TechCrunch

AUGUST 6, 2021

million seed round and a student loan financing facility of $25 million from Nigerian financial institution Sterling Bank. With Decagon, Nwobi is charting new territory in the fast-paced startup world after years of investing via his seed-stage firm called L5Lab. Today, Decagon is announcing its $1.5 also took part. “We

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

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. Last June, the three-year-old startup announced a $10.8 Nexford University provides learners with a fully online U.S.-accredited

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

First, he said that education is the most high-leverage way to make an impact on an individual, community and world. Hezarkhani’s early energy brought him to Carnegie Mellon, where he studied electrical and computer engineering, and Google, where he spent time on developer programs and Google for Education. Activation edtech.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

There’s a large education gap in Vietnam between urban centers, which have access to more resources, and the smaller cities and rural areas where 80% of students live. While there, he saw how digitization was transforming many aspects of daily life, including e-commerce, finance, healthcare and education.

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AsiaTechDaily

APRIL 13, 2022

Register GoImpact , an ESG and Sustainable Finance start-up , announced the closing of its Series-A round fund-raising, at a valuation of $22 million, tripling that of the last round. GoImpact is founded by finance industry veterans Helene Li and Clarence T’ao, and a serial entrepreneur, Andy Ann, in 2020.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Zen Educate , an online marketplace that algorithmically matches schools with the best available teachers, has raised £19.3 Founded out of London in 2017, Zen Educate is setting out to supplant the traditional approach to recruiting teachers, a system that typically involves third-party agencies and hefty fees. Show me the money.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

And Fiveable , a Milwaukee-based startup, fits the growing demand. We’re the hallways of the educational internet,” said Fiveable co-founder and CEO Amanda DoAmaral. DoAmaral’s vision, built alongside co-founder Tán Ho, fueled Fiveable’s latest financing event. What do students do in the hallways of high school? More than 7.3

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 27, 2022

Register India -based FinTech startup Stack Finance offers customized investment strategies for retail investors based on their goals and risk-taking capabilities. Finance and investment had always piqued Smriti’s interest since she was a teenager. The startup claims to have had more than 100,000 users since its launch.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

That prediction obviously turned out pretty wrong, but it did drum up a whole lot of chatter about the right ingredients for building a startup community—about New York vs Boston on the East Coast and whether cities like Austin and Seattle would ever break through. Startup founders always need help. You need both.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 27, 2010

Business plan competitions are the air guitar championships of the startup world. It’s as if the plan for creating a startup is: Step #1: Come up with an idea. The fact of the matter is, most startups, particularly ones built by young professionals with no network and no track record, aren’t going to get funded.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2021

Guild Education, which pairs employees with employer-sponsored learning opportunities, has raised $150 million in a Series E round. The financing event, funded by Bessemer Venture Partners, Cowboy Ventures, D1, Emerson Collective, General Catalyst, GSV, Harrison Metal, ICONIQ, Redpoint and Salesforce Ventures, values the company at $3.75

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AsiaTechDaily

APRIL 11, 2023

Register Vietnamese edtech startup MindX has announced raising $15 million in a series B funding round, led by education-focused private equity fund Kaizenvest, to continue its mission of nurturing and empowering Vietnamese innovators through technology.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Africa’s largest innovation hub Co-Creation Hub (CcHUB), is launching a $15 million accelerator program, dubbed The Edtech Fellowship Program, to back and support 72 startups across Nigeria and Kenya over the next three years, TechCrunch has learned. One, the edtech space is highly regulated, more than the casual tech observer might think.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Managing your finances can be difficult, especially if you want to try something new like investing or even taking out a mortgage for the first time. It’s developing a finance super app that is bringing together what founder and CEO Robert Cornish calls “the best of fintech for the customer.”

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2022

Oleksandr Yaroshenko is head of investor relations at Headway , an edtech startup based in Ukraine. Let’s look at six reasons to invest in tech startups that hail from Ukraine. The majority of Ukrainian tech startups are still hiring. Startups are integral for creating a new layer of tech firms in Ukraine.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Student financing is a little different. Sure, your past plays a role, but for a lot of education, having a degree dramatically changes your earning potential, and hence your ability to repay. Education is what opens doors. “I feel very tied to the mission.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Today, banks and fintech startups tend not to provide products dedicated to families, specifically, and this has appeared as something of a gap in the market. Meanwhile the general lack of financial education and financial literacy means families are missing out on securing financial prosperity for their families. It’s now raised a €3.5M

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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. AfricInvest, through its Cathay AfricInvest Innovation Fund (CAIF) and French-based development finance institution Proparco, co-led the early-growth round. This brings GOMYCODE’s total financing to $8.85

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 29, 2022

Welcome to Startups Weekly, a fresh human-first take on this week’s startup news and trends. And Peloton of X startups aren’t too happy right now. As tech stocks take a hit, the big question on my mind is how a dip in market performance impacts early-stage startups. Education’s inevitable pivot to emotion.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Only four years ago, Aceable was raising $4 million in financing , from investors including Floodgate Capital and Silverton Partners. “We see HGGC as a strategic, long-term financial partner that embraces and accelerates our vision to create unparalleled education experiences that make it accessible for people to change their lives.”

