Shares of edtech company Chegg still haven’t recovered from their dive earlier this month. As you may recall, its stock fell off a cliff after the company reported its Q1 […]
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Back to news homeStartup layoffs, the art of reinvention and a MasterClass in change
Just as one company’s success shouldn’t cast a halo on its vertical’s brethren, one company’s layoffs don’t quite mean that its competitors are equally screwed. Instead, I think that changes […]
Edtech startups flock to the promise and potential of personalized learning
The rise of remote instruction left many parents freshly aware of (and annoyed by) the shortcomings of Zoom school, but for Letha McLaren, COVID-19 brought an epiphany: the importance of […]
Accrediting as a service and the future of alternative degrees
Joshua Broggi believes that three new colleges need to be created every single day, for the next decade, in order to adequately meet demand from students. So, he is building […]
Employers are consumer edtech’s next beta test
Remote work may have changed the way we spend our days, but there’s quite a sneaky disruptor among us: burnout. As the pandemic drags on, employees are either soul-searching for […]
Duolingo doesn’t want to disrupt the college degree
A lot has changed for Duolingo. The language learning company launched nearly a decade ago on the Disrupt stage with no monetization plans. Today, that scrappy app has matured into […]
What we can learn from edtech startups’ expansion efforts in Europe
Rhys Spence Contributor Rhys Spence is head of research at Brighteye Ventures, a European edtech-focused fund, where he works with portfolio companies to help address priorities, with a focus on […]
Edtech’s venture-backed globalization pauses at China
U.S.-based edtech investors are increasingly going global, but recent regulatory crackdowns in China, which instructed local K-12 tutoring startups to go non-profit, have led to a chill among check-writers looking […]
As China shakes up regulations, tech companies suffer
What will the changes bring for startups? Alex Wilhelm 8 hours The Exchange spent a little time on Friday ruminating on the impact of then-rumored regulation in China targeting its […]
China’s expected edtech clampdown may chill a key startup sector
News that China’s government may force domestic tutoring-focused companies to go nonprofit is taking a huge bite out of the value of several technology companies. Bloomberg notes that the value […]