Ed-tech companies that offer tools for students of all ages, including a video platform and a test-preparation app, received boosts from investors while Follett purchased a book sourcing platform.
Fullstack Academy, backed by an investment fund, acquires The Starter League, and PRISA, a Spanish company, buys Carvajal Education, a provider of education products based in nine Latin American countries, for the equivalent of $19.5 million.
Volley Labs’ investors include Zuckerberg Education Ventures, and adaptive-literacy software developer LightSail takes in $11 million in Series B funding.
Weld North Acquires Performance Matters, Merging It With Truenorthlogic
Move Combines Student Assesment, Teacher Performance Data in One Platform
The move will give Truenorthlogic, which provides data on teachers’ evaluations and training, the ability to combine student assessment results with educator performance data on one platform
Boxlight purchased a provider of interactive teaching solutions and LTG Exam Platform raised more than $5 million to fund expansion.
Follett Buys ClassBook and Teachers-Teachers Merges with myEDmatch.
Udemy, a San Francisco provider of online courses, acquires Talentbuddy, a platform for programmers and others to pick up skills.
K-12 Dealmaking: Knewton Raises $52M; Imagine K12 Merges with Y Combinator
Edmentum forges a new partnership with WebbAlign
Knewton, SchoolMint and NuuEd announced completion of funding rounds; ed-tech accelerator Imagine K-12 merged with the Y Combinator fund.
Sesame Workshop will invest in start-ups that support children’s education, PowerSchool acquired Interactive Achievement, and McGraw-Hill Education India partnered with IGNITOR to offer digital textbooks.
Apple has snapped up Learnspout, Pearson and Knewton partner to work on math using adaptive-learning, and Excelligence Learning acquires the classroom-products marketer Really Good Stuff.