Ed Tranham — An eighty percent drop — funding does not predict survival.

B2Education Unpacked - The Education Growth Podcast · Oct 7, 2026 · 10m

Early-stage education fundraising has collapsed. Ed Tranham's point is about which companies came through it.

A bonus episode, cut from Series One, Episode Nine of B2Education Unpacked — The Education Growth Podcast.

In this one:

● What happened to early-stage education fundraising

● Why a bootstrapped budget-planning tool outlasted the companies promising to revolutionise education

● What raising money does and does not tell you about a business

● Going direct to teachers, in the UK, the US and Australia

Ed Tranham is Founder of The Assignment Report.

The full episode is here.

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