Newsela Stock
Instructional Content Platform
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Newsela is an Instructional Content Platform that combines content with integrated formative assessments and insights into every subject. Students and teachers use Newsela to find digital content from hundreds of sources—from National Geographic to NASA, Biography.com to Encyclopedia Britannica, and the Washington Post to the Wichita Eagle. Content is institutionalized to meet students where they are, with interactive tools and analytics. Newsela claims that 90% of US schools use its product including 25 million students and over 2.5 million teachers.
Newsela was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in New York, New York. Notable investors in Newsela include Kleiner Perkins, Franklin Templeton, and Tao Capital Partners.
Investors
Cambridge Information Group
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
Franklin Templeton Investments
Lacework, Snyk, SpotOn, Workrise, Checkr, Gong.io, 6sense, Sweetgreen, Talkdesk, Lime
Kaplan Ventures
Kapor Capital
Via, Omada Health, Twilio, Thrive Market, Optimizely, Good Eggs, Newsela, Citizen, EdCast, Inkling Systems
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
Snap, AppDynamics, Spotify, Instacart, Stripe, Magic Leap, DoorDash, Bloom Energy, Slack, Brex
Knight Enterprise Fund
Knight Foundation
NewSchools Venture Fund
Owl Ventures, LP
Reach Capital
Silicon Badia
Tao Capital Partners
Eat Just, Zymergen, Crusoe Energy Systems, Apeel Sciences, Proterra, JUUL, Newsela, Soylent, Revinate, Cometeer
TCV
Nubank, Brex, Toast, Capsule, Miro, Rent the Runway, Vice Media, Aviatrix, Vectra, GoFundMe
Techstars
DataRobot, Chainalysis, Outreach, Remitly, Degreed, Sendbird, Alloy, Newsela, Pilot.com, DigitalOcean
Waycross Ventures
Women's Venture Capital Fund
Funding History
| September 2014 | $5.4M |
|---|---|
| September 2014 | $1.2M |
| May 2015 | $14.6M |
| February 2017 | $13.5M |
| February 2019 | $54.3M |
| January 2021 | $100.0M |
Management
Chief Executive Officer
Matthew Gross
Chief Financial Officer
Igor Beckerman
Press
prnewswire - Nov, 15 2021
Newsela launches expanded Novel and Book Studies CollectionTechCrunch - Oct, 17 2021
Newsela breaks into interactive educational video with first acquisitionprn - May, 10 2021
Newsela Launches "Learning Found" Campaignmarketbrief - Mar, 15 2021
K-12 Dealmaking: Newsela Raises $100 Million Series D Round, Reaches Unicorn Statusbit - Mar, 12 2021
Newsela Raises $100M for Digital-First Education Materialsedsurge - Feb, 26 2021
Newsela Raises $100M to Challenge K-12 Textbook Publishers, Eyes AcquisitionsTechCrunch - Feb, 26 2021
Newsela, the replacement for textbooks, raises $100M and becomes a unicornTechCrunch - Feb, 11 2021
Goldman Sachs and Sesame Workshop pour money into this edtech firm’s newest fundmarketbrief - Jan, 21 2021
How One Education Company Took Customers From Free to PaidBusiness Wire - Nov, 19 2020
Newsela Selects Cloud-Based Verint Community to Expand Reach to Educators Nationwideprweb - Sep, 10 2020
Newsela Begins Q3 2020 with New Business Driven By Increased Demand For Accessible, Digital Instructional ContentLanguage Magazine - Aug, 14 2020
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