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| 10.09.2026 | EdTech VR Platforms Market: Immersive Learning Moves from Experiment to Scalable Education | CAGR [15.70] % | Virtual reality is no longer simply a technology used to make education more engaging. It is becoming a practical response to one of education’s hardest problems: how to teach experiences that cannot be easily reproduced inside a convention... |
| 16.01.2026 | Student data breaches expose cyber flaws in schools | - |
| 05.11.2025 | 8 Tools That Make Teaching More Efficient | Share
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In today’s fast-paced educational environment, efficiency is essential for teachers striving to balance lesson planning, instruction, assessment, and student engagement. Fortunately, technology offers a wide ra... |
| 25.10.2024 | Augmented Reality’s Role in Shaping Future Learning | Share
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In the rapidly evolving digital world, Augmented Reality (AR) is no longer a futuristic concept limited to gaming or entertainment; it is rapidly transforming education and training sectors. In this article, Ha... |
| 22.05.2024 | SIIA Announces 2024 CODiE Award Winners for Education Technology | WASHINGTON, May 22, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) presented the winners of the 2024 CODiE Awards in Education Technology during a virtual ceremony on May 21, 2024. Now in its 39th year, the ... |
| 29.09.2023 | Не просто развлечение: как иммерсивные технологии применяют везде — от тушения пожаров до хирургии | Шлемы виртуальной реальности и AR-гарнитуры многим все еще кажутся прежде всего блажью для игр, метавселенных и других развлечений. Но игровой сегмент составляет лишь 28% от общего объема огромного XR-рынка, который составляет $105 млрд. Се... |
| 18.07.2023 | Independent Study Shows Nearpod Satisfies Level III ESSA Requirements and Leads to Positive Student Outcomes | Nearpod “Nearpod makes it easy for teachers to source high-quality and pedagogically-sound resources for the whole class, small groups, and 1:1 instruction,” said Todd Brekhus, Chief Product Officer at Renaissance and General Manager of Nea... |
| 24.04.2023 | Built for School Districts, Flocabulary’s New Data-Driven Analytics and Reporting Provide Insights on Students’ Vocabulary Acquisition | “Paired with these data-driven insights, educators can take action right now to differentiate learning at scale,” said Todd Brekhus, Chief Product Officer at Renaissance and General Manager of Nearpod.
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| 09.03.2023 | Nearpod Announces the 2022 Educator of the Year Award Winners | “Some people say challenges and barriers make our lives complicated, but I think they are essential for success and self-development,” said Liudmyla Katereniuk, a School Director in Ukraine and one of the award recipients.
FORT LAUDERDALE, ... |
| 15.08.2022 | Star Assessments Now Connect to Nearpod to Accelerate Student Growth | “This is the biggest Back-to-School product release in Renaissance’s history, and we’re excited for educators and students to take advantage of the new products and new functionality this year,” said Todd Brekhus, chief product officer at R... |
| 15.01.2022 | Business is booming: Husband-and-wife ed-tech startup Boom Learning takes off during pandemic | Mary and Eric Oemig, the husband-and-wife team behind the education technology startup Boom Learning. (Boom Learning Photo)
It’s been a rocky road for education the past couple years as schools, teachers, students and parents all navigate t... |
| 09.11.2021 | Francisco Partners Portfolio Company Renaissance Announces Significant Growth Investment from Blackstone | Existing Investor Francisco Partners Remains Major Shareholder;
Investment Supports Global Education Technology Leader’s Mission of Accelerating Student Growth and Learning
NEW YORK, SAN FRANCISCO, WISCONSIN RAPIDS, Wis. – Renaissance® (“... |
| 22.08.2021 | 8 things to know in #MiamiTech: A roundup of opportunities and news developments | Facebook
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Summer slowdown? Not a chance. Here’s a sampling of new opportunities cooking up for startups as well as some tech news. 1 The Startup Showdown dangles $120K investment prize
The Startup Showdown Pitch Comp... |
| 25.05.2021 | Product-Led Growth: The New Paradigm in Software Selling | Product-led growth, or PLG, is a term you’ve probably heard a lot about recently – but what is it? The first things that probably come to mind are “freemium,” “free trial,” or “self-service selling,” and those are definitely important eleme... |
| 25.03.2021 | Renaissance Has Completed Its Acquisition of Nearpod | BLOOMINGTON, Minn. (PRWEB) March 25, 2021
Renaissance has completed its acquisition of Nearpod as planned on March 8, 2021. Financial terms of the acquisition have not been disclosed. Both organizations are excited to begin their collaborat... |
| 20.02.2021 | A $650M exit in the making for Nearpod, a homegrown edtech success story | Facebook
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Email Renaissance Learning is the acquirer, and Nearpod will stay in Dania Beach
Nearpod, the South Florida education technology company founded in 2012, has agreed to be acquired for about $650 million, accordin... |
| 19.02.2021 | Renaissance Learning to Acquire Nearpod in Blockbuster $650M All-Cash Deal | With constant budget pressures, protracted sales cycles and a diffuse web of different purchasing processes, the K-12 education market is not for the faint of heart, especially for startups looking to establish themselves. It has long had a... |
| 07.12.2020 | Catching up with Nearpod CEO Pep Carrera: 2020 brings explosive growth, rapid hiring | Facebook
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Pep Carrera moved back to Miami from Ann Arbor, Michigan in January for a new job. He was recruited to be the new CEO of Nearpod, which was founded in South Florida in 2012 by three Argentinian entrepreneur... |
| 10.08.2020 | 5 things to know in #MiamiTech: Opportunity knocks plus startup news to note | Facebook
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1 Applications open for Early Stage Capital Conference
Pitch season is upon us, even though it’s virtual this year.
