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venture capital
investment even by U.S.
standards and the
largest such investment
on record in a Canadian
education-related
business.
The Canadian trend
mirrors whats
happening south of the
border. In California, Edtech is the latest hot
thing. Startup forums are
abuzz with chatter about
how education software
will save the world, from
revolutionizing academia
to bringing free
knowledge to the lowincome students and the
developing world, as
purported by Coursera,
which offers online
courses on anything
from Contemporary
American Poetry to
Computational Finance
at no cost. Investment in
education-related
Quintin Bingley
software investment,
and a meager 0.6 per
cent of overall
investment.
established revenue
flows.
Luckily, Notesolution
and several others are
getting some loving from
Silicon Valley. In June, Tai
and Wu were in San
Francisco schmoozing
with U.S. investors and
faculty from Stanford
and the University of
California, Berkley. They
attended the Launch
Education Conference,
an event hosted by
Microsoft where
promising startups in the
field got a chance to
mingle with a whos who
of Californias tech
industry.
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The company is
receiving great interest
from universities in the
U.K. Recent cuts to
higher education funding
there are making college
applicants more
selective and
heightening competition
among schools trying to
attract applicants,
according to
GrowthWorks Atlantic
CEO Tom Hayes. Weve
been very pleased, he
says, were pretty
bullish about where that
might take us