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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.
Edpuzzle waives fees for video learning platform during coronavirus pandemic
Spanish edtech startup Edpuzzle lets teachers create engaging remote-learning tools from easily accessible online videos
StudentFinance: AI screening software matches students to IT courses and jobs
StudentFinance also offers "Study now, pay later" model, making IT courses financially accessible while helping companies overcome skilled tech talent shortage
Covid-19 has renewed investors' interest in China's online education sector
Will skyrocketing demand for online education during Covid-19 give China's edtechs that long-awaited push to profitability?
Xuebacoming: Promising edtech had compliance issues from day one
Other hefty mistakes also contributed to Xuebacoming's demise – proof that investor and media support, and a booming market, won't guarantee success
Amartha CEO and founder apologizes for Covid-19 letter that mixed government work with his business
Andi Taufan retracted the letter, saying haste to support Covid-19 prevention program led to administrative errors, after public uproar and allegations of conflict of interest
Alipay opens its platform to speed up digitalization of Chinese service providers amid Covid-19
As Alipay continues to battle WeChat for super-app supremacy, it's created a stronghold in China’s services industry, where 80% of businesses still operate under brick-and-mortar models
Spanish startups and investors rethink strategies as Covid-19 hits funding, valuations
Investors and startups in Spain say most funding has stalled, and share their strategies and advice for coping with the downturn
Faraday Venture Partners’ MP Gonzalo Tradacete: “We are actively looking for startups”
Amid the Covid-19 slump, Faraday Venture Partners' CIO and MP shares his expectations for startup investments and favored sectors, the measures his firm has taken so far to help investees ride out the crisis, and more.
Covid-19: A closer look at how China's businesses and consumer behavior have changed
The lockdown in China has reshaped how people work and live. Some of the changes may be short-term, but others probably have become a part of life
Chinese startups feel the chill of capital winter as VC activities slow
The goods news is investors still have plenty of money. They just become more cautious when making investment decisions
UPDATED - Coronavirus: Indonesian startups launch tracking and healthcare tools, financial support
Amid a weak public health system, Indonesia's startups try to plug the gap with healthcare and monitoring tech solutions, while edtech and other online platforms see surge in demand amid social distancing
Coronavirus: Portuguese startups pitch in as nation battles pandemic
More than 120 startups join the #tech4COVID19 initiative, offering the public free medical help, meals for the vulnerable, online education and more
Covid-19 symptoms checker and contact-tracing apps, virtual classrooms and 3D video-conferencing platforms are among the array of solutions for homebound adults and kids
Coding edtech platform Dicoding fulfills market demand for tech professionals
Dicoding wants to remedy the shortfall in Indonesian tech professionals and prepare them for the global industry
Arkademi wants people "to finish the course, pass the test and get the certificate they need"
Adopting a mobile-first focus, Indonesian MOOC Arkademi sets out to meet the needs of professionals and graduates for affordable courses that have ready applicability