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China’s expected edtech clampdown may chill a key startup sector6h ago ( July 23, 2021 at 12:08 PM )  Tags: Fundings & Exits, Startups, TC, Asia, Hong Kong, Education, China, Tech, Bloomberg, Zomato, Edtech, Zuoyebang, Nyse, Yahoo Finance, The Exchange, Yuanfudao 135 people like this. Like Sololearn raises $24M for its bite-sized, Duolingo-like mobile-first coding education appJuly 21, 2021 at 9:18 AM Coding is not just for engineers and computer programmers anymore: the pace of technology and its growing ubiquity mean that even non-tech roles will require workers to have some degree of knowledge to do their jobs in the future. Today a company called Sololearn — which has built a popular mobile-first education platform to meet that demand, now with over 21 million users across some 25 curriculum categories like Python, JavaScript, Java, C++, HTML, and SQL — is announcing $24 million in fundin...Tags: Apple, Google, Startups, TC, Europe, Education, Microsoft, Developer, Funding, San Francisco, COLUMBUS Ohio, YEREVAN Armenia, Drive Capital, Learn Capital, Sololearn, Yeva Hyusyan 2 people like this. Like Blackstone acquires majority stake in Simplilearn for $250 millionJuly 19, 2021 at 3:13 AM Blackstone is acquiring a majority stake in Bangalore and San Francisco-headquartered edtech startup Simplilearn for $250 million.
Simplilearn operates an eponymous online bootcamp to help people learn data science, AI, machine learning, cloud computing and other skills that are in demand in the market.
The startup has partnerships with several universities and colleges including IIT Kanpur, Caltech, and Purdue University and students enrolling and completing these courses get a certificate from...Tags: Fundings & Exits, Startups, Asia, Education, India, San Francisco, M&a, Blackstone, Bangalore, Purdue University, Mayfield, Mayfield Fund, Simplilearn, Krishna Kumar, Byju, Facebook Microsoft Amazon Indonesian edtech startup Gredu raises $4M Series A to keep teachers, parents and students engaged with one anotherJuly 7, 2021 at 11:06 PM Many teachers and parents in Indonesia rely on WhatsApp to keep in touch, creating “multiple groups that often become messy and highly ineffective, and result in confusion or lost threads,” says Rizky Aniez, the co-founder and chief executive officer of Gredu. The Jakarta-based startup was created to give everyone involved in the educational process—school administrators, teachers, parents, guardians and students—apps that let them keep track of everything and communicate with one another. Today...Tags: Google, Fundings & Exits, Startups, TC, Asia, Students, Education, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Tech, Edtech, National Curriculum, Vertex Ventures, Intudo Ventures, Patrick Yip, School Management 31 people like this. Like The Significance Of Equity And Diversity In EducationJuly 6, 2021 at 10:35 PM Regardless of the setting in which you teach, valuing equity and diversity will enrich the learning experience for everyone.
The post The Significance Of Equity And Diversity In Education appeared first on Young Upstarts.Tags: Startups, Education, Diversity, Equity, Others 30 people like this. Like Edtech startup Microverse raises $12.5M to bring income share agreements to the developing worldJuly 1, 2021 at 6:22 PM Edtech startup Microverse has tapped new venture funding in its quest to help train students across the globe to code through its online school which requires zero upfront cost, instead relying on an income-share agreement which kicks in when students find a job.
The startup tells TechCrunch it has closed a $12.5 million Series A led by Northzone with additional participation from General Catalyst, All Iron Ventures and a host of angel investors. We last covered the company after it had closed a...Tags: Startups, TC, Y Combinator, Education, Microsoft, Entrepreneurship, Finance, Articles, Tech, Ceo, Economy, Venture Capital, Private Equity, Isa, Huawei, Edtech 30 people like this. Like The 2021 edtech avalanche has just begunJuly 1, 2021 at 5:28 PM  Tags: Startups, Column, Europe, Education, Funding, Tech, United Kingdom, Venture Capital, Edtech, Brighteye Ventures, EC Europe, EC Column, EC Edtech, GoStudent, Rhys Spence, Europe Brighteye Ventures 72 people like this. Like After bootstrapping since 2002, Articulate raises $1.5B on $3.75B valuationJuly 1, 2021 at 9:31 AM Most companies don’t announce their first venture investment after almost 20 years in the business, nor do they announce that round is the equivalent of a good startup’s entire private fundraising history. But Articulate, a SaaS training and development platform, is not your typical company and today it announced a whopping $1.5 billion investment on a $3.75 billion valuation.
