Weekly review丨Big events in the education industry (10.07?

In the past week (10.07-10.13), 13 companies in the education field received financing, and the financing rounds were concentrated in seed rounds, angel rounds, Asian rounds and other start-up rounds; from the perspective of courses, although the concentration quality education and early childhood education, but children’s programming is still a subdivided course that is a capital craze.

Since this year, children’s programming has continued to receive large amounts of financing. Companies that have received financing before include Xiaoma Wang, Proud Programming, Wonderful Small Meals, etc. With the entry of players, capital, and market maturity, children's programming will soon usher in the next stage of competition.

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The following is a summary of the details.

Investment and financing "Art Treasure" completed the B3 round of financing of US$15 million, and the VIPKID of the art track is here

Yiou learned on October 8 that the online art education company "Art "Bao" recently completed the B3 round of financing, with a total financing amount of US$15 million. This round was led by Hualian Changshan Xing Capital, with Weiguang Capital, Lanchi Venture Capital, venture capital and investment, and Taoli Capital serving as the exclusive financial advisor.

After 18 years of external financing, Dragon Gate Education is committed to becoming a leader in China’s full-process smart education

You announced on October 9 that Beijing Dragon Gate Network Educational Technology Co., Ltd. ("Dragon Gate Education" for short) will receive approximately 100 million yuan in Series A financing. This round of financing was jointly invested by Shengdao Investment and CDH Investment. It is the first external financing of Longzhimen Education Group in the 18 years since its establishment.

Shengtao Education received 50 million in Series A financing to build a comprehensive STEAM education and teaching service system

Yiou News on October 9, K12 comprehensive quality education innovation brand Jiangsu Shengtao Education Tao Education recently announced the completion of 50 million yuan in Series A financing. This round of financing was led by Zuyuan Capital, and all investors in the previous stage invested together.

Shengtao Education stated that this financing will be mainly used for further improvement of the content system, polishing of the content system, upgrading of the operation system, introduction of high-level talents, and internal team growth and construction.

Yixiu Mathematical Thinking completed an angel round of financing of 10 million yuan, led by BV Baidu Ventures

On October 9, Yixiu, an online mathematical thinking training platform for 4-10 years old, "Yixiu" "Mathematical Thinking", it completed an angel round of financing worth tens of millions of yuan in August this year. BV Baidu Ventures received investment, and its old shareholder Latitude Intelligent Investment received investment. This round of financing will be used for course development and software development.

Previously, when Yixiu Mathematical Thinking was established in April this year, it had received millions of yuan in seed round investment from Grape Holdings Latitude Investment and Blue Elephant Capital.

Policy online courses will usher in national standards and will be implemented in April next year

According to news on October 12, recently, the State Administration for Market Regulation and the National Standardization Administration issued an announcement approving Released the national standard for "Online Courses for Information Technology Learning, Education and Training".

It is reported that the standard was jointly developed by Tsinghua University and other universities and education companies, and will be implemented on April 1, 2019.

The "Standards" provide an information model for online courses and their evaluation schemes, that is, the overall framework and internal hierarchical relationships and elements. It stipulates the functions and attributes of each element, and also stipulates the basics of the online course operation platform. Require.

It is suitable for developing and evaluating different types of online courses, as well as online course design and resource development that require open* sharing and migration between different platforms.

Ministry of Education: Strictly Prohibit Commercial Advertisements and Activities from Entering Primary and Secondary Schools

On October 13, the General Office of the Ministry of Education recently issued the "About Strictly Prohibiting Commercial Advertisements and Commercial Activities from Entering Primary and Secondary Schools and Kindergartens" "Emergency Notice".

We hope that while absorbing the negative impact of the recent "red scarf printing Wanda commercial incident" in Heze City, Shandong Province, we can make urgent requests to all places.

According to the "Notice", all localities must conduct comprehensive inspections of primary, secondary and kindergarten schools in the region in a timely manner.

Focus on commercial advertising activities in primary and secondary schools and kindergartens, using primary and secondary school students and kindergarten textbooks, teaching materials, exercise books, stationery, teaching aids, school uniforms, school buses, etc. to publish advertisements in disguised form.

Dynamic Lisichen transforms its dual-main business model into a pure education business

On October 7, Lisichen announced the formal split of its information security business.

The transaction price is 510 million yuan, and Chenguang Ronxin plans to transfer the underlying equity through cash purchase.

It is reported that Lisichen began to transform its education business at the end of 2012 and is currently mainly engaged in education and information security.

The announcement stated that due to the large gap between the two main businesses and the inability to form effective synergy, and the company's limited resources, the two main business forms are not conducive to the company's future long-term development, so it was decided to Assets are split.

After the end of the Focus Security business, Lisichen will fully transform from the two business development models of "education and information security" to a pure education business.

The first "Tencent Cloud Smart Kindergarten" was completed

On October 9, the award ceremony for the first batch of "Tencent Cloud Smart Kindergarten" was completed recently. Shenzhen Longhua District Education Science Research Institute The affiliated kindergarten will be officially connected to the Tengyun Smart Kindergarten system. This also means that Tencent Cloud's new "teaching", "learning" and "management" concepts using cloud computing as its technical power have entered preschool education.

Network card boarding programming platform is officially launched, entering children's programming through an open ecosystem

On October 10, following the launch of NetEase's children's programming platform NetEase Click Programming in August this year, today At NetEase's "Fun to Create a Big Future" strategic conference, NetEase announced the official launch of NetEase Click Programming

It is reported that network programming is a K12 (kindergarten to 12th grade) online programming education product. This time it was officially launched. Before going online, it went through public testing for more than a year.

The online programming platform includes the domestic Scratch open community, quality courses by famous teachers, a multi-disciplinary teaching model with software and hardware, and rich ecological partners. It is the first open children's programming platform in China

The online school cooperates with Cambridge Press to upgrade English courses

On October 11, a delegation from the headquarters and textbook development of Cambridge University Press visited Thinking Online School.

Previously, Siwang School cooperated with Cambridge Press to officially launch the Amazing English Cambridge listening and speaking course for foreign teachers (hereinafter referred to as "AE Listening") customized for Siwang School in March this year.

According to its official introduction, AE adopts the "12" model of Chinese and foreign public education courses, combined with the teaching and research philosophy of Cambridge Press, to explore the "systematic learning, speaking, and advanced skills" of domestic primary and secondary school students in the English learning process. Frequency" closed-loop standard learning path, mainly "full-body live broadcast" and "AI"

Use products to motivate English to launch 3.0 complete learning products, which must be driven by AI for complete learning

10 On March 10, TAL's English brand "Inspire English" held a press conference in Beijing today. Cao Wei, General Manager of Inspire English, said that Inspire English will comprehensively upgrade the curriculum for early childhood and primary schools around the three key points of online, love and technology, and language literacy. and textbooks, 3.0

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