Overview of technology startups in education over the past week
Valeriy Platonov
GESA Euro-Asia contest chair at Global Conference on New Edu-Technologies #EdCrunch
For many years, the #DigEd (Digital Education) channel has supported the #EdCrunch conference with a weekly Sunday review of edtech startups receiving investments from venture capital at various stages of development based on open publications. The reviews are publishing under the headings "Overview of technology startups in education over the past week", "What became known about investing in EdTech startups over the past week".
These reviews appear in Russian in the following media
Facebook group EdTech startups
vc.ru profile
This week today on Sunday April 11th, 2021 in the review the following edtech startups were noted for financial investments:
Kelowna’s FreshGrade Acquired By Higher Ground Education
https://techcouver.com/2021/04/10/kelowna-freshgrade-acquired-higher-ground-education/
PlayShifu raises $17 million in Series B funding led by Inventus
This UK-based edtech startup raises nearly €7M to be the ‘Netflix for teaching’; here’s how
https://siliconcanals.com/news/startups/edtech/edtech-startup-guide-education-raises-7m/
SchoolHouse raises $8.1 Million to Put a Great School In Every Community
https://schoolhouse-microschools.medium.com/great-schools-anywhere-1f80b9f6219f
CareerLabs raises $2.2 mn from Rocket Internet's VC fund GFC, angel investors
AntWak secures seed funding led by Matrix Partners India
With $320,000 in pre-seed round and a mobile app, Edkasa hopes to make exam preparation easier for students.
Digital Futurists Angels Network Invests In Edtech Startup Goseeko