You can call it Series A if you must label it, but whatever it is, it’s a hefty investment by any measure. General Atlan...Tags: Startups, Cloud, Enterprise, Education, Funding, Training, Tech, Blackstone, General Atlantic, Coursera, Schwartz, LMS, Adam Schwartz, Articulate, Suros, Anton Levy 31 people like this. Like Duolingo’s S-1 depicts heady growth, monetization, new focus on English certificationJune 29, 2021 at 1:32 PM Duolingo filed to go public yesterday, giving the world a deep look inside its business results and how the pandemic impacted the edtech unicorn’s performance. TechCrunch’s initial read of the company’s filing was generally positive, noting that its growth was impressive and its losses modest; Duolingo recently began making money on an adjusted basis.
While the company’s top-level numbers are impressive, we want to go one level deeper to grow our understanding of the company beyond our EC-1.
...Tags: Fundings & Exits, Startups, Education, Tech, EC, Edtech, Duolingo, Mau, EC News Analysis, EC Edtech, EC United States 1 people like this. Like Investor Marlon Nichols and Wonderschool’s Chris Bennett on getting to the point with a pitch deckJune 22, 2021 at 5:55 PM Before our conversation on Extra Crunch Live, Marlon Nichols dropped a bomb on me. The MaC Venture Capital founding managing partner hadn’t actually seen Wonderschool’s original pitch deck before investing in the remote education startup. Our conversation with the company’s CEO, Chris Bennett was the first time he’d been through the seed-stage deck.
Their partnership was a bit of Silicon Valley luck, good timing and some old fashioned networking.
“He was a part of an organization that was helpin...Tags: Startups, Education, Funding, America, Tech, Facebook Messenger, Venture Capital, Silicon Valley, Chris, San Francisco Bay Area, Nichols, Bennett, Chris Bennett, Marlon Nichols, Wonderschool, MaC Venture Capital Extra Crunch roundup: influencer marketing 101, spotting future unicorns, Apple AirTags teardownJune 18, 2021 at 5:14 PM  Tags: Apple, Startups, TC, Transportation, Education, California, Entrepreneurship, US, Tech, Diversity, Joe Biden, Iran, Artificial Intelligence, Rebecca, United States, Venture Capital 123 people like this. Like Wonderschool’s Chris Bennett and investor Marlon Nichols will break down the path to seed-stage fundingJune 16, 2021 at 10:10 AM Extra Crunch Live is all about helping founders build better venture-backed businesses. Naturally, we do this by having candid conversations with founders and their investors.
On an upcoming episode of Extra Crunch Live, we’ll sit down with MaC Venture Capital founding managing partner Marlon Nichols and Wonderschool co-founder and CEO Chris Bennett. REGISTER HERE FOR FREE!
Not only will we discuss how they came together for Wonderschool’s seed round in 2017, but how that translated into what ha...Tags: Startups, TC, Education, Tech, Intel Capital, Nichols, Don, Bennett, Chris Bennett, ECL, Marlon Nichols, Wonderschool, Seed Stage, MaC Venture Capital, Bennett Wonderschool, Extra Crunch Live Announcement 13 people like this. Like Edtech investors are flocking to SaaS guidance counselorsJune 15, 2021 at 6:15 PM ApplyBoard, a startup that helps international students find opportunities to study abroad, announced today that it has nearly doubled its valuation in a little over a year. The Ontario-based company is now worth around $3.2 billion after raising a $300 million Series D round led by the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board.
ApplyBoard makes money from revenue-sharing agreements with colleges and universities. If a student attends a college after using their services, ApplyBoard receives a cut o...Tags: Startups, TC, Education, Tech, Edtech, Ontario, Higher Ed, ETS, Ontario Teachers, GRE, Martin Basiri, Career Karma, ApplyBoard, Basiri, EC Edtech, Ontario Teachers ' Pension Plan Board ApplyBoard 20 people like this. Like Wonderschool’s Chris Bennett and investor Marlon Nichols will break down the path to seed-stage fundingJune 14, 2021 at 9:00 AM Extra Crunch Live is all about helping founders build better venture-backed businesses. Naturally, we do this by having candid conversations with founders and their investors.
