| Date | Title | Description |
| 14.04.2021 | How I Got Here: Crossbeam Engineering Manager Dan Singer on collaborative cultures and his Philly return | A former Philadelphian is making his return to the area, thanks to a career path spanning geographies and software roles, and a drive toward leadership and inclusive culture.
In his first professional role after attending University of Penn... |
| 18.09.2020 | 4 примера использования искусственного интеллекта в онлайн-обучении | Leandash – одна из самых известных систем управления обучением, порадовал нас очень интересной статьей об использовании искусственного интеллекта в сфере онлайн-обучения. Мы не удержались и перевели, потому что сами используем Learndash для... |
| 07.09.2019 | Knewton Was Acquired For Less Than $17M, and Former CEO Brian Kibby Has Left | When Wiley announced back in May that it had acquired Knewton, both companies kept mum on how much the deal was worth. Sources told EdSurge that it was in the $10 million range—and they were right.
In its most recent earnings report, which ... |
| 22.08.2018 | Term Sheet — Wednesday, August 22 | IPO PREP
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However, there was one small problem — Uber hadn’t had a chief financial officer since 2015, a glaring hole for a company planning an ... |
| 21.08.2018 | Knewton Secures $25 Million In Funding | Knewton, the world's leader in adaptive learning products and technologies, has closed its latest financing round, which includes up to $25 million in capital. Knewton plans to use the funding to scale Alta, the company's adaptive learning ... |
| 21.08.2018 | Adaptive Learning Company Knewton Raises $25M in Funding | Knewton, a NYC-based provider of adaptive learning products and technologies, closed its latest financing round, which includes up to $25m in capital.
The round was led by TriplePoint Capital with a debt facility of up to $20m. Existing inv... |
| 21.08.2018 | Knewton’s New Business Attracts New $25M in Funding. But Some Things Don’t Change. | The company that set the bar for hyping adaptive-learning technology has had to adapt to new leadership and a new business model. But some things seem to stay the same—such as its ability to win new investors and capital.
Knewton has raised... |
| 14.05.2018 | Why Google Maps—not Netflix or Amazon—Points to the Future of Education | “He who controls the metaphor controls the debate.” – David Gergen
Among the many lessons I learned from my time working for David Gergen, an advisor to four U.S presidents and now the director of the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard... |
| 15.06.2017 | Hiro Tamura is the Atomico partner U.S. founders should know; here’s why | If you’re a U.S.-based founder and you’ve ever wondered how to pitch the London-based firm Atomico or, more specifically, who to pitch, Hiro Tamura is someone you might get to know better. Though he’s based in London, Tamura is the general ... |
| 21.03.2017 | Getting Girls into STEM: The Power of Blended (and All-Female) Instruction | Jackie, the team captain of St. Mary’s all-girls robotics team, knows a thing or two about breaking the mold. During a panel on the importance of STEM education for women, she explained what it’s like to be a female student competing in a m... |
| 10.01.2017 | The Top 12 Highest Funded New York Edtech Startups in 2016 | While you might think a good idea can pay for itself, funding is an important thing to consider before starting a business. And while you might think a small ecosystem can provide you with the support you need, nothing can help you more tha... |
| 24.12.2016 | The broken edtech ecosystem investors once avoided is changing | Charles Wiles Contributor
Charles Wiles is CEO and co-founder of education technology firm Zzish and former UK product manager at Google.
“Don’t go into education technology, no one makes any money,” was the advice I once got from an early ... |
| 21.12.2016 | Jose Ferreira Steps Down as Knewton CEO, Eyes Next Education Startup | Few technologists have championed the role of big data, personalized learning and many other education buzzwords as vociferously and for as long as Jose Ferreira. So it comes as a surprise that the founder and CEO of Knewton has decided to ... |
| 19.08.2016 | How online courses can bring the world into Africa’s classrooms | - |
| 02.04.2016 | Meet Siraj Khaliq, Partner at Atomico | Co-founder of the Climate Corporation recently joined Atomico to drive VC investments in Europe
There has been a big debate the last few years over whether the Series A crunch is real or not.
What everyone can agree on, though, is that ther... |
| 02.02.2016 | Knewton Raises Additional $10M; Closes $52M Round | Knewton, a NYC-based adaptive learning company, raised an additional $10m and closed its $52m financing round.
