Education Investing in 2021: The Reckoning

As pandemic-fueled demand drove education revenues and deal prices to record levels in the first year of the…

2021 Deal Highlights and a Look Ahead

A Record-Setting Year for the Tyton Partners Banking Practice Provides Strong Momentum and a Favorable Outlook for 2022…

Equity, Engagement, Emotional Learning to Drive the Year Ahead in K-12

As we enter 2022, we continue to think about trends across the K-12 ecosystem. What signals are temporary,…

What Could Shape Higher Education Over the Next Twelve Months

With a second year of Covid under our belts and talk shifting from “pandemic” to “endemic,” it seems…

The Build Back Better Act Has the Potential to Make Universal Pre-K a Reality

Three years since the promise of universal pre-K became a key plank of many Democrats’ political platforms, Congress…

Faster, Cheaper, Better: The Three-Year Undergrad Degree in the Global Online Market

Since the middle of the 20th Century a degree from an American university has been the most sought-after…

Byju’s: Edtech Holding Company or Operating Goliath?

There is no company that better exemplifies the current moment in edtech (and edtech investing) than Indian consumer…

Survey: Parent Awareness and Economic Barriers Shaping the Future of Supplemental Learning Pods

Final report in Tyton Partners’ three-part series investigating the scale and scope of alternative education models concludes with…

Finding Your Place 2021: Social Emotional Learning Takes Center Stage in K-12

As students return to a more traditional “brick and mortar” school setting following a year of learning in…

Widening skills gap is driving deal activity tied to education in HCM

Since the beginning of the pandemic, large-sized deals in pre-K-12 and postsecondary have garnered lots of attention as…

Amazon to Use Free College as a Recruiting Tool

A higher education state system administrator recently told us that employer partnerships are like flossing: valuable sure, but tedious and sometimes painful, and not nearly as prevalent…

Antholoboard or Blackology? Either way, we could be seeing more like this.

Last month Anthology and Blackboard announced that the two companies would merge, creating the largest educational technology company…