Hear from experienced edtech investors on the market’s overnight boom at Disrupt 2020
https://techcrunch.com/2020/08/22/hear-from-experienced-edtech-investors-on-the-markets-overnight-boom/
Edtech’s reputation has been revitalized due to the coronavirus pandemic, which forced millions of students to adopt remote education overnight. But behind the scramble is a crop of investors who have long invested in the space — before it became cool.
To better understand what’s ahead, what’s hot, and what’s not, I’m talking to a trio of top investors in edtech at TechCrunch Disrupt: Ian Chiu of Owl Ventures, Mercedes Bent from Lightspeed, and Jennifer Carolan from Reach Capital. Between the three of them, they have stakes in category-defining upstarts like Byju, Masterclass, Quizlet, Newsela, Labster, Winnie, and Outschool.