The round was led by Sofina and London-based Atomico, with participation from EDBI, the corporate investment arm of the Singapore... |
| 14.01.2016 | Imagine All the Startups Pitching at Demo Day | As every student succeeds, so, too, shall companies and their investors. That’s the message delivered by Imagine K12 co-founders, Tim Brady and Geoff Ralston, at the seventh demo day for the edtech accelerator.
Now in its fifth year, Imagin... |
| 28.11.2015 | How Education Will Be Smarter, Less Intrusive, And Able To Respond To How You Feel | Amar Kumar Contributor
Amar Kumar is the SVP of Efficacy & Research at Pearson.
Impatience characterizes the technology sector’s approach to education. Disruption is taking place in all other sectors of society — so, why not education? ... |
| 16.11.2015 | Knewton Raises $42M | Knewton, a NYC-based provider of an adaptive learning platform, raised $42m in its latest funding.
The round, whose full size is $47.25m and is not closed yet, has been by Sofina with participation from existing investors Atomico, Accel Par... |
| 26.08.2015 | Knewton opens up its $100M+ learning platform that discovers how you learn | For all those students who have had trouble wrapping their heads around a subject — and who hasn’t? — a New York City-based company called Knewton has a free solution.
It will wrap the subject around your head.
The seven-year-old company is... |
| 26.08.2015 | Knewton opens up its $100M+ learning platform that discovers how you learn | 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!
For all those students who have had trouble wrapp... |
| 17.06.2015 | Personalizing The Factory | Jose Ferreira Contributor
Jose Ferreira is the CEO of Knewton.
Winston Churchill famously said, “Democracy is the worst form of government, except all the others that have been tried.”
Until recently, the same could be said for the factory ... |
| 25.06.2014 | Investments Decline As Education Technology Grows Up | School may be out for summer, but the nation’s education-focused technology startups are still hitting the books, drumming up new business and new investments to capitalize on overwhelming demand for innovation from primary and secondary sc... |
| 03.05.2014 | K12 Innovators, Take The Red Pill | Embrace dissonance.
High school students get thirty hours each week with teachers.
Colleges students get twelve hours of teacher-led instruction.
This is a huge chasm for two institutions separated by a three-month summer vacation.
I believ... |
| 16.04.2014 | When Education Gets Gamified, Everyone Loses | Image: Flickr
The “gamification” movement has found its latest champion in an Austin, TX-based “educational tech company” called 26 Gems. Its website certainly embodies the half-baked and giddily optimistic attitude that characterizes much ... |
| 13.03.2014 | Microsoft and Knewton partner up to bring adaptive learning to publishers & schools | 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!
Education technology startup Knewton has clinched... |
| 13.03.2014 | Microsoft and Knewton partner up to bring adaptive learning to publishers & schools | Education technology startup Knewton has clinched a major partnership with Microsoft.
Knewton provides an open API for “adaptive learning,” an insidery term for computing that helps students learn at their own pace. Knewton’s technology wor... |
| 18.02.2014 | What I learned by ‘flipping’ the MOOC | Two of the hot topics in education in the last few years have been massive open online courses (MOOCs) and the flipped classroom. I’ve been experimenting with both of them.
The experiments have gone very well: My Udacity lectures now have o... |
| 22.12.2013 | Knewton Raises $51M in Funding | Knewton, a New York-based an online education company, raised $51m in funding.
The round was led by Atomico with participation from GSV Capital, Accel Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners, First Round Capital, FirstMark Capital and Founders ... |
| 20.12.2013 | Newly profitable Knewton raises $51M for personalized learning | When we were children, most teachers taught to the middle — if you picked up concepts too slowly or quickly, you fell by the wayside.
These days, a new “personalized learning” trend has emerged that offers teachers a better way to adapt the... |
| 20.12.2013 | Knewton Lands $51M Funding |
NEW YORK, NY, Education solutions company, Knewton, has raised $51 million led by Atomico.
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| 19.12.2013 | Powering Smart Content For Publishing Giants, Knewton Lands $51M To Take Personalized Learning Global | Just when it looked like the bubble might be cracking, that venture capital investment in education was stuck in the doldrums, and that the year in EdTech might end with a whimper, no bang in sight, along comes Knewton to put an exclamation... |
| 08.08.2013 | Why video is the unlikely common denominator in ed-tech | Dr. Michal Tsur is the cofounder and president of Kaltura.
