Newsela Company Profile

Newsela is an education technology company that launched in 2013 with a mission of meaningful classroom learning for every student. Co-founders Matthew Gross and Dan Cogan-Drew built a platform that gave teachers relevant, engaging content aligned to state learning standards and delivered at five different reading levels, and the product suite has since grown to include Newsela ELA, Social Studies, STEM, and Writing, plus the Formative real-time instruction and assessment platform.

Since starting in 2013, Newsela has become an essential solution for 90% of U.S. K-12 schools and serves more than 25 million users, including 20 million students and 1.5 million teachers. The company has continued expanding through acquisitions, most recently adding the analytics platform Schoolytics to integrate data insights into its instructional and assessment portfolio.

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The last valuation is $1.3B.

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No. Newsela is a private company; its shares do not trade on a public exchange.