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Tag: Mergers & Acquisitions

Marketplace K-12
Sept. 20, 2023Sept. 20, 2023

M&A in Education Industry Drops in First Half of 2023

By Michelle Caffrey
Analysts-View-Faucet-Money-Flow

Some of the pullback reflects a slowing of private equity deals, which represented just 52 of the deals closed in the first half of the year,

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Marketplace K-12
Sept. 14, 2023Sept. 14, 2023

PowerSchool Targets India Expansion With Latest Acquisition

By David Saleh Rauf
PowerSchool Acquires NeverSkip, EdWeek Market Brief

The acquisition of Neverskip, which uses software to help schools automate operations, is part of PowerSchool’s strategy to greatly expand its presence in the South Asian nation.

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Marketplace K-12
Sept. 1, 2023Sept. 22, 2023

Inside the Deal: Why Discovery Education Bought DreamBox Learning

By Michelle Caffrey
McGraw-Hill mergers with Achieve3000

Discovery Education CEO Jeremy Cowdrey and DreamBox CEO Jessie Woolley-Wilson said the acquisition was driven in part by new trends in the K-12 market.

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Marketplace K-12
Aug. 29, 2023Sept. 22, 2023

Discovery Education Acquires DreamBox Learning, in Pairing of Major Classroom-Focused Companies

By Sean Cavanagh
Discovery Ed Acquires DreamBox, EdWeek Market Brief

The acquisition affects resources that are collectively delivered to millions of students in core academic subjects.

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Marketplace K-12
Aug. 17, 2023Sept. 22, 2023

K-12 Dealmaking: ClassWallet Raises $95 Million; SchoolStatus Acquires ClassTag

By Michelle Caffrey
Newsela acquires Formative, EdWeek Market Brief

ClassWallet is a payments and purchasing platform designed to let school districts and state agencies streamline how they disburse funds.

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Marketplace K-12
Aug. 3, 2023Sept. 22, 2023

K-12 Dealmaking: Preply Raises $70M; Cooperative Strategies Acquired

By Michelle Caffrey

Preply, which was founded in Ukraine, offers a language learning platform that connects students to live tutors.

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Analyst's View
July 20, 2023July 20, 2023

The State of Education M&A in 2023

An Adviser to Companies Making Deals Talks About Forces in Play, From Interest Rates to AI

By Alexandria Ng
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EdWeek Market Brief spoke to a technology M&A adviser about the landscape of ed-tech deals and the factors that will continue to shape the market.

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Marketplace K-12
July 18, 2023

K-12 Dealmaking: Kahoot Acquired by Investor Group That Includes Goldman Sachs

By Michelle Caffrey
Newsela acquires Formative, EdWeek Market Brief

In other noteworthy deals, a Mexican ed-tech company company that makes payment software for private schools raised $19 million in GSV-led round.

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Marketplace K-12
July 12, 2023Sept. 20, 2023

K-12 Dealmaking: PowerSchool to Acquire Communications Platform SchoolMessenger

By Alexandria Ng
K-12 dealmaking

The transaction, which pairs a provider of student information systems with a communication platform, is expected to close in the third quarter of 2023.

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Marketplace K-12
July 6, 2023

K-12 Dealmaking: Wayside Publishing Scoops Up Video-Based Language Tool

By Michelle Caffrey
Newsela acquires Formative, EdWeek Market Brief

Brazilian ed-tech company Teachy said it raised $1.6 million in a pre-seed round to fuel growth of its AI-powered teacher prep product.

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