Education and Tech Investment News
February 1st, 2008 by Dave
We don’t make a lot of these ‘industry news’ type posts, but the amount of excitement in the online education space is starting to surge, and we’re not surprised. Like our friends over at EduRev / EduFire, we’re big believers in this being an industry that needs a good carpet shaking!
Not sure if you saw these… but some huge moves online today…
1) Global Scholar (formerly known as InfiLearn) raised a $27mm Series B — yes $27mm!!
http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/venture/archives/130764.asp
2) Education.com won a ‘demo god’ award at Demo 08 conference
http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/venture/archives/130702.asp
3) Local startup ‘CultureMob‘ raised a small round, going after local events (Upcoming, Eventful, etc.):
http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/venture/archives/130724.asp
4) Microsoft making a bid for Yahoo… not education related, but huge for tech industry
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/02/01/story-1
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/02/01/story-2
5) Google missing earnings because of some weaknesses (they claim) in social networking
Never a dull moment folks… onward!