Education

General Atlantic has supplied equity and secured shares through a secondary transaction, and will aid the CMU-founded language app developer's international growth objectives.

Oxford Sciences Innovation's portfolio company BibliU has secured $10m in a series A round led by Nesta Impact Investments.

Insurance technology developer InsGeek, whose shareholders already include Tsinghua University-linked THG Ventures and TusStar, has added $25m in series C funding to its coffers.

Academic investors University of Cambridge, Jisc, Nesta and Grupo Tiradentes have all signed up to Emerge Education's edtech venture fund.

University Ventures portfolio company Galvanize, which provides software engineering and data science courses, has been bought by online education platform K12 after raising $96m in funding.

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

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.