Architectural Digest. Wired. Gourmet. Popular magazines and producers of high-quality content, of course -- but educational providers?
In a way, yes, if their publisher...
Most colleges and universities today provide the educational equivalent of enterprise software.
You remember buying enterprise software. It was a big-ticket item that you had to customize and implement. And then every couple of years you'd need to upgrade to the new version. But Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) companies changed all that. Businesses can now "rent" software per user per month, and vendors have unbundled their offering into component parts so that customers only need to buy what they need.
Synergis Education today announced the successful completion of a $5 million Series A2 financing round with Mitsui & Co. (U.S.A.), Inc. (hereafter "Mitsui USA") a wholly owned subsidiary of Mitsui & Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan, one of the most diversified and comprehensive trading, investment and service enterprises in the world. Mitsui USA joins the largest investor University Ventures Fund I, L.P. and affiliated entities, along with its limited partners including Bertelsmann SE & Co. KGaA, which is also a direct investor in the company.
Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert discuss the bitcoin price plunge as Baidu ditches the crypto-currency and China bans it for financial firms. Unnoticed at the same time, Germany declares bitcoin to be private money and Merrill Lynch claims it can replace money transfer systems like Western Union. In the second half, Max interviews Dr. Christos Vlachos, CFO of the University of Nicosia, which is now accepting bitcoin as payment and he explains how the volatility in the price won't matter to the university. They also discuss Dr. Vlachos' hope to turn Cyprus into a bitcoin hub.
The University of Nicosia becomes the first accredited university in the world to accept Bitcoin payments, launches an MSc Degree in Digital Currency and proposes initiation of a Comprehensive Framework for developing Cyprus into a hub for Bitcoin trading, processing and banking.
UniversityNow's Patten University may be the first institution to successfully renew its regional accreditation while also voluntarily dropping out of federal financial aid programs.
That move is one of several that make the Bay Area startup novel, or at least a new twist on emerging models...
Synergis Education, one of the fastest growing providers of premier educational services for nonprofit colleges and universities, is pleased to announce the appointment of Paul Gleason to the post of chief operating officer. Gleason assumes the lead operational role just after...
Synergis Education today announced the successful completion of a $33 million Series A financing. The largest investor is University Ventures Fund I, L.P. and affiliated entities, along with its limited partners including Bertelsmann...
UniversityNow, a social venture that operates two accredited universities, Patten University and New Charter University, announced that it has raised $19 million in venture capital to fuel its expansion and help...
UniversityNow, a for-profit educational venture that runs both online and on-campus programs that seek to make access to college easier, has raised another $19 million in venture capital, the San Francisco company said...
