Education Tech
Dealflow | April 18, 2019
MyVillage raises $6 million to combat rural “childcare deserts”
ImpactAlpha, April 18 – Bozeman, Mont.-based MyVillage is trying to make quality early education programs affordable and accessible in rural parts of the U.S.—areas it …
Dealflow | April 17, 2019
Publisher Pearson launches $50 million education and workforce skills tech venture fund
ImpactAlpha, April 17 – There has been a surge of education companies raising money for their solutions to re-skilling and up-skilling tomorrow’s workforce. Coding bootcamps …
Dealflow | April 16, 2019
Unitus Ventures, Dell Foundation back India education finance company Eduvanz
ImpactAlpha, April 16 – Mumbai-based Eduvanz’s mission is to make skills and workforce training more accessible to India’s youth. The startup raised $2 million from Unitus Ventures …
Dealflow | April 9, 2019
Venrock backs Make School’s pay-as-you-earn degree program for undergraduates
ImpactAlpha, April 9 – Make School was started in 2012 to offer undergraduate-age students an alternative to technical training programs and traditional four-year universities. …
Education Tech | April 8, 2019
Laboratoria’s coding bootcamp is tripling women’s income and diversifying Latin America’s tech sector
ImpactAlpha, April 8 – Many Latin American youths lack the skills they need to succeed in an increasingly digital world. So do many …
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Dealflow | April 2, 2019
Empowered Education raises $8 million from Rethink Education
ImpactAlpha, April 2 – Empowered Education is a training platform for wellness and healthcare coaches. The firm raised $8 million from White Plains, N.Y.-based …
Asia | March 28, 2019
A snapshot of equitable education technology in four markets
ImpactAlpha, March 28 – Chile, China, Indonesia, and the United States have all scaled access and use of educational technology for a broad spectrum …
Dealflow | March 7, 2019
FutureFuel.io raises $11.2 million to help employees tackle student debt
ImpactAlpha, March 6 – FutureFuel.io’s aims to make student debt benefits a standard offering in employer-sponsored benefits plans. Rethink Impact, a female-led impact …
Dealflow | February 28, 2019
Social Finance Israel launches bond to boost education for Arab-Israeli bedouin
ImpactAlpha, February 27 – Social Finance Israel has developed a social impact bond initiative to improve math and Hebrew language performance for high …
Dealflow | February 20, 2019
Mexican coding bootcamp Holacode secures backing from GINcapital
ImpactAlpha, February 19 – Mexican human resources advisory group GIN Group is backing startup Holacode to support technical skills development among an underserved …
Creative Economy | February 12, 2019
Acumen’s Latin America fund backs Peruvian skills startup Crehana
ImpactAlpha, February 11 – Acumen-backed Acumen Latam Capital Partners (ALCP) has invested in Lima-based Crehana, a startup that offers low-cost online training in …
Dealflow | February 3, 2019
Edquity raises early funding to help students weather financial strain
ImpactAlpha, February 3 – New York-based education venture Edquity has secured $500,000 from Lumina Foundation’s impact investment arm to help students at risk …
Asia | January 30, 2019
Edukasyon raises fresh capital to help Filipino youth plan for school
ImpactAlpha, January 29 – Manila-based startup Edukasyon has raised an undisclosed amount of funding to expand its online platform that helps Filipino youth find high …
Dealflow | January 27, 2019
Owl Ventures raises $315 million for third education fund
ImpactAlpha, January 25 – San Francisco-based Owl Ventures has closed its third global education fund, raising $315 million to invest in early and growth-stage …
Dealflow | January 8, 2019
Pay-as-you-earn coding school Lambda raises $30 million for international expansion
ImpactAlpha, January 8 – Lambda School has raised a $30 million Series B equity round with plans to expanding its California-based pay-as-you-earn coding …
Africa | January 8, 2019
African Leadership University secures $30 million to train Africa’s future leaders
ImpactAlpha, January 7 – Mauritius-based African Leadership University, or ALU, is a for-profit university with an ambitious goal of teaching three million African students …
Asia | December 3, 2018
Northstar Group puts $50 million into Topica’s online education platform for Southeast Asia
ImpactAlpha, December 2 – Vietnam-based Topica offers online education ranging from English tutoring and entrepreneurship to skills training and university-level degrees across six …
Education Tech | November 29, 2018
What we know about Turner Impact Capital’s school, housing and health funds
Bobby Turner has had a busy couple of months. His Turner Impact Capital christened a charter school in Washington, D.C., opened several new …
Dealflow | November 26, 2018
Omidyar Network invests in India online tutoring company Vedantu
ImpactAlpha, November 25 – Bangalore-based Vedantu is an online tutoring platform that aims to connect students with affordable group and one-on-one tutoring sessions. …
Education Tech | November 15, 2018
Income-share funds expand college finance options for low-income students
Income share agreements provide students with upfront funding for college tuition, fees, books, and other living expenses. In exchange, each student agrees to …
Dealflow | November 6, 2018
Women-led Kinvolved raises $1.5 million to reduce student absenteeism
ImpactAlpha, November 6 – More than 6.5 million students miss a month or more of school each year. Almost half of high-school students that …
Education Tech | October 30, 2018
Southern New Hampshire University and LRNG merge to support pathways to work
ImpactAlpha, October 30 – Private online university Southern New Hampshire University, or SNHU, and education non-profit LRNG, are merging to smooth the transition …
Dealflow | October 29, 2018
SEAF women’s fund backs education company Dream Viet Education
ImpactAlpha, October 29 – Washington, D.C.-based impact investor SEAF has invested an undisclosed amount in Vietnamese online education provider Dream Viet Education. Dream …
Dealflow | October 4, 2018
Bridges backs healthy school lunch partnership in the U.K.
