Education

Vanderbilt’s Center for Technology Transfer and Commercialization generated nine new companies in 2020 and licensed a significant number of covid-related technologies.

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

University of British Columbia spinout Paragon Testing Enterprises has agreed to an acquisition by Prometric Canada Testing Services.

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

Educational data software developer Kidaptive had raised more than $30m from investors including Stanford-StartX Fund.

University of Pennyslvania and Caltech are in line for exits when Stanford’s online education spinout lists on the New York Stock Exchange.

Coursera, which enables users to take online university courses, recently raised a $49m first tranche of a $60m series C round and is setting its sights on India.

MOOCs continue to dominate higher education headlines, but what is the current state of play, and what does the future hold for online course providers?

The Shared Learning Collaborative (SLC), backed by $100m from The Gates Foundation, the Carnegie Corporation, and others, rebrands as new startup inBloom.