🔥 HolonIQ's Annual Education Outlook 2025. 🎓 Market Size. 📊 Investment Landscape.

Happy Monday 🍂

Today, HolonIQ launches the 2025 Global Education Outlook, an annual analysis of the global education economy, presenting over 180 pages of detailed market data, investment & analysis, strategic shifts, and trends in education. Purchase the Report.

The global education market is set to reach almost $10T by 2030, with Early Childhood and Workforce Education the fastest growing segments. Angst around AI in education moves toward practical implementation as generative tools become more deeply embedded into standard applications. Investment levels remain in the doldrums, with a ‘back to basics’ mantra from investors. Governments will turn on the taps for vocational education, and international education is likely to continue taking one step forward, two steps back.

💰Investment Trends

2024 saw $1.8B of EdTech Venture Capital, representing the lowest level of investment since 2014, and 2% of total VC since 2010. The hype of 2021 is well and truly over, with greater investor emphasis on the path to profitability. There were 300 M&A deals, with a mix of strategics and PE transactions, 4 IPOs and a handful of take privates with private equity actively pursuing segment leaders. Access deeper analysis in the 2025 Annual Outlook, or go straight to the data on the HolonIQ platform.

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💪 Power Moves

👾 Samsung Singapore to expand AI tools to achieve better student engagement and personalize learning, partnering with Challenger, Geniebook, and TeachingTutor.ai

🤖 Recent immigration changes impact international student opportunities. Canada tightened permanent residency pathways, New Zealand adjusted post-study work visas, and Australia's enrollment cap lost support in parliament. 

💰 Major US universities to set up physical institutions in India. Rice University is set to establish its first offshore operations and Johns Hopkins University is considering setting up offshore facilities in India. 

💰 Funding

🔢 Magma Math, a US-based digital K12 math solution, raised $40M to improve Magma Math for its students, teachers, and district partners across the US and Europe.

💸 Outsmart Education, a US-based higher education finance solution provider, raised $13M to focus on degree affordability and student retention. 

🙌 LearnWise, a Dutch AI-powered student support platform for universities, raised $2M from Emerge Capital to expand its operations globally.

🏋️‍♂️ Vitality, a US-based behavioral change platform, has acquired WellSpark, a coaching provider, to integrate its tools into existing health plans.

👶 KidsKonnect, a Netherlands-based early-years organization, has acquired NoodleNow, a UB-based teacher training provider for early childhood education, to expand into the UK. 

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