Mapping EdTech Investments in 2020: Where Did the Money Go?

COVID-19, for all its disastrous effects on countless lives, has accelerated a positive trend that we’ve all been witnessing over the past few years: the move towards digital education. As schools and universities were shut down worldwide in March 2020, parents, educators and students alike scrambled to find a close substitute to something we think of as irreplaceable: in-person education.

As a response to these unusual circumstances, education-themed companies have proliferated across the world. Investor interest in these…