ONLINE EDUCATION
Teachmint | December 22, 2021
Teachmint, an education infrastructure startup and the creator of India's largest teaching platform, today announced that it has acqui-hired the Indian arm of edtech startup Teachee. Helping educators and creators sell courses online, Teachee was launched in India in October 2020 by Vlight Technology Pte, a Singapore-based company. This comes at the heels of Teachmint's acquisition of Teachmore, a course-selling platform which enables teachers to sell educational products like online courses, live classes, quizzes and more through their own apps and websites.
With this, close to 20 members of Teachee's India team are now a part of Teachmore by Teachmint, strengthening the company's course-selling offering and enabling it's community of millions of teachers to grow their online presence. Teachee's India country manager, Aakash Kasaundhan, has also joined the company as a Senior Director, leading the business growth of Teachmore by Teachmint. This acquisition comes at a time when the Teachee platform is being discontinued globally.
"We are very happy to welcome the Teachee team to the Teachmint family. This acqui-hire will aid the expansion of our course-selling offering and help deliver even more value and innovation to our teachers. With the aim of scaling our user base from 10 million to 100 million and beyond, we are laser focused on increasing our team strength and bringing the best talent onboard. This acqui-hire gives us a great boost and we are well positioned to revolutionize the growth and monetization opportunities for educators and creators."
Mihir Gupta, Co-founder & CEO, Teachmint
Aakash Kasaundhan, Senior Director, Business at Teachmore (former India country manager at Teachee), said, "Teachmint's growth has been phenomenal and it's inspiring to see a company build such state-of-the-art infra solutions for educators across the globe. Our team at Teachee is thrilled to join the Teachmint group and we are definitely stronger together! Despite the discontinuation of Teachee's platform, the teams across the world created truly memorable and outstanding outcomes for thousands of creators and teachers and we are geared up to bring our experience and energy and take Teachmint to new heights."
Teachmint recently marked its first acquisition by acquiring Teachmore in a cash plus stock deal to expand its course-selling offerings. This follow's Teachmint's series B fundraise of $78 million in October 2021. This gets added to the suite of education-infra products that Teachmint has been offering including Teachmint's mobile teaching app, Teachmint for Institute and Teachmint for developers. With adoption from 10+ million users, 4,000+ educational institutes and multiple international edtech partnerships, Teachmint today is the only solution catering to end-to-end infrastructure needs of educators; from K-12 schools to after-school tutoring to universities and even edtechs.
About Teachmint
Teachmint is an education infrastructure provider and India's largest teaching platform. It was founded in May 2020 by Mihir Gupta, Payoj Jain, Divyansh Bordia and Anshuman Kumar - alumni of IIT Bombay and IIT Delhi with executive experience at OYO, McKinsey, Swiggy and Roposo. The company is reimagining the infrastructure for education through their proprietary classroom technology, which is highly optimized for education providers across the world, including individual teachers, schools, universities and edtech organizations.
Through Teachmint's classroom infrastructure, teachers are able to deliver live online classes, ensure continuous student engagement and automate their admin workflows. Today, the platform is available in 15+ Indian and International languages including English, with 10 million+ teachers & students from 25 countries on its platform.
Teachmint is backed by leading investors such as Rocketship.vc, Vulcan Capital, Learn Capital, Goodwater Capital, Epiq Capital, CM Ventures, Lightspeed India, Better Capital and Titan Capital.
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ONLINE EDUCATION
Datadog | May 27, 2022
Datadog, a leading cloud application security and monitoring platform, announced on May 25th that it has achieved Amazon Web Services (AWS) Education Competency status. The status makes Datadog an AWS partner and certifies that Datadog has proven technical competency and effectiveness in developing mission-critical systems to manage the workloads of higher education, K-12 primary and secondary, and research and publishing industry customers.
"At the Center for Translational Data, we leverage AWS to develop and operate large-scale data platforms to support research for cancer, cardiovascular disease, and veterans' health, to name a few. We operate a data ecosystem comprising over a dozen data commons that make over 10 PBs of data available to the research community. Datadog is a key component of our mission to have our data readily accessible by providing our team with the insight and visibility required to efficiently and effectively monitor our distributed and complex systems. Platform Engineering practices DevOps, SRE and SecOps, and Datadog is a critical tool to help maintain velocity while remaining accountable and responsible for the platform. We've gained incredible insight on our platform that has led to resolutions of long-standing issues (including capacity and performance)."
- Bill Winslow, Director of Platform Engineering at theUniversity of Chicago
The AWS Competency Programs enable customers to choose technology partners that have in-depth expertise and industry experience. Datadog's membership in the AWS Partner Network (APN) has been solidified as a result of the status. The firm’s track record of delivering customized solutions meet the AWS architectural standards and promotes excellence in the operational needs of educators and educational administrators.
"By delivering real-time monitoring and security capabilities for AWS workloads, we maintain uptime for educational institutions so they can provide the best experience possible to their students, teachers, and administrators. Our team is proud to support these institutions and help them achieve their goals by leveraging the agility of the cloud."
- Yrieix Garnier, VP of Product at Datadog
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EDUCATION TECHNOLOGY
businesswire | February 03, 2021
DreamBox Learning®, the K-8 advanced numerical organization that spearheaded Intelligent Adaptive Learning™ innovation, declared today that the South Carolina Department of Education (SCDE) has chosen DreamBox Learning Math to help instructing and getting the hang of during the COVID-19 pandemic and moderate understudy learning misfortune. The SCDE will offer DreamBox Learning Math through June 2022 to 21 areas arriving at in excess of 32,000 understudies in the most underserved networks in the state.
“We conducted an extensive evaluation of math solutions that could help our districts as we transition from emergency instruction towards ‘academic recovery,’ and DreamBox stood out as the only solution that is both proven to increase student achievement and able to provide actionable learning insights for our teachers,” said Dr. David Mathis, Deputy Superintendent at the SCDE. “DreamBox provides a prescriptive approach to help educators determine where students are in their learning, where they need to be, and a clear path to close that gap.”
Successful for face to face, half breed, or distant learning and accessible in both English and Spanish, DreamBox extraordinarily customizes the learning experience for every understudy through a drawing in and propelling climate that adjusts progressively inside and between math exercises dependent on how understudies are tackling issues. DreamBox likewise offers instructors intelligent expert advancement courses to learn best practices for utilizing DreamBox to show on the web or in the study hall in manners that meet understudies precisely where they are.
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