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India’s higher education startup Sunstone raises $35 million

TechCrunch

Sunstone, a higher education startup that collaborates with academic institutions to help upskill their students for employability, has raised $35 million in a new financing round as it looks to expand to more Indian cities. Sunstone founders said Friday WestBridge Capital led the startup’s Series C financing round.

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Island Raises $250M Series E Funding, Reaches $4.8 Billion Valuation

American Entrepreneurship

Reinventing the Enterprise Browser Islands core innovation lies in its reimagining of the web browsernot as a passive consumer tool, but as an active enabler of enterprise security, productivity, and IT efficiency. Customers range from Fortune 1000 companies to small and midsize businesses and public sector institutions.

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Online university Nexford will use $8M to plug affordability and relevance gaps in education

TechCrunch

The tech-enabled startup, launched by Fadl Al Tarzi in 2019, is filling affordability and relevance gaps in education. accredited higher education and lets them study at their own pace. The latter enables us to operate as efficiently as we do, so we won’t need to increase our tuition fees,” the CEO said.

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When Software Eats the World, Vulnerable Populations – Like Kids – Can Get Exposed to Venture Risk Without Knowing It

Hunter Walk

I’m a believer in the ‘ software eats the world ‘ thesis, although I often change it to ‘software enables the world,’ which is not nearly as evocative but also not as consumptive. And 17% of high schools dont have a counselor, according to the Education Department. This is great!

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How to Create a Healthy Local Startup and Tech Community

This is going to be BIG.

It had been written that NYC was built by industries of zero sum games like finance and real estate, and that DNA wouldn’t work in the startup community. They need to be focused on housing cost, transportation crime, and the kind of zoning that enables a critical mass of interesting local businesses to thrive. You need both.

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Develop a buyer’s guide to educate your startup’s sales team and customers

TechCrunch

It also acts as a sales-enabling tool. If you’re selling a martech solution, on a business level, you have to consider a finance business partner for marketing. Is it secure? How would you implement the technology? What does it replace, if anything? It should be short, simple and speak the customer’s language.

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Meet 5 YLAI Fellows Traveling as Youth Delegates to the Summit of the Americas

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

Facundo’s online platform connects the users and enables a diverse collection of voices to be shared and heard. Georgia is the strategic leader of an educational enterprise that stands for the social mobility of Afro-descendant women. Georgia Barbosa , Brazil, cofounder of Afroricas. The YLAI Fellowship Program is funded by the U.S.