Thailand-based edtech startup Concile, a platform which helps companies improve skills of their employees, recently raised US $900,000 in pre-series A funding from Humanica, Stormbreaker venture and 500 Tuk Tuks, a microfund of Silicon Valley?s 500 startups that is focused on Thailand. Concile was founded in 2014 to cater to businesses to re-skill or develop
Singapore-based EdTech company Littlemore Innovation Labs, which promotes paperless digital examinations, has launched PEXA Lite ? a secure and reliable ?exams-from-home? platform to help educational institutes conduct online examinations during the Corona crisis. Due to the pandemic, classroom learning has been suspended and educators are resorting to e-learning methods. Paper-based exams or open-book exams are
London-based edtech firm BibliU raised $10 million from Nesta Impact Investments in a Series A funding round. Other investors in the round include Guinness Asset Management, Oxford Sciences Innovation, and investors associated with impact investment bank ClearlySo. The latest round of funding was completed on Apr 17, 2020. With the current funding, the company aims
Udacity and AWS (Amazon Web Services) have partnered to provide Machine Learning Scholarships to working professionals. Enrolment for the program began on May 19th and will close on 31st July.? The joint venture will provide an opportunity for developers who are 18 years old or above to advance their machine learning skills and expertise that
San Francisco-based virtual flashcard platform Quizlet has raised $30 Mn in a Series C funding round led by General Atlantic. As per a report in TechCrunch, Quizlet CEO Matthew Glotzbach said that this round of funding has led to the platform being valued at about $1 Bn. The new valuation has brought the company close
Bangaluru-based edtech startup Vedantu raised $6.8 Mn in Series C funding round led by KB Global Platform from South Korea, in April. As per a filing of the ministry of corporate affairs from April 20, in return for the investment Vedantu allotted 3,82,235 Series C2 Compulsive Convertible Preference Share (CCPS) to KB Global at a
Beijing-based technology company ByteDance, which operates content platforms like TikTok to entertain, educate and inspire people globally, has launched two educational apps ‘GuaGuaLong English and GuaGuaLong Mind’ last month, as reported by AbacusNews. The former has been launched with the aim to teach 2-8 year old kids English and the latter to teach 3-6 year olds Mathematics
Noida, India-based Classplus has raised USD 9 million in its Series B funding round through investors like RTP Global, Blume Ventures, Sequoia?s Strive, Surge and Spiral ventures. As per a report in Inc42, during a Pre-Series A?funding in February,?the company?had raised USD 2.5 million from Blume Ventures, Surge Ventures and other investors. The SaaS platform?was
Kitchener, Ontario-based ApplyBoard raises $71 Mn (CA$ 100 Mn) in Series C funding round led by Drive Capital. Other investors in the investment round include Fidelity Investments Canada ULC, Business Development Bank of Canada, Anthos Capital, Artiman Ventures, Garage Capital, and Plug and Play Tech Center. The current round of funding gives ApplyBoard a valuation
Bengaluru, India-based Byju?s is in talks with investors to raise a sum of $400 million. If the funding goes through, Byju?s will be valued at over $10 billion, making it a decacorn and the second highest valued startup in the country along with hospitality startup OYO and after financial services startup Paytm, which was valued
