TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2021

The startup, filled with education enthusiasts and mission-driven employees, became “very college pizza vibes,” Gina Gotthilf, former VP of Marketing at Duolingo, described. By 2017, Duolingo would boast having 200 million users, which was double von Ahn’s goal when he first launched to the public on the TechCrunch Disrupt stage.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Startup SG Tech Grant Startup SG Tech, a key initiative for technological firms in Singapore, underwent enhancements in 2017 to facilitate better cash flow for successful applicants. The grant facilitates advancing innovative technology solutions, driving startups toward market disruption or creating entirely new markets.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

The new capital was led by Third Point Ventures , with participation from existing investors Sapphire Ventures, More Capital, Disruptive AI, Vertex Growth, 40North, Samsung Next and TCP. . Verbit was founded in 2017 by Livne, who previously had a career in law. The latest funding brings its total raised to more than $550 million. .

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Insurance products had reached less than 3% of the population as of 2017, according to rating agency ICRA. ICRA estimated that of those Indians who had purchased an insurance product, they were spending less than $50 on it in 2017. A range of startups in India are trying to disrupt this market.

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Jason Malki

AUGUST 3, 2023

Sebastian led Innovation Management in 3 verticals before becoming a corporate intrapreneur in the automotive industry in 2017, where he created numerous in-house startups, going through ideation to scale-up stages. The current pace of disruption and technological advancement is incredible. Not sure if I mentioned AI.

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Paul G. Silva

JUNE 14, 2023

Unruly Studios Unruly Splats are the only STEM education tool that combines high-quality coding learning with a social and active play experience. Achieving the wow factor, our facility is literally a smile factory using new ways to gamify skydiving and immerse guests in parachute simulations amongst educational skydiving museum exhibit.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2021

Since its 2017 inception, the startup has raised nearly $70 million. Flink also has a big focus on education and creating an investment experience that makes it easy for their users to onboard.” For example, Bent noted, Flink has a podcast dubbed “Finanzas en órbita” that provides financial and stock market education in México.

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Jason Malki

JULY 26, 2023

She has been a thought-leader in tech for the past 8 years, her newsletter has 25k subscribers, she was named one of Bloomberg’s 100 Influential Latinos of 2022 , and she has spoken at numerous panels including at TechCrunch Disrupt, L’Attitude, NFT NYC, and a16z’s Google’s demo day at LA Tech Week 2023.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2022

Since 2012, he’s served as CEO, moving the company’s headquarters from Marseille to New York in 2017. Elsewhere in the organization, Contentsquare operates a nonprofit foundation to help promote digital accessibility in areas like education and corporate social responsibility.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 2, 2022

The country’s focus on education, business, and innovation has made it the 11th largest economy and the fifth largest exporter of goods and services globally. The KSGC program became quite popular in the subsequent years, with 49 teams participating in 2017, 73 teams in 2018, and 36 teams in 2019.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Founded in 2017 and bootstrapped until its seed round, Delegate Connect’s business grew during the COVID-19 pandemic, like many other virtual event platforms. It also plans to open a United States-based office soon.

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Startup Grind

AUGUST 15, 2018

We held a few closes prior to the final closed in February of 2017. Healthcare in this country has been broken for a long time and is in desperate need of disruption. Wonderschool is solving a significant problem in childcare/education and is doing it on both sides of the marketplace. When did you start your current fund?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Peeler isn’t just changing the world of student aid, she’s also redefining the role of women entrepreneurs in finance and education. Today, Peeler’s company, NextGenVest , is helping students navigate the complex world of financial aid and, to date, save $39M in tuition costs. Payal Kadakia / Classpass.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

YouTube is the largest education platform in India — but it’s not built for teachers,” said Surender Singh, co-founder of Pensil, at the presentation on Tuesday. According to rating agency ICRA, insurance products had reached less than 3% of the population as of 2017. There are roughly 270 million K-12 students in the country.

