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Flutterwave Launches ‘Tuition’ to Enable Nigerians, African Students Abroad to Pay School Fees With Local Currency
The new product will leverage Flutterwave’s world-class payments technology solution to make school fee payments more convenient, secure, and reliable.
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- Education, Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- digital payments, edtech
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Press Release: 100X Impact Accelerator Announces Inaugural Cohort of Future Social Unicorns
The diverse cohort consists of social ventures spanning a range of sectors, geographies, and demographics.
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- Agriculture, Education, Health Care, Social Enterprise, Technology
- Region
- Global
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- accelerators, agtech, edtech, innovation, startups
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A $22-Billion Indian Tech Darling Runs Afoul of Lenders
Add Indian education startup Byju’s to the growing list of companies that became victims of their own success during the pandemic.
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- Education, Technology
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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India’s Scaler Acquires Local Edtech Firm to Bolster Offerings
Scaler, an India-based edtech firm, has acquired Pepcoding for an undisclosed amount.
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- Education, Technology
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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EduFund, Heliware And AuraML Raise Early-Stage Funding
Ahmedabad-based edu fintech platform EduFund has raised pre-Series A funding of $3.5 million.
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- Education, Technology
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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Viewpoint: Social Finance: We Can’t Change Education Outcomes if We Don’t Innovate
Facing a global learning crisis, how an innovative development impact bond focussed on improving learning outcomes for students.
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- Education, Technology
- Region
- Global
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Edves Announces a Strategic Partnership With “1 Million Teachers”
The partnership came about in order to address the dire teacher shortage worldwide and improve the quality of education in Africa.
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- Education, Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Analysis: Combatting India’s Learning Crisis Through Innovations in Financing: ‘How’ We Fund Is as Important as ‘What’ We Fund
Over the last few years OBF has created a paradigm shift for the way that capital is deployed to solve for intractable development challenges such as learning poverty.
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- Education, Investing, Technology
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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