ImpactAlpha, October 3 – London-based impact investor Bridges Fund Management has invested an undisclosed amount in a new initiative to serve healthy school …
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Education Tech | October 2, 2018
Teaching impact as a second language in business schools
Students and professors: Bring ImpactAlpha into your MBA or other academic program. We have full and partial ImpactAlpha scholarships for impact faculty and school …
Catalytic Capital | September 26, 2018
Foundation investments inject $1.4 million into College Forward’s mentoring program
ImpactAlpha, September 26 – Austin-based College Forward offers mentoring programs to support students from underserved communities go to and get through college. The …
Dealflow | September 25, 2018
Prodigy tops $1 billion in debt for international student lending
ImpactAlpha, September 25 – Prodigy, based in the U.K., launched in 2007 to help international students secure education loans to attend university outside of …
Dealflow | September 17, 2018
UBS Optimus Foundation leads Indian education impact bond expansion
ImpactAlpha, September 17 – The philanthropic arm of Swiss bank UBS is fronting $3 million for a development impact bond, or DIB, to …
Billionaires | September 14, 2018
Jeff Bezos pledges $2 billion to build preschools and fight homelessness
With a tweet, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos pledged $2 billion of his estimated net worth of $163 billion to the Bezos Day 1 Fund, which will back …
Africa | August 22, 2018
Lagos-based Microtraction backs school-finance startup Allpro
ImpactAlpha, August 22 – ImpactAlpha has reported on how funders and financial firms in the U.S. and India are trying to support cash-strapped …
Dealflow | August 20, 2018
Wonderschool raises $20 million to launch preschools and childcare centers
The in-home preschool startup Wonderschool announced in January that it had raised $2.1 million, with backing from the likes of Omidyar Network. Seven …
Blockchain/AI/IoT | August 1, 2018
Rise Fund puts $130 million into personalized learning company DreamBox
DreamBox, based in Bellevue, Wash., delivers tailored math content to more than 3 million students in all fifty U.S. states, Canada and Mexico. …
Dealflow | July 25, 2018
Guild raises $40 million to expand wage-worker education
ImpactAlpha, July 25 – Denver-based Guild Education has raised a Series C round less than a year after closing its $21 million Series …
Education Tech | July 17, 2018
Small bet, big outcome for UBS’ girls education development impact bond
In 2015, the UBS Optimus Foundation placed a small bet on a big idea: that nonprofit development organizations could tap private investors for …
Dealflow | July 11, 2018
Elevar, Omidyar, Rise Fund back Latin American literacy startup Grupo VI-DA
ImpactAlpha, July 11 – Buenos Aires-based Grupo VI-DA is compiling a digital library of texts and tools to “democratize access to high quality …
Dealflow | July 9, 2018
Belle Michigan backs two Midwestern, female-founded firms
ImpactAlpha, July 9 – Belle Michigan Impact Fund launched in March with a goal of raising $20 million to get more investment capital …
Dealflow | July 9, 2018
Cell-Ed raises $1.5 million to upskill underserved U.S. workers
ImpactAlpha, July 9 – The Palo Alto-based company is among an expanding group of workforce development startups that are trying to help American workers …
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Dealflow | July 9, 2018
Gray Matters, Caspian sell stakes in Indian School Finance Company
ImpactAlpha, July 6 – The Delhi-based Indian School Finance Company offers loans to Indian educational institutions. The Indian School Finance Company has served …
Dealflow | June 26, 2018
Chrysalis raises funding to expand reach to underserved Indian students
ImpactAlpha, June 26 – Low-cost private school serve tens of millions of Indian students, but have mixed performance records. Chennai-based Chrysalis partners with …
Dealflow | May 22, 2018
New Markets Venture Partners raises $68 million to bridge skills gaps
ImpactAlpha, May 22 – New Markets Venture Partners, a Fulton, Maryland, venture firm, raised its second edtech fund from Lumina Foundation, standardized testing company ACT, …
Blockchain/AI/IoT | March 24, 2018
NYU and Techstars launch competition for education access
Change-minded investors have been slow to back solutions to overcome barriers to higher education in the US, despite soaring student debt and race- …
Catalytic Capital | March 22, 2018
ECMC Foundation rolls out education PRI fund, backing two funds
ECMC Foundation has rolled out an education PRI fund and backed two funds. The fund, called Education Innovation Ventures, invests in startups that …
Dealflow | March 22, 2018
Mexico’s Yogome raises $27 million for multilingual learning materials
Yogome has a platform of 2,000 educational games, videos and books and says it reaches six million monthly users in 50 countries, mostly …
Education Tech | March 16, 2018
Omidyar Network leadership, energy-efficient buildings, donor-advised impact, mobile money…
Greetings, ImpactAlpha readers! #Featured: Agents of Impact Change of leadership at Omidyar Network. Pierre and Pam Omidyar’s philanthropic investment firm has invested $1.2 billion …
Dealflow | March 16, 2018
The Graide Network secures $1 million to teach kids “soft skills”
New Schooled The Chicago-based company recruits teaching assistants to grade and offer feedback on K-12 writing assignments Photo Credit: The Graide Network The Chicago-based …