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 4, 2023

In this guide, we’ll explore the diverse startup programs available in Singapore. Startup SG Founder The Standards, Productivity and Innovation Board Spring (SPRING) consolidates various startup assistance programs. Startups qualifying under Startup SG can access cash grants, equity financing, and business loans.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2021

The Jakarta-based startup was created to give everyone involved in the educational process—school administrators, teachers, parents, guardians and students—apps that let them keep track of everything and communicate with one another. The platform currently has four main parts.

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TechCrunch

JULY 28, 2021

Edtech startup Shikho was created to make supplementary education more accessible and affordable. Shikho’s last round of funding was $275,000 in pre-seed financing last year from LearnStart and strategic angel investors. . The company announced today it has closed a $1.3

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

More posts by this contributor US-listed SPACs have a new target: Latin American tech companies Will Brazil’s Roaring 20s see the rise of early-stage startups? This has resulted in a dynamic where the majority of the successful and mature startups in Brazil are fintechs.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

JULY 28, 2021

The Ben Franklin program has been investing in tech startups and small manufacturers for nearly 40 years. The post Ben Franklin Technology Partners Invests in 14 Tech Startups! appeared first on BFTP/CNP. Visit [link]. www.accountabilitytech.com. www.cpnet.io. www.plexis.app. www.FloorsBySteller.com. www.waveclear.tech. .

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 17, 2024

The Strategic Innovation Center (SIC) will serve as a hub for financial technology (fintech) and insurance technology (insuretech) startups. Plug and Play’s network consists of 50,000 startups, over 500 leading corporations, and hundreds of venture capital firms, universities, and government agencies.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 26, 2019

The top countries for startups in Asia-Pacific have strong economies, low costs of doing business, healthy business environments and well-educated people. Note: A lower number indicates a higher ranking—or a better location for startups. Summary of Top Countries for Startups in Asia-Pacific.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Online learning platform Vedantu has raised $100 million in a new financing round and has become the latest Indian startup to become a unicorn following a year of strong growth. Existing investors Coatue Management, Tiger Global, GGV Capital and WestBridge also “strongly” participated in the round, the startup said.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2021

Plaid, the fintech giant, has announced the inaugural cohort of startups in its new accelerator program, FinRise. Last week, The Information reported that Plaid is nearing a new financing deal that would value the company at between $10 billion to $15 billion. Plaid launches FinRise, an incubator for underrepresented fintech founders.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 10, 2023

The city unveiled its plans to support local startups and nurture entrepreneurship with a series of new initiatives under the guidance of President Shavkat Mirziyoyev. ” The financing framework for the projects includes offering loans for investment endeavors at a low-interest rate of 5% p.a. in foreign currency and 12% p.a.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2021

ULesson , an edtech startup based in Nigeria that sells digital curriculum to students through SD cards, has raised $7.5 The financing comes a little over a year since uLesson closed its $3.1 Similar to many edtech startups, uLesson has benefited from the overnight adoption of remote education.

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TechCrunch

JULY 25, 2022

Now it’s set a goal of investing in 100 more startups with the launch of its second emerging market seed-stage fund, called Seedstars International Ventures II (SIV), with a first close of $20 million. The fund will focus on verticals including finance, commerce, health, work and education.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2022

The startup, which focuses on earned wage access and finance education, with plans to add neo banking products, too, announced today it has raised $2.8 Other members of the founding team include Tep Neeranatpuree former head of corporate sales at Lalamove, and Thanakij Pechprasarn, former CTO at edtech startup Gantik.

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Register Philippine-based consumer finance startup BillEase announced that it has partnered with digital education company BrightCHAMPS to offer study now, pay later option. The startup recently scored an up to $20 million debt facility arranged by Singapore-based finch company Helicap Securities.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2021

In addition, Toni works on several digital-economy-related initiatives that support the scaling of digital businesses, stimulate startup ecosystems and accelerate the digital transformation of key industries in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and the Middle East. A glimpse into Singapore’s current startup ecosystem. Jamil Wyne.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 24, 2022

Register Touchstone Partners announced today that it has led investments in two startups: Credify, which is pioneering embedded finance technologies, and Prep, an edtech company bringing interactive and personalized test preparation to tens of thousands of online learners.

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Startup Blogpost

MARCH 24, 2023

From trying to take on too much by yourself to overlooking crucial elections, here are nine answers to the question, “What are some unhelpful tax mistakes that every startup founder should know and avoid?” Startups often need expensive equipment such as computers, servers, and other technology to run their businesses effectively.

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