Education news from 2021
Education and edtech events from 2021: universities, funding, mergers, investors and public programmes across five regions.
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National Taiwan University opens Graduate School of Advanced Technology
National Taiwan University (NTU) held the opening ceremony for its Graduate School of Advanced Technology on December 24, 2021. The event was attended by Taiwan's…
Adda247 acquires civil service test prep platform StudyIQ for $20 million
Adda247, an Indian test preparation platform focused on government job examinations, acquired the civil service exam preparation provider StudyIQ in a deal reported on…
Harvard launches Kempner Institute for intelligence research with $500 million gift
Harvard University on December 7, 2021 launched the Kempner Institute for the Study of Natural and Artificial Intelligence, a university-wide initiative that links…
TU Delft adds eight AI labs, bringing its cross-faculty total to 24
Delft University of Technology announced on November 17, 2021, that it would add eight new TU Delft AI Labs to the 16 already operating, bringing the total to 24.…
Jordan's Abwaab raises $20 million Series A led by BECO Capital
Abwaab, an education technology company based in Jordan, raised $20 million in a Series A funding round reported on November 15, 2021. The round was led by BECO…
Benesse sets up 5 billion yen Digital Innovation Fund for education and care startups
Benesse Holdings, the Japanese education and nursing care group, established the Benesse Digital Innovation Fund on November 5, 2021 with an investment allocation of 5…
Geniebook raises $16.6 million Series A for personalized learning
Singapore-based online learning company Geniebook said on October 19, 2021, that it had raised US$16.6 million in a Series A round led jointly by East Ventures and…
Monash University, Indonesia begins teaching its first master's cohort
Monash University, Indonesia began teaching its first students on October 4, 2021, becoming the first foreign university to operate in Indonesia, the Australian…
Cambridge University Press and Cambridge Assessment merge into one organization
On August 1, 2021, Cambridge University Press and Cambridge Assessment formally combined to form a single organization named Cambridge University Press & Assessment.…
Duolingo prices Nasdaq initial public offering at $102 per share
Duolingo, the Pittsburgh-based language learning company, priced its initial public offering on July 27, 2021 at $102.00 per share. The offering covered 5,106,113…
2U agrees to acquire edX from Harvard and MIT for $800 million
2U, a publicly traded provider of online degree programs for universities, announced on June 29, 2021 that it would acquire edX, the online course platform created by…
Riiid secures $175 million from SoftBank Vision Fund 2
Riiid, a Seoul-based company that builds artificial intelligence software for education, announced on May 25, 2021 that it had raised $175 million in new funding. The…
Heriot-Watt University Dubai opens new campus at Dubai Knowledge Park
Heriot-Watt University Dubai, the United Arab Emirates branch of the UK-based university, has opened a new campus at Dubai Knowledge Park, according to reports…
Amazon Web Services opens AWS EdStart edtech accelerator to Vietnam
Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced the launch of AWS EdStart in Vietnam on March 31, 2021, opening its virtual accelerator for education technology startups to…
Labster secures $60 million Series C led by Andreessen Horowitz
Labster, a Copenhagen-based developer of virtual science laboratory simulations, has raised $60 million in a Series C funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz. The…
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