🚀 This week in EdTech 🚀
💰 Canadian startup Paper closed a $270m Series D funding round. The company partners with school districts to deliver 1:1 tutoring and currently serves c.2m students
💰 Australia-based Employment Hero raised $129m. The startup offers a full suite of HR management tools and is now used by more than 80k SMEs, representing a total of 750k employees
💰 Germany-based Sharpist secured c.$23m to provide personalized learning for every employee through 1:1 digital coaching sessions. According to Sharpist, they have unrivalled learner engagement of over 90%
💰 Taiwanese language learning platform AmazingTalker raised $15.5m. With AmazingTalker, English tutors can easily start their own online education business and learners can find the right tutor easily
Additional raises include:
⚡️ Indian startup entri.app secured $7m
⚡️ Germany-based Zavvy raised $4m
⚡️ Brazilian startup Awari received $3.5m
⚡️ Edurino | We are hiring! raised c.$3.8m
⚡️ India’s Altuni insideiim raised $500k
🚨 In other news 🚨 Did you know up to $11.5T could be added to global GDP by 2028 if countries succeed in better preparing learners for the needs of the future economy? Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) launched key research that’s reimagining the future of education and AI. Check it out here: https://lnkd.in/dyWTS5-Y
Links to all articles below 👇
https://techcrunch.com/2022/02/16/zavvy-wants-to-modernize-employee-enablement/
https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/awari
https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/altuni/company_financials