Matt Tower's
ETCH newsletter joins fast-growing Whiteboard Media group, which
reaches more than 30,000 education investors, policymakers and
executives each week
SAN
FRANCISCO, June 20, 2024 /PRNewswire/
-- Whiteboard Advisors, edtech consulting firm and publisher
of "Whiteboard Notes," today announced the acquisition of ETCH (Ed
Tech Career Home), a suite of online resources for edtech
executives and investors, including a newsletter focused on the
intersection of education and business. Matt Tower, ETCH's founder, will join Whiteboard
Advisors in San Francisco as Vice
President within the firm's strategy consulting and research
practice and serve as Editor of The EdSheet, a new Whiteboard
Advisors publication focused on education funding news.
The EdSheet will join a growing roster of Whiteboard Media
publications, including "What We're Reading" and "Whiteboard
Notes." Whiteboard Media also offers a subscription research
service, which provides on-demand access to federal and state
funding intelligence, policy changes, and industry analysis.
"Matt has a well-earned reputation as one of the sector's most
thoughtful – and credible – analysts. The popularity of his
investor database and newsletter reflect that," said Ben Wallerstein, CEO of Whiteboard Advisors.
"Whiteboard Media is about bringing needed clarity to an incredibly
dynamic market. But it's also about translating the expertise of
the W/A team into insights that can inform the sector much more
broadly."
For more than 15 years, Whiteboard Advisors' strategy and
research group has served as the go-to advisor for education
investors and grantmakers. The firm's integrated PR and advocacy
practices help to guide the public affairs strategies of the
biggest brands in education. W/A clients include private equity
investors KKR, Warburg Pincus and Bain Capital, as well as
charitable donors and nonprofits like JFF and the Siegel Family
Endowment.
Established in 2021, ETCH developed a popular edtech job board
and an industry-leading database of more than 1,000 education and
workforce-related venture capital and private equity transactions.
Organized around a unique and proprietary taxonomy, the database
tracks deals across various education sub-sectors. Both the job
board and the education transactions database will continue to be
developed and expanded under the Whiteboard Advisors brand.
"Whiteboard Advisors is made up of the best problem solvers in
the education market – and they have become one of the richest
sources of industry content and insights," said Tower. "The team
went out of their way to support ETCH from its earliest days, and
I'm excited to join them, bringing ETCH's resources to the
mix."
About Whiteboard Advisors
Whiteboard Advisors is a
unique strategy consulting, communications and advocacy firm on a
mission to advance learning and economic mobility. Our work guides
the nation's most respected investors, impactful philanthropies,
companies, and nonprofit organizations. We are multidisciplinary by
design: sitting at the intersection of business, policy, practice,
and the media.
About ETCH
Founded in 2021, ETCH (Ed Tech Career Home)
is a suite of online resources designed for edtech executives and
investors. ETCH includes a comprehensive job board and a database
of venture capital and private equity transactions in the education
and workforce development industries, organized by a proprietary
taxonomy.
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