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Booming edtech M&A activity brings consolidation to a fragmented sector

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Saga Education, a tutoring nonprofit backed by Comcast, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and others, acquired math software platform Woot Math. We also saw PowerSchool, which sells a suite of software services to manage schools, scoop up Hoonuit, a data management and analytics tool for educators. for young students.

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Data obscures positive trends in VC dollars reaching women-founded startups

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In my view, the correct statistic is about 18%, not 2% — as we should take into account deals that had mixed-gender founding teams. If our ultimate objective is to understand the current state of opportunity and its expansion over time, we need to, in the words of John Doerr , measure what matters : representation in early-stage financing.

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Making sense of Klarna

TechCrunch

In contrast to America, he points out how Sweden is among the most successful societies in the world from a social mobility perspective — referencing its free education and free health care, which sets up as many people as possible for success. Between 2006 and 2008, Klarna continued to grow as more people started shopping online.

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Making sense of Klarna

TechCrunch

In contrast to America, he points out how Sweden is among the most successful societies in the world from a social mobility perspective — referencing its free education and free health care, which sets up as many people as possible for success. Between 2006 and 2008, Klarna continued to grow as more people started shopping online.