EdBizWatch

Piazza Lands $8 Million From Khosla

Co allows classes to create Q&A hubs for students and teachers.

With Box, Yelp, & Palantir on Board, Piazza Lands $8M, Rip Empson, TechCrunch

Smart Cities: San Francisco

10 yrs ago it was all about Silicon Valley, but now Oakland is emerging as an edtech hotspot.

Smart Cities: San Francisco, Tom Vander Ark, Getting Smart

Interview with Mitch Kapor

Lotus Founder talks educational impact, investing in ed tech, and founding ed foundations. 

Interview with Mitch Kapor [Video], by Michael Feldstein, e-Literate

Class2Go, Stanford's New Open Source MOOC Platform

Created by 8 Stanford engineers, the non-profit is designed for portability & interoperability.

Class2Go: Stanford's New Open Source Platform for Online Ed, Rip Empson, TechCrunch

The Ed Tech Trend of Piazza

Ed tech is going from LMS to a learner platform market; Piazza is one example.

Piazza- a Free Learning Tool Targeted at Faculty/Student Adoption, Phill Hill, eLiterate

Startups Try to Crack Education Market

Pre K-12 education software and digital-content industry estimated at $7.5 billion in the U.S.

Startups Try to Crack Education Market, Jessica Vascellaro, WSJ

Can Education Entrepreneurs Do Well and Do Good?

A generation of "edupreneurs" repsonds to genuine classrom needs in ways big companies can't.

Can Education Entrepreneurs Do Well and Do Good?, Annie Murphy Paul, Time

Piazza Raises $6 Million From Bessemer

Social learning network, Piazza, allows students to ask or answer questions about their classes.

Piazza Raises $6 Million for Social Learning Network, Bambi Francisco Roizen, VatorNews

Who is Pooja Sankar?

Pooja Sankar is the Founder of Piazza, a social learning network.

Meet Your Neighbor: Pooja Sankar, Bay Area Desi

Piazza Receives $1.5 Million in Seed Funding

Online collaboration tool for students and instructors helps them to answer each other's questions.

Piazza Receives Funding from Sequoia Capital..., Piazza Press Release