A closer look at K12 edtech venture funding in 2013
Venture investment in K12 education technology was up 6% in 2013 totaling $452 million. Over half of these investments were seed stage transactions mirroring the overall venture trend of increased financing from non-traditional sources (angels, super angels, micro-VC’s, incubators) at the seed stage. The NewSchools Seed Fund led and/or participated in nearly a quarter of […]
The Chief of Yelp Talks to the EdTech Cohort
Tonight the TFA-NewSchools EdTech cohort spent a great evening with Jeremy Stoppelman, the CEO and co-founder of Yelp at their hip HQs in downtown San Francisco talking about entrepreneurship, Jeremy’s road from PayPal to HBS to Yelp, and the books he is reading about education these days. Some interesting thoughts on life as an entrepreneur: Follow your […]
Hybrid and Blended Learning: The Next Sentence in the Conversation
Hybrid schooling, and its close cousin blended learning, come up quickly and often in education reform conversations. The question is, what’s the third or fourth sentence in the conversation? There’s plenty of interest in the idea of blending face-to-face learning—what most of us of voting age know simply as “school”—with online education. (This is more […]