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Indian edtech Teachmint raises $20 million to expand to new categories and geographies

As most Indian edtech startups work on broadening their catalog with live and recorded courses for students, some are beginning to take a different approach to tackle the South Asian nation’s large education market. Teachmint, a one-year-old startup, is betting on empowering teachers to ...

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Indian edtech Teachmint raises $20 million to expand to new categories and geographies https://t.co/5NVNEMvIDu by @refsrc
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Indian edtech Teachmint raises $20 million to expand to new categories and geographies

Indian edtech Teachmint raises $20 million to expand to new categories and geographies

As most Indian edtech startups work on broadening their catalog with live and recorded courses for students, some are beginning to take a different approach to tackle the South Asian ...

Indian online teaching platform Teachmint raises $16.5 million

Indian online teaching platform Teachmint raises $16.5 million

An Indian startup that began its life after the global pandemic broke last year said on Tuesday it has concluded its third financing round as it enables hundreds of thousands of teachers in ...

Matrix Partners India backs edtech platform Toddle

Matrix Partners India backs edtech platform Toddle

Education technology startup Toddle, a productivity platform for teachers across all stages of teaching and learning, has raised an undisclosed amount of funding from venture capital firm ...

Dimension NXG's New Headset Brings Rural Indian Schools into the Future of Augmented Reality

Dimension NXG's New Headset Brings Rural Indian Schools into the Future of Augmented Reality

Indian startup Dimension NXG is launching augmented reality headsets into India's consumer market with a bold idea: focusing on immersive computing in education on the high-end. The plan is ...

[Funding alert] API infrastructure startup YAP raises $4.5M in Series A led by BEENEXT

[Funding alert] API infrastructure startup YAP raises $4.5M in Series A led by BEENEXT

The Chennai-based startup said the funds will be used to strengthen the team, build technology and offer enhanced API products to fintech.

Matrix Partners backs edtech startup Toddle

Matrix Partners backs edtech startup Toddle

The company plans to use the funds raised to cater to more educational segments.

ProFuturo and Wayra reward two startups that bring electricity and connectivity to remote schools

ProFuturo and Wayra reward two startups that bring electricity and connectivity to remote schools

The TOMi and Moon startups from Colombia and France have won the second global call for entrepreneurs launched by ProFuturo, the digital education programme promoted by Fundación Telefónica ...

Danish edtech startup WriteReader raises €1.4 million to improve students’ writing skills

Danish edtech startup WriteReader raises €1.4 million to improve students’ writing skills

Edtech startup WriteReader, together with the Danish Institute for Education and Education (DPU) and the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), received €1.4 million from the Innovation ...

5 Companies Win Contracts Worth $135 Million to Create New PreK-12 Curriculum for Chicago Schools

5 Companies Win Contracts Worth $135 Million to Create New PreK-12 Curriculum for Chicago Schools

Nearly half of Chicago teachers say they do not have curriculum available in the subject they teach. The Curriculum Equity Initiative, with a new curriculum, assessments, and data ...

Sequoia Surge Startup Klub Raises $2 Mn Pre-Seed Funding

Sequoia Surge Startup Klub Raises $2 Mn Pre-Seed Funding

Talking to Inc42, Anurakt Jain, cofounder, Klub said that the company has raised $2 Mn in pre-seed round.

The coronavirus effect on Pakistan’s digital divide

The coronavirus effect on Pakistan’s digital divide

Coronavirus has rammed home the extent of Pakistan’s digital divide. Could it lead to a useful debate about the future of technology in education?

4 Things That Need to Happen in 2021 to Fix the Distance Learning Crisis

4 Things That Need to Happen in 2021 to Fix the Distance Learning Crisis

The abrupt and complete shift to virtual learning has been hard to deal with.

Beating Bharat's edtech blues: When you're poor in the digital education era

Beating Bharat's edtech blues: When you're poor in the digital education era

On the other side of the billion-dollar edtech boom are children who have been unable to access the most basic forms of online education, and people who have been trying to bridge the ...

UK startup Dorm raises $1 million to launch online ‘university’ for the passion economy

UK startup Dorm raises $1 million to launch online ‘university’ for the passion economy

New London startup Dorm has raised $1 million to create an education platform for people in the ‘passion economy’, i.e. influencers, content creators and online entrepreneurs who monetise ...

India’s new unicorns

India’s new unicorns

The world’s largest democracy is becoming a seedbed for billion-dollar startups.

Coronavirus lockdown: How e-classes reveal India's digital divide

Coronavirus lockdown: How e-classes reveal India's digital divide

Experts say a digital movement, with smartphone as primary mode of learning at home, marginalises India's poor.