How is the teacher role changing?
How education tech is enabling paradigm shifts we've never seen before...
Welcome back to the Startup Sitdown, an end-of-the-week series where we talk about a high-growth, industry-disrupting technology trend — also known as a directional arrow of progress.
Today’s directional arrow of progress:
the global push for personalized learning and a nuanced, individualized education.
So what are some of the hottest startups capitalizing on this trend right now? ⬇️
a platform combining innovative technology with the latest learning science to provide personalized, tailored professional development to fit the diverse needs of individual educators.
raised a total of $29.3 million in funding over 8 rounds
an app that making learning engaging and effective with adaptive self-learning courses to personalized 1-on-1 classes with expert teachers.
recently raised an $800 million funding round with a valuation of $22 billion 😮
an assessment platform focused on personalized data-AI skills transformation.
raised a total of $21 million in funding over 2 rounds
a leading edtech startup from Munich developing an intelligent and content-agnostic platform for lifelong learning.
raised a total of $64.2 million in funding over 5 rounds
Top 2 Takeaways 🔥
Personalization and ownership is a massive consumer trend revolutionizing almost every industry from healthcare to femtech to fintech to education.
The traditional role of the teacher is being turned upside down — transitioning educators from being the providers of all knowledge to being facilitators of learning.
Personalized e-learning has shifted the metric at which we measure academic success — it used to be time spent in a classroom or time spent learning the material to more of the competencies mastered.