What will the next big ed tech IPO look like? | Education Dive

What will the next big ed tech IPO look like? | Education Dive

In late February, 2U filed for an IPO worth as much as $100 million. The online learning company's IPO could be the biggest in the ed tech sector thus far and follows the New York Stock Exchange debut of Chegg in November, the same month ed publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt also filed for IPO .  If a successful startup isn't acquired, odds are it will file for IPO sooner or later — likely in a bid to finance further expansion of its offerings. While 2U has yet to announce how many shares will be offered or a price range, one thing is certain. Once it begins listing on the NASDAQ under "TWOU," those watching the space will resume speculating, if they haven't already, on which ed tech startup will be the next to go public. Coursera or Udacity Of the "big three" MOOC providers (edX, Coursera, and Udacity), two are for-profit companies that could, conceivably, file for an IPO. Last July, in an interview with Forbes , Coursera co-founder Daphne Koller stated that an IPO was inevitable.

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