The Florida Venture Forum announced that its 2020 Early Stage Capital Conference will take... |
| 09.04.2020 | Nearpod helps schools bring learning home, SunVessel's crowdfunding makes tracks and where to get help | Facebook
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By Nancy Dahlberg
This is part of a series of news roundups about startups and organizations in the South Florida tech community navigating the COVID-19 pandemic in different ways. Send items for considerat... |
| 18.03.2020 | Helping Government Respond to COVID-19 | This is an unprecedented time — when government action is most needed.
Having served in the White House during superstorm Sandy and the Ebola crisis, I’ve seen firsthand why a whole-of-government approach is critically important.
Insight ... |
| 29.10.2019 | 3 things to know in #MiamiTech this week: A $150M fund, a funding and winners, too | Facebook
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1 Revolution’s Rise of the Rest announces second $150 million fund
Just two years after launching Revolution’s first Rise of the Rest Seed Fund, the firm announced this week it has closed on a second $150 m... |
| 11.10.2019 | 5 things to know in #MiamiTech: Nearpod, dexFreight, Secberus, EO, FIU in the news | Facebook
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We’ve got a run of company news bites in today’s 5 things to know, plus a couple of hot opportunities for college students.
1 Moving on up: Nearpod enters higher ed
You’ll continue to find this South Florid... |
| 10.10.2019 | Nearpod Expands Into Higher Education | In the K-12 education market, Nearpod boasts a far reach, claiming its tools are used by about 7 million students in 60 percent of U.S. K-12 districts.
Now it has set its sights higher—literally—by looking at colleges and universities.
Orig... |
| 22.07.2019 | How Miami Is Empowering Its Diverse Startup Ecosystem | Miami is a fascinating coastal city. It serves as a gateway to Latin America with more flight connections to LATAM than any other U.S. city. If fact, eMerge Americas, the first tech-focused conference uniting the U.S. and Latin America, is ... |
| 08.04.2019 | Laurene Powell Jobs-backed Nearpod acquires Flocabulary student creativity tool | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Nearpod is trying to get kids more engaged in learning through technologies such as virtual reality. And today the Laurene Powell Jobs-... |
| 08.04.2019 | Bringing on the hip-hop, Nearpod acquires Flocabulary | Facebook
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By Nancy Dahlberg
Educational-technology company Nearpod already serves 60 percent of U.S. school districts. Teachers use Nearpod’s thousands of lessons filled with 360-degree photos, video and virtual real... |
| 08.04.2019 | Laurene Powell Jobs-backed Nearpod acquires Flocabulary student creativity tool | Nearpod is trying to get kids more engaged in learning through technologies such as virtual reality. And today the Laurene Powell Jobs-backed company is acquiring Flocabulary, a maker of a student creativity platform.
Flocabulary uses educa... |
| 01.03.2019 | Catching up with Nearpod: Behind the fast growth, a story of impact | Facebook
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When I first met Nearpod’s co-founders in 2015, they were working in a small office tucked inside a Hallandale warehouse and were getting ready to relocate their team of several dozen. The... |
| 22.08.2018 | Everything You Need to Know to Get Started With AR/VR in the Classroom | Getting started with augmented and virtual reality may seem overwhelming, but with the right approach, successful implementation is achievable—and can actually be a lot of fun to learn. As we head back to school, a solid plan will help turn... |
| 14.03.2018 | No Kidding: This Pre-Revenue Edtech Startup Just Raised $15M in Series B Funding | The days of raising tens of millions in venture capital before making a cent in revenue are not over for the education technology industry.
