This Week in Edtech with Ben Kornell, 6/10/22

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Guest: Philip Cutler, CEO @ Paper

Topics This Week:

1. Metaversities
   • With Money From Facebook, 10 Colleges Turn Their Campuses into ‘Metaversities’
2. Guild & Oprah
   • Guild Education Reaches $4.4B Valuation As Labor Market Demands Continue – And A Downturn Threat Rises
3. Apprenticeships
   • Multiverse nabs $220M at a $1.7B valuation
4. Sanoma in Italy
   • Sanoma acquires Pearson’s local K-12 learning content
5. Beyond Byju’s
   • PhysicsWallah becomes unicorn with $100M Series A
   • Cuemath Doubles its Valuation with $57M funding
   • Scaler readies $50M M&A arsenal
6. More Funding + M&A! 
   • Go1, Edrolo, Ethena, Odilo, Bibliu, Prisms VR, Talently, Kira Learning, Learnoverse, UniApp, & Simplify
   • ServiceNow – Hitch, Riverside Insights – Aperture Education