Education

Online higher education platform Unicaf has raised series B funding from a consortium also including Goldman Sachs, EdX and CDC Group as it gears up to target more students.

Oxford University Innovation has released its quarterly figures that reveal more than 89% of external investments in its spinouts occurred in August.

SEI Ventures will invest in seed-stage companies and give startups the opportunity to pilot their technologies across Strayer University and Capella University.

Occupational learning tool developer NovoEd, based on research at Stanford, has been bought by Devonshire Investors after raising $4.8m of series A capital in 2014.

Datum Invest has led a $15.3m round for educational game platform Kahoot, which is the result of research at Norwegian University of Technology and Science.

UC Berkeley’s SkyDeck accelerator has secured an exit as schoolwork assessment technology developer Gradescope was acquired by Turnitin.

Virtual training software provider Strivr increased its total funding to more than $23m, having been incubated in partnership with Stanford’s Virtual Human Interaction Lab.

Stanford-StartX Fund has invested in childhood development app creator Kinedu, which counts childcare provider Advenio among its early backers.