TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2022

As a consultant at Bain and Company, Case worked with clients in technology, private equity and education. Jomayra Herrera is a partner at Reach Capital, a venture fund focused on early-stage education technology and future-of-work companies. She is currently a board director for Workwhile and a board observer for Outschool. .

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

APRIL 22, 2020

I’m betting on Duolingo (and have been since we made our seed investment in the company in 2012). And the test takes one hour vs three hours. And yet, it has been hard to crack into this market. And then the pandemic hit. No more in-person testing. So now the market is open to competition and the best product can win.

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 20, 2012

About three years ago, I started journaling my startup education by blogging. Thank you all for making 2012 a memorable year. Top 10 Blog Posts of 2012. In retrospect, blogging has been one of the most rewarding activities for me as an investor. It’s been more gratifying than I could have hoped. I hope you enjoy it.

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Angel Capital Association

OCTOBER 18, 2023

He is also deeply involved with the Angel Capital Association, where he has served on the Marketing & Membership and Education Committees. Additionally, they have led the charge in developing an “angel introduction” series of educational events that allow our new members to quickly learn the process of angel investing.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Panorama Education , which has built out a K-12 education software platform, has raised $60 million in a Series C round of funding led by General Atlantic. Clients include the New York City Department of Education, Clark County School District in Nevada, Dallas ISD in Texas and the Hawaii Department of Education, among others.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2023

based savings and investing startup Acorns has acquired London-based GoHenry , a startup focused on providing money management and financial education services to 6- to18-year-olds in an all-equity deal, the two companies announced today. The combined valuation of the company, as well as further financial terms, were not disclosed.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2021

Coursera, an online education platform that has seen its business grow amid the coronavirus pandemic, is planning to file paperwork tomorrow for its initial public offering, sources familiar with the matter say. The Mountain View-based business, founded in 2012, was last valued at $2.4 GSV announced a $180 million Fund II yesterday. .

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Yuanfudao , a homework tutoring-app founded in 2012, has raised $2.2 The money will be used to develop curriculum and expand Yuanfudao’s online educational service, amid a larger boom in remote learning. Asia more broadly has a stronger education market because of consumer spending and a cultural focus on outcomes in education.

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Y Combinator

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

It is always a good sign when founders come back and, indeed, they came up with a new idea and applied for the Winter 2012 batch. Spenser and Curtis figured this out rapidly and by the spring of 2012 they were searching once again for the right product to build.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

“One is just pure education. So we as a company regularly meet and educate on issues around inclusion, social justice and diversity. Cloudbolt was founded in 2012 and has around 200 customers. We also recruit with with those ideas in mind. HashiCorp to offer managed versions of its developer tools starting with Consul.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2021

Duolingo, for example, has taken this model and found ways to embed engagement hooks, pockets of joy and addictive education features within its core app. Now, we’ll analyze how Duolingo used product-led growth as a lever to expand its consumer base, and how a company built on gamification tries to balance its whimsy with education outcomes.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2022

The Gener8tor OnRamp Conference is a series of vertical-specific events, including education, insurance, agriculture, manufacturing, and healthcare. ” The team’s first program was in Milwaukee in 2012, and for a while they alternated running annual programs in Milwaukee and Madison. Lather, rinse, repeat.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 27, 2022

Edtech up-skilling platform Degreed has acquired Learn In , which creates talent resource hubs for employers to better spin up education services for their teams. Blake started Degreed in 2012 to give individuals a platform to turn to for open access educational content.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

” PAIRIN’s My Journey platform changes the way workforce and education programs connect to foster a seamless, rewarding and relevant journey for students and career-seeking professionals. PAIRIN was founded in 2012, is based in Denver, Colorado, and serves states, education and workforce programs across the nation.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 21, 2012

One did note that " this kind of platform is going to change the way we educate people in application development ". It would be over two years until he took his first round of capital earlier in 2012. He just raised $7mm from Andreessen Horowitz, to tack onto their January 2012 party round of everyone and their mother.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2022

So at the moment of decision-making we’re bringing together educational content and product in the same place.”. The company also plans to continue building products that allow parents and their kids “to save and invest, and get educated together.” Active engagement helps people learn more,” he told TechCrunch. “So

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 13, 2021

Founded in 2012, Kiddom was able to raise millions without revenue or a clear business model. A lot of Kiddom’s success depends on if traditional curriculum providers, like the Pearsons and McGraw-Hills of the world, don’t catch up to the digitization of education.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

Other investors in the company include GSV, Rethink Education and Kapor Capital. Founder and CEO Jeff Scheur built NoRedInk in 2012 when he was an English teacher in Chicago. The financing event comes nearly six years after its Series A, a signal that the company has ambition to scale meaningfully in the coming months and years.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

JANUARY 15, 2021

To increase public understanding of the role of entrepreneurship we need to educate our communities about its power and impact. We need educational and awareness campaigns that communicate the importance of entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial ecosystem building as a means to building stronger, more resilient, and equitable economies.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Serial fintech entrepreneur Walter Cruttenden founded Acorns with his son, Jeff, in 2012 with the goal of helping low- and middle-income households invest and save responsibly. Coinbase too could be viewed as competition, since it leveraged the concept of “Learn & Earn” within its platform to help educate investors.

