{"id":5972,"date":"2013-02-18T16:11:48","date_gmt":"2013-02-18T16:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudnewsdaily.com\/?p=14264"},"modified":"2013-02-18T16:11:48","modified_gmt":"2013-02-18T16:11:48","slug":"kaplan-launches-education-startup-accelerator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/kaplan-launches-education-startup-accelerator\/","title":{"rendered":"Kaplan Launches Education Startup Accelerator"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

Kaplan, Inc., the education services subsidiary of The Washington Post Company, announced today the launch of the\u00a0Kaplan EdTech Accelerator<\/a>, powered by TechStars, an intensive three-month mentoring and business development program for 10 startup companies, in collaboration with\u00a0TechStars<\/a>, a nationally recognized startup accelerator.<\/p>\n

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The Kaplan EdTech Accelerator will select startups using technology to create products and services across the broad spectrum of education including K-12, higher education, professional education, lifelong learning, and other areas. TechStars will invest $20,000 in each company accepted into the program.<\/p>\n

The Kaplan EdTech Accelerator is the first corporate sponsored accelerator focused exclusively on the education sector, using TechStars\u2019 mentor-driven, deep immersion model. TechStars has completed 15 accelerator programs and its selected companies have attracted more than $285 million in funding in the past six years.<\/p>\n

The Kaplan EdTech Accelerator will host the startups, to be chosen by application, at its offices in New York City\u2019s West Village neighborhood from June to September 2013. They will be mentored by industry leaders, such as Kaplan, Inc. Chairman and CEO Andy Rosen, TechStars founder and CEO David Cohen, Washington Post Company Chairman and CEO Don Graham,\u00a0noted venture capitalist and Foundry Group Managing Director Brad Feld, and\u00a0many notable founders of ed-tech companies, including Jose Ferreira of Knewton and Eren Bali of Udemy.<\/p>\n

Additionally, Kaplan will provide the startups with office space and facilities, and other resources as they work to build their companies and products. This support includes access to Kaplan\u2019s proprietary \u201cKaplan Way for Learning\u201d program, which harnesses the latest learnings from the fields of science, instructional design, and technology to support the development of highly effective, evidence-based learning products. Kaplan also has tremendous reach in education with more than one million students enrolled annually, taught by 10,000-plus instructors globally, relationships with 300-plus U.S. school districts, more than 20 university partners worldwide, and thousands of corporate customers.<\/p>\n

The program will culminate in Demo Day, when the startups\u2019 founders will present for an elite group of angel and venture investors and education industry influencers, with the goal of securing funding to grow their companies.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re thrilled about partnering with TechStars to launch the Kaplan EdTech Accelerator,\u201d said Andy Rosen, Kaplan, Inc. chairman and CEO. \u201cKaplan\u2019s mission is to provide students around the world with the best, most efficient means to achieving their educational goals. Ongoing cultivation of new innovations from all across the sector\u2014in ways like this accelerator program\u2014is embedded in our company\u2019s history.\u201d<\/p>\n

From its start, Kaplan has pioneered notable education innovations. It has, for example, launched the first wholly online law school in the U.S.; built its online university into one of the country\u2019s largest higher education institutions; and, more recently, created mobile delivery systems for its test prep and professional education customers, a new prior learning assessment service for adult learners, and an innovative, large-scale online instructional platform, KAPx. Kaplan will be making available as mentors several of those Kaplan professionals who have driven many of these innovations.<\/p>\n

The application deadline is April 14, 2013. Selected companies will be contacted in late April, and the program will begin in June. Further details and the application for the program are available at\u00a0KaplanEdTechAccelerator.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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