ePals Raises $23 Million
According to a report from Tech Journal South, ePals, Inc., a startup company based in Herndon, VA, has raised $23 Million $47.2 Million in new funding. They (Tech Journal South) pointed to this SEC Filing. The company has received investments from Steve and Jean Case, Mitchell Kapor, National Geographic Ventures, Microsoft, Ted Leonsis, Yossi Vardi [...]
Best and Brightest of India And China Focus on Training Engineers While US Counterparts Focus on For Profit Education
According to Foreign Policy magazine’s Vivek Wadhwa, the US is going to eat America’s lunch. He had the following to say in his recent article:
“India and China now graduate three to six times more engineers than does the United States. The quality of these engineers is, however, so poor that most are not fit [...]
Online Education Is Heating Up
Over the last few years the online education space has been quietly heating up as online enrollment has trended upward. The trend is hard to miss locally – whether it is early stage local startups in the online education space like Social Matchbox presenter alumni Starfish Retention Solutions or Campus Direct, or major players like [...]
Starfish Retention Solutions Wants To Increase The Percent of College Grads
Starfish Retention Solutions, a B2B Software As A Service (SaaS) startup in the education technology space aims to increase the percent of college grads in America. By harnassing technology to identify including social networks social networking techniques, course management systems, portals, and student information systems to identify students who are at risk, the company helps large [...]
DC Based Latimer Education Gets $1.25 million in Funding
DC’s latest startup to receive funding is Latimer Education, a new for-profit online university for African Americans. Latimer Education’s $1.25 million funding round was lead by Maveron, LLC, the Seattle, WA based Venture Capital firm that also funded another online university that you have probably seen a few ad banners for: Capella University.
Washington, DC is [...]
