TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

The popular startup, which lets people build and share educational games, has picked up Drops, a startup that helps people learn languages by way of short picture and word-based games. But it has had some notable accolades, including getting named app of the year by Google in 2018. It did go through an accelerator, GameFounders.)

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Matt Biilmann, Netlify CEO and co-founder, said that in the early days, they had to educate and convince people that the change in architecture that Netlify was trying to bring about was a real thing. “[OneGraph technology] is going to be an important part of our next stage of product development,” Biilmann explained.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

2018 YLAI Fellow Bibiana Dipeo, the director of Alimentando Para el Futuro (Feed4Future) in Paraguay, is empowering her community after more than a decade in the financial sector, by innovating new ways to reduce malnutrition and poverty. The most effective tools for women to get out of poverty are to: Democratize access to education.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

2018 YLAI Fellow Rondell Hamilton is the founder of Rennie’s Orphanage and Animal Rescue (ROAR) in Trinidad, a nonprofit organization managing the rehabilitation, repopulation, and rescue of wild animals. The need for education on biodiversity, as well as the care of injured animals, also drove me to create ROAR. By Jewelle Saunders.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2022

Web3 developer infrastructure startup Alchemy, which last raised a $200 million Series C1 last February, has just made its first acquisition ever — and it’s in the education space. Alchemy, which aims to be the ‘de facto platform’ for developers to build on web3, is now valued at $10.2B.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 15, 2022

The funding will be spent to further accelerate its business and market expansion and to help optimize the development of PlayMining. for them to collaborate on content that educates the mainstream Japanese audience about Web3 technology. A separate Web3 partnership was also signed.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

MAY 18, 2021

Developing your brand means deciding how you distinguish yourself to your audience, and it determines how many people will interact with your organization and what the world knows you stand for. Understand your audience and educate your community. Taking on bigger (and better funded) competitors is not easy,” says Professor Goldberg.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Developing the skills to be resilient is essential in order to be a strong leader, to recover from setbacks and to adapt to whatever challenges come your way. 2016 YLAI Fellow Marco Mendieta works hard to develop the small-business community of Ecuador and regenerate the economy following the country’s devastating earthquake of 2016.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

MARCH 25, 2021

a Suriano, 2018 YLAI Fellow. “It Masshii’s objective is to create opportunities for at-risk women in El Salvador who have little or no opportunity for proper education, training, or jobs. We start by approaching our partners to develop a program. Our partners usually help with opportunities in education and mental health.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

JANUARY 29, 2020

Tamara Isch, a 2018 YLAI Fellow and a co-founder and COO of EcX Labs, has been breaking boundaries in her country, in her field of work, and in the world. Developing contacts expanded her view of the world. By Elise Kemp. Joining a community was key in Tamara’s journey.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Driven by a desire to help people from a young age, YLAI 2018 Fellow Janeel Boon aims to empower others to see their leadership ability within themselves. Providing five-minute tips and tricks about what to do and not to do with your computer during these sessions allowed me an easy way to start educating my community as well.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 19, 2022

With encouragement from friends and family, in March 2018, I founded Covert Results, a private investigations and security company. That became our main focus: To educate the hospitality industry. It was time to retire and start a new venture. The company has doubled in size each year. In March 2021, we were accepted into EO.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Angel Flores, a 2018 YLAI Fellow, has made it his life’s mission to improve the lives of people with disabilities. Angel is the founder of Blue Hope ( Azul Esperanza ), an organization that provides educational therapy to children on the autism spectrum. How has YLAI helped your organization grow and develop?

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

MARCH 13, 2019

In a true innovation economy, high-speed internet access that is always on and faster than traditional dial-up access (commonly referred to as broadband) is critical — to corporations, to startups and to K-12 schools, educators and especially students. When it comes to broadband expansion in Oklahoma — the gravy needs more salt.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

AUGUST 25, 2020

2018 YLAI Fellow Cinthya Andino is most passionate about design and about protecting the environment. Through years of production and education, the community has begun to reflect sustainable values by creating their own clothes through upcycling old materials. By Angie Garozzo. What’s in the future for Beleaf?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 29, 2018

The Middle East consists of developing nations and, sadly, we are consumers of innovation and create very little of it ourselves. We hardly invent any new technologies and don’t invest enough in research and development,” Suhail says. “I Add to that, the dozens of courses I’ve attended and home education programs I’ve listened to.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

MARCH 31, 2020

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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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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Source Link

APRIL 14, 2021

As we foster the development of entrepreneurial ecosystems, it’s important to design them to level the playing field for women. In 2018, women started 1,821 net new businesses every day according to research by American Express, which also showed that black women are starting businesses at the fastest rate of any racial group.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2021

StudyFree — which connects students with international educational opportunities via a community-driven B2C SaaS model — has raised a $3 million seed investment round led by I2BF Global Ventures, TMT Investments and Techstars. We estimate the international overseas education market is 15 million students per year.”. million in funding.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

CoderSchool raised a seed round led by TRIVE Ventures in 2018. CoderSchool will use the funding to accelerate its online teaching platform growth and technology infrastructure expansion for the company’s technical education programs that guarantee employment upon graduation.