Anyone who has attended an ed-tech conference is bound to hear one of the following terms and acronyms: flipped classroom, MOOC, BYOD, personalized or social learning — all pretty d... |
| 08.08.2013 | Why video is the unlikely common denominator in ed-tech | 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!
Dr. Michal Tsur is the cofounder and president of... |
| 06.06.2013 | Knewton launches full-force into K-12 market with HMH | Knewton partners with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt to reach millions of K-12 students
Last November, adaptive learning technology platform Knewton partnered with renowned educational publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt to provide a learning pr... |
| 06.06.2013 | Knewton partners with education publishing giant to bring online learning to millions of students | Education technology startup Knewton just clinched a partnership with publishing giant Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) that it claims will impact 5 million students by the end of the year.
The company develops online learning tools that can... |
| 25.04.2013 | Learndot Officially Opens To The Public To Let Any Business Build Its Own Corporate University In The Cloud | Matygo emerged out of Vancouver’s GrowLab accelerator in late 2011 to take advantage of the growing popularity of the “flipped classroom” philosophy in education, which, as Knewton describes it, seeks to invert traditional methods of teachi... |
| 28.02.2013 | Andrew Mason ‘Fired’ As Groupon CEO | Andrew Mason finally found out that running the controversial deals site Groupon was no bargain. Mason, who founded the company, was unceremoniously ousted as CEO earlier on Thursday, following a rotten earnings report on Wednesday that cap... |
| 19.11.2012 | Knewton to help improve education for incarcerated kids | Knewton teams with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt to develop program for court-involved youth
Want a pretty sobering statistic for your Monday morning? Only one in three U.S. high school students will graduate this year. And graduation rates are... |
| 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 ... |
| 26.09.2012 | The Personal Drive for Personalization | “What is education’s biggest challenge? After ten years in education, I’ve learned that the classroom really has begun to strip away the humanity of children...by finding one-size-fits-all curriculum, by making the classroom look more like ... |
| 12.09.2012 | Startup News: Opening Ceremony and Brit Morin Get Apps; Charity Water Saves the World | (Photo: Opening Ceremony)
Opening Ceremony There hasn’t been much fashion fun in tech since last year’s Raise Cache fashion show, but now Opening Ceremony has partnered with Gin Lane Media to create an interactive iPad application as a comp... |
| 17.07.2012 | MOVband (Fitbit for schools) sprinting to the cloud. ETA: September | Health trackers abound and the devices are seen as part of the solution for weight loss-eager Americans and organizations that want to encourage healthy living to cut the costs of healthcare. It’s a crowded space with the likes of Fitbit, N... |
| 16.07.2012 | Resetting Education: Adaptive learning to the rescue | Knewton's adaptive learning technology platform turns the one-size-fits-all approach on its head
U.S. high school students aren’t faring so well in the global arena when it comes to educational performance. In 2010, the Programme for Intern... |
| 28.06.2012 | Education is undergoing a startling revolution: Let’s support it! | Above: Rob Nail, CEO Singularity University
Education is undergoing an incredible and exciting transformation, but I can’t help but wonder if the “experts” can’t see the forest for the trees. We are continuing to see roiling debates from th... |
| 25.06.2012 | Resetting Education: How tech is changing the paradigm | U.S. schools are struggling, and Silicon Valley is emerging as an unlikely hero
Every day in the United States, 7,200 students drop out of high school. That adds up to 1.3 million a year. Dropout rates are even higher among certain minority... |
| 26.01.2012 | Knewton Prepares To Take Education by Storm [TCTV] | Here at the World Economic Forum in Davos, among the banking, shipping, steel and transport magnates of the global economy, there are a number of technology entrepreneurs floating around. As they rub shoulders with the likes of Eric Schmidt... |
| 23.11.2011 | The Inevitable Groupon Stock Apocalypse is Here, and The Face Of It is Some Drunk Kid We Met at a House Party | Groupon Cat has gone feral.
