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Instructional Content Platform
About Newsela Stock
Newsela is an Instructional Content Platform that combines content with integrated formative assessments and insights in 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, the Washington Post to the Wichita Eagle. Content is instructionalized to meet students where they are, with interactive tools and analytics. Newsela claims that 90% of US schools use its product including 37 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
Snyk, SpotOn, 6sense, Checkr, Sweetgreen, Talkdesk, Rent the Runway, Sumo Logic, Optoro, Ironclad
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, Magic Leap, Stripe, DoorDash, Epic Games, Bloom Energy, Slack
Knight Enterprise Fund
Knight Foundation
NewSchools Venture Fund
Owl Ventures, LP
Reach Capital
Silicon Badia
Tao Capital Partners
JUUL, Zymergen, Eat Just, Apeel Sciences, Proterra, Newsela, Soylent, Revinate, Ouster, PAX Labs
TCV
Nubank, Toast, Capsule, Rent the Runway, Vice Media, Vectra, GoFundMe, Rover, FinancialForce, Actifio
Techstars
Chainalysis, Outreach, Remitly, Degreed, Sendbird, Newsela, Pilot.com, DigitalOcean, tray.io, Synack
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
TechCrunch - Feb, 26 2021
TechCrunch - Feb, 11 2021
marketbrief - Jan, 21 2021
prweb - Sep, 10 2020
Business Wire - Nov, 19 2020
Language Magazine - Aug, 14 2020
prn - May, 10 2021
bit - Mar, 12 2021
TechCrunch - Oct, 17 2021
prnewswire - Nov, 15 2021
marketbrief - Mar, 15 2021
edsurge - Feb, 26 2021
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