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Welcome back to our Weekly Round-up of Edtech news across the industry! Guest: Natalia Kucirkova of Wikit, AS)Our top stories this week:1) Companies Becoming Platforms through Consolidation- HMH acquires school testing non-profit NWEA)- Instructure (maker of the Canvas LMS) acquires evidence platform Learnplatform) - Zoom launches 'Essential Apps' including Kahoot! and Prezi)- Jack McDermott of Chegg on consolidation in Edtech )2) Edtech Winter creating CEO turnover- Upgrad CEO Arjun Mohan resigns)- Newsela CEO Matthew Gross leaves, Pep Carrera from Nearpod) takes helm- Udemy CEO and Board Chair retires, is replaced by Head of Udemy Business)- Inspera changes CEO)3) **Seattle schools suing big tech- **Seattle schools are suing TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat and YouTube for causing mental health crises )4) Student Financial Aid Startup Frank Being Sued by J.P. Morgan Chase- JP Morgan's Jamie Dimon and co are now suing the company, alleging that Frank invented 4+ million fake users to close the sale. )- Ben: "the FTX of Edtech."**5) Edtech Conference Season is Underway- **GSV announces its "GSV 150") and the "Elite 200")- SxSWEdu announces its launch contest participants)Funding Rounds
- LEAD School becomes Unicorn, acquires Pearson's K-12 Business in India)
- Toddle raises $17 million)
- Eduvanz raises $12.6M)
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