Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Déborah, a 2022 YLAI Fellow , is the founder and director of CAPAZ Perú , which develops cultural, educational and social projects for people with disabilities through art programs such as theater and dance. After seeing the success of this play, she decided to expand her research with her team to create a long-form play.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

“Centre County 4-H Robotics is incredibly thankful to Ben Franklin Technology Partners for their sponsorship of our program since 2016,” said Bill Jester, CC4H Robotics Advisor. We look forward to growing this partnership in the future as we continue to increase our impact in the local community and beyond.”

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 20, 2016

2016 was a year of change for SaaS, and most of the story was the public market. The Hottest Startup Sectors In 2016 - published on January 3rd, this post reviewed the patterns of investment in startups, and in particular, the sectors where investors were increasing their investment the fastest. The end of the year is fast approaching.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2021

With this new online program, Station F is focusing on online education. There’s the Founders Program, which was announced back in 2016 when Varza unveiled Station F at TechCrunch Disrupt. While a ton of people want to start a startup, there’s still a steep learning curve to get started.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

JULY 16, 2021

2016 YLAI Fellow Alpha Sennon is a well-recognized global “farmerpreneur,” motivational speaker, agri-youth advocate. Education is a must for Alpha, and he is always looking for new and innovative ways to share his content to connect to different audiences.

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OurCrowd

MAY 18, 2022

In 2021, female founders secured only 2% of venture capital dollars, according to PitchBook, the second year in a row that the percentage of funding secured by female founders declined, and the smallest share since 2016. But on the CNBC Disruptor 50 list, female founders continue to make gains. Read more here.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 2, 2016

Which of the 16 major start of categories in information technology will reap disproportionate share of investment dollars in 2016? This may be a breakout category in 2016 for Series A investments. Since 2010, education startups have been on a tear in the seed market growing from 6% to now 10% in 2015.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

This article was written for the March 2016 issue of Octane magazine. Just ask Stacey Brewer and Ryan Harrison , EO Johannesburg members who are redefining the educational ecosystem in South Africa. Historically, South Africa is ranked among the worst-performing education systems in the world.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 2, 2021

Unfortunately, most children grow up without any financial education whatsoever, whether at home or at school. Since 2016, not one US state has added personal finance to its K-12 standards. Studies consistently find that women have lower financial literacy levels than men, even after accounting for marital status, education and income.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 24, 2021

Ruthe Farmer is the founder and CEO of the Last Mile Education Fund , and a global advocate and evangelist for equity and inclusion in technology and engineering. K-12 investments are important but need follow-through at the higher education level to yield the talent we need. More posts by this contributor.

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Data from the Global Sustainable Investment Alliance highlights a staggering 605% increase in Sustainably-Themed Investing in 2020 compared to 2016. Gyeonggi Province, along with GBSA (Gyeonggi Business & Science Accelerator), plays a pivotal role in bolstering ESG education for startups in Pangyo Techno Valley.

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Dream It

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

The report, “Empowering Global Citizens to Create Global Change,” focuses on the impact of MPOWER Financing’s core product, the world’s only fixed-rate, no-cosigner education loan for international and DACA students at top U.S. Enhance the financial independence and educational prospects of women from emerging markets.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Families across the nation have historically invested heavily in their children’s education to advance in life. But the quality of education and its affordability are two major challenges that millions of students, especially those living in smaller cities and towns, have always had to confront. You have to look at our genesis.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2021

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. Founded in September 2016, Gredu is now used by more than 400 schools, with a total of 400,000 users.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Zoom showed up in Denver back in 2016 , notably, The city is also attracting folks in what we might call tech’s middle tier. Michigan-based Service Express opened an office in Denver in 2016 , indicating that the city is not merely a place for the coasts to snag talent and rent offices.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Entrepreneurs with an ongoing thirst for learning often turn to executive education programs to expand their knowledge base to tackle new challenges and opportunities. The Entrepreneurial Masters Program class of 2016. Continuing education is important, especially when you’re trying to challenge the status quo.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Register Hailing from Singapore, Jeshua Soh is a young and dynamic angel investor who has woven a narrative that curves through unconventional education, accidental entrepreneurship, and a globetrotting escapade to over 55 countries across five continents.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 21, 2018

Since 2016, the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Agenda has been a driving force in addressing 17 sustainable development goals, tackling challenging issues ranging from energy to climate change to hunger. Educational opportunities. In areas where Internet access is a challenge, Kenya’s Moja comes into play.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

That makes $669 million raised since GoStudent was founded in Vienna in 2016, giving it a notional $3.5 The company is creating a leading global platform for K12 education and the speed at which they are growing is impressive. billion / €3 billion valuation.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Launched in 2016, Seneca Learning did not previously take on venture capital backing, according to Crunchbase. The move comes a month after GoStudent raised €300 million in a Series D funding and follows GoStudent’s 2021 acquisition of Fox Education, an Austrian all-in-one school communication solution. 1 global school.”

