Sentences with phrase «education tech startup»

Education tech startup and High Alpha portfolio company ClearScholar announced that it raised $ 1.25 million from Elevate Ventures and Simon family members.

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Ed - tech is a promising industry, within the $ 1 trillion American education industry, with ed - tech startups attracting $ 1.25 billion in funding in 2013, according to CB Insights.

Education - tech startup InstaEDU has made collaborating with partners part of its growth strategy.

Ed - tech sector is booming By Erica Alini, MacLean's October 29, 2012 Canadian education startups grew by 65 % in five years as the technology of learning changes our schools and universities.

For years, B Corp certification was rumored to hurt a startup's ability to attract investors, but recent deals have debunked this theory: San Francisco - based education company Altschool has raised $ 170 million from venture capitalists, and Data.world, an Austin - based tech startup, recently closed $ 19 million in Series B funding.

While a background at a consumer tech company might seem like an odd fit for an education startup, it actually makes a lot of sense, said Modi.

That's why startups should encourage a culture of continuous learning, especially tech education..

He spends lots of time writing about education, tech, and startups.

Social Health Startup Bootcamp (#SXSHbooty): Following on the success of the 2012 bootcamp, join us for another year of education, inspiration, and funding advice for (social) health tech startups.

In China, JMD Education Media's Future Works is the first seed round accelerator / angel fund to focus on ed - tech startups.

Boston Boston, home to a wealth of bleeding - edge health — and education - tech startups (and the world - class universities and hospitals that often feed into them in one way or another), has laid claim to the Number One spot on the ITM report for two consecutive years.

New York City Coming in at 9th in this year's ITM report, New York City's technology ecosystem, sometimes called «Silicon Alley,» is home to just about every startup niche imaginable, with notable sectors including education tech, health tech and financial tech playing a big role.

Atlanta Driven in large part by a surge in financial tech, education tech and health tech startups, Atlanta clinched the «most improved» city designation on this year's ITM report, rocketing up more than 15 places since last year's analysis.

Sesame Workshop teamed up with the early startup investor Collaborative Fund to launch a new $ 10 million venture capital arm that will invest in tech startups aimed at children's education.

Manny sits on a number of advisory boards in the education and not - for - profit sectors, and is an active Advisor and Angel Investor in Vancouver's tech community, having invested in startups including Picatic, MyBestHelper, Change Heroes, ShareShed, Feeding Change, and GKup.

It's proof that General Assembly's own business has come a long way since its early days as a startup offering continuing education or training programs for new entrants into the tech - enabled white collar workforce.

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Part of the University of Washington's (UW's) Foster Business School, the Buerke Center for Entrepreneurship provides resources and education for UW students interested in entrepreneurship, tech transfer, business and startup formation, including mentoring and accelerator support.

TECH CRUNCH - Jan 22 - Weinreich, the founder of dating app MeetMoi, is joining the ranks of business schools, serial entrepreneurs and even national foundations offering startup entrepreneurs a compressed education in how to succeed in (starting up) a business.

There's a perception within certain academic circles that adherence to tradition is what makes the institution of education great, and ideological cross-pollination between high - tech startups and higher education is an exercise in futility, but is this based on experience or assumption?

Jeffrey King Technology, Innovation, and Education Hometown: Cherry Hill, New Jersey Then: High school chemistry and Chinese teacher Now: Working on ed tech startup, EduSaga.

Building on the network of universities, learning and tech companies, and a big talent base, there are more than 130 education technology and learning - oriented startups in the Boston area.

Cohen tells me that the idea to build Universe first came to him three years ago after he sold his previous startup, education - tech company Lore, to Noodle Eeducation - tech company Lore, to Noodle EducationEducation.

Y Combinator ed tech startup Clever, which helps education - focused developers more easily integrate with school data, has reached 1,000 schools barely three months after launching.

An education startup called Galvanize, which focuses on tech workers and entrepreneurs, has acquired a San Francisco company called Zipfian Academy that...

For example, Union Square Ventures partner Fred Wilson recently identified credentialing as an area of opportunity for ed tech startups during a conversation with organizers of an open online course on entrepreneurship in education called EdStartup 101.

In addition to Blake, who was a founding member of the ed tech startup Zinch (which was later sold to Chegg), Degreed's founding team includes David Wiley, an associate professor at Brigham Young University's David O. McKay School of Education and an education entrEducation and an education entreducation entrepreneur.

Tim Brady, a co-founder of Imagine K12, said their goal is to not only give accepted ed tech startups a longer runway for adoption, but to make education more welcoming to entrepreneurs.

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He served as Chief Product Officer at Knowre, an ed - tech startup that was named one of World's Top 10 Most Innovative Companies in Education by Fast Company.

Officially launched earlier this year, the Barcelona - based startup aims to bring more women to tech, by helping them crowdfund their education in renown coding schools.