New York education company with a website and app that gives K-12 classrooms daily news at suitable reading levels.
Founded in 2013 and based in New York, US, Newsela, Inc. develops a website for schools that offers daily news pieces from newspapers at reading levels suited to students, for nonfiction literacy and current events. Matthew Gross and Dan Cogan-Drew co-founded the company. In February 2021 it raised USD 100 million in a Series D round from Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Franklin Templeton, Owl Ventures, Tao Capital Partners, TCV and Waycross Ventures.
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