Coursera Growth Surges Under Lockdowns

The global pandemic has been a boon to EdTech companies focusing on expanding learning capabilities through an online platform. According to recent reports, the global market for higher education is valued at $2 trillion. Even before the COVID crisis, education was moving online, but the crisis has accelerated that move significantly.

Duolingo Joins the Billion Dollar Unicorn Club

Several analysts expected language teaching site Duolingo to list this year. But the global economic and pandemic conditions have usurped quite a few well-laid out plans this year. It doesn’t look like Duolingo will list soon.

PagerDuty Keeps Building on its API Strategy

A Fortune Business Insight report released earlier this year estimates the global DevOps tool market to grow at 19% CAGR to $15 billion by 2026. Last month, San Francisco-based PagerDuty (NYSE: PD) announced its second quarter results that impressed the market.

Eventbrite Suffers Deeply from COVID-19

Earlier this year, an IBIS World research report had projected online event ticket sales in the country to grow 9.5% to $13.2 billion in 2020. But like several other industries, the global pandemic has upended those forecasts significantly. San Francisco-based Eventbrite (NYSE:EB), a leading player in the industry, is struggling with its results as events

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GoodData Should Enhance its Platform Strategy

According to a recent Frost and Sullivan report, the Big Data Analytics market is expected to grow 4.5 times from $14.9 billion in 2019 to $68.1 billion by 2025 at a CAGR of 29%. Data discovery and visualization are expected to become more mainstream in the coming years as organizations realize the importance of data prepping,

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Cloud Stocks: Nutanix Focuses on the Hybrid Cloud

According to a Research and Markets report, the global cloud computing market is expected to grow from $371.4 billion in 2020 to $832.1 billion by 2025 at a CAGR of 17.5%. The research reveals that the Covid-19 crisis has accelerated digital business transformation as organizations, educational institutions, and government agencies are all looking to cloud-based

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Product Upgrades Help Upwork Soar

According to a report by Peerism, freelancers could represent 80% of the global workforce by 2030 compared with the current estimated 35%-40% of the workforce. The ability to work remotely and the current economic conditions are accelerating the freelance worker requirement across industries. Organizations like Upwork (NASDAQ: UPWK) are seeing increased adoption of their services.

Recently Listed Asana has an API Focused Strategy

According to IDC, the markets for collaborative applications and project and portfolio management are expected to grow from $23 billion in 2020 to $32 billion in 2023. Work management platform Asana recently went public via a direct listing that valued it at $5.5 billion.