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Creating agents of change in El Salvador with sustainable wearable art

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

I gained a solid business background to support my creative side. I moved back to El Salvador and started working toward my own dream at the end of 2015 with Masshii and started inspiring others to do the same. Our partners usually help with opportunities in education and mental health. What is the mission of Masshii? .

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Vietnamese edtech startup MindX scores $15m in Series B funding

AsiaTechDaily

Register Vietnamese edtech startup MindX has announced raising $15 million in a series B funding round, led by education-focused private equity fund Kaizenvest, to continue its mission of nurturing and empowering Vietnamese innovators through technology.

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The unusual story of an unusual company – Melanie Langlotz and Geo AR Games 

NZ Entrepreneur

Melanie (Mel) Langlotz is the founder and CEO of Geo AR Games , a game design studio that utilises augmented reality for “creating digital experiences that positively impact the world, fostering education and empowerment with simulations and serious games.” Since we spend so much time working, we should enjoy it, right?” “My

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Creating a Millennial-Friendly Workplace

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Millennials are also worth cultivating as they are becoming the best-educated generation of our time. Toward this end, here are some of the lessons we have learned at Glen Eagle in our ongoing development of a creative multigenerational workplace: Leverage Technology to Build Client Relationships. of Baby Boomers.

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17 Inspiring Recoveries: How Entrepreneurs Bounced Back from Crises

StartupNation

Danielle Dahl , Co-Founder, Resilient Stories Strategic Adjustments Overcome Economic Downturn In 2015, Brazil was in the midst of a severe economic downturn, and I had just launched my first successful company. I created a children’s holistic education brand called Stardust & Bubbles.

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Duolingo can’t teach you how to speak a language, but now it wants to try

TechCrunch

It has a popular and meme-ified mascot in the form of the owl Duo, a creative and engaging product, and ambitious plans for expansion.There’s just one key question in the midst of all those milestones: Does anyone actually learn a language using Duolingo? Luis von Ahn, the co-founder of Duolingo, visiting President Obama in 2015.

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Online learning platform CLASS101 bags $26M Series B to support growth

TechCrunch

Everything is switching from offline to online mode, spurred by the pandemic, and that also has turned around things for the creative economy. Creative professionals continue to look for ways to monetize their talents and knowledge through online education platforms like CLASS101 that bring stable incomes and improve opportunities.

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