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YC-backed Blabla raises $1.5M to teach English through short videosJanuary 13, 2021 at 10:58 PM Short, snappy, entertaining videos have become an increasingly common way for young people to receive information. Why not learn English through TikTok-like videos too? That was what prompted Angelo Huang to launch Blabla.
Originally from Taiwan, Huang relocated to Shanghai in 2019 to start Blabla after working in Silicon Valley for over a decade. A year later, Blabla was chosen as part of Y Combinator’s 2020 summer cohort. The coronavirus had begun to spread in the U.S. at the time, keeping mil...Tags: TC, Y Combinator, Asia, Education, China, Southeast Asia, Funding, Tech, Taiwan, Shanghai, Tencent, Silicon Valley, Telefonica, Latin America, Yc, Huang 20 people like this. Like Kinspire’s new app helps parents find screen-free activities for kidsSeptember 9, 2020 at 4:37 PM A new startup called Kinspire wants to make it easier for parents to find activities to help keep kids occupied — away from a screen. The app, which launches with hundreds of activities vetted by parents and teachers alike, arrives at a time when the coronavirus pandemic has many families continuing to engage in social distancing, cutting kids off from regular playdates and other activities. Meanwhile, millions of schoolchildren are now spending long hours online, engaged in distance learning ac...Tags: Amazon, Crafts, Startups, Mobile, Apps, Family, New York, Kids, Education, Parents, Children, Tech, Ios Apps, Android Apps, Npr, Denver 111 people like this. Like YC-backed EduRev wants to democratize online learning in IndiaMarch 17, 2020 at 7:02 AM As edtech startups emerge and expand in India, millions of students in the country now have an additional option to choose from when they prepare for competitive exams.
But despite the proliferation of cheap Android handsets and availability of some of the world’s cheapest mobile data plans, online learning platforms in India are struggling to appeal to the masses because their offering is too expensive for many.
EduRev, a Y Combinator-backed startup (W20), thinks it can address this. The three-...Tags: Android, Startups, Y Combinator, Asia, Education, India, Funding, Tech, Netflix, Yc, Satija, EduRev, Kunaal Satija 68 people like this. Like YC-backed Our World in Data wants you to know that the planet is doing okayJanuary 23, 2019 at 2:27 PM News is exhausting. Mexican murders are sky-high. Ebola is ravaging the eastern Congo. China is erasing an entire culture of Islam from its Western hinterlands. That news — negative and intense though it is — can easily occlude the many positive, longer term stories that are fundamental drivers of the world. Africa is reaching new levels of prosperity. Violence around the world is in retreat. Famine is down, a lot.
These trends are present, but getting high-quality data around them and correctly...Tags: Apple, Google, Startups, Media, Education, France, Africa, Tech, Bloomberg, University of Oxford, Oxford University, Non-profit, University of Edinburgh, YCombinator, Yc, Eric Eldon 11 people like this. Like YC-backed Our World in Data wants you to know what’s changing about the planetJanuary 23, 2019 at 2:27 PM News is exhausting. Mexican murders are sky-high. Ebola is ravaging the eastern Congo. China is erasing an entire culture of Islam from its Western hinterlands. That news — negative and intense though it is — can easily occlude the many positive, longer term stories that are fundamental drivers of the world. Africa is reaching new levels of prosperity. Violence around the world is in retreat. Famine is down, a lot.
These trends are present, but getting high-quality data around them and correctly...Tags: Apple, Google, Startups, Media, Education, France, Africa, Tech, Bloomberg, University of Oxford, Oxford University, Non-profit, University of Edinburgh, YCombinator, Yc, Eric Eldon 12 people like this. Like Lambda School aims to cash in by upskilling untapped talentAugust 7, 2017 at 1:39 PM As the saying goes, the future is already here — it’s just not very evenly distributed. Also not evenly distributed: Access to the expensive education typically needed to stand a chance of obtaining one of the jobs of the future. Y Combinator backed Lambda School is hoping to change this, with a new approach to funding higher education. Read MoreTags: Fundings & Exits, Startups, TC, Apps, Y Combinator, Education, Finance, Tech, Diversity, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Fintech, Yc, Bootcamp, Distance Learning, Lambda School 139 people like this. Like YC-backed Vidcode raises $1.5M to teach teens to code using Snapchat filters, videos, memes and moreJuly 7, 2017 at 12:50 PM Vidcode, a Y Combinator-backed startup focused on teaching teens how to code, has raised $1.5 million in seed funding for its curriculum. While there are a number of learn-to-code platforms out there today, Vidcode’s approach is to make coding more interesting to teens by connecting it to their existing interests – like Snapchat filters and memes – while also allowing… Read MoreTags: Learn To Code, Programming, Fundings & Exits, Startups, TC, Y Combinator, Kids, Teens, Education, Tech, Schools, Coding, Edtech, Yc, Code School, Vidcode 127 people like this. Like YC-backed Py is a Duolingo style learn-to-code appJune 14, 2017 at 11:00 AM Teaching people to code in bite-sized, gamified chunks delivered via mobile app is Py’s mission. The fledgling startup is the brainchild of two friends and college computer science majors who found themselves repeatedly asked for advice on how to learn to Read MoreTags: Learn To Code, Fundings & Exits, Startups, TC, Apps, Y Combinator, Education, Developer, Tech, Duolingo, Yc, Py, Mobile Learning 62 people like this. Like Verbling adds native apps to expand access to its marketplace of language tutorsFebruary 16, 2017 at 9:38 AM YC-backed Verbling, a language learning business that’s been active for around five years, has finally launched native Android and iOS apps, along with a refreshed brand and look for its web platform. Read MoreTags: Startups, TC, Apps, Y Combinator, Education, Yc, Language Learning, Language Learning Apps, Verbling, Language Teachers 133 people like this. Like |
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