| Date | Title | Description |
| 14.07.2014 | The Sum of Desire2Learn's Acquisitions: Brightspace | Desire2Learn has been on a mission to re-define the “learning management system.” Founded in 1999 by John Baker--then a college student--Desire2Learn offers what is now commonly called a “LMS,” used by over 1,100 higher-ed, K-12, government... |
| 25.06.2014 | Investments Decline As Education Technology Grows Up | School may be out for summer, but the nation’s education-focused technology startups are still hitting the books, drumming up new business and new investments to capitalize on overwhelming demand for innovation from primary and secondary sc... |
| 13.03.2014 | Hootsuite, Shopify, BuildDirect and Others To Go Public? | A new Bloomberg report that quote’s OMERS Ventures’ John Ruffalo is saying that several Canadian technology companies could be going public soon.
Social media and online-education startups are “poised to lead a resurgence in technology init... |
| 03.03.2014 | Desire2Learn acquires massive open-learning database to bolster its Common Core offerings (exclusive) | Canadian education technology giant Desire2Learn has acquired the Achievement Standards Network (ASN), a massive online database of learning standards.
Desire2Learn will keep the ASN afloat, as thousands of educators rely on it to adapt the... |
| 24.01.2014 | Office 365 as an educational LMS? Microsoft video demos how it works | With as much time as I've spent in the education sector, as a student on one end and a high school IT specialist on the other, I know the landscape of educational learning management systems (LMS) decently well. And to be completely honest,... |
| 08.10.2013 | Desire2Learn rolls out online education service to rival Coursera & Udacity | Canada’s Desire2Learn is the most well-funded education-technology company you’ve never heard of.
The company provides a full suite of software tools to K-12 schools in North America, and it competes with education giant Blackboard. Its tec... |
| 09.09.2013 | Desire2Learn acquires Knowillage to bring personalized learning to classrooms | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Education technology startup Desire2Learn just ac... |
| 09.09.2013 | Desire2Learn Acquires Adaptive Learning And Analytics Startup Knowillage | Desire2Learn, the Ontario-based makers of one of the largest Learning Management Systems (LMS) that raised $80 million last year, has been going after M&A of late. Today, after buying student collaboration platform Wiggio and predictive... |
| 09.09.2013 | Desire2Learn acquires Knowillage to bring personalized learning to classrooms | Education technology startup Desire2Learn just acquired Knowillage for an undisclosed sum.
Desire2Learn has raised the second largest venture round for a Canadian startup, only recently beat by Hootsuite. What this means is that the company... |
| 05.08.2013 | Focus is key: 6 cloud startups kicking ass by going narrow | Venture capitalists are betting on cloud startups with a specific focus: health care, financial services, real estate, and other industries.
This more specialized, “vertical” industry approach is a stark contrast to the more horizontal appr... |
| 05.08.2013 | Focus is key: 6 cloud startups kicking ass by going narrow | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Venture capitalists are betting on cloud startups... |
| 08.07.2013 | Desire2Learn’s blind workers help make better accessibility tools for classrooms (exclusive) | Education startups don’t typically have money to burn. But Desire2Learn is an exception; it recently raised $80 million, the largest-ever venture investment in a Canadian software company.
What’s the company doing with all that cash? “We’re... |
| 09.05.2013 | Desire2Learn’s New Learning Suite Aims To Predict Success, Change How Students Navigate Their Academic Career | Desire2Learn is a 10-plus year old Canadian company that makes learning software — a learning management system to be precise — and here’s why, in spite of that description, it shouldn’t bore you to sleep. In a space that’s traditionally be... |
| 19.03.2013 | EdTech: venture funding climbs to $1.1B in 2012 [REPORT] | It’s been a busy year in education technology.
In 2012, $1.1 billion of venture capital funding went to EdTech companies. Of 2,788 private companies acquired in that year, 48 of them were private EdTech firms.
These aren’t idle statistics.
... |
| 18.03.2013 | Desire2Learn Acquires Wiggio | Desire2Learn, a Waterloo, Ontario, Canada-based online learning platform, is acquiring collaboration tool for students Wiggio.
The financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Founded in 1999, Desire2Learn provides cloud-based lea... |
| 14.03.2013 | Boston Roundup: NABsys, Zeo, CommonAngels, Wiggio | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Raising money, shutting down, hiring people and getting acquired—four different entities just about covering all the bases of early stage business and investing news:
—NABsys,... |
| 08.03.2013 | Flush With $80M, Desire2Learn Buys ‘Anti-Sharepoint For Students’ Platform Wiggio, Its 2nd Acquisition In 2 Months | Desire2Learn, the online learning platform based out of Waterloo, Ontario in Canada that raised $80 million in September 2012, is stepping up to the M&A plate. Today, we’ve learned, and confirmed, that the company is making its second a... |
| 24.01.2013 | Ed-tech startup says its Netflix-like recommendation tool will get you through college faster | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Won a place at a four-year college? The odds are ... |
| 24.01.2013 | Ed-tech startup says its Netflix-like recommendation tool will get you through college faster | Won a place at a four-year college? The odds are against you that you’ll graduate in less than six years — if you complete your program at all. There are an estimated 37 million people in America that have some college experience, but no de... |
| 12.09.2012 | Startup Weekend needs more developers, designers // Is there too much VC for startups? [Startup Roundup] | This is the Startup Roundup. Every Wednesday morning, Technically Baltimore will put together the smaller pieces that make up our startup ecosystem.
Baltimore’s Startup Weekend has sold out of Non-Technical tickets for the event starting Se... |
| 04.09.2012 | Online Education Platform Desire2Learn Raises Massive $80M Round From NEA & OMERS Ventures | Desire2Learn, a Canadian online education startup that offers an increasingly popular cloud learning platform for higher education, K-12 and Fortune 1000 companies, just announced that it has raised a $80 million Series A round led by New E... |
| 04.09.2012 | Desire2learn pulls in $80M, the largest-ever VC investment in a Canadian software startup | Ed-tech is on fire! Desire2Learn, a startup that has bootstrapped for over a decade, has raised its first round of venture capital funding from New Enterprise Associates (NEA) and OMERS Ventures, the venture arm of one of Canada’s largest p... |
| 04.09.2012 | Funding Daily: Autumn is upon us | As we re-emerging from the haze of Labor Day weekend and officially enter autumn, funding news was appropriately multi-hued. Investments fell in an array of colors from an array of places today. In tune with back-to-school season, ed-tech c... |
| 04.09.2012 | Desire2learn pulls in $80M, the largest-ever VC investment in a Canadian software startup | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Ed-tech is on fire! Desire2Learn, a startup that ... |
| 04.09.2012 | Online ed platform Desire2Learn raises $80M Round A | Largest VC investment in Canadian software history; first money taken by Desire2Learn in 12 years
I did not go to college all that long ago. But I don't remember very many people bringing their laptops to class. Now, I would guess that near... |
| 04.09.2012 | Desire2Learn Closes $80M Financing | Desire2Learn Incorporated, a Kitchener, ON, Canada-based provider of cloud-based learning solutions for higher education, K-12 and Fortune 1000 companies, has closed an $80m financing.
Backers include New Enterprise Associates (NEA) and OME... |
| 12.07.2011 | DESIRE2LEARN ANNOUNCES PARTNERSHIP WITH KALTURA, EXTENDING VIDEO SOLUTIONS TO CLIENTS | Desire2Learn Incorporated (Desire2Learn), a leading provider of enterprise teaching and learning solutions, today announced an exciting new partnership with Kaltura (www.kaltura.com), developer of the first open source online video platform... |