Kiddom, the developer behind a K-12 content management and collaborative learning platform, has rais... |
| 20.07.2017 | Long Live the ‘90s: ‘Edtech’ Crazes Every Teacher (and Student) Secretly Wishes Were Still Around | If you’ve ever been tempted to click on one of those ‘90s-nostalgia posts, we really can’t blame you—I mean, who doesn’t want to skim through pictures of Dunkaroos and Capri Suns to find out if they really were a ‘90s kid? But here at EdSur... |
| 27.03.2017 | Cloud computing pushes into the classroom, but not without challenges | Enlarge / Seth Erdman, center, and his fellow students use Chromebooks while working on a lesson in a third grade class on Friday, January 16, 2015, at Walden Elementary School in Deerfield, Illinois. (Anthony Souffle)
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| 06.03.2017 | Nearpod Raises $21M in Series B |
AVENTURA, FL, Ed-tech platform that lets K-12 teachers find, create and distribute digital learning experiences, has closed $21M in Series B funding led by Insight Venture Partners.
>> Click here for more funding data on Nearpod
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| 03.03.2017 | Nearpod Raises $21m in Growth Funding | Nearpod, an Aventura, Florida-based provider of an interactive classroom platform to create, engage and assess, raised $21m in funding.
The round was led by Insight Venture Partners.
The company intends to use the funds to grow the team, de... |
| 03.03.2017 | Term Sheet — Friday, March 3 | SNAP, CRACKLE, POP
Good morning, Term Sheet readers. Today’s guest column, from Fortune writer Jen Wieczner, is a comprehensive look at the tech company on everyone’s tongues this week: Snap Inc.
Paid Content How can you protect what you ca... |
| 01.03.2017 | Nearpod, A Pioneer of VR in Edtech, Raises $21M | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Nearpod, an educational technology company that added low-cost virtual reality headsets to its offerings early last year, raised $21 million in a Series B round announced toda... |
| 01.03.2017 | Nearpod Notches $21M in Series B Round to Expand Digital, Virtual Learning Experiences | Nearpod, which offers a suite of tools for teachers to create and share multimedia-rich lessons, presentations and digital activities with students, has raised $21 million in a Series B round led by Insight Venture Partners.
A flurry of exi... |
| 01.03.2017 | Nearpod raises $21 million to turn mobile devices into a teaching … | - |
| 01.03.2017 | Benioff-backed ed-tech startup Nearpod raises $21 million | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Gone are the days where students have to hide their smartphones from their teachers — the devices are now being used as an ed-tech tool... |
| 01.03.2017 | Nearpod raises $21 million to turn mobile devices into a teaching tool rather than classroom distraction | Nearly 80% percent of American adults have smartphones these days, according to Pew Research. And the kids are catching up, studies from the Kaiser Family Foundation suggest. Now, an education tech startup called Nearpod has raised $21 mill... |
| 11.02.2017 | How Edtech Companies Are Getting a Foothold in the Classroom | No matter the product, edtech entrepreneurs share one bottom-line goal: sell their stuff. But how can they begin to build the trust and relationships that are crucial to product development and student success?
An answer to that lies in the... |
| 30.08.2016 | How You Can Take the Pain Out Of Data-Driven Classrooms | How often do you hear your fellow educators talking about data, data, and more data? Does it feel like a constant drill in your head?
This will not be another article about how you need to use data to drive your instruction. You already kno... |
| 10.07.2016 | Virtual and augmented reality need a PG-13 moment | Pramod Sharma Contributor
Pramod Sharma is the co-founder and CEO of Osmo.
We’ve passed a significant milestone in consumer adoption of virtual reality and augmented reality — although it’s clear that we’re a few models away from a truly re... |
| 29.06.2016 | Heard, Overheard and Announced at ISTE 2016 | The ISTE conference isn’t the biggest edtech conference in the world by sheer luck. It brings together K-12 educators, companies, reporters, university professors, and students to talk about product announcements, implementation strategies ... |
| 12.05.2016 | Nearpod Raises $9.2M in Series A Funding | Nearpod, a San Francisco, CA-based edtech platform that allows K-12 teachers to find, create and distribute digital learning experiences, raised $9.2m in Series A funding.
The round was led by Reach Capital, with participation from Storm Ve... |
| 10.05.2016 | Nearpod Grabs $9.2M |
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Nearpod, an online platform that lets K-12 teachers find, create and distribute digital learning experiences, has raised $9.2 million in Series A funding.
