Education

The former Strada Education managing director has been selected to oversee a newly-launched WGU venture fund targeting the education space.

Tsinghua University-backed Meten Education will merge with EdtechX to pursue market share with Chinese students and young professionals.

Operator Collective’s inaugural vehicle secured 100 LPs including two universities to back business-to-business enterprises aligned with its diversity ethos.

Every day, Global University Venturing rounds up the smaller investments from across the university innovation ecosystem in its deal net.

Emory University's endowment fund was among the LPs that chipped in for the venture capital firm’s Continuum I fund, which has closed at $56.6m.

Carnegie Mellon University's language teaching app Duolingo has received series F funding from existing backer CapitalG and is now valued at $1.5bn.

The education services provider is set to invest $4.2m in university-based startups in support of open innovation platform Wain Connect.

Purdue’s Double Down Experiment accelerator will assist nine growth-stage businesses linked to the university with resources as they look to realise their expansion ambitions.