Newsela Stock

Instructional Content Platform

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Founded

2012

Notable Investors

Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers

Headquarters

New York NY, US

Total Funding

$189M

About Newsela Stock

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

Newsela

Chan Zuckerberg Initiative

Handshake, Andela, Newsela, Brightwheel

Franklin Templeton Investments

Lacework, Snyk, SpotOn, Workrise, Checkr, Gong.io, 6sense, Sweetgreen, Talkdesk, Lime

Kaplan EdTech Accelerator

Degreed, Newsela

Kaplan Ventures

Newsela

Knight Enterprise Fund

Newsela

Knight Foundation

Newsela

NewSchools Venture Fund

Newsela, Revolution Foods, EdCast

Waycross Ventures

Newsela

Women's Venture Capital Fund

Newsela

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

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