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OurCrowd

JULY 17, 2019

Climate change, growing financial inequality, lack of access to education for billions and lack of food and water security are among the problems that plague society. Between 2000 and 2015, for example, spending on education in the US grew 15%, but test scores have been stagnating. Spending on medical care reached an astounding $3.5

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 20, 2016

The data indicated education, big data, marketplaces and SaaS were the leading categories. The first post sketched the idea and the second filled in the details of one theory on how startups will disrupt their incumbents, and particularly the dominant systems of record. And that helps with matching price to the other 3 Ps of marketing.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Based in Detroit, Autobooks offers a number of wellness benefits, plus great financial and educational benefits. They are committed to diversity and invest in the education of their employees. Bollinger has been in the news since CleanTechnica picked up their story in 2017. Apply now to Autobooks. Our Next Energy.

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 12, 2020

I found GroupMe at the Techcrunch Disrupt Hackathon. It’s been incredibly difficult for both professional and personal reasons—and if I hadn’t met my wife Aja in late 2017, this would have all been a pretty dismal time, to be honest. That’s also why we do educational classes on VC best practices.

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StartupNation

MARCH 10, 2021

The year 2020 threw online education into the spotlight, but this Ann Arbor tech company has known the value of it since it was founded in 2017. Amesite , founded by top Midwest female founder Ann Marie Sastry, uses AI to improve the online education experience. Just last month they raised $11.8 In 2020, they raised $5.5

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MARCH 10, 2023

Are they making an educated bet or gambling? The data is for Slush 100 2015–2017. One small nudge can disrupt ecosystems, send shocks across supply chains, a sleepless night to stage fright while pitching, or one warm intro to a cascade of competing term sheets. Or are they just going through the motions to please a VC?

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

Next Canada’s programs offer a world-class education, exclusive events, an expansive network, and more. Next36 focuses on supporting students and recent grads launching their startups, while Next AI supports AI-enabled ventures looking to disrupt industries. . Creator Fund is a European firm “investing in Ph.D.,

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

When the pair started the company in 2017, the idea behind Releaf was not concrete yet as the team, based in the U.S., Ikenna and Uzo are the perfect founders to disrupt this market in Nigeria and beyond. This allows them to get better processing yields and fewer logistics costs; in the end, the farmer has more money to work with.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

Perlego (Latin for “I read”) works with 5,000 education publishers, including Cengage, Routledge, Cambridge University Press, Elsevier and Harvard University Press. The market for educational content has lagged other types of content, which have successfully digitized and offered new models of consumption to users.

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FundersClub

JUNE 12, 2017

’ It’s that line of thinking that leads people to create disruptive companies, to solve problems that were thought to be intractable. This is one of the insights that Laura Behrens Wu drew out of Mittal during a FundersClub Facebook Live discussion on March 30, 2017. There's education to be had if you do seek that out.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

As of summer 2017, about one third of their investments were with the Indie.VC According to Managing Partner Justin Dawkins, Collab Capital, based in Atlanta, is “setting out to disrupt the wealth gap by investing in Black founders building innovative, high growth companies.” V2 structure. . Compensation-Based Flexible VCs.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

As of summer 2017, about one third of their investments were with the Indie.VC According to Managing Partner Justin Dawkins, Collab Capital, based in Atlanta, is “setting out to disrupt the wealth gap by investing in Black founders building innovative, high growth companies.” V2 structure. . Compensation-Based Flexible VCs.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Jan Lynn-Matern, Emerge Education. Education = knowledge transfer + social + signaling. I’ve always found the concept of total addressable market (TAM) hard to embrace fully — the arrival of a single disruptive company could change an industry’s TAM in a week. ” Ian Chiu, Owl Ventures. David Eichler, TCV.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The insurance market is still one of the industries least disrupted by technology on the continent. But what we found is that educated people in the middle-income segment are aware of insurance, understand it and want to buy it, even though it wasn’t accessible to them before.”

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