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| 09.05.2016 | Nearpod raises $9.2 million to help teachers use tech for live instruction | If Nearpod CEO Guido Kovalskys has his way, overhead projectors and PowerPoint presentations will never bore students again. Instead, he wants to see cutting-edge technologies and interactive content become standard tools of the teaching tr... |
| 15.04.2016 | ClassDojo raises $21 million for app to make parent-teacher meetings obsolete | ClassDojo has raised $21 million in a Series B round of venture funding for tech that connects educators to students’ parents, and helps them communicate consistently about student’s activities, social and behavioral development at school.
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| 20.02.2016 | It’s Time For Edtech Entrepreneurs To Throw Out Stale Business Models | Guido Kovalskys Contributor
Guido Kovalskys is founder and CEO of Nearpod.
We hear it again and again: The U.S. K-12 education system is in crisis.
In its 2015 report, the National Assessment of Educational Progress, otherwise known as “The... |
| 12.02.2016 | With Free Headsets, Nearpod Enticing Schools to Try Virtual Reality | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Education is often mentioned as one of the many future uses of virtual reality technology, though most observers predict that gamers will dominate VR’s early years.
But edtech... |
| 09.04.2015 | Nearpod Nabs $5.6M Series A to Redefine Digital Lessons | Nearpod, which offers a tool to help teachers create and distribute digital lessons and presentations, has closed an undisclosed Series A round; sources close to the deal say it’s in the ballpark of $5.6 million.
Reach Capital and Rothenber... |
| 17.03.2015 | Turning Student Cell Phones into Instructional Tools with Nearpod | Heads down on desks. Eyes glued to a cell phone blinking and begging to be tapped for a higher score. Avoiding an assignment because “I don’t have a pencil to write with.” When I see this in my classroom, It’s a sign that student just isn’t... |
| 20.09.2014 | These StartX startups make tablets into tools for teachers and students | When Apple announced the iPad in 2010, some people mocked it, some couldn’t understand why anyone would need it, and many Apple fans ran to the stores to stand in line for it (much like they did today for the new iPhone).
But it also opened... |
| 20.09.2014 | These StartX startups make tablets into tools for teachers and students | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
When Apple announced the iPad in 2010, some people mocked it, some couldn’t understand why anyone would need it, and many Apple fans ra... |
| 16.09.2014 | Our Four Favorite Startups From The StartX Summer 2014 Demo Day | StartX, the Stanford-funded and affiliated incubator, just held the first demo day at its new Palo Alto-based office space. In an hour, 12 startups pitched their wares to investors and the press, showing products and services that range fro... |
| 28.01.2014 | How hospitals, Big Pharma are gamifying staff training with a mobile quiz platform | QStream’s strategy is simple: Rather than “brain dumping” information on clinicians or medical students, it works with hospitals to deliver a set of scenario-based questions to their mobile devices over spaced intervals of time. The questio... |
| 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... |
| 21.03.2013 | Nearpod Gets $1.5M From NewSchools, Salesforce Exec To Bring Its Mobile “PowerPoint On Steroids” To Classrooms | The bring your own device (BYOD) movement has been sweeping through the business world, contributing to the so-called “consumerization of enterprise,” as employees are increasingly bringing their own laptops, tablets and smartphones to work... |
| 19.12.2012 | Top Education Technology Tools - Q2 2012 | BEST OF S'COOL TOOLS Q2 2012: In ES-Instruct Edition 044, we took a look at the most fascinating s'cool tools featured in the newsletter throughout the first quarter of 2012 -- those tools that had you clicking and sharing away. It's the sa... |
| 20.06.2012 | Education Technology Startups Compete at LAUNCH Event | Last week’s Launch event in Mountain View, California drew a crowd of a couple hundred and surfaced some wonderful tools. Thirty-one companies showed their stuff on stage. Many of these tools were aimed at kids at home—just the kind of appl... |
| - | Рост до $404 млрд к 2025 году, микрообучение и гонка маркетинговых бюджетов — как обстоят дела в EdTech | Индустрия EdTech или education technology подразумевает использование компьютерных технологий для упрощения и повышения эффективности образования. Это одна из индустрий, которая выиграла от режима изоляции во время пандемии коронавирусной и... |
| - | How hospitals, Big Pharma are gamifying staff training with a mobile quiz platform | Patients aren’t the only ones who are poised to benefit from gamification in healthcare.
In between rounds at hospitals like Mayo Clinic and Baylor College of Medicine, clinicians are answering quiz questions and participating in challenges... |
