TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2021

Leap , a platform for people over 55 to learn via social interaction, has raised $3.1 million in a seed round led by European early-stage investor Creandum and SF-based South Park Commons. Also participating was Learn Start/Learn Capital, alongside angels Michelle Kennedy (Peanut founder), Sahil Lavingia and Tim Tuttle.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

In the name of transparency and accessibility, Twitch launched its new Privacy Center to educate users, after conducting “extensive research” and finding that many of its users had no idea how their personal data is collected and used.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2022

Spyke Games , which hopes to bring a new dimension to casual games by using multiplayer functionality and other social elements, has raised $55 million in a seed round of funding. She said the team there “unintentionally” built in social elements into Toy Blast and “stumbled” on to a community of players.

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CIO

APRIL 11, 2024

During the pandemic, an estimated 1.500 million students missed school, institutions adopted smart technologies to ensure the continuity of education. The importance of education in supporting the success of Saudi Vision 2030 cannot be overstated. From what I see across the nation, there is an emphasis on STEM.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

As a Systems Integration Specialist at McMaster, Tara’s journey highlights the importance of balancing technological progress with operational stability, ensuring that innovations serve to enhance rather than disrupt the educational environment. Learn more about Avaya’s Innovation without Disruption approach for education.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 25, 2022

Upon first launch, users simply tap on the categories of games they most enjoy — like board, adventure, card, casino, educational, strategy, word, racing, sports, casual, puzzle, and others. Social recommendations remain an area today’s app stores don’t address. It’s just a recommendation. Image Credits: Skich.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The Importance of Effective Leadership in Educational Institutions In the constantly evolving landscape of education, effective leadership plays a pivotal role in the success and growth of educational institutions. One of the primary challenges is the competitive nature of the industry.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Online education has been one of the hotspots in the tech world this year, as people turn to e-learning tools to fill in the gaps variously arising from closed schools, closed offices, social distancing and more time on our hands at home because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

Yubo , a social livestreaming app popular with a Gen Z audience, announced today it’s becoming one of the first major social platforms to adopt a new age verification technique that uses live image capture technology to identify minors using its app, in order to keep them separated from adult users.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Unless you’re the CIO of a highly tech-savvy company, chances are your board will need education as well as information when it comes to AI. The CIO is the person most likely to brief them on the topic, so if you lead IT, what’s the best way to communicate with the board about AI and keep board expectations realistic?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Panorama Education , which has built out a K-12 education software platform, has raised $60 million in a Series C round of funding led by General Atlantic. Clients include the New York City Department of Education, Clark County School District in Nevada, Dallas ISD in Texas and the Hawaii Department of Education, among others.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2021

Coursera, an online education platform that has seen its business grow amid the coronavirus pandemic, is planning to file paperwork tomorrow for its initial public offering, sources familiar with the matter say. certification, which means that it hits high standards for social and environmental performance.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2021

The startup, which uses SD cards as a low-bandwidth way to deliver content, saw a wave of smart devices enter homes across Africa as students adapted to remote education. Similar to many edtech startups, uLesson has benefited from the overnight adoption of remote education.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 16, 2021

Alforithmic says the “digital Einstein” is intended as a showcase for what will soon be possible with conversational social commerce. “This is the next milestone in showcasing the technology to make conversational social commerce possible,” Alforithmic’s COO Matt Lehmann told us.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 24, 2021

Ruthe Farmer is the founder and CEO of the Last Mile Education Fund , and a global advocate and evangelist for equity and inclusion in technology and engineering. Awards and recognitions predicated on many of the above factors, as well as social capital. Ruthe Farmer. Contributor. Share on Twitter. More posts by this contributor.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

VC has been invested over the past decade according to race, gender and educational background makes for grim reading — with all-ethnic teams and female entrepreneurs receiving just a fraction of available funding versus all-white teams and male founders. The implications for social justice and social mobility are clear.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2021

One of the biggest gripes about investing apps is that they are not acting responsibly by not educating users properly and allegedly letting them fend for themselves. Today, an eight-year-old company that has been focused on nothing but financial education is now offering trading and banking services in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2021

We know we can’t do socialization as well in the cloud, we can’t do childcare as well in the cloud, and those are some of the things that parents look to schools for,” Kumar said. The coaches are there to help through online coursework, while also leading enrichment activities meant to give the social edge back to the school day.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2020

