🎓 Paris + New York Summits / Registration Now Open

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Join us in 🇫🇷 Paris for this year's Future of Higher Education and Workforce Summit, June 27 and connect with Higher Education Leaders from across Europe and around the world. NEOMA Business School is our hosting partner this year, and we'll connect at the NEOMA's Paris campus located in the dynamic Butte-aux-Cailles district.

We're also opening registrations for our flagship 'Back to School Summit' in New York, September 10-11. This year, we're bringing over 500 global education leaders together for three incredible tracks, including 🎓 Higher Education and Workforce, 🌐 Foundation and Philanthropy, and 🖥️ Technology and Finance.

The 2024 'Back to School' Summit will also host the most prestigious and well-funded competition of its kind, the Milken-Penn GSE Education Business Plan Competition. Celebrating and nurturing purpose-driven ventures that seek to address systemic inequities in education through innovation. Since 2010, it has awarded more than $2 million in cash prizes.

This Week's Topics

🧠 Annual AI in Education Survey. Exploring the potential impact of AI technologies across education sectors globally
📊 Chart Spotlight. Assessing potential impact of voice, vision, ML & NLP technologies on education
🏆 Global EdTech 1000. The most promising learning, teaching, and upskilling startups across the globe
📖 Annual Education Outlook. 180+ pages of trends, insight, and data
💰 Education Deals of the Week. Funding and M&A

Don't forget to check out the 2024 Global Education Outlook and sign up for our new Daily Newsletters, Chart of the Day and Impact Capital Markets. For unlimited access to over one million charts, request a demo.

🧠 Participate in HolonIQ's Annual AI in Education Survey

Join us for HolonIQ's 6th Annual Artificial Intelligence in Education Survey.

HolonIQ's ongoing research into AI in Education explores the potential impact of AI technologies across education sectors globally, including expectations and approaches to adopting AI, application and value creation, organizational barriers, and capability development. Each year, our research update captures education industry attitudes and shifts in perspectives as institutions and organizations consider the role of AI in digital adoption and transformation progress.

AI in education is expected to benefit learners, educators, and institutions in multiple ways, including automation of administrative tasks and processes and personalized learning at scale, enabling educators to focus on higher value activities such as student mentoring and support.

📊 Charts Spotlight - Assessing Potential Impact of Voice, Vision, ML & NLP technologies on education

Subscribe to the HolonIQ newsletter 'Chart of the Day', a daily newsletter that helps explain the global impact economy, from climate tech to education and healthcare. 

HolonIQ’s AI technology Applications Framework identifies four key technologies driving the use of AI in education: Vision, Voice, Language, and Analytics.

Last year's AI in Education survey revealed that Analytics and Language were perceived as having the most potential impact on the education industry. Both applications play an integral part, for example, in scaling and integrating intelligent Adaptive Learning solutions across the education sector. Intelligent Adaptive Learning is a disruptive technology backed by AI that aims to personalize teaching based on students' learning preferences, knowledge state and progress.

🏆 Global EdTech 1000

Each year, HolonIQ identifies the 1000 most promising EdTech startups globally. Region by region, we build a picture of each market, showcasing how technology is being used in education, from PreK to Lifelong Upskilling. Drawing on the HolonIQ Platform, along with perspectives from market experts in each region, analysts from our Education Intelligence Unit consider which segments are in demand, where capital is flowing, the products and models gaining traction, and the characteristics of the leadership team.

The 2023 Global EdTech 1000 shows growth in the broad category of ‘education management’, which captures EdTech startups supporting the digitization of processes at education institutions and companies, from analytics to LMS’s, parent communication apps, financing education, and full-service administrative environments, indicative of the long-term move to build digital infrastructure in traditional education settings. STEAM is the next largest category globally, but with significant variation across geographies, from 1 in 5 in Africa and the Nordics to 7% in North America. STEAM cuts across K12 to Workforce, including upskilling in tech boot camps and building core concepts in early learning.

📖 2024 Global Education Outlook

HolonIQ's annual analysis of the global education economy offers over 180 pages of in-depth insights on market data, investments, strategic shifts, and trends in education. Download the extract or purchase the full report.

💰 Education Deals of the Week

HolonIQ actively monitors and tracks capital flow in the Education market, spanning across all regions and transaction categories. Subscribe to our Daily Capital Markets newsletter to see the top deals daily.

Funding

🔒 Global Grid for Learning (GG4L), a privacy-centric education data exchange platform, raised $18M to help vendors prioritize student data privacy.

🪙 Goalsetter, a provider of financial curriculum for families, secured $9.6M in Series A funding. The company aims to leverage these funds for new B2B partnerships and continued program development.

🍀 Automated workforce coaching platform Cloverleaf raised $7.3M in a Series A extension round led by Advantage Capital. Tripling revenue since its June 2022 funding, the company expects continued growth with this capital injection, bringing their total funding to $20M.

🏅 Accredify, a digital certificate provider provider, secured a strategic investment in its Series A extension following a $7 million financing round in April 2023.

✅ EdLight, an AI-powered feedback & grading platform for educators, secured $4M in seed funding.

💻 Sprints, an Egypt-based AI-powered tech upskilling EdTech, raised a $3M bridge round led by Disruptech Ventures, to finance its expansion into ten new markets.

M&A

🧑‍💼 Special education curriculum provider n2y and Texthelp, an assistive technology company, merged to create a new entity serving diverse learners and neurodiverse employees worldwide.

👶 Wonderschool, a network of micro preschools, acquired EarlyDay, an early childhood career marketplace.

🧑‍🏫 StraighterLine, a US-based OPM provider, acquired ProSolutions Training, a professional development care solution that provides training for early childhood educators.

🌍 International study platform, Keystone Education Group acquired Edunation and Asia Exchange to expand its reach to Asia Pacific and promote Nordic study destinations.

🏭 An online training platform Certus, acquired Paulson Training, a manufacturing training provider, expanding Certus' portfolio of industrial skills and simulations.

Thank you for reading. Have a great week ahead!
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