This Week in Edtech with Ben Kornell, 6/10/22

Guest: Philip Cutler, CEO @ Paper

Topics This Week:

1. Metaversities

   • With Money From Facebook, 10 Colleges Turn Their Campuses into ‘Metaversities’

2. Guild & Oprah

   • Guild Education Reaches $4.4B Valuation As Labor Market Demands Continue – And A Downturn Threat Rises

3. Apprenticeships

   • Multiverse nabs $220M at a $1.7B valuation

4. Sanoma in Italy

   • Sanoma acquires Pearson’s local K-12 learning content

5. Beyond Byju’s

   • PhysicsWallah becomes unicorn with $100M Series A

   • Cuemath Doubles its Valuation with $57M funding

   • Scaler readies $50M M&A arsenal

6. More Funding + M&A! 

   • Go1, Edrolo, Ethena, Odilo, Bibliu, Prisms VR, Talently, Kira Learning, Learnoverse, UniApp, & Simplify

   • ServiceNow – Hitch, Riverside Insights – Aperture Education