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IBL News | New York Professional e-learning company OpenSesame.com announced last week a $50 million investment by equity firm JMI Equity with participation from existing investors, FTV Capital and Altos Ventures. To date, the total funding date is $107.4 million. Portland, Oregon-based, ...
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IBL News, Mikel Amigot | New York While striving for a valuation of up to $35 billion, Robinhood Markets Inc, the Menlo Park, California-based online brokerage has started the allocation of shares for its app traders. At a range of $32 to $42 per share, the firm said that it is seeking to raise ...
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IBL News | New York Confluent, Inc. (NASDAQ: CFLT), the latest open-source startup becoming public, was named this week Google Cloud Technology Partner of the Year for the third year in a row. This company handles a platform focused on data in motion and is predicated on the open-source software ...
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IBL News | New York Thoma Bravo-controlled Instructure Holdings Inc. (NYSE: INST) returned to the secondary market today after the company that owns Canvas LMS priced its initial public offering of 12.5 million shares at $20 apiece — meaning the company estimates it will raise $250 million, ...
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IBL News | New York Coursera (NYSE: COUR) released this week a new release of its app for managing Zoom lectures on its platform. The Live2Coursera app for Zoom, which builds upon a basic version developed last year, is available for free download in the Zoom App Marketplace. The app allows ...
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IBL News | New York Responding to questions raised by university partners on the implications of the 2U’s purchase of edX, CEO Anant Agarwal reassured the contractual terms of the deal and said that “Harvard and MIT will continue offering courses and programs on the edX.org site.” In a blog post ...
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IBL News | New York Boston-based corporate training Skillsoft Corp. (NYSE: SKIL) announced yesterday it successfully completed its debt refinancing. Now the company has $480 million of long-term debt outstanding. A press release indicated: “The company closed a new $480 million senior secured ...
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IBL News | New York The last version of Open edX called “Lilac” has been formally certified as an LTI Advantage platform by the IMS Global Learning Consortium. Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) is a standard to connect extensions to educational platforms. The Consortium announced last month ...
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IBL News | New York Language-learning app Duolingo Inc (NASDAQ: DUOL) set the price range of $85 to $95 for its IPO (Initial Public Offering). The Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-based startup is offering 5.1 million shares of Class A common stock (1.4 million from the selling stockholders, with these ...
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IBL News | New York Microsoft announced this week the upcoming launch of a cloud PC service called Windows 365. This Chromebook-like tool will allow users to access Windows 10 from the cloud. It will be available for business users on August 2, 2021. “This is really just an evolution of existing ...