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Play2Speak helps kids learn a new foreign language and improve fluency through immersive, adaptive and customized learning and games using VR and AI technologies.
Play2Speak helps kids learn a new foreign language and improve fluency through immersive, adaptive and customized learning and games using VR and AI technologies.
Squirrel AI's adaptive learning system lets students study at their own pace while targeting their weaknesses, achieving 5–10 times greater efficacy than conventional schools.
Squirrel AI's adaptive learning system lets students study at their own pace while targeting their weaknesses, achieving 5–10 times greater efficacy than conventional schools.
VR tech allows immersive practice and learning of corporate soft skills, e.g., communication, job interview techniques. Assesses body language and speech, transforming user behaviors.
VR tech allows immersive practice and learning of corporate soft skills, e.g., communication, job interview techniques. Assesses body language and speech, transforming user behaviors.
Intelligent Learning creates a math self-study app that can predict questions for the national senior high school entrance exam with accuracy of up to 90%.
Intelligent Learning creates a math self-study app that can predict questions for the national senior high school entrance exam with accuracy of up to 90%.
Kuaipeilian, which secured the largest ever seed round in the Chinese arts education industry, enables users to receive online piano tutorials in between formal lessons.
Kuaipeilian, which secured the largest ever seed round in the Chinese arts education industry, enables users to receive online piano tutorials in between formal lessons.
China’s most popular children’s education app connecting students, teachers and parents, this analytics-powered platform uses games and personalized teaching for better, faster results.
China’s most popular children’s education app connecting students, teachers and parents, this analytics-powered platform uses games and personalized teaching for better, faster results.
Seeking to reinvigorate higher education across Latin America, aligning it with global systems, Blox’s latest deal with Pearson Education will boost its expansion.
Seeking to reinvigorate higher education across Latin America, aligning it with global systems, Blox’s latest deal with Pearson Education will boost its expansion.
The self-styled “GitHub for Chinese kid coders” coding edtech leader Codemao is in B2B and B2C markets; plans Sci-Tech Innovation Board (STAR) IPO by 2022.
The self-styled “GitHub for Chinese kid coders” coding edtech leader Codemao is in B2B and B2C markets; plans Sci-Tech Innovation Board (STAR) IPO by 2022.
The world’s highest valued edtech, with 400m users, will be the first education startup to sponsor the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, come 2022.
The world’s highest valued edtech, with 400m users, will be the first education startup to sponsor the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, come 2022.
Armed with €7.2m in seed funding, award-winning Didimo is scaling-up to produce customized AI-powered facial doubles and avatars for diverse business sectors.
Armed with €7.2m in seed funding, award-winning Didimo is scaling-up to produce customized AI-powered facial doubles and avatars for diverse business sectors.
Named "European tech success," Odilo's cloud-based virtual libraries and AI-based classrooms for children and employees improve access to education across 65 countries.
Named "European tech success," Odilo's cloud-based virtual libraries and AI-based classrooms for children and employees improve access to education across 65 countries.
Within two years of launch, mobile learning platform Arkademi secured funding from global VC SOSV, and a place in its accelerator program for mobile-first technology.
Within two years of launch, mobile learning platform Arkademi secured funding from global VC SOSV, and a place in its accelerator program for mobile-first technology.
Using an app containing hundreds of interactive comics, M Mandarin helps foreigners learn Mandarin through other languages and by immersing them in virtual real-life situations.
Using an app containing hundreds of interactive comics, M Mandarin helps foreigners learn Mandarin through other languages and by immersing them in virtual real-life situations.
Hacktiv8's intensive JavaScript bootcamps are a hit with over 75% of students employed within three months of graduation and fintechs offering them student loans.
Hacktiv8's intensive JavaScript bootcamps are a hit with over 75% of students employed within three months of graduation and fintechs offering them student loans.
AI-powered edtech for children brings real-time interactive learning into the classroom for the price of a book.
AI-powered edtech for children brings real-time interactive learning into the classroom for the price of a book.
Algobash: SaaS for more effective IT hiring in Indonesia
With its remote assessment and automated interview platform, Algobash seeks faster, fairer and more inclusive recruitment and training of coders, to support tech growth in Indonesia
China edtech companies pivot to survive private tutoring crackdown
AI adaptive personalized learning is the bright star, attracting investors and corporates
Southeast Asian startups to keep riding digitalization, IPO boom, investors say
O2O business models and growing interest in ESG are also key themes, as regional startups gain $4.4bn of funding in first half of 2021
Accelerating Asia bets on unicorn wave from MSME digitalization, logistics
The investor-accelerator’s sixth batch will start accepting applications in December, with greater ESG focus and a pledge to donate 1% of profit on investments to charity
Mindtera: Building mental resilience through bite-sized lessons
Mindtera wants to nip mental health issues in the bud by equipping working adults with skills to navigate work challenges and personal relationships, using their phones
Sequoia Capital China holds steady with investments in healthcare, biotech and green economy
China’s most active investor increases bets on sectors beyond the consumer internet and edtech recently hurt by regulatory clampdown
New sectors, strategies come into play as investors respond to China's Big Tech curbs
Amid the crackdown on China’s tech giants, some investors are sussing out less risky sectors, while heavyweights like BlackRock and Fidelity stay in for the long haul
Accelerating Asia's Amra Naidoo: We’re at an inflection point in Southeast Asia
Accelerating Asia’s co-founder Amra Naidoo reveals how the program adapts its curriculum to meet startups’ needs and the challenges accelerator programs face during the pandemic
Indonesian edtechs attract funding even as students head back to school
With services that complement and support conventional schools at a fraction of offline tuition cost, edtech companies are likely to continue growing
Can Indonesia plug its tech talent gap to keep its digital economy growing?
Local institutions are stepping up to boost tech skills among students and jobseekers, as the government opens the way for more foreign talent joining startups
Bluepha to boost PHA bioplastics production with $30m fresh funding
The Beijing-based startup aims to produce 10,000 tons of PHA bioplastic a year and build a SynBio community through its STEM education spinoff, Bluepha Lab
After a Covid-led boom in 2020, what next for China's K-12 edtech?
Unicorns Yuanfudao and Zuoyebang raised more than $6bn combined last year as demand for online learning continues to grow, but some smaller players are running out of cash
Indonesia 2021 outlook: VCs "cautiously optimistic" on Southeast Asia's largest country
Investors expect Indonesian startups to regain their growth opportunities when the economy reopens with the Covid-19 vaccine rollout, even as some online living and working habits have stuck
Brazilian edtech Blox seeks to upgrade university education across Latin America
Blox plans to raise over $1m in 2021 to expand across Brazil and Mexico, giving more choices to students to personalize degree programs with its AI curriculum management SaaS
Intelligent Learning: math app helps students improve their exam score in weeks
Intelligent Learning prepares K7–11 math students for the national senior high school entrance exam, or "zhongkao," by trawling through past questions and predicting what might be tested
