Depending on the size of the school and scale of the program,
blended learning startup costs can exceed a half - million dollars for the laptops, software, infrastructure and training.
These pecuniary advances have already netted some results: just this August,
deep learning startup Preferred Networks Inc. raised $ 95 million USD from Toyota to work on self - driving technology.
San Francisco - based online
learning startup Udemy says that a quarter of its approved instructors will finish the year with more than $ 10,000 from sales of their self - created courses on subjects ranging from web development and entrepreneurship to yoga and photography.
Benchprep, a
digital learning startup based in Chicago, is rolling out video - based software training courses targeting college and high school students, not adults looking for professional development.
Ghanaian
mobile learning startup Chalkboard Education has raised EUR 200,000 (US$ 237,000) from the Jacobs Foundation to further develop its business activities in Ghana and Ivory Coast, including increasing access to its tools for rural and remote populations.
Cape Town - based machine
learning startup DataProphet, which develops and implements product development solutions to a wide range of industries, has...
As it scales, it will likely face mounting competition from
other learning startups like NY - based Knewton and others.
The poster child for the recent surge in interest in AI: Twitter's acquisition of machine
learning startup Magic Pony Technology, announced earlier this month.
Machine
learning startup Uptake is buying Asset Performance Technologies, which controls a huge trove of industrial data.
Math Buddy, a Vadodara - based online
math learning startup, has raised an undisclosed amount of seed investment from Menterra Social...
Math learning startup Cuemath on Monday said it raised $ 15 million (nearly Rs 102 crore) in its Series B round of funding from...
The Jaipur - based online
learning startup Intellipaat aims at reducing the difficulty of individuals to access quality education, without any limitations of class timings and reaching to the institute.
Foley Hoag LLP recently represented machine
learning startup Indico in its $ 4 million equity seed financing led by Osage Venture Partners, with participation from existing investors.406 Ventures, Boston Seed and Hyperplane.
Additionally, he led product management for a mobile
learning startup for two years prior to starting Nexlaw Partners.
Lifelong learning startup Curious wants to provide teachers of all kinds with the web tools to build their own online classrooms and reach a wider audience of students.
Echo360, a education technology company supported by the Revolution Growth Fund, has acquired
social learning startup ThinkBinder.
Online
learning startup creativeLIVE is breaking in its new San Francisco studios with a special broadcast featuring several big names from Silicon Valley.
Since expanding into online classes in August, peer - to -
peer learning startup Skillshare reports that some top online classes are earning six times that of offline classes.
The U.S. Department of Education has announced that it will partner with online
learning startup Knewton and publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt for a program aimed at helping millions of at - risk youth transition to traditional schools and prepare for the workforce.
It has one of the world's top deep learning experts, Yann LeCun, running its AI division; the eight - person team from machine -
learning startup Wit.ai, which Facebook acquired in January, is running M.
Apple is also reportedly refining Siri with a series of acquisitions such as the machine -
learning startup Tuplejump, that could improve the virtual assistant's capability to collect and analyze huge amounts of data.
In other Microsoft - related news, the Redmond company recently acquired the deep
learning startup Maluuba, and to put it simply, it could be considered as a sign that some huge Cortana improvements are coming in the foreseeable future.
It purchased vision specialist Mobileye this March; the chipmaker Movidius (the firm responsible for the silicon in DJI's autonomous drones) last September; and deep
learning startup Nervana Systems in August 2016.
San Francisco - based online
learning startup Udemy has launched a new mobile app to help students enroll in and take courses from their phones.
Online
learning startup Coursera is partnering with several schools of education, as well as other institutions and museums, to bring professional development courses to K - 12 teachers online.
If you can't convince them to get on board, you're certainly not going to corral every cowboy entrepreneur who wants to kick off a
digital learning startup.
There was also funding for South African machine
learning startup DataProphet, Nigerian househunting service myPadi, and South African vehicle purchase platform HiCarByeCar, while six Zimbabwean startups got government grant funding.
While Apple is reportedly in talks to acquire automaker McLaren, according to TechCrunch, the Cupertino - based tech giant recently snagged an Indian machine
learning startup called Tuple.
It continues this trend today by purchasing Maluuba, a
deep learning startup that focuses on natural language processing.
Most founders use their time in Santiago as a sabbatical, during which
they learn the startup ropes from previous participants who have stayed put in Chile — 132 graduates so far, according to Start - Up Chile's executive director, Sebastian Vidal.
She was an early investor in OpenCosmos, Cleo, Q - bot, Kwiziq and Magic Pony, the machine
learning startup that was sold to Twitter last year for $ 150 million.