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3 SEO Strategies for Edtech Business

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The Edtech industry is worth over $340 billion , and its value will keep rising as digital learning becomes even more common. Owning a successful Edtech website means learning optimization tactics that can help increase web visibility and create opportunities for revenue generation.

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Duolingo Just Raised $35M. Udemy Got $50M. Both Are Valued Billions More.

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This latest investment round—Duolingo’s eighth since it launched in 2011—continues a hot streak for the education market, which has seen new investors , new funds and plenty of venture capital flow into edtech companies with established businesses along with those that have yet to release a product. based edtech investment firm.

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Why I'm Still Bullish About the State of Edtech

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In the next few days, thousands of edtech entrepreneurs, investors, educators and policymakers will flood a hotel in San Diego to attend the Mecca of Education Innovation Optimism known as ASU GSV. So now is the perfect time to reflect on the state of edtech. Today’s K12 educators are more digitally native than ever before.

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Public Edtech Companies Have Been Rare. These SPACs Will Change That.

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as the remaining trio of prominent edtech companies on the U.S. He’s also backed Coursera and Course Hero, two privately held edtech companies that are each valued at more than $1 billion. edtech startups raised $2.2 See: Airbnb, DoorDash and Snowflake) Edtech companies are hot—but not that hot. public market.

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Bigger Deals, Bigger Bets: EdTech Venture Funding Trends Continue in 2018

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The key difference in the past few years, however, has been larger funding rounds and valuations across a fewer number of EdTech companies. One factor causing larger deal sizes, but less of them, is that many of the large later-stage deals in the EdTech space would have otherwise likely been IPO candidates in years past.

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The K-12 Edtech Market Is At an Inflection. But Where Is It Going?

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The lessons from the spring chaos, along with recent edtech investment trends, suggest that there’s not only an opportunity to intertwine parent and institutional business strategies, but also to improve the health of the K-12 edtech market by making it more attractive to investors and transparent for school officials.

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Saddle Up for Silicon Slopes! Our Guide to the 2017 ASU+GSV Summit

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The region boasts an unusual concentration of highly-valued tech startups—Domo, Qualtrics and Inside Sales are among them—along with big education companies, including Instructure, the developer of the Canvas learning management system. godfather” of OER and Chief Academic Officer of Lumen Learning), trace their roots here.