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Australian edtech start-up Vivi has raised $20 million from education investor Quad Partners, funds that it intends to use to improve its platform, upgrade its operational infrastructure, and hire more sales and marketing teams in the Americas, Europe, and Asia. This latest round sees Vivi reach $24.3

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 26, 2023

He also was named American Banker magazine’s 2016 “Innovator of the Year”, and one of Time magazine’s “50 Leaders for the Future”. For education, he is recognized as the leader in establishing financial literacy as an official policy of the U.S. On the political side, John has been an advisor to three sitting U.S.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

JUNE 7, 2019

Ashna Mahepal, founder of Young Help Suriname (YHS) , is a member of the YLAI Network and 2016 YLAI Fellow. In 2016, when she was selected as a YLAI Fellow, Ashna was able to further develop her ideas, and her YLAI Reverse Exchange became a great success that grew her confidence for undertaking international projects.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

He led several University of Michigan innovation initiatives in both education and research, one of which led to the top-ranked national undergraduate entrepreneurship program. Zurbuchen joined NASA in 2016, and he engages people worldwide with the agency’s work and the inspiration of science.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

JULY 28, 2021

Emerge Education, located in Cumberland County, offers higher education institutions an innovative way to manage their online programs through business-related strategies that allow clients to focus on the teaching process rather than delivery issues. www.cpnet.io. www.plexis.app. www.FloorsBySteller.com. www.teamology.team.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

MAY 27, 2022

She launched the business in 2008 and in 2016 started her first franchise mode. She took invested in education to learn how to not only clean but also the business of “hazardous cleanup” She took the course, even got a ready-made business plan for her envisioned business, and went to banks.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2021

The MaC Venture Capital founding managing partner hadn’t actually seen Wonderschool’s original pitch deck before investing in the remote education startup. Fast forward to 2016. Before our conversation on Extra Crunch Live, Marlon Nichols dropped a bomb on me. That was happening when I first moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in 2011.

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Source Link

MARCH 30, 2022

Since launching in 2016, their network has withstood hurricanes, earthquakes and a global pandemic and emerged stronger due to their resilience and ability to pivot in an ever-changing environment.

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Y Combinator

APRIL 19, 2022

Subsequently, he became an excellent chef by taking an intense course from San Francisco’s Tante Marie's cooking school, and then returned to his operator roots and took on the CEO role at QuestBridge, an educational non-profit helping connect low-income students with elite colleges around the country.

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Revolution

JANUARY 19, 2021

One characteristic I have discovered and tracked with fascination since 2016?—?in Silicon X Syndrome So if cities are like startups, what “startup-ish” characteristics might they exhibit? And that’s a good thing. That difference?—?the the unique DNA of each city?—?is is core to its competitive advantage.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Angel is the founder of Blue Hope ( Azul Esperanza ), an organization that provides educational therapy to children on the autism spectrum. Every April 2, since 2016, we organize a national walk. In 2016 we pushed for the implementation of Law N. How has the community helped and embraced your organization?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

These investors can also be hesitant to bet on emerging managers, whom they may perceive as higher risk than established investors, even though Cambridge Associates data shows emerging firms made up 72% of the top returning firms between 2004 and 2016.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

A lot of that edtech bump came in K-12 and college solutions, or in leisure educational things like MasterClass,” Sims said. Udacity raises $75M in debt, says its tech education business is profitable after enterprise pivot. Ours was less pandemic-induced.”.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 29, 2018

Add to that, the dozens of courses I’ve attended and home education programs I’ve listened to. Driven by his desire to inspire progress, Suhail started planning the FALAK Unreasonable Thinking Summit (UTS) in 2016. Explains Suhail, “The UTS promotes ongoing learning by being an educational event. Promoting Disruption.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2022

She recalls going to her first trade show in 2010 and having to educate retailers on ingredients like chia seeds, coconut sugar and coconut oil. Today, these ingredients are readily available on grocery shelves thanks in part to consumers being more educated on better-for-you foods and demanding they taste good also.

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Jason Malki

DECEMBER 5, 2023

After perfecting a workplace storytelling framework, David began coaching clients in 2016 as a freelancer and then started Storytelling 4 Success in 2022. What motivated you to launch your startup?

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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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