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Pace of Tech Demands a Smarter Learning Approach. Bring On Community-Driven Learning

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Some conduct ever more advanced offsite or onsite seminars and training – but these are costly, take time, and don’t adapt fast enough to incoming needs of the business and teams. This is a logical progression from existing efforts to connect staff for social bonding and business collaboration.

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Robo-advisor StashAway gets $25M Series D led by Sequoia Capital India

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It currently has operations in in five markets: Singapore, Malayasia, the United Arab Emirates and Hong Kong, and is preparing to launch in Thailand. Since StashAway launched its app in 2017, more robo-advisors have emerged in the same markets it serves. As investing apps boom, Public doubles down on its social focus.

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KaiPod Learning thinks ‘learning pods’ are here to stay

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We know we can’t do socialization as well in the cloud, we can’t do childcare as well in the cloud, and those are some of the things that parents look to schools for,” Kumar said. The coaches are there to help through online coursework, while also leading enrichment activities meant to give the social edge back to the school day.

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Ghana’s OZÉ gets $3M to scale its digital recordkeeping and embedded finance products

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That number is just a drop in the ocean of more than 100 million small businesses across West Africa that OZÉ says is its addressable market. The platform is trying to take this idea of making accounting social, she said. OZÉ boasts of a client base of more than 125,000 business owners in Ghana and Nigeria.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: PLG handbook, hiring early-stage sales teams, abolishing pro-rata

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In a previous era, startups that gained influence with CIOs could skate through the procurement process and start planning seminars for new customers as soon as contracts were finalized. Related: I’m talking to GV investor/partner Terri Burns about finding product-market fit on April 14 at TC Early Stage. yourprotagonist.

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Impactful Blogging Class Led by Women on Business Founder in Orlando, Florida

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Engageli comes out of stealth with $14.5M and a new approach to teaching by video remotely

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But they’re not apps necessarily designed for classrooms, and that fact has opened a gap in the market for those looking to build something more fit to the purpose. But also, Avida believes that because higher ed not already has a big market for remote learning, it represents a more significant opportunity.

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