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Y Combinator

JUNE 19, 2019

They were part of YC’s Winter 2012 batch. 1:55 – How are their students differentiated from students educated in a traditional CS program? 19:40 – The education landscape 20 years from now. 23:30 – Education stacking. Make School students don’t pay until they have a job after graduation.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

In 2012, Girls Who Code launched, teaching girls computer programming. Peeler isn’t just changing the world of student aid, she’s also redefining the role of women entrepreneurs in finance and education. Boys outnumbered girls by a wide margin. Katrina Lake / Stitch Fix. Payal Kadakia / Classpass.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2022

The Family was originally founded in 2012 with three co-founders — Alice Zagury, Oussama Ammar and Nicolas Colin. Over time, The Family diversified its activities with an education business and a digital transformation business. The company filed a lawsuit for breach of trust, forgery and use of forgery.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

As the co-authors of one wrote in 2012: “actions and attitudes [students] experienced in K-12 schools highlight a type of cultural ‘othering’ that contradicts our goals for multicultural school environments. Beyond those three, the 30-person startup claims to have more than 300 education and corporate clients worldwide.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2022

While VR simulations with cutaneous feedback are competent in medical education and training to help acquire knowledge, the addition of ‘full-force’ haptics now allows for the acquisition of skills.”

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2022

Pre-pandemic, VCs were notoriously reluctant to invest in education-related companies. Madrid headquarters of IBM International Business Machine, the American multinational of informatics and technology consulting services, Spain, November 2012. European and North American edtech startups see funding triple in 2021.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2022

Amazon’s huge bet on robotics dates back to its 2012 acquisition of Kiva Systems. Education FIRST . In 1989, he decided to give back with the launch of FIRST, an organization that promotes STEM education. Automating Amazon. with Joseph Quinlivan (Amazon). Founders — apply here. with Dean Kamen (FIRST).

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2021

In particular, Cora wants to go even deeper in certain segments such as B2B professional services such as law and accounting firms; real estate brokerage and education. It plans to use the new capital to add new features and improve existing ones; on operations and launching a portfolio of credit products.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

Cincinnati, like many startup communities in the US over the past 5 years, has revitalized important regions in its urban core, created accelerators, built co-working facilities, pooled together angel capital, attracted VCs, involved educational institutions and solicited the help of important corporations in a more cohesive ecosystem.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 23, 2023

In 2012, it surpassed Melbourne, Australia; in 2014, it surpassed Osaka, Japan, and Sydney, Australia; in 2016, it overtook Seoul, South Korea; and in 2018, for the first time, it outranked Tokyo, Japan. The shared emphasis on disseminating knowledge and facilitating education is another compelling thread.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

They met and bonded over both having type 1 diabetes — Westermann was diagnosed over 25 years ago — and started the MySugr app for diabetes self-management in 2012 ( they won a TC pitch-off back in 2011 ). Founders like to create companies around what they know, and Frank Westermann and Anton Kittelberger know diabetes.

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Dream It

APRIL 23, 2019

Syllable allows providers to create voice and chat applications that answer common questions, educate patients about their practices’ services, make referrals, collect data for intake forms, automate scheduling, and more. Hospitals can use Sarah to make their back-office operations more efficient and to streamline patient communications.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

It eventually became the first startup out of India to join Y Combinator, and it was actually also a Battlefield contender in 2012. What’s notable is that HackerRank has a strong ethos around training and education. Its rise very much tapped into the growth of India as an important tech hub and source of technical talent.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

However, embracing the use of freelancers gives startups the ability to cut down on overhead costs and grow your market by unlocking a diverse field of workers with a range of experience, education, and skill to fit any project need. Between 2012 and 2018, Santiago was the COO of Bunny Studio. About Santiago Jaramillo.

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StartupNation

MARCH 23, 2021

Since 2012, there’s been little increase in venture capital going to women-founded businesses. While Melissa Butler was working on Wall Street in 2012, she started making lipstick in her kitchen because she was so sick and tired of the beauty industry “standards”—no diversity, no inclusion and way too many harsh chemicals.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2022

Key challenges include (1) lack of education and buy-in from industry stakeholders such as physicians, research institutes, insurance companies, politicians, etc.; Moreover, European doctors are generally more conservative and evidence-based. Therefore, it takes time to build the necessary infrastructure in order to get stakeholder buy-in.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 17, 2021

Tsai joined Duolingo in 2012 as one of its first engineers, and firsthand witnessed the growth of the company from a scrappy startup into a 400-person global business. The event will be held on June 29, so make sure to register here (for free) to listen to these conversations, enjoy the pitch-off and network with local talent.

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