{"id":42255,"date":"2014-02-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-23T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techma.bakertilly.es\/las-10-mayores-rondas-de-financiacion-en-el-sector-tic-de-la-educacion\/"},"modified":"2025-03-12T11:24:58","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T10:24:58","slug":"las-10-mayores-rondas-de-financiacion-en-el-sector-tic-de-la-educacion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techma.bakertilly.es\/en\/las-10-mayores-rondas-de-financiacion-en-el-sector-tic-de-la-educacion\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 10 Biggest Funding Rounds in the Education ICT Sector"},"content":{"rendered":"
Top 10 rounds\u00a0\u00a0of funding<\/strong> in the ICT sector have raised a total of $600M in 2013, the majority of which have been realised in early stage companies.<\/span><\/address>\n

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More rounds of smaller amounts and in early-stage companies<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

2012 was a key year for the ICT sector in education, Venture capital<\/strong> invested more than $1B in this sector. In 2013, although the number of rounds continued to increase, the amount of these rounds has decreased considerably, which explains why the funding<\/strong> The amount of financing was reduced by 26% in the first half of the year. The majority of this financing went to early stage companies.<\/span><\/p>\n

Major operations in the sector<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Despite the downturn, there have been major rounds<\/strong> exceeding $100M such as those achieved by\u00a0Laureate Education<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Lynda.com.<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0Laureate education provides online courses on a wide range of topics. Lynda.com, raised a $103M round of funding from\u00a0Accel partners<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0,\u00a0specturam Equity<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0and\u00a0Meritech Capital Partners<\/span><\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Lynda.com has acquired the Austrian company\u00a0Video 2 Brain\u00a0<\/span><\/a>,<\/span>one month after this first round of financing, Lynda.com enters the video language training business and diversifies its activity, says Diego Gutierrez, the group's corporate finance expert. Abra-Invest.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

In addition\u00a0Coursera\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/span>has also achieved $60M in a round<\/strong> led by\u00a0GSV Capital<\/span><\/span><\/span>\u00a0,\u00a0New Enterprise Associates<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0and\u00a0Kleiner Perkins Caufield.\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/span>Coursera is a platform that offers free online courses in collaboration with the world's top universities.<\/span><\/p>\n

Top 10 largest operations<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The table below shows the largest operations in the ICT education sector. Interestingly, there are investors who have participated in more than one of these deals. rounds<\/strong>as\u00a0Insight Venture Capital<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0that has invested in\u00a0Open English\u00a0<\/span>and\u00a0Pluralsight and<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0Accel Partners<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0investment in\u00a0WyzAnt<\/span><\/a><\/span>,\u00a0Knewton<\/span><\/a><\/span>,<\/span><\/p>\n

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Other posts that may be of interest to you:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Flat world and the education software sector<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Big data in education appeals to investors<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Education sector corporations invest 1,100MM$ in technology companies<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

If you would like to know more information or if you think we can help you in any way, please do not hesitate to contact us.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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