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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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Broadening participation in engineering is not just about numbers; it’s about fostering innovation, enriching our perspectives, and building a future in which everyone has an equal opportunity to shine.” produced approximately 97,000 engineers per year at the bachelor’s degree level in 2015, roughly 34% were minorities and women.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

It highlights important events in the continent’s tech ecosystem until this point, compares its journey with other emerging markets and provides guidance into the opportunities within various sectors. And though they are inclined to follow the money, Endeavor wants them to look beyond usual market opportunities and map out exit pathways.

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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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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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Dream It

APRIL 23, 2019

Sensing an opportunity to solve this problem, many entrepreneurs have developed voice-powered applications that allow providers to offer a better patient experience. Leveraging Voice Tech to Give Elders More Independence As of July 2015, there were 47.8 million people age 65 and older that lived in the United States.

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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. For Sophinos and Kannah, founding CourseKey was more than just a business opportunity. It was a space that, for some odd reason, was largely being left out of the education conversation.”.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

The influx of Millennials into the workplace is providing today’s entrepreneur with a number of new challenges and opportunities. As a group, the 75 million people between the ages of 19-35 [i] , are digital natives and yearn for opportunities to learn and grow on the job. of Baby Boomers.

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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. Where are founders finding unique opportunities to innovate? But which lesser known startup sectors are starting to raise venture dollars?

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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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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 22, 2016

in 2007 during the collapse of the housing market, precisely because I believe change and chaos breed opportunity. I encourage you to look at any upcoming challenges or uncertainty as an opportunity to strengthen and renew your focus on your customer. I started TitleSmart, Inc. Listen and measure. Communicate!

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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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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. Are they the right group to build a big business that addresses this challenge/opportunity and wins the market?

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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

JANUARY 29, 2021

Nerdy will merge with TPG Pace Tech Opportunities (NYSE: PACE), a publicly traded SPAC since 2015. It onboarded 120 full-time educators, who came from public schools and charter schools, with competitive salaries. The transaction is expected to close in the second quarter of this year. The deal will value Nerdy at $1.7

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Andreessen Horowitz

JANUARY 23, 2024

And I am grateful for the entire partnership, especially Marc and Ben, for giving me the opportunity of a lifetime when they promoted me to be General Partner , ending the firm’s long standing rule of 9 years to only hire general partners who had been CEO’s or founders. Kobold Metals – My first deal as a general partner.

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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 YesWeCode, founded in December 2014 in Oakland, CA, is a national initiative to turn 100,000 low opportunity youth into 100,000 high-skilled – and high income – software developers. And it isn’t merely a local or regional issue.

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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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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 7, 2017

In third grade, I saw an opportunity and grew it into my first entrepreneurial experience. So, when I exited my last company in 2015, I knew that educating and supporting other businesses with my “addiction” to these unique and lean entrepreneurial growth techniques would be the focus of Entreholic.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2021

And in recent years there’s been a growing number of startups which aim to give more people access to a wider array of investment opportunities. million since its 2015 inception. Today, one of those startups has raised a significant round of funding to help it achieve its goals.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 31, 2020

“Enterprise expenditure on custom software is on track to double from $250 billion in 2015 to $500 billion in 2020,” so we’ll definitely be diving deeper into this topic in the coming months. Jan Lynn-Matern, Emerge Education. Education = knowledge transfer + social + signaling. ” Ian Chiu, Owl Ventures.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

So after selling Easy Credit, a consumer lending platform he’d built with Rick Rafael Bueno (whom he met in 2015 at a hackathon at Tech de Monterrey), Amozurrutia set out to give Mexicans access to something he believed they’d never had access to: an app-based consumer trading platform. “The We need to educate on a basic level.”.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2021

So after selling Easy Credit, a consumer lending platform he’d built with Rick Rafael Bueno (whom he met in 2015 at a hackathon at Tech de Monterrey), Amozurrutia set out to give Mexicans access to something he believed they’d never had access to: an app-based consumer trading platform.

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Y Combinator

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

I remember having office hours with Spenser and Curtis at the time, and they were considering a product in the education space, which naturally I loved and encouraged. Amplitude team – February 2015. They stayed close to YC, even sharing an office with our own Michael Seibel, who was running SocialCam at the time.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 3, 2021

Founded in 2019, Komunidad has clients in the Philippines, India, Cambodia and Vietnam, and serves multiple sectors, including utilities, agriculture, mining, education, local governments and business outsourcing centers. Its new investment will be used to build a scalable platform. Weather platform ClimaCell is now Tomorrow.io

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 20, 2018

Luckily, my cofounder, Alex Yastrebenetsky, and I met Verne in 2015 when our entire leadership team attended a Scaling Up workshop. He doesn’t offer one-on-one coaching anymore, so these workshops provide him an opportunity to more closely connect with entrepreneurs. And he does so in a setting unlike any other.

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 25, 2023

“At Sidus Space, we firmly believe that it is our responsibility to give back to our community and we are committed to providing opportunities for our neighbors and educating the next generation of leaders,” said Craig.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2021

” While it doesn’t have a reseller network, KitaBeli works with delivery partners for last-mile deliveries, presenting the gig as an opportunity to earn extra money. “Indonesian customers are also new to the internet and need to be educated on how e-commerce works.”

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2020

That change in customer composition is also opening some doors of opportunity for the company. ” The service sounds like a partly-educational effort, teaching companies that are not necessarily digital-first be more proactive, and partly consulting. There are a lot of opportunities right now on the table.”

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Since being founded in 2015, the company has amassed a customer list that includes AppFolio, HotDoc, Pitch, Kumospace and Teamflow, and its customers report seeing up to 80% fewer video call errors after using Daily, Kwindla Hultman Kramer, co-founder and CEO of Daily, told TechCrunch via email. video chat API service.

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 20, 2022

We funded over 650 startups in 2022 from over 40 countries and in just about every vertical you can imagine, from BtoB SaaS to web or app-based consumer services, to dev tools to educational technology, and more. We will continue to evolve the program next year and create more in-person opportunities.

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Paul G. Silva

JUNE 14, 2023

Unruly Studios Unruly Splats are the only STEM education tool that combines high-quality coding learning with a social and active play experience. Achieving the wow factor, our facility is literally a smile factory using new ways to gamify skydiving and immerse guests in parachute simulations amongst educational skydiving museum exhibit.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

It has an estimated 67 VC funds, with 18 of them started since 2015. What are some overlooked opportunities right now? How should investors in other cities think about the overall investment climate and opportunities in your city? What are the opportunities startups may be able to tap into during these unprecedented times?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Image Credits: Guild Education. For a recent episode of TechCrunch Live, Managing Editor Jordan Crook spoke to Guild Education CEO Rachel Carlson, co-founder Brittany Stich, and Aileen Lee, founder and managing partner of Cowboy Ventures, about the education upskilling platform’s origins and growth arc.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Because this is an opportunity for your company to get ahead of the competition and reap the rewards of being an early adopter. Moreover, the world’s population of those who are 60 and older is expected to reach 2 billion by 2050, up from 900 million in 2015. The biggest need is education and awareness. Here’s what it reveals.

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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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