What’s notable about the collapse is the massive investment to the tune of over $100 million from the Gates and Carnegie Foundations that went into inBloom to create a safe and secure solution that ...

Judging by this recent headline in the Washington Post, inBloom is anything but. Back in March 2013, inBloom had a big coming-out party at SXSWedu, with a posh room filled with suede white couches and ...

Weeks after losing its largest client — New York state — the not-for-profit organization that was originally touted as a national database for K-12 students is going out of business. "In full ...

In less than two years, inBloom went from being a sort of Holy Grail for student data services to a sacrificial lamb that has brought data and privacy discussions to the forefront. On Monday, April 21 ...

Iwan Streichenberger, the CEO of inBloom, announced today that he will "wind down" the nonprofit data integration and content search service. inBloom launched in February 2013 with $100 million in ...

After months caught in the crosshairs of parents, advocates, and educators concerned about student-data privacy, controversial nonprofit inBloom announced Monday that it will close its doors. “I have ...

Some 15 months ago, with great fanfare, many education reformers got excited about inBloom, a non-profit technology company that ran a service to allow schools to manage student information. The ...