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Kuhoo Gets $20 Million in Fresh Funding From Westbridge Capital
Kuhoo is now looking to partner with banks and non-banking finance institutions (NBFCs) along with top colleges in India to provide credit to students.
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- Education
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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Ex-Twitter India Head’s Startup to Create Metaverse of Education
Invact Metaversity, founded by former Twitter India head Manish Maheshwari, on Monday announced it has received $5 million in funding led by Antler India.
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- Education
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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Jambo Secures $7.5 Million in Seed Funding to Build Africa’s web3 ‘Superapp’
African web3 startup Jambo has raised $7.5 million in a seed funding round that involved notable investors from the crypto space, the company announced on Monday.
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- Global
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- cryptocurrency
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Startup Propelld Gets $35 Million in Funding
Propelld, an education-focused fintech platform, has raised $35 million from WestBridge Capital, as also from existing investors Stellaris Venture Partners and India Quotient, Founded by IIT Madras trio of Bibhu Prasad Das, Victor Senapaty and Brijesh Samantaray in 2017, Propelld has tied up with over 550 educational institutes and is currently clocking an annual loan disbursal run rate of Rs 600 crore.
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- Education, Finance, Technology
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- Asia Pacific
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- startups
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Automation and Employment in Latin America
This column reports evidence on the relationship between automation and employment in Latin America, analyzing data on five million workers in the six largest economies of the region over two decades.
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- Education, Technology
- Region
- Latin America
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- employment
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India’s LEAD School Becomes Unicorn With Fresh $100 Million in Funding
LEAD School, a nine-year-old startup, is addressing this disconnect by leveraging an infrastructure that already has a wide reach in the nation: schools.
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- Asia Pacific
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GoStudent Successfully Raises $340 Million Series D Funding Round as It Pushes Into International Markets
The company is creating a leading global platform for K12 education and the speed at which they are growing is impressive.
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- Education
- Region
- Latin America
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- edtech
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African Development Bank Approves USD $170 Million for Investment in Nigeria’s Digital, Creative Start-Ups
The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank (www.AfDB.org) has approved a loan of US$170 million to finance a digital and creative enterprises program in Nigeria.
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- Education
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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