Remember that time that one daily deals company IPO’d, and everyone was really excited about it, except for those crazy, mean naysayers (like Google searches for it) who were like, “this will not end well because... |
| 01.11.2011 | Knewton Strikes A Deal To Power Pearson’s Digital Education Courses | Coming on the heels of its $33 million series D financing last month, adaptive learning startup Knewton is announcing a very large deal with one of its investors, educational publisher Pearson. One of the largest education publishers in the... |
| 27.10.2011 | Google vs. Groupon: The Daily Deals War Heats Up | Groupon is only days away from its big November 3rd IPO debut! Naturally, they are making crazy moves, as is Google, who wants to squash them and their stupid Groupon Cat into one of our planet’s inner-cores.
Last night, news broke that Gro... |
| 13.10.2011 | Knewton snags $33M for adaptive learning | The personalized learning platform gets support from Founders Fund and Pearson
Personalized education platform Knewton announced Thursday morning that it has raised $33 million in a round of funding led by Founders Fund and Pearson, along w... |
| 13.10.2011 | Knewton raises $33M for adapting online education for each student | Educational technology startup Knewton has raised $33 million in a fourth round of funding as it rolls out an online learning platform that can be adapted to each student’s needs.
Knewton’s Adaptive Learning Platform can dynamically and aut... |
| 13.10.2011 | Knewton Secures $33M |
Educational technology innovator Knewton announced completion of a $33 million round of funding, led by Founders Fund and Pearson. Returning investors include Accel Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners, and FirstMark Capital.
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| 13.10.2011 | Knewton raises $33M for adapting online education for each student | 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!
Educational technology startup Knewton has raised... |
| 13.10.2011 | Knewton Completes $33M Series D Funding | Knewton, a NYC-based learning technology company, has raised $33m in a Series D funding round.
The investment was led by Founders Fund and global learning company Pearson, with participation from existing backers Accel Partners, Bessemer Ve... |
| 13.10.2011 | Founders Fund Leads $33 Million D Round In Learning Startup Knewton | In what is certainly one of the largest funding rounds of an education startup in recent years, Knewton closed a $33 million D round led by Founders Fund. (Another education startup also based in New York city, 2Tor, raised a $32.5 million ... |
| 07.09.2011 | Google Offers Expands Daily Deals to Five More Cities | Google has announced that Google Offers, its daily deals product, will open in Austin, Boston, D.C., Denver and Seattle today. The service launched – bearing Google’s ubiquitous beta label – in Portland, OR on June 1 and expanded to the Bay... |
| 27.06.2011 | Where to hack education and where to stack it | Prominent venture capitalist Fred Wilson wrote a provocative blog post back in 2008 called Hacking Education, in which he expressed frustration with our current educational institutions and called for replacing them with a grand hack, an in... |
| 21.06.2011 | Groupon may not have a viable business model, but it has a twisted sense of humor | Today Groupon finally responded to naysayers expressing deep caution about its upcoming IPO -- the so-called great cash grab before burning through venture financing. Groupon coyly used the so-called "quiet period" defense for def... |
| 22.03.2011 | Grockit hires strategy exec as ed-tech turfwar heats up | The classroom is no place for fighting. Unless it’s between education startups.
In a move that signals an aggressive expansion into the online learning platform market, social learning startup Grockit is hiring Rusty Greiff as chief strateg... |
| 18.01.2011 | 4 Ways Predictive Analytics Are Being Applied to Business | Predictive analytics is a subject we’re keeping an eye on this year. Today we’re taking a look at some of the ways predictive analytics are being used by businesses: to predict customer attrition rates, monitor IT systems and issue alerts w... |
| 06.01.2011 | Test-prep company Knewton takes online courses to next level: university | Knewton, a company that provides personalized help to boost scores on tests such as the GMAT, is taking online education to the next level: It will now power actual university math programs for Arizona State University (ASU) students.
The a... |
| 15.11.2010 | Fox News High? Why Rupert Murdoch is bullish on digital education | Rupert Murdoch is media’s ultimate contrarian, with a reputation for plunging into new businesses well before others agree on their promise. So could his newfound enthusiasm for education startups give the sector a boost?
