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Online learning marketplace Udemy is raising up to $100M at a $3.32B valuation

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Online education has been one of the hotspots in the tech world this year, as people turn to e-learning tools to fill in the gaps variously arising from closed schools, closed offices, social distancing and more time on our hands at home because of the COVID-19 pandemic. billion valuation.

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Engageli comes out of stealth with $14.5M and a new approach to teaching by video remotely

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And Farrell is a former executive from another pair of major online learning companies, Trilogy and 2U. But also, Avida believes that because higher ed not already has a big market for remote learning, it represents a more significant opportunity.

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Udacity raises $75M in debt, says its tech education business is profitable after enterprise pivot

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Online learning marketplace Udemy raises $50M at a $2B valuation from Japanese publisher Benesse. Sebastian Thrun initiates aggressive plan to transform Udacity. “We have so much demand and work to do internally that there is no compelling reason to do that.

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The non-developer’s guide to hiring software developers

The Next Web

Some of the best developers in the world never went to college, or went to college to study something other than computer science, and with the rise of online learning tools like Udacity , Treehouse , and Codecademy , this trend will continue to grow.

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How startups should budget in uncertain times 

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Take online learning tools: Everybody needs online learning at the moment. When in-person reopens, probably some amount of learning will stay online since we all learned how to do it, but likely not 100%. Many startups find themselves in a similar position these days: ramen or sushi?

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Tom Brady and Salesforce Ventures pour millions into Class, a Zoom-friendly edtech startup

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Tom Brady and I are both fathers to three kids and like all parents, we get the need to add teaching and learning tools to Zoom,” Chasen added. Higher ed has already been taking this step towards online learning, and they’re now taking the next step, whereas K-12, this is the first step they’re taking.”

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Class adds $30 million to its balance sheet for a Zoom-friendly edtech solution

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We’re going for the broader, larger deployments that just need to know that they have the stability and the scalability of Zoom, with just teaching learning tools built on top of that,” Chasen said. Over 125,000 schools use Zoom already, he said, which is enough to build a big business.

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