Educapital is proud to announce we are leading FourthRev’s latest Series A, joined by Reach Capital and Emerge Education. We first met Jack and Omar in 2020 and are very excited by what they are accomplishing.

Edtech reached an all-time high in 2021, in terms of invesment levels and total market growth. Size of rounds and valuations have surged, across all segments of edtech. 2021 was also remarkable in terms of exits, with multiple emblematic IPOs.

Educapital is thrilled to announce that its portfolio company, AppScho, a leading French mobile campus app, has been acquired by Ready Education, the Canadian global leader within the space.

Edtech has gained significant ground within Brazil’s education sector over recent years. This past month alone, Brazil raised the most globally, accounting for 27% of global venture funding

In October, Edtech companies raised $1.76bn (1.7x more than in September). There is no longer any doubt that the global edtech market is expanding annually: as of October 2021, YTD raises already exceed all of 2020.

European market is keeping pace with the US, meanwhile the Indian Edtech market is booming.

Following the tempo set by 2020, 2021 is well on its way to become a record breaking year for Edtech, with more than $14.7bn raised by edtech companies globally (ytd)

La révolution structurelle que le monde de l’éducation est en train de vivre n’en est qu’à ses débuts. Comment pourrait-on imaginer que le modèle éducatif établi il y a 100 ans puisse perdurer ?

Cette crise a joué le rôle d’un catalyseur, une accélération de l’histoire Elle a irrémédiablement déplacé la courbe d’adoption des solutions Edtech, faisant gagner 5 à 10 ans au développement de ce secteur.

There have been different policy responses from government across the world to deal with the Covid-19 crisis but everything seems to point to an overall insufficient adoption of Edtech solutions to ensure the continuity of education. The crisis has paved the way for a comprehensive rethinking of the way education is provided. Moving forward, a certain amounts of strategic priorities, outlined in the article, must be addressed.

Le 3 septembre 2020, Jean Castex a annoncé le plan France Relance pour effacer l’effet de la crise du Covid-19 sur l’économie française. Le gouvernement a considéré l’Edtech comme un marché d’avenir: parmi les 100Md€ prévus 14,1Md€ seront consacrés à la formation et à l’emploi.

Nous n’étions pas prêts. La continuité pédagogique n’a pas bien fonctionné. A cela une raison : La France ne s’est jamais donné les moyens d’une éducation innovante depuis 20 ans qu’Internet existe. Par Marie-Christine Levet, fondatrice d’Educapital.

Retour sur le sondage aux professeurs à propos de leur expérience d’enseignement à distance.

In a context were most of the teachers had to fall back on edtech to teach from home, we looked at the reasons why educational technology is a great opportunity for the learning process.

Why is it so hard to assess the long-term and immediate effect of an edtech product? In this article we review the best ways to do so.

Educapital attended the online conference of Hundr.Ed, which featured Andreas Schleicher, the director for the Directorate of Education and Skills of the OECD. The conference has shed light on the many challenges facing education professionals during the Covid19 crisis.

The second part of the ASUGSV Summit addressed the reactions and opinions of Edtech companies, schools and district leaders on how the Covid-19 response will change the pre-K-12 and K12 Learning.

Educapital attended GSV’s virtual Summit last week, a series of talks between professionals from the education space who are dealing hand-on with the Covid19 crisis. There was already a mega trend towards increasing digitization, but the crisis will undoubtably act at least as a catalyst, if not as a major accelerant.