TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2021

CEO Cynthia Chen and CTO Christophe Chong co-founded the San Francisco-based company in late 2019 with the goal of helping consumers without a credit history establish one, and helping those with credit histories to continue building credit. Department of the Treasury.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

MARCH 25, 2021

Some of the common best practices to keep in mind when building an inclusive workplace, according to Ideal , include fair treatment and equal access to opportunities; a focus on teamwork and collaboration; representation at all levels; diversity, equity and inclusion training, and education; and effective and consistent communication.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 6, 2020

When I first opened my salon 15 years ago, there wasn’t education or companies you could reach out to about sustainability. I learned the phrase “celebrate all mistakes” in 2019, and I have made that my motto! We switched to an a-la-carte service menu to help alleviate those issues. Can you share any specifics?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Babbel , the Berlin-based language-learning platform, today announced that it is now going well beyond its core app-based learning service and is introducing live classes. Besides crossing a milestone at 10 million subscriptions sold, the company also realized $150 million in recognized revenue in 2019, Babbel’s U.S.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

London and Barcelona based audio-as-a-service SaaS startup Aflorithmic has scooped up $1.3 Some of Aflorithmic’s current (proof of concept/pilot) customers are using its tools to create audio books for kids, for personalized narration of wellness/nutrition programs and even a robot butler concierge service for hotel guests.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 13, 2021

I’ve been working exclusively from home since the end of November 2019 when we left NYC to go to LA. Now with digital health services like those offered by our portfolio companies Brave and Nurx , the doctors are seeing the patients from their homes (or wherever they are). It has been a stretch of incredible productivity for me.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 26, 2022

We launched in 2006 as the first full-service digital agency in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Middle East region. In 2019, I exited the business and relocated to Canada. Conventional wisdom tells us that life is linear and our paths, both educational and professional, should be linear, too.

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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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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 1, 2016

Just ask Stacey Brewer and Ryan Harrison , EO Johannesburg members who are redefining the educational ecosystem in South Africa. Historically, South Africa ranks among the worst-performing education systems in the world. SB/ “The state of education in South Africa is stark at the moment.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

AUGUST 22, 2019

If you don’t have a lot of test takers, it is hard to get your test accepted by educational institutions and corporations. But if you aren’t accepted by educational institutions and corporations, it is hard to get anyone to take your test. Luis von Ahn (@LuisvonAhn) August 21, 2019. There is a virtue in patience.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

JULY 1, 2020

2019: Global Entrepreneurship Workshop: Advances in Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Research – TBS Business School (Nov, 18th, Toulouse). With Norris Krueger) 2019: AOM 2019 PDW “Getting Down to the Bottom-Up: Researching Ecosystems As If Entrepreneurs Mattered… As if Every Entrepreneur Mattered” ( Aug, 9th, Boston ).

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Saga Education, a tutoring nonprofit backed by Comcast, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and others, acquired math software platform Woot Math. We also saw PowerSchool, which sells a suite of software services to manage schools, scoop up Hoonuit, a data management and analytics tool for educators. for young students.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2021

When it launched in April 2019 in Japan, the Riiid Tutor app took the top ranking in sales among education applications in Android within the first week of its release. . The company expects to address local remote learning and education in the market. Riiid claims that more than 2.5 How is edtech spending its extra capital?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2021

As Latin America attracts record-breaking venture capital totals, education technology startups in the region are given new opportunities to grow. In the past week, Coderhouse, a live cohort-based learning platform, and Crehana, an on-demand skills development service for the enterprise, both announced financing rounds.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2022

To date, Mentor Collective has 165 institutional, higher-education customers, including University of Colorado Denver, Penn State and Dartmouth. These numbers might initially appear low, but even just 1% retention is significant in education…4% across a class of 5,000 students is 200 fewer students dropping out of school,” said Boyar.

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2021

This brings Bibit’s total funding to $110 million, including a Series A announced in May 2019. Its latest round will be used on developing and launching new products, hiring and increasing Bibit’s financial education services. For example, Ajaib also presents its financial educational features as a selling point.

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Source Link

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Don and his team find in many rural communities, “well-educated young people […] are seeking careers in a wider range of fields,” and if the community fails to create diverse job opportunities associated with career paths, “chances are good that most of the community’s children and grandchildren will leave the community and not return.”.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2020

The news comes on the heels of dramatic growth for the company, which has seen its user base grow from 150 million users in 2019 to 350 million today. For more context, PitchBook estimates that the company was valued at $180 million in its last round, a Series C of $30 million in 2019. Image: Brainly. ” Borkowski said.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 26, 2021

“Voice skins” have become a very popular feature for AI-based voice assistants, to help personalize some of the more anodyne aspects of helpful, yet also kind of bland and robotic, speaking voices you get on services like Alexa. LOVO’s four core markets are marketing, education, movies and games in entertainment and AR/VR, Lee said.

