This Week in Edtech with Ben Kornell, 2/18/22

Topics This Week:

1. Education Stocks Take a Hit

   • 306 global education stocks lost $120B of value in 2021, down 40%

   • Edtech Stocks hit a steep learning curve

2. Potato Head Becomes a Digital Therapist

   • PresenceLearning partnered with Hasbro to bring beloved characters & classic games to therapy platform

3. Funding + M&A Round-up

   • Munic-based Edurino raised €3.35M to advance digital learning for kids

   • Former Twitter India head Manish Maaheshwari’s Invact Metaversity raises funds @ $33M valuation

   • Why these Udemy execs left to build a better Udemy

   • Paper secures $343M CAD with US schools drawn to its remote tutoring tech

4. Evidence as a Service

   • GUEST: Karl Rectanus - Co-founder & CEO @ LearnPlatform

   • LearnPlatform releases subscription to help solutions providers lower costs, build EdTech evidence that districts & states trust

5. Homeschooling

   • GUEST: Kelly Young - Founder & CEO @ Prenda

Post-Recording Updates:

• Edtech is luring students to cheat with fake answer sites

• Edtech company Cengage names publishing vet as CTO

• Edtech market to reach S288B USD by 2031 (comprehensive research by FMI)

• Educators have some pointed advice for tech companies building the metaverse