Newsela

Newsela is a leading K-12 instructional content platform that empowers educators with confidence that every instructional choice they make is aligned to standards and supports student engagement.

Newsela provides engaging, relevant instructional content for teachers that both educates and inspires.

Newsela was founded in 2013 by Matthew Gross. The company is headquartered in New York, New York, with an office in Mountain View, California.

Newsela is helping kids improve their reading skills in all 50 states and more than 150 countries.

Newsela has a deep catalogue of over 14,000 high-quality, high-interest, standards-aligned texts across 20+ genres, carefully curated from over 175 trusted publishers, including the Associated Press, National Geographic, The New York Times, Scientific American etc.

 

Newsela has over 2.5M teachers and 37M students, who has registered with Newsela for content that's personalized to student interests, accessible to everyone, aligned to instructional standards, and attached to activities and reporting that hold teachers accountable for instruction and students accountable for their work.

 

Newsela is backed by TCV, Franklin Templeton, Owl Ventures, Tao Capital Partners, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Waycross Ventures and others. The company raised $100M in Series D round on Feb 25, 2021. This brings Newsela's total funding to $172.2M to date. The Series D round valued Newsela at $1B post money.

 

 

  • Year founded: 2013
  • Funding Info: $172.2M over 5 Rounds (Latest Funding Type: Series D)
  • Yearly Revenue: NA
  • Employee Size: 201-500
  • Business Valuation: Valued at $1B as of Feb 25, 2021
  • City/Town: New York City
  • State: New York
  • Country: United States
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