Details

Last Funding Type

Seed

Last Funding Money Raised

$400K

Industries

EdTech,Education,Email Marketing,Events,Market Research,Search Engine

Founded date

Feb 1, 2011

Number Of Employee

11 - 50

Operating Status

Active

EdSurge is the leading site for educators, entrepreneurs and investors involved in education technology. They help educators discover the best products for their students; they inspire developers to build what educators and learners need; they help investors understand the emerging market.

EdSurge is regularly cited as the most influential brand for education technology news and information. EdSurge hosts the most comprehensive database of edtech products, companies, and topics online in addition to more traditional daily reporting of news in the education technology ecosystem. It also runs a vibrant jobs board for entrepreneurs and educators.

Alongside its online presence, EdSurge hosts the San Francisco education technology meetup, a robust nationwide series of Summits, a high-profile awards program called the Digital Innovation in Learning Awards. It is also hosts a service called Edtech Concierge, designed to support education leaders in choosing tools.

The organization itself is operated as a technology-journalism hybrid, employing equal parts technologists, educators and journalists. The company's goal is to promote the smart adoption of education technology through impartial reporting on products and news, research, online community building and services, events and tools.

EdSurge is a venture-backed company that has also received grants from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.