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Strengthening financial education in Argentina with honesty and integrity

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

2018 YLAI Fellow Gastón is the founder of eaInversores , an online platform based in Córdoba, Argentina, that provides low-cost investment assistance and financial literacy education. His organization, eaInversores, provides financial education through online courses and conferences.

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Chinese online education app Zuoyebang raises $1.6 billion from investors including Alibaba

TechCrunch

The latest financing brings Zuoyebang’s total raised so far to $2.93 In comparison, there were about 200 million K-12 students in 2019 in China, according to the Ministry of Education (link in Chinese). Zuoyebang’s latest announcement comes just six months after it announced a $750 million Series E led by Tiger Global and FountainVest.

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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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The White Collar Revolution

Tomasz Tunguz

Code completion, generation, refactoring, security analysis Education & Librarians 2.37 AI radiology, drug discovery, research analysis Finance 1.13 Within education, The promise of computer adaptive testing and an individualized tutor and the style of Alexander the Great & Aristotle is possible., Sales Managers 0.4

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How Top Tech CFOs Solve Annual Planning’s Biggest Challenges

This eBook offers strategic frameworks and insights reflecting the education, networking, and trust built by OG's exclusive membership of senior finance and operations professionals over the past nine years. Download now to sharpen your annual planning skills.

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Lessons from the Trenches: One Founder’s Candid Look at Bootstrapping

Entrepreneurs' Organization

This experience allowed me to identify a critical void in financing companies: building healthy capital stacks and navigating the public offering process. With no revenue three years in and an ever-increasing pile of expenses, my personal finances took a hit. Loans replaced savings, and credit lines were stretched to their limits.

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PR for Startups: Avoiding crickets after the Ta-Da!

This is going to be BIG.

These companies didn''t announce their financings right away, and for good reason. They''re building up their PR plans to make the financing announcements part of a larger story arc. Educate the market by being the authority. Sometimes, you need a really long lead time, especially for things like future funding.

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