Education

Carnegie Mellon-linked Duolingo raised $521m in an upsized offering and saw its shares rise 36% on their first day.

The Oxford-backed corporate education resource provider’s overall funding now stands at more than $280m.

Cash Capital-backed Squirrel AI Learning has raised tens of millions of dollars from investors including Susquehanna International Group and NGP Capital.

The open online education platform’s founding institutions MIT and Harvard plan to sell edX to edtech developer 2U in a deal worth $800m.

CMU-founded language learning platform developer Duolingo was valued at $2.4bn as of its last funding round in November 2020.

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

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

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