On an upcoming episode of Extra Crunch Live, we’ll sit down with MaC Venture Capital founding managing partner Marlon Nichols and Wonderschool co-founder and CEO Chris Bennett. REGISTER HERE FOR FREE!
Not only will we discuss how they came together for Wonderschool’s seed round in 2017, but how that translated into what ha...Tags: Startups, TC, Education, Tech, Intel Capital, Nichols, Don, Bennett, Chris Bennett, ECL, Marlon Nichols, Wonderschool, Seed Stage, MaC Venture Capital, Bennett Wonderschool, Extra Crunch Live Announcement 38 people like this. Like Wonderschool’s Chris Bennett and investor Marlon Nichols will break down the path to seed-stage fundingJune 9, 2021 at 10:28 AM Extra Crunch Live is all about helping founders build better venture-backed businesses. Naturally, we do this by having candid conversations with founders and their investors.
On an upcoming episode of Extra Crunch Live, we’ll sit down with MaC Venture Capital founding managing partner Marlon Nichols and Wonderschool co-founder and CEO Chris Bennett. REGISTER HERE FOR FREE!
Not only will we discuss how they came together for Wonderschool’s seed round in 2017, but how that translated into what ha...Tags: Startups, TC, Education, Tech, Intel Capital, Nichols, Don, Bennett, Chris Bennett, ECL, Marlon Nichols, Wonderschool, Seed Stage, MaC Venture Capital, Bennett Wonderschool, Extra Crunch Live Announcement 2 people like this. Like Wonderschool’s Chris Bennett and investor Marlon Nichols will break down the path to seed-stage fundingMay 28, 2021 at 12:45 PM Extra Crunch Live is all about helping founders build better venture-backed businesses. Naturally, we do this by having candid conversations with founders and their investors.
On an upcoming episode of Extra Crunch Live, we’ll sit down with MaC Venture Capital founding managing partner Marlon Nichols and Wonderschool co-founder and CEO Chris Bennett. REGISTER HERE FOR FREE!
Not only will we discuss how they came together for Wonderschool’s seed round in 2017, but how that translated into what ha...Tags: Startups, TC, Education, Tech, Intel Capital, Nichols, Don, Bennett, Chris Bennett, ECL, Marlon Nichols, Wonderschool, Seed Stage, MaC Venture Capital, Bennett Wonderschool, Extra Crunch Live Announcement 40 people like this. Like 5 Tips For Teaching Students How To Converse With One AnotherMay 26, 2021 at 1:35 PM While the real reason behind pre-teen and teenage students’ lack of conversational skills may never be truly identified, here are 5 tips for teaching them how to communicate better.
The post 5 Tips For Teaching Students How To Converse With One Another appeared first on Young Upstarts.Tags: Startups, Education, Teaching, Others 38 people like this. Like Liquid Instruments raises $13.7M to bring its education-focused 8-in-1 engineering gadget to marketMay 19, 2021 at 2:32 PM Part of learning to be an engineer is understanding the tools you’ll have to work with — voltmeters, spectrum analyzers, things like that. But why use two, or eight for that matter, where one will do? The Moku:Go combines several commonly used tools into one compact package, saving room on your workbench or classroom while also providing a modern, software-configurable interface. Creator Liquid Instruments has just raised $13.7 million to bring this gadget to students and engineers everywhere.
