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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.”

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Go1 nabs $100M at a $2B+ valuation to upgrade its curated enterprise learning platform

TechCrunch

Online education continues to get a lot of attention in the wake of COVID-19 and the shift it brought to how people can learn. And while most of its growth to date has been organic, it will be using some of the funding potentially to bring some inorganic growth into the mix. That is dovetailing with another ambition, he added.

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StudentFinance nabs $41M to help Europeans upskill for in-demand jobs

TechCrunch

StudentFinance , a European fintech that funds educational programs for individuals through so-called income share agreements , has raised €39 million ($41 million) in a Series A round of funding. “We also use data from analyzing systemic and market changes such as government incentives for companies to become ‘greener.’

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China’s game engine Cocos raises $50M, goes beyond games

TechCrunch

Cocos Technologies, a China-based game engine provider that has been around since 2010, just announced it has picked up $50 million in a Series B funding round in a bid to work on development and move beyond games. It’s also making forays into non-game scenarios like online education and autonomous driving. and Russia.

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Behind the scenes: The challenges of building an EdTech startup

Startup Grind

Many have tried to revolutionize education and failed. Pre-MVP Stage: This is the stage where you would do the market research and early customer development activities. Education startups need science and research based evidence on their approach to learning and education.

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A Meeting of Unreasonable Minds

Entrepreneurs' Organization

A successful entrepreneur, businessman and EO Bahrain member, Suhail Algosaibi had long thought about how he could use his position and his company—FALAK Consulting—to make real, radical and sustainable change in his corner of the world. We hardly invent any new technologies and don’t invest enough in research and development,” Suhail says.

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Kodland, which teaches kids digital skills, grabs $9M to scale its online coding school

TechCrunch

The new funding will be used to further expand the reach of its online courses. Kodland’s latest tranche of funding — which brings its total raised to date to $11 million — will be used for market expansion, with courses in a further eight languages planned over the next two years. Ireland, the U.S.,