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Overview

Newsela adapts news articles and primary sources to multiple reading levels. Teachers assign the same content across a classroom with differing literacy abilities. The platform spans social studies, science and language arts curricula.

News

News 2026 replatform 6 months ago
America's Top EdTech Companies of 2026
TIME and Statista have named the 250 top edtech companies in the U.S., led by Duolingo and Coursera.
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News WTOP News 7 months ago
How a Prince William Co. teacher is using AI to offer students immediate feedback
Prince William County Public Schools approved a tool called Newsela. The software, Betancourt said, is helping her group of nonnative English speakers gain conf
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News YahooFinance 1 year ago
Newsela STEM with Generation Genius launches to cultivate critical thinking with real-world, standards-aligned science lessons and videos
Newsela, a leading provider of high-quality instructional and assessment products for K-12, announced today that the company has launched a new product: Newsela STEM with Generation Genius.
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Press release PRNewswire 4 years ago
Derrick Ware Named Chief Product & Technology Officer at Newsela
/PRNewswire/ -- Today, Newsela announced Derrick Ware as its new Chief Product & Technology Officer. Derrick most recently served as Chief Technology Officer...
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News TechCrunch 5 years ago
Newsela breaks into interactive educational video with first acquisition
YouTube is the third-most-used website within schools, according to Matthew Gross, CEO and co-founder of Newsela.
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News Pulse 2.0 5 years ago
Instructional Content Platform Newsela Closes $100 Million
Newsela - a leading K-12 instructional content platform - announced recently that it has raised a $100 million Series D round of funding led by new investor Franklin Templeton.
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News Business Insider 10 years ago
This education startup you've never heard of is in 75% of American classrooms
Newsela's technology closes literacy gaps by adapting news articles to kids' reading levels and giving teachers immediate feedback when kids are stumped.
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Newsela over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
40
Postings analysed
10
Stack modernity
80/100AI adopter
Languages
Python60%
SQL40%
JavaScript20%
TypeScript20%
Frameworks & libraries
Jest20%
Mocha20%
Playwright20%
Selenium20%
Databases
MySQL10%
Cloud & platforms
AWS50%
Tableau30%
GCP30%
Datadog20%
AI & ML
LLM30%
Claude10%
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Salary insights

Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$109k
Typical range
$75k – $144k
Open positions
7
5 Jobs
Junior 20%
Middle 40%
Senior 20%
Architect 20%
Level Jobs Median Typical range
Junior 1 $80k $80k
Middle 2 $120k $120k – $121k
Senior 1 $109k $109k
Architect 1 $144k $144k
Highest paying role Director, Scaled Customer Success (Remote, US) $144k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Newsela By role, level and city, against the market · 7 jobs with pay

Growth

Hiring Momentum
80/100
Scaling fast
Open positions
10
10 opened / 9 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
44 days
faster than 30% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics +100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Sales
43% ▼
Backend
14% ▲
Analytics
10% ▼
Industrial Engineering
10% ▼
Administrative
5% ▲
Design
5% ▼
Actively hiring for Sales (+4 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
Added Slack to stack Oct 2026
Added Google Workspace to stack Oct 2026
Added Meta Ads to stack Sep 2026
Added Marketo to stack Sep 2026
Added LinkedIn Ads to stack Sep 2026
Added Google Sheets to stack Sep 2026
Added Google Ads to stack Sep 2026
Added LinkedIn to stack Sep 2026
Added Scrum to stack Sep 2026
Added Agile to stack Sep 2026
Added Agentic Workflows to stack Sep 2026
Added Salesforce to stack Sep 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
0
Countries
1
New York United States
HQ
50-200 est. staff

Jobs

$110k – $120k per year • Equity • Remote (United States) • 4+ years exp
Python
SQL
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≈ $45k – $106k per year (Estimated) • Remote (Argentina) • Contractor • Argentina • Brazil • Colombia • Chile • Costa Rica
LLM
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≈ $36k – $83k per year (Estimated) • Remote (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica) • Contractor • 8+ years exp • Argentina • Brazil • Chile • Costa Rica
Python
SQL
Dagster
dbt
DevOps
Terraform
GCP
AWS
Analytics
Tableau
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$100k – $121k per year • Equity • Remote (United States) • 4+ years exp
Python
SQL
ETL/ELT
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Financials

Total raised
$150M
Latest round
Series D
Funding rounds
2
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Series D 2021 $100M Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2019 $50M Details