Last week, New Yor... |
| 10.08.2010 | LearnBoost Launches Online Grading Platform, Hits 1K Users On GitHub | Grade management service LearnBoost, which recently received $975,000 in seed funding, made its first product available to the public today. Now, using LearnBoost’s free teacher gradebook and lesson plan software, teachers can manage their ... |
| 02.08.2010 | Knewton Brings On Ex-AOLer David Liu As COO | Online learning startup Knewton has a new chief operating officer. David Liu, the former senior VP at AOL who spearheaded its Lifestreaming efforts and is also an angel investor (SimpleGeo, BlockChalk), is joining Knewton as COO and a membe... |
| 23.04.2010 | Knewton's plan to kill oldschool school | Adaptive learning platform will open up to developers in 18 to 24 months
The Internet has taken out several entire distribution industries--think record labels, mainstream news, and book publishers--but one of the most resilient forms of me... |
| 20.04.2010 | DreamBox Learning Bought by Netflix CEO (and Microsoft Board Member) Reed Hastings and Charter Fund—Some More Context | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Score one for online education. Bellevue, WA-based DreamBox Learning announced today it has been acquired by Netflix CEO Reed Hastings and the Charter Fund, a nonprofit ventur... |
| 19.04.2010 | Knewton Completes $12.5M Financing | Knewton, a NY-based educational technology company, has completed a $12.5m round of funding led by FirstMark Capital, a New York City-based venture capital firm.
Returning investors include Accel Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners, First R... |
| 19.04.2010 | Educational Technology Company Knewton Scores $12.5 Million More | Online educational technology startup Knewton has completed a $12.5 million round of funding led by New York City-based VC firm FirstMark Capital, after securing a $6 million Series B round of financing a little over a year ago.
Returning i... |
| 01.03.2010 | Knewton launches adaptive-learning SAT Prep Course | Knewton, an online test prep company that uses adaptive learning to boost scores on standardized tests, announced today the launch of its new SAT prep course. The company already provides prep courses for the GMAT and LSAT, and now hopes to... |
| 21.12.2009 | After Near-Death Experience, Grockit And Its CEO Come Back Strong (Screenshots) | Sitting across from Grockit CEO Farb Nivi, you’d never know that a few months ago he was spending weeks in the hospital and with tubes down his throat after getting hit by a minivan on his Vespa. One of his kidneys burst and half of it had ... |
| 05.07.2009 | 6 Great Tools for LSAT, SAT and GMAT Test Prep | Thousands of intelligent students seize up during standardized test season. They’re the ones in the back of the gymnasium, frantically writing to the last minute and choking under the pressure of an egg timer. I am that student.
Perhaps tes... |
| 07.04.2009 | Knewton Bags $6 Million Series B Round For Adaptive Learning Platform | Online educational startup Knewton has raised $6 million in Series B financing from Bessemer Venture Partners and returning investors, which include VC firms Accel Partners and First Round Capital as well as several angel investors who had ... |
| 07.04.2009 | Knewton, scores high and raises cash | Online test preparation service, Knewton, raises $6 million in Series B round
The rise of Internet classes has opened the doors for providers of other Online educational tools. Just a few weeks ago, I wrote up that Flat World Knowledge, rai... |
| 23.12.2008 | Knewton Takes Adaptive Learning To The Next Level | Textbooks are so yesterday. Yet student backpacks are still weighed down by them. Replacing those textbooks with software has been one of the great white whales of computing going back at least to Alan Kay’s original Dynabook concept 40 yea... |
| 07.11.2008 | Roundup: Windows 7 to ruin Christmas, Craigslist cleans up, Pandora’s troubles and more | Here’s the latest action:
Microsoft aiming Windows 7 for 2009 year end — Windows 7, the successor to Vista, should be out in time for Christmas next year.
Craigslist to curb “erotic services” — At some undefined point, Craigslist became the... |
| 27.05.2008 | Knewton raises $2.5 million for education services software | Knewton has raised $2.5 million in a first round of funding to invest in its education services software, VentureBeat has learned.
The New York company is in stealth mode. Its investors include Accel London II, First Round Capital II, Jose ... |
| - | MOVband (Fitbit for schools) sprinting to the cloud. ETA: September | The school-focused health tracker company MOVABLE is prepping a product that connects to the cloud to eventually give the gym class the personalized feel of a Wii Fit workout.
MOVABLE, which along with MedCityNews.com is a portfolio company... |
