VC funded and in receipt of Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation grants, EdSurge has developed and supports a website for educators, entrepreneurs and investors involved in education technology. The effort is to help educators discover the best products for their students; to encourage developers to build what educators and learners need and to help investors understand the emerging market. EdSurge hosts a comprehensive database of edtech products, companies, and topics online in addition to more traditional daily reporting of news in the education technology ecosystem. The firm runs a jobs board for entrepreneurs and educators. Alongside its online presence, EdSurge hosts the San Francisco education technology meetup, a robust nationwide series of Summits, a high-profile awards program called the Digital Innovation in Learning Awards.They also hosts a service called Edtech Concierge, designed to support education leaders in choosing tools. The organization itself is operated as a technology-journalism hybrid, employing equal parts technologists, educators and journalists. The company's goal is to promote the smart adoption of education technology through impartial reporting on products and news, research, online community building and services, events and tools.
