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Pakistan edtech startup Maqsad gets $2.1M pre-seed to make education more accessible

TechCrunch

Taha Ahmed and Rooshan Aziz left their jobs in strategy consulting and investment banking in London earlier this year in order to found a mobile-only education platform startup, Maqsad , in Pakistan, with a goal “to make education more accessible to 100 million Pakistani students.” Maqsad announced today its $2.1

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Altitude Lab Startups Raise Over $120M in Capital

American Entrepreneurship

Launches Fellowship Grant Opportunity for Early Career Entrepreneurs Altitude Lab today announced that its incubating startups raised over $120M in early-stage funding since commencing operations in 2020. Recursion also has offices in Toronto, Montréal and the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Indonesian edtech CoLearn gets $10M Series A led by Alpha Wave Incubation and GSV Ventures

TechCrunch

The company announced today it has raised $10 million in Series A funding co-led by Alpha Wave Incubation and edtech-focused GSV Ventures. The round also included participation from returning investors Sequoia Capital India’s Surge and AC Ventures. This marks the first time both have made an investment in Indonesia.

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Vietnam’s Rootopia secures $1m to aid more students in need of education loans

AsiaTechDaily

With the fresh capital from Genesia Ventures , ThinkZone Venture, and BK Fund, Rootopia will now be able to grow its early user base to reach product-market fit. It also plans to improve its technology platform to serve more students and help uplift their future through better education.

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Subak, which incubates data-for-climate not-for-profits, announces six startups in 2022 cohort

TechCrunch

based incubator focused on nonprofit startups that are addressing climate-related challenges through open-source data initiatives has announced the six startups which will be put through its 2022 program. The incubator was founded by Baroness Bryony Worthington, who was the lead author of the U.K.’s

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Black Innovation Alliance, Village Capital team up to support founders of color

TechCrunch

Black Innovation Alliance and Village Capital today announced Resource, a national initiative aimed at boosting the efforts of entrepreneur support organizations (ESOs) led by, and focused on, founders of color. Resource aims to give local accelerators and incubators support in the form of training and community.

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Hacking Innovation Education in New York

This is going to be BIG.

The local tech community is figuring this out, not surprisingly, way before the academic institutions are—and where it is being discovered by academia, it’s being done on a one-off basis by educational revolutionaries in the innovation space who aren’t stopping to ask their schools for permission or to change curricula.

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