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Newsela

Newsela, Inc. provides internet news services. The Company operates a website offering a range of news articles for the education of children at various levels of reading comprehension, with quizzes and other tools for teachers.

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Founded: 2013
Headcount: 382
Open roles: 16
Last raised: Series D · Sign in to view

TECH STACK

How Newsela builds

Extracted from Newsela’s job postings we’ve tracked

Programming Languages

Python×3 HTML HTML/CSS PHP

CRM & Sales Tools

Salesforce×3 Salesloft

Databases

SQL×3 MySQL

Other Software & Platforms

Adobe Creative Cloud×2 Adobe Creative Suite reStructuredText

Cloud Platforms

Amazon Web Services×2 Google Cloud

Collaboration & Productivity

Google Workspace Jira Slack

Data Engineering & Warehousing

Apache Airflow dbt

Frameworks & Libraries

Laravel

Analytics & BI

Tableau

LEADERSHIP

Founders & key people

OPEN ROLES

Hiring at Newsela

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FUNDING

Capital raised

Total raised

$172,156,176

Investors

Kleiner Perkins Kapor Capital

Funding rounds

Series D
$100MFeb 25, 2021
Series D
Franklin Resources, Inc., TCV - Technology Crossover Ventures, Tao Capital Partners, Waycross Ventures, Owl Ventures, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Reach Capital, Kleiner Perkins
$100MFeb 24, 2021
Series C
$50MMar 13, 2019
Series C
TCV - Technology Crossover Ventures
$50MMar 12, 2019
Series B
$15MOct 6, 2015
Series B
Kleiner Perkins, WomensVCFund II, Owl Ventures, Reach Capital, Kapor Capital, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Knight Enterprise Fund
$15MOct 5, 2015
Series A
$6MSep 24, 2014
Series A
Owl Ventures, Knight Enterprise Fund, Cambridge Information Group, New Schools Venture Fund, Kapor Capital
$6MSep 23, 2014
Seed
$1.2MOct 9, 2013
Seed
Kapor Capital, New Schools Venture Fund, Kaplan Ventures, Zac Zeitlin, Silicon Badia, Brigette Lau, Joannie Fischer, Walter Winshall, Jennifer Coogan, Techstars, Kaplan EdTech Accelerator, Issac Taylor, David Fischer
$1.2MOct 8, 2013

Funding data via Diffbot

Categorized in

Industry

Education K-12 & Higher Ed

Investors

Kleiner Perkins Kapor Capital

Industries

Software Companies Media And Information Companies Educational Organizations Education Platforms Software As A Service Companies

Tech Stack

Go Python React Amazon Web Services Next.js Typescript Google Cloud Platform Java

LOCATIONS

Where they work

Newsela Headquarters Location

New York, NY, 11217

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