...Tags: Fundings & Exits, Startups, TC, Gadgets, Science, Hardware, Education, Funding, Stem, Tech, Engineering, Phillips, FPGA, Anzu Partners, Liquid Instruments, ANU Connect Ventures 29 people like this. Like Extra Crunch roundup: How Duolingo became an edtech leaderMay 7, 2021 at 5:08 PM  Tags: Startups, TC, Apps, Utah, Education, Ipo, Boston, Tech, CMO, Bloomberg, Paypal, United States, Nba, Square, Holland, SEC 60 people like this. Like Tiger Global is betting that more schools are going to share future student earningsMay 7, 2021 at 9:57 AM  Tags: Startups, TC, Y Combinator, Education, Lgbt, San Francisco, Tech, Isa, Tiger Global, Edtech, Higher Ed, Blair, Sam Hodges, Lambda School, Recent Funding, Ankur Nagpal 73 people like this. Like The product-led growth behind edtech’s most downloaded appMay 3, 2021 at 11:01 AM  Tags: Startups, TC, Education, Tech, EC, Edtech, Duolingo, Angry Birds, Pittsburgh, Luis Von Ahn, Tyler Murphy, Super Mario Brothers, Ahn, EC-1, EC Edtech, Duo Duolingo 150 people like this. Like How Duolingo became fluent in monetizationMay 3, 2021 at 11:00 AM  Tags: Google, Startups, TC, Education, Tech, Brazil, Silicon Valley, EC, Edtech, Duolingo, Sand Hill Road, Pittsburgh, Gordon, Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers KPCB, Luis, Luis Von Ahn 82 people like this. Like Duolingo can’t teach you how to speak a language, but now it wants to tryMay 3, 2021 at 11:00 AM  Tags: Startups, TC, Education, Obama, Tech, Edtech, Carnegie Mellon University, Duolingo, Babbel, Pittsburgh, Language Learning, Luis Von Ahn, Ahn, Busuu, EC-1, Bernhard Niesner 92 people like this. Like How a bot-fighting test turned into edtech’s most iconic brand, DuolingoMay 3, 2021 at 11:01 AM  Tags: Google, Startups, TC, Education, Yahoo, Tech, Duke, Edtech, Carnegie Mellon University, Duolingo, Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon, Guatemala City, Luis Von Ahn, Manuel Blum, Ahn 101 people like this. Like The Duolingo EC-1May 3, 2021 at 11:01 AM Education may well be the most important activity we conduct as a society — and it may also be the hardest space to build a startup in. Selling to school districts and universities is notoriously difficult, but enticing consumers is even harder. Learning takes focus, patience, tenacity and resources, and most consumers would prefer to watch some lip-sync videos on TikTok than stare at math equations (not to mention that such entertainment is free). Engagement and education feel aggressively at o...Tags: Startups, TC, Education, Tech, EC, Edtech, Duolingo, Pittsburgh, Mascarenhas, Luis Von Ahn, Danny Crichton, EC-1, Richard Dal Porto, EC Edtech, Natasha Mascarenhas Mascarenhas, Nigel Sussman Duolingo 39 people like this. Like Erase All Kittens raises $1M Seed round for Mario-style game which teaches girls to codeApril 29, 2021 at 9:54 AM  Tags: Startups, TC, Europe, UK, Science, Education, US, Stem, Articles, Entrepreneur, Css, Javascript, United States, United Kingdom, Pwc, Html 92 people like this. Like OpenClassrooms raises $80 million for its online education platformApril 28, 2021 at 9:30 AM French startup OpenClassrooms has raised an $80 million Series C funding round led by Lumos Capital Group. The company operates an online education platform in French and English. Users can choose among 54 training programs and get a diploma at the end of the program — some of those program lead to French-state-recognized bachelor and master diplomas.
GSV, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) and Salesforce Ventures also participated in today’s funding round. Existing investors General Atlantic ...Tags: Fundings & Exits, Startups, Europe, Education, France, Atlantic, France Newsletter, B Corp, Online Education, OpenClassrooms, Salesforce Ventures, Capgemini, Bpifrance, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative CZI, Upskilling, Reskilling 47 people like this. Like Language learning startup Toucan raises $4.5MApril 27, 2021 at 11:49 AM  Tags: Fundings & Exits, Startups, TC, Education, Funding, Tech, Santa Monica Calif, Richard Greenfield, Nieman, Toucan, LightShed Ventures, Taylor Nieman, Japanese Co, Toucan Toucan, GSV Ventures Amplifyher Ventures 136 people like this. Like What the MasterClass effect means for edtechApril 24, 2021 at 2:00 PM  Tags: Startups, TC, Education, Microsoft, Entertainment, India, Funding, US, Toronto, Tech, Fundraising, Dell, Gordon Ramsay, Serena Williams, Edtech, Chess 71 people like this. Like Ornikar raises $120M as its driving school marketplace goes up a gear with car insuranceApril 22, 2021 at 12:00 AM A French startup that set out to bring a new approach to driver education and road safety, and then used that foothold to expand into the related area of car insurance, is today announcing a big round of funding to continue building its service across Europe.
Ornikar, which prepares people for driving tests by providing online drivers education courses, lets those users organize in-person lessons with driving instructors, provides a booking system for taking their written and practical examinati...Tags: Google, Startups, Europe, Education, Car Insurance, France, Funding, Spain, Automotive, KKR, Onroad, Driving License, DRIVER EDUCATION, Patrick Devine, InsureTech, Driving Instruction 8 people like this. Like |
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