Sentences with phrase «ed tech accelerators»

Now might be a good time to go forward with it, because in the last month not one, not two, but four new ed tech accelerators have launched.

While $ 100,000 would certainly be difficult to turn down, other ed tech accelerators offering less capital aren't without their selling points for aspiring education entrepreneurs.

Some might look at the recent surge in ed tech accelerators and say it's a sign of a bubble, while others argue that it's more evidence that the nascent industry is growing up.

But the growth of SXSWedu, which is in its third year, underscores the boom - time vibe in the ed tech industry in general, which last year soaked up $ 1.1 billion in venture capital and spawned no less than four ed tech accelerators in the last month.

In the past few years other vertical specific and ed tech accelerators have popped up around the country — from Imagine K - 12, which launched in Palo Alto three years ago to LearnLaunchX which made its own debut last week.

Their announcements comes on the heels of launches by two other ed tech accelerators.

For now, NoRedInk, which is a graduate of the Imagine K - 12 ed tech accelerator, is entirely free to schools and students.

As Kaplan's new TechStars - powered ed tech accelerator recruits its first class, Don Burton, the program's new managing director, talks about the developing industry and opportunities ahead.

Raise Labs, a San Francisco - based startup backed by the Imagine K - 12 ed tech accelerator, is bringing another model into the mix: Instead of targeting students who have already made their college decision, it offers college hopefuls microscholarships they can earn over the course of their high - school careers.

Socratic Labs and Kaplan's new TechStars - powered ed tech accelerator, both of which are based in New York City, offer education entrepreneurs the chance to experiment within the country's largest K - 12 school district and in the backyard of major content companies.

On Monday, Kaplan (s WPO) and TechStars announced a new ed tech accelerator and on Wednesday, Pearson (s PSO) announced its own incubator for ed tech companies.

At the inaugural demo day for the New York - based ed tech accelerator Socratic Labs on Thursday, I heard plenty of compelling pitches from education entrepreneurs set on conquering student debt, using cutting - edge cognitive science to build educational apps and bringing big data and machine learning to literacy.

Not exact matches

«We only want warm referrals, and if you don't have one, get one,» says attorney Ed Zimmerman, chair of the tech group at Lowenstein Sandler in New York City and founder of the accelerator FirstGrowthVC, which doesn't take equity or provide co-working space.

Ed - tech accelerators are a norm world over.

In China, JMD Education Media's Future Works is the first seed round accelerator / angel fund to focus on ed - tech startups.

US - based impact investment foundation, Gray Matters Capital, has launched an accelerator programme to help ed - tech startups identify...

Major ed tech investors and accelerators, including 1776 and GSV Labs, count Allen as one of their key mentors.

The social gaming giant's nonprofit organization Zynga.org and venture philanthropy firm NewSchools Venture Fund will create an «ed tech» accelerator focused on enhancing the quality and reach of learning games -LSB-...]

This week, Kaplan and Pearson both announced their own accelerators for ed tech startups.

Ed tech startup accelerator Imagine K - 12 has created a new Start Fund, enabling it to increase the amount of funding given to each startup from $ 20,000 to $ 100,000.

Boston - based LearnLaunchX, one of several new accelerators for ed tech startups, has announced the members of its inaugural class.

General accelerator programs like TechStars and Y Combinator, which backed startups Codecademy and Clever, are open to ed tech startups.

Ed tech entrepreneurs looking ahead to the programs» next round of deadlines have been poking around, trying to figure out which of the several accelerators will help them reach the venture capitalists or pilot programs or beta customers they need to move ahead.

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