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Paul G. Silva

JUNE 14, 2023

Apprentiscope ApprentiScope is transforming workforce development in the United States by making modern Registered Apprenticeships scalable. Lenoss Medical Designed and developed the first and only biological solution to treat osteoporotic spinal fractures. 2018 Libboo Accelerating great stories and big ideas.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 12, 2023

As a software engineering student, he set on a mission to transform South Korea’s education environment. The country’s education system predominantly relied on one-way knowledge transfer, and Ahn believed that information technology could alter this landscape. Jaewoo Ahn and Jungho Choi lead the development team.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2022

His new job was to open a subsidiary for a French open source tech startup and that required hiring developers on the ground. Amine was struggling to find higher web developers,” CEO Yahya Bouhlel told TechCrunch in an interview. “So However, finding a sizable number in Tunis was tough. “At GOMYCODE utilizes the latter.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2022

London-based Kodland , which started out back in 2018 offering in-person courses for children to learn digital skills like computer programming before switching focus to online learning from early 2020, has closed a $9 million Series A funding round to scale into more markets. It says it will also be spending on product development.

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NZ Entrepreneur

AUGUST 22, 2023

He started his first business aged 18 and received the New Zealand Angel Association’s Arch Angel award in 2018 as New Zealand’s top angel investor. If we’re able to get the education system to provide entrepreneurial mindset education at an early age, that will be a huge win for the manifesto.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

It will also support the development of new consumer and enterprise products to enable Indonesians and businesses to access a wider range of services securely and accelerate broader digital transformation. The Company also intends to expand into overseas market to further accelerate growth.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

This common inspirational quote reassured 2018 YLAI Fellow Priscilla Ortiz Porras about her innovative veterinary regenerative medicine practice in her community in Costa Rica. I believe it is important for women to pursue education for what they love and have a dream to be a part of,” says Priscilla. By Jewelle Saunders.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

These markets make up 32% of Africa’s population, 51% of the continent’s mobile network connections, 50% of its professional developers and 51% of its GDP. CAGR from 2018 to 2023 compared to Eastern Europe’s 6.9%, Asia Pacific’s 6.8%, Western Europe’s 4%, North America’s 3.5% from 2010 to 2019. from 2010 to 2019.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2020

The money will be used to develop curriculum and expand Yuanfudao’s online educational service, amid a larger boom in remote learning. In 2018 , the company told TechCrunch that a majority of its revenue came from selling live courses. Making sense of 3 edtech extension rounds.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2021

Launched in 2009, Kdan Mobile has focused on developing content creation and productivity software for mobile devices from the start, founder and chief executive officer Kenny Su told TechCrunch. Since announcing its Series A in April 2018 , Kdan Mobile has grown from 70 employees to 200 in Taiwan, China, Japan and the United States.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 2, 2019

On 25–26 June 2019, EO presented a two-day International Entrepreneurial Summit at the United Nations focused on inspiring, educating and connecting business leaders to promote sustainable business practices. Sustainable Development Goal 4: Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2021

One of the Jakarta-based company’s goals is to improve educational standards in Indonesia. The country’s PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment, a global ranking system created by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) rankings are in the bottom 10% for math, science and reading.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Its host companies include AWS, Carrefour, Dentons, GAM Investments, Asian Development Bank and Bio Pharm Dongsung. In 2018, they realized there was a much larger market of students who wanted to do international internships and created Virtual Internships to help them find positions no matter where they are.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Emerging managers can also target niche investors: for example, if you’re investing in education, a like-minded foundation might be a potential LP, or if you’re investing in medical technologies, you might try to connect with hospitals that could benefit from those innovations. As a result, capital can be concentrated in certain areas.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Sehwail’s entrepreneurial journey started after college in 2013, when he developed enterprise web software for the likes of BMW, a business that also inspired his Userpilot strategy. As investors focus more on profitability, product-led startups may be sitting pretty.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Since 2018, Prosus has invested $536 million in Byju’s, with another significant $153 million investment made in April 2021. Despite raising over $5 billion, the company’s recent developments represent a significant shift in its fortunes. Therefore, Prosus now holds a 9.6% billion debt. The Edtech startup company had spent $2.5

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