The Jefferson Education Accelerator, a commercial entity that invests in ed-tech companies, has announced it will support Agile Mind, a provider of digital curriculum.
When schools are invited to register in the first part of 2016, Noodle Markets will become a free online marketplace for educational tools.
In coordination with Michelle Obama’s Reach Higher Initiative, the competition seeks the app that provides students with the best mobile access to career and technical education resources.
The AIR will be a primary option for companies vetting their products through the Jefferson Education Accelerator.
NewSchools Ignite, a project launched by the NewSchools Venture Fund, would make awards to companies and nonprofits for amounts between $50,000 and $150,000.
The Jefferson Education Accelerator, designed to test and support ed-tech ventures, announces it will support its first company: Echo360, a teaching and learning platform.
In what it calls the first part of its “new national strategy,” the NewSchools Venture Fund is looking to support start-up charter and traditional public schools.
Winners of the sixth annual Milken-Penn GSE Education Business Plan Competition were announced Wednesday, with $140,000 in funding awarded to emerging ed-tech startups.
Startups in K-12 and higher education can apply to this new accelerator that Intel Education and Intel Capital have started in Silicon Valley.
Each of 10 selected ed-tech startups will receive $170,000 when they are chosen for the first class of this new accelerator in the Big Apple.