The app also has a community component, connecting users with sustainability challenges, classes and other educational tools, along with a social network to communicate with peers to track relative progress. Aspiration can now tell you the ‘social impact’ of your monthly spending. “Systems are made of people.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

Education has been one of the most significant categories in the tech industry in the past couple of years. CreativeLive is another that has been focusing on educational content specifically for this segment of the market. Image Credits: Domestika. Another is the startup’s focus on e-learning.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 24, 2022

Zenda , a UAE-based startup looking to change how parents pay school bills, and the way educational institutions manage fee collection, is eyeing Africa as its next frontier for growth. With all the knowledge we have from our previous venture, we understand the education sector. million seed funding it has raised.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

This is when I realized that if we truly want to disrupt K-12 (esp K-5) education, we need a solution that works from the outside in – being part of classroom time and funded by schools.” Litnerd’s books, workshops and lesson plans are built around the social and emotional learning ( or SEL ) practices that most U.S.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Founders Hamdi Tabbaa, Sabri Hakim and Hussein AlSarabi position their platform at secondary school students, offering content tailored to local curricula, filling the gaps in educational resources available online, while tackling the region’s high dependence on offline tutoring.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2020

A video conferencing tool designed from the ground up as a digital learning platform, with its own unique take on virtual classrooms, Engageli is aiming first at higher education, and it is launching with $14.5 Today, a startup called Engageli is coming out of stealth with an app that it believes fills that need.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2021

University education is getting more expensive , and at the moment it feels a bit like a Petri dish for infections , but the long-term trends continue to show a dramatic growth in the number of people worldwide getting degrees beyond high school, with one big reason for this being that a college degree generally provides better economic security.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2021

Both dealt with the challenges of accessing financial services as immigrants and wanted to created a company to serve other people without Social Security numbers or credit histories. Mittal said immigrants are also in general more creditworthy, because many moved to the United States to pursue educational or career opportunities.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Guardians Collective brings together small groups of families and pairs them with an early childhood educator, a broad term that can describe a professional who has experience working in early learning and development programs or is licensed in a state to run a day care. But they’re not just diaper changers — they’re teachers.”

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Amy Jenkins left her post at Outschool, a marketplace for live online classes for kids, when the company decided to focus more on consumers and less on the enterprise — a shift that included numerous rounds of layoffs at the richly backed education unicorn.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Medium’s other acquisitions this year include Projector , a browser-based graphic design tool, and Glose , a social book-reading app. As the podcasting and live audio industries expand, Knowable will help Medium cater to people seeking audio education. ” Image Credits: Knowable.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

It signals a shift from startups playing in the supplemental education space and searching to win a spot in the largest chunk of a students day: the classroom. The startup has over 6,000 institutions, from high schools to higher education institutions, on the waitlist to join. Will edtech empower or erase the need for higher education?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

The company is also launching a massive campaign next week for Black History Month with the goal of closing the wealth gap among Black children and kids of color through financial education. Our focus is on financial education because it’s not enough to teach kids how to spend.” “That’s great.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2021

The company already has amassed a list of notable customers, including Ikea-owned TaskRabbit, NBC Sports, Unilever, Delivery Hero, Gojek, eToro and Stanford University, as well as a number of others that it’s not disclosing across healthcare, education, finance, virtual events, dating, gaming and social.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Thirdweb was created by Social Chain founder Steven Bartlett and Furquan Rydhan, who was founding CTO of Bebo and AppLovin. The new capital will be used to hire both on the technical and growth teams and will focus on marketing and video assets to educate users on its tools. I’m excited to see Thirdweb accelerate this shift.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

He likened FabuLingua to Prodigy Education’s ultra-popular education product that teaches math through a similar gamification service. She later earned her masters degree in social anthropology from Cambridge University. FabuLingua is based out of Austin, Texas, and raised $1.3 million in pre-seed funding rounds.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a major upswing in virtual learning — where some schools have gone (and stayed) remote, and others have incorporated significantly stronger online components in order to help communities maintain more social distancing.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Teach yourself growth marketing: How to perform growth experimentation through A/B testing In recent years, video has morphed into the king of social media content across the globe. It is necessary to be familiar with the content on the top video-based social media platforms to get a grasp of what is trending. Talent’s past work.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Tara Sabre Collier is an early-stage impact investor with more than 15 years of experience at the intersection of economic development, social entrepreneurship and impact investment. BLCK VC launches educational initiative to bring more Black entrepreneurs into investing ecosystem. Tara Sabre Collier. Contributor.

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