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2021

Fintech startup StudentFinance — which allows educational institutions to offer success-based financing for students — has raised a $5.3 It now has 35 education providers signed up, managing over €5 million worth of ISAs. The startup was founded in 2019 by Kostelec, Marta Palmeiro, Sergio Pereira and Miguel Santo Amaro.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 22, 2016

Just ask Stacey Brewer and Ryan Harrison , EO Johannesburg members who are redefining the educational ecosystem in South Africa. Historically, South Africa ranks among the worst-performing education systems in the world. SB/ “The state of education in South Africa is stark at the moment.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 3, 2019

Santoro attended the 2019 Startup Grind Global as an Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) ambassador and mentor. Well, that’s a wrap on the 2019 Startup Grind Global in Redwood City, California. I simply started offering my services while saving and building. We share his thoughts below. . Carlo is married with two children.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2022

Startup pitches with promises to provide various services to Africans — across different sectors — are commonplace now. From Onayemi’s point of view, the growth of Africa’s digital economy revolves around gains in six segments: education, payments, logistics, transport, identity, and trade.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2021

Five years ago, entrepreneur Dan Sommer bet big on the adult learning space when he was building out Trilogy Education, an online and in-person bootcamp in collaboration with universities to train workforces on the latest tech skills. In 2019, Sommer sold that company for $750 million to 2U in one of the largest edtech exits to date.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2021

Holberton , the education startup that started out as a coding school in San Francisco and today works with partners to run schools in the U.S., A number of students also accused the school of not giving them the education it had promised. After a hearing, the BPPE allowed Holberton to continue to operate its other programs.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2021

Prince describes BlockFi as a financial services company for crypto market investors that offers a retail and institutional-facing suite of products. The startup is also a lender and provider of trade execution services to institutions participating in digital asset markets. . The Jersey City, New Jersey-based startup raised $1.6

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 12, 2019

In fact, the work he does outside of his original business helped him earn the 2019 EO Global Citizen of the Year. In 2010, Ravi founded IndiVillage , the first information technology (IT) and information technology enabled services (ITeS) company in India to become certified as a B Corporation. Learn more today. .

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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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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

from 2010 to 2019. According to the report, African developers created 40% more open source repositories on the software engineering marketplace in 2019 than in 2018 — recording a higher growth percentage than any other continent globally. Image Credits: ITU World Telecommunication/IOT indicators database/Endeavor.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2021

In 2019, Africa had fewer than 900,000 new vehicle sales. Moove was founded by Ladi Delano and Jide Odunsi in 2019. Although they make up a small part of Africans who need Moove’s services, Delano says the market for “mobility entrepreneurs” is enormous. sold more than 17 million new cars that same year.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2021

It focuses on investors new to cryptocurrency with educational features, as well as high net-worth individuals, and says it has transacted over $600 million in gross transaction volume since launching at the end of 2019. The funding will be used on hiring and to add more product offerings.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2021

Those experiences led him to come up with the concept behind Cheese, which he said will offer its banking services via a multi-language platform. They don’t necessarily get the same kind of service or product for their banking needs and they face all kinds of pain points,” he wrote. People deserve a better service.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2022

Glorang will use the Series A to expand its service to Japan and Malaysia by the fourth quarter of this year and Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam in the following years, Hwang said. billion in 2019. billion in 2019. It also plans to increase its headcount. . billion in 2027 , from $17.6 billion in 2027 , from $17.6

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2021

Indian edtech giant Byju’s, which raised over a billion dollars last year as the pandemic accelerated the adoption of online learning services in India, is about to begin a new fundraising spree. billion in July 2019, two people familiar with the matter told TechCrunch. Image and data compiled by Blume Ventures).

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

consumers use BNPL services. From the survey, 39% of the respondents said they used BNPL services to avoid paying credit card interest rates, while 16.3% Yet, as established players continue to have thousands of merchants and millions of users on their platforms, BNPL services are just picking up in Africa.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

According to a 2019 report by Deloitte , about 80% of South Africans have a bank account but only 24% of them make more than three transactions monthly. However , expensive value-added services like credit cards do not necessarily address the needs of underbanked people. They get charged a percentage fee that varies between 1.5-2.5%

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2021

The company plan to strengthen its capabilities in local commerce with Danggeun Pay, or Karrot Pay, which is set to launch this year, and Danggeun’s platform Karrot enables approximately 300,000 local SMB partners to go digitalized by offering offline to online (O2O) service. for providing hyperlocalized community service.

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