| Date | Title | Description |
| 25.06.2014 | EdSurge's Edtech Edcamp @ Edmodo | Oh, this was fun. On Tuesday night, about 120 educators, entrepreneurs, EdSurgents and Edmodeans gathered in San Mateo, Calif., to share thoughts about where education is headed at our monthly edtech meetup--with a very special twist.
As Ed... |
| 06.01.2014 | Congratulations to the YC founders featured in Forbes' '30 Under 30' | Congratulations to the founders of Coinbase, Stripe, iCracked, Meta, Pebble, Parse, Watsi, Amicus, Prizeo, Humble Bundle, Clever, Panorama, Scribd and FarmLogs for being featured in Forbes as part of the ’30 Under 30′.
See the full list on... |
| 06.01.2014 | Congratulations to the YC founders featured in Forbes’ ’30 Under 30′ | Congratulations to the founders of Coinbase, Stripe, iCracked, Meta, Pebble, Parse, Watsi, Amicus, Prizeo, Humble Bundle, Clever, Panorama, Scribd and FarmLogs for being featured in Forbes as part of the ’30 Under 30′.
See the full list on... |
| 05.12.2013 | Clever (YC S12) Gets $10 Million From Sequoia To Provide A Standardized API For School Data | Clever launched about a year and a half ago to provide a standardized API for K-12 schools that allows them to unlock and share data with outside developers. It’s managed to get 10,000 schools signed up to use its tools since then. Now, acc... |
| 05.12.2013 | Clever Gets $10 Million From Sequoia To Provide A Standardized API For School Data | Clever launched about a year and a half ago to provide a standardized API for K-12 schools that allows them to unlock and share data with outside developers. It’s managed to get 10,000 schools signed up to use its tools since then. Now, acc... |
| 03.06.2013 | 100 AngelList Startups To Watch In 2013: How Many Are New To You? | AngelList. It’s the place for startups to connect with funding and talent. Just this month, the site has helped raise $12 million in venture funding for a wide collection of startups. It may be the one site that best represents all players ... |
| 10.04.2013 | Which Way for K12 Blended Learning? | Read the first part of Alex's series,
Which Way for K12 Blended Learning? (Part 1 - Boarding the Mayflower)
Just beyond the mountains, there is a land where unicorns run free, jumping from rainbow to rainbow. The children call the land “Edt... |
| 10.04.2013 | To Get Tablets in Schools, Clever Amplify(ies) | AMPLIFY(ING) CLEVER: Or a Clever way to Amplify. Two companies with headline-rich names are teaming up to bring tablet technology to schools. Clever's software connects its partners with a school's student information systems. (The applicat... |
| 26.03.2013 | How to Hack an Edtech Startup (Weekend) | For newbie edtech enthusiasts looking to get a taste of what it’s like to build a startup, there’s simply no better crash course than Startup Weekend EDU. (Of course, it was also a delight to see familiar faces that love the energy and exci... |
| 13.03.2013 | What a Startup and a School Have in Common | A couple of weeks ago we posed the question, What Happens When You Cross a School and a Startup? Voilà, Clever on Campus was born.
Our exploration involved Summit Public Schools, a leading Bay Area charter network and Clever, a fast-growing... |
| 06.03.2013 | MOOCs and Assessments and Makers, Oh My! | Coming at you, live from Austin's SXSWedu. Some 5,000 educators and entrepreneurs have been buzzing around the Texas state capitol, talking technology and education.
We're learning a lot--and still asking a lot of questions. We're tallying ... |
| 26.02.2013 | What Happens When You Cross a School and a Startup? | Everywhere we go in the ed tech community, whether at a meetup or in a blog post, people are asking "How should ed tech companies and schools work best together?" Clever and Summit Public Schools have had lots of great conversatio... |
| 31.10.2012 | Is Education Technology Turning into a Goldrush? | Uh, oh. Even though the economy is still ping-ponging its way toward recovery, we’re already hearing the ominous “B” word: Could we already be seeing signs of an investment bubble in what’s historically been a tough market, namely education... |
| 30.10.2012 | To empower students, let’s bring interactive learning tools into the classroom | This is a guest post by Troy Williams, President of Macmillan New Ventures
The past five years have seen a tremendous boom in education technology (“ed-tech”) startups that are pushing the boundaries of online and hybrid content delivery an... |
| 30.10.2012 | To empower students, let’s bring interactive learning tools into the classroom | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
This is a guest post by Troy Williams, President ... |
| 28.10.2012 | Clever Raises $3M in Seed Funding | Clever, a San Carlos, CA-based provider of an API that allows developers to access school data, has raised $3m in seed funding.
Backers include:
– Bessemer Venture Partners,
– SV Angel,
– Mike Maples (Floodgate) ,
– Jeff Clavier (SoftTech V... |
| 22.10.2012 | Funding Daily: Everybody jump! | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
With high rates of unemployment, an emphasis on e... |
| 22.10.2012 | Twilio For Education Data, Clever, Lands $3M From Kevin Rose, Mike Maples & Ashton Kutcher, Now In 2K Schools | Clever, a graduate of Y Combinator’s most recent batch of startups, launched in late June to bring a bit of Twilio’s vision to education. That is to say, the startup has been developing a standardized API that makes it easy for K-12 schools... |
| 22.10.2012 | Clever makes teaching with technology as easy as 1,2,3 | The days of chalkboards and workbooks may soon be a relic of times past. Teachers these days can supplement their curricula with interactive software and proctor tests without making hundreds of paper copies.
While new technology may enhanc... |
| 22.10.2012 | Clever (YC S12) raises $3M, has now unlocked K12 data in over 2,000 schools | Clever, a graduate of Y Combinator’s most recent batch of startups, launched in late June to bring a bit of Twilio’s vision to education. That is to say, the startup has been developing a standardized API that makes it easy for K-12 schools... |
| 22.10.2012 | Clever makes teaching with technology as easy as 1,2,3 | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
The days of chalkboards and workbooks may soon be... |
| 26.09.2012 | Shift Happens: Junyo Changes Course | Edtech startup, Junyo, started off with a flourish about 15 months ago: its chief executive, Steve Schoettler, left the high-flying social game company Zynga to devote his time to education. He was at the beginning of a wave of enthusiasm f... |
| 21.08.2012 | Y Combinator S12 Demo Day Batch 4: Meet Vayable, Light Table, viaCycle, and Others | We just wrapped up the fourth session at Y Combinator Demo Day. This will be the last batch of startups we can cover today, because the final group is all off-the-record (i.e., they haven’t launched yet).
You can read our coverage of the pr... |
| 29.06.2012 | Clever (YC S12) launches a Twilio for education data | We’re all a bit tired of the “X is Twilio for Y” brand of analogies (though it’s refreshing to see more of Twilio in this equation than Airbnb these days), but if ever there were an industry in need of some modern, standardizing APIs it wou... |
| 26.06.2012 | Y Combinator-Backed Clever Launches A Twilio For Educational Data | We’re all a bit tired of the “X is Twilio for Y” brand of analogies (though it’s refreshing to see more of Twilio in this equation than Airbnb these days), but if ever there were an industry in need of some modern, standardizing APIs it wou... |