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Singapore’s Skