Both Sides of the Table

MAY 10, 2015

This is only an educated hypothesis but I’ll bet it’s pretty close to grounded in reality: Everybody saw “The Social Network” and everybody has a belief that suing will net them millions whether they’re in the right or the wrong. So why exactly have lawsuits (anecdotally) picked up so much in the past 5 years?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Coding education platform co-founders Tung Nguyen and Ha Nguyen. Many kids want to study coding, but school curriculums are limited, said Tung Nguyen, the co-founder of MindX , an online/offline education platform that focuses on preparing students for tech careers. Some of the companies also serve as educational partners.

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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. But Guild CEO and co-founder Rachel Carlson, who started the company in 2015 with classmate Brittany Stich, warned that lifelong learning post-pandemic isn’t a simple goal.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JULY 8, 2015

In the last six months, VCs have invested more than $57B according to Mattermark data , which puts 2015 on pace to exceed 2000 as the year the most venture capital will be deployed, ever. Which sectors are benefitting from all these venture dollars?

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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

JUNE 6, 2022

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. The company was part of a Y Combinator cohort in 2015.). “Internally, we are considering how to provide education to everyone without pricing them out. It would be quite a different product.”

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HPA

MARCH 22, 2024

The company’s mission is to harness the power of AI to help educators implement high quality pedagogy at scale. Now, more than ever, administrators, educators, and students are looking to embrace academically honest and safe AI technology to enhance learning outcomes and alleviate teacher burnout,” says Kelsey Behringer, CEO of Packback. “Now,

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

CoderSchool will use the funding to accelerate its online teaching platform growth and technology infrastructure expansion for the company’s technical education programs that guarantee employment upon graduation. We have been impressed by the team’s focus on setting the standard for coding education in the region. pre-seed round.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JULY 13, 2015

Earlier this week, we examined the trends in the major categories of startup investment including eCommerce, Software, Social Networking and Education. Each year, starting in mid-2012 through mid-2015, these sectors have grown their investment dollars by more than 145%, according to Mattermark data.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2021

The startup, filled with education enthusiasts and mission-driven employees, became “very college pizza vibes,” Gina Gotthilf, former VP of Marketing at Duolingo, described. Duocon, Duolingo’s new conference to celebrate education and language. Image Credits: Duolingo. Business only speaks one language: Money.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 4, 2018

In 2015, inspired by Elon Musk and the story of Tesla, Steve was searching for a way to shore up his personal and professional commitment to being the change he wanted to see in the world. If you work to educate and train people, for example, perhaps SDG 4, “Quality Education,” is one that naturally fits with your existing priorities.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The latest funding gives the San Francisco-based company $40 million in total funding since it was founded in 2015, co-founder and CEO Tim Zheng told TechCrunch. Zheng previously founded a company in the education space doing something similar that helped customers send more targeted marketing emails.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

produced approximately 97,000 engineers per year at the bachelor’s degree level in 2015, roughly 34% were minorities and women. Supreme Court’s decision ending affirmative action in higher education and the denying of student loan relief. In its press statement, the organization cited that over all the U.S. of the U.S. population.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 3, 2020

Our focus includes education, health, livelihood, women development, youth development, literature and culture, and we aim to reach every sector of the society in order to make our efforts more transformational and impactful. Since October 2015, we’ve fed approximately 50,000 people. Tell us more about Karma Foundation.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Accel led Sentry’s seed funding in 2015, and has invested in each of its rounds since then. At the time, Sentry’s chief executive officer Milin Desai told TechCrunch that its customers in all verticals were relying more heavily on the platform as the COVID-19 pandemic increased the usage of work, education and e-commerce apps.

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Dream It

APRIL 23, 2019

Syllable allows providers to create voice and chat applications that answer common questions, educate patients about their practices’ services, make referrals, collect data for intake forms, automate scheduling, and more. Leveraging Voice Tech to Give Elders More Independence As of July 2015, there were 47.8

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2021

When the COVID-19 pandemic hit and forced educational institutions to go virtual, many were scrambling to develop online or blended curriculums. It was a space that, for some odd reason, was largely being left out of the education conversation.”. It was occupied by our friends and by our family members,” Sophinos said. “It

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

According to the firm, the continent’s funding trajectory from 2015 to 2020 is akin to Southeast Asia and Latin America’s 2010 to 2015 periods. There are five main sectors in Africa’s startup landscape: financial services, commerce, transport, healthcare and education. Image Credits: Crunchbase/Endeavor. Sectoral transformation.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2021

Luis von Ahn, the co-founder of Duolingo, visiting President Obama in 2015. Duolingo’s competitors see the app’s massive gamification and solitary experience as inherently contradictory with high-quality language education. Image Credits: Duolingo. Just a funny game that is maybe not as bad as Candy Crush.”.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 28, 2015

#EOlooksback at 2015 … On the 28th day of December, we celebrate the number of years EO has existed! Since 1987, EO has been transforming the lives of the entrepreneurs who transform the world. The Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) is a Global business network of 11,000+ leading entrepreneurs in 153 chapters and 48 countries.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Crimson Education, a platform to help students get into top universities, nabs $5M at a $245M valuation. Chaturvedi, 30, began exploring this idea for this startup in 2015 and spent a little more than a year experimenting with different models. An Indian startup that is bridging this gap on Thursday said it has raised $6.5

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Millennials are also worth cultivating as they are becoming the best-educated generation of our time. Offering both advisory and broker dealer services, Glen Eagle takes an educational, holistic approach to meeting its clients’ long-term goals. CMO, 15 Mind-Blowing Stats About Generation Z, June 12, 2015. of Baby Boomers.

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Startup Grind

AUGUST 15, 2018

We started to invest out of our inaugural fund, Cross Culture Ventures I in April 2015. Wonderschool is solving a significant problem in childcare/education and is doing it on both sides of the marketplace. Thus, we invested in Fair and our thesis has proven correct to this point. When did you start your current fund?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

He helped launch Cato in 2015. I’m personally involved in these efforts, at the educational sector level, and when students are ready to be recruited by startups, we are already competitive, and if you look at our employee base it’s very diverse,” Kramer said.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 11, 2016

According to USCIS, the federal agency responsible for handling work visas, in 2015 U.S.-based WeCanCodeIT – based in Cleveland, OH since 2013, is focused on empowering women, African Americans and Hispanic Americans, groups underrepresented in technology, with education and mentorship that lead to jobs in the region. passport holders.

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American Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Breakthrough Energy was founded by Bill Gates in 2015 to solve the climate crisis. Once in the program members are given critical resources that includes research funding, mentorship, education, and access to the extensive Breakthrough Energy network.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Guild Education CEO Rachel Carlson did just that. Aileen Lee, founder and managing partner of Cowboy Ventures, led a $2 million seed round in 2015 before Guild Education even had a real product. But you can raise a seed round worth a few million from Aileen Lee with that and a few other critical ingredients. Aileen Lee.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Creative professionals continue to look for ways to monetize their talents and knowledge through online education platforms like CLASS101 that bring stable incomes and improve opportunities. CLASS101, a Seoul-based online education platform, announced today it has closed $25.8 and Japan. It has 350 employees now. “We

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 28, 2024

She is co-founder and CEO of Kidogo, and Shabana Basij-Rasikh, dedicated her life to ensuring Afghan girls’ access to education. French Gates executes her vision through Pivo tal which she established in 2015 to fund and advance social progress through venture capital investments, philanthropic grantmaking, advocacy funding, and partnerships.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2021

So it should come as no surprise that we’re absolutely thrilled to have Lee join us alongside one of her portfolio company founders, Guild Education’s Rachel Carlson, on an upcoming episode of Extra Crunch Live. Rachel Carlson founded Guild Education in 2015 and has led the company since. Click to register for free!

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2021

The capital will be used to expand ELSA’s operations in Latin America and build a scalable B2B platform, allowing companies and educational organizations to offers the app’s coaching services to employees or students. Founded in 2015, ELSA, which stands for English Language Speech Assistant, now claims more than 13 million users.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2023

Founded in 2015, MindX was created to address the lack of coding in Vietnamese school curriculums. The startup’s goal is to create “small Silicon Valleys” across Vietnam, with educational centers that help prepare students of all ages for careers in tech. The startup claims to be the largest coding educator in the region.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2023

Founded in 2015, MindX was created to address the lack of coding in Vietnamese school curriculums. The startup’s goal is to create “small Silicon Valleys” across Vietnam, with educational centers that help prepare students of all ages for careers in tech. The startup claims to be the largest coding educator in the region.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2021

So it should come as no surprise that we’re absolutely thrilled to have Lee join us alongside one of her portfolio company founders, Guild Education’s Rachel Carlson, on an upcoming episode of Extra Crunch Live. Rachel Carlson founded Guild Education in 2015 and has led the company since. Click to register for free!

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

So it should come as no surprise that we’re absolutely thrilled to have Lee join us alongside one of her portfolio company founders, Guild Education’s Rachel Carlson, on an upcoming episode of Extra Crunch Live. Rachel Carlson founded Guild Education in 2015 and has led the company since. Click to register for free!

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StartupNation

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Since 2015, StockX has been a major tech player , not just in Detroit but in the Midwest and beyond. Since 2015, the company has been growing its team and getting some major investments. Based in Indy , Lessonly is an online education platform for corporate training. billion), Argo AI made top headlines—and technology—in 2020.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2022

A pivot came in 2015, when Mosyle raised $1 million to enter the U.S. A recent piece in Education Week questions whether they’re an invasion of privacy, while 67% of employees surveyed in a 2015 Bitglass survey said that they’d participate in a BYOD program if employers couldn’t view or alter their personal data and apps.

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