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Baltimore and Boston are cities with their own distinct economic identities, but more recently they’ve shared an economic-development strategy: Bot

Shauntel Poulson is helping to shape this transition. As a principal with NewSchools Venture Fund (for which my Bellwether colleagues recently led a successful CEO search), Polson identifies and makes investments in technology companies and models that are at the…

A new group of developers is trying to tackle the educational app market, which has huge potential for profits, but has been hard to crack because

After two major education conferences in a row, I expected aggressive promotion of digital tools and products at last week’s NewSchools Venture Fund Summit, along with requisite promises of their potential to change teaching and learning forever. Read the full…

VCs are more active than ever, but no two deals are alike Read the full story on EdSurge

This year’s NewSchools Venture Fund Summit turns toward a different kind of conversationRead the full story on EdSurge

On the Tuesday evening before its grand annual education Summit, the NewSchools Venture Fund convened a dinner for the schools and companies that N

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Bessemer Venture Partners funds BrightBytes’ rapid talent growth and expansion to international markets SAN FRANCISCO, March 12, 2014  BrightBytes, a fast-growing educational analytics organization that counts almost 1 in 10 U.S. schools as customers, announced today that it closed $15…