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One woman’s path to financial empowerment leads the way

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

2018 YLAI fellow Kenishia Mais is the founder of ThrivingDollars , a financial education platform empowering young adults with the tools and resources they need to make smarter decisions, create their ideal financial lives, and gain the freedom to pursue more of what they love.

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The Double Standard of Female CEOs Moving Fast and Breaking Things

This is going to be BIG.

Long before that, the company engaged in anti-competitive practices and antagonized critics, especially female journalists like Sarah Lacy, who called out years of the company’s toxic issues as early 2014. She was threatened by the company, yet her call for change and her callout of top investors went largely ignored.

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What Can You Learn From Ring’s Astounding Success?

Both Sides of the Table

Single-purpose beats generic One our biggest beliefs about Ring and frankly many of the other companies we’ve backed in computer vision ( Nanit for baby monitors, Osmo for kids education & games, Density for people counts) is that focused computer vision beats generic use cases.

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European, North American edtech startups see funding triple in 2021

TechCrunch

The unbundling of professional learning and entrepreneurship education. 2020 will be remembered in education circles for the tumult it caused at schools, universities and workplaces. Indeed, edtech investment in 2020 and 2021 equaled the amount raised during the entire 2014-2019 period. More posts by this contributor.

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The Startups and Investors Bringing Voice Tech to Healthcare

Dream It

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. million adults in the United States experienced a voice problem in 2014.

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Target Global leads $3.5M pre-seed in Nigerian online learning platform Edukoya

TechCrunch

Today, the Lagos- and London-based startup, which builds online education content and offers online tutoring for students and their parents, raised $3.5 If we look at all the innovation across different industries, Africa’s education system has remained untouched for 50 years; it’s been stagnant.”. Like in the U.S.,

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Google expands program to help train the formerly incarcerated

TechCrunch

Department of Education data from 2014 showed that 62% of correctional educational programs in the country didn’t allow prisoners access to the internet. “Criminal records for many can be a life sentence to poverty, creating barriers to jobs, housing, education and more,” Ibrahim said. For example, U.S.