclosing its valuation. This is already a step change, when you think about it, from the likes of Teams from Microsoft, Google Classroom or Zoom. It’s hard to go back once you raise the bar on engagement. Just in the last week, Kahoot acquired Clever in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

Fresh from raising a $244 million Series C (that valued the company at $1.7 billion) back in June, K12 online tutoring marketplace GoStudent has now raised a $340 million Series D round led by new investor Prosus , an Amsterdam-based investment firm best known for investing in Latin American and U.S.-based

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Schoolytics gleans most of its data from a learning management system that many teachers are already using: Google Classroom. Classroom saw a tremendous spike in usage during the pandemic, as many teachers had to quickly take their classrooms and assignments virtual. This week the company is announcing that it raised $2.8

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TechCrunch

APRIL 16, 2023

The founder of ClassDojo, an edtech consumer app that focuses on student classrooms, spent eight years building the company before introducing a formal revenue model. Register Here for Free Farmer leads SignalFire, a seed-stage venture firm that recently raised $900 million across four new funds.

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The Verge

JUNE 15, 2020

In addition to the larger gallery view, Teams for Education is getting breakout rooms for students to collaborate in smaller groups, attendance reports and class insights for teachers, and a “raise hand” option for students.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 13, 2021

Kiddom, a platform that offers a digital curriculum that fits the core standards required by states, announced today that it has raised a $35 million Series C round led by Altos Ventures, with participation from Owl Ventures, Khosla Ventures and Outcomes Collective. The startup didn’t just raise money, it finally learned how to make some.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 15, 2022

Online giving is a great way to raise money. To successfully raise money online, you need a compelling reason for someone to give, a tool to raise money, and a plan for driving traffic to your site. DonorsChoose is a cool platform for classrooms where teachers post a project and people commit to giving. Not really.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

This year they hope to spread gratitude further and raise enough to help build an additional classroom, orphanage/boarding facility, cafeteria and library at Epic Change’s partner school in Tanzania, and to finding and funding future Epic Fellows like the school’s founder, Mama Lucy. And there are a lot more ways to participate.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 17, 2014

When asked who should run the ice cream store, they all eagerly raised their hands to take turns running the store themselves. The last topic we addressed was how would we raise the needed money for the products, rent, marketing, staff, etc. Marketing strategies. They asked if I could be the store manager. “On On the internet!”

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

CoderSchool raised a seed round led by TRIVE Ventures in 2018. Vietnam after-school learning startup Marathon raises $1.5M CoderSchool’s data analytics has improved individual student performance while also allowing CoderSchool to increase its classroom size at scale, reaching a peak of 107 enrollments in a data science class.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 2, 2021

It’s critical that you integrate content marketing and fundraising if you’re to succeed at raising both awareness and money in the current economy. . Music Lessons and Activities for Your Digital Classroom. Top 10 Ways to Help Your Child Readjust to Classroom Learning. What to Do if You’re Being Bullied. Arts and culture.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2021

The startup announced today it has raised $2.8 Teachers play an outsize role in shaping learning outcomes, yet most edtech innovations take the teacher in the classroom completely out of the picture.”. Singapore-based Geniebook’s personalized learning platform raises $16.6M Edtech’s next mission: Go everywhere.

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Candid

JANUARY 21, 2025

Concerns about authenticity, disparities in access, and biases in AI tools raise urgent questions: Will this technology help bridge societal gaps, or will it deepen them? The AI Education Project provides AI-powered resources that streamline lesson planning and integrate AI literacy into classrooms.

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