India-based edtech firm Adda247 collaborates with tech-driven company Indic-AI to make quality learning content available to differently-abled students. The edtech firm will offer pedagogical content that will be processed by Indic-AI for visually impared students through AI and deep learning. By collaborating with Indic-AI, Adda247 will also address the financial challenges of educational mainstreaming faced
Colorado (USA) will receive $44 million from the Governor?s Emergency Education Relief Fund. The money received by the state will be allotted to schools and higher education institutions, school districts, and Colorado Empowered Learning, the state’s online learning support program. The Governor?s Emergency Education Relief Fund has $30.8 billion allotment in the federal CARES Act. The
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
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
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
Chennai, India-based GUVI, operated by GUVI Geek Network Private Limited has raised Rs. 6 crores (about USD 800,000) from Education Catalyst Fund in a pre-series A funding round. Education Catalyst Fund is an education-focused venture capital firm managed by CPA capital. GUVI is an Indian vernacular-based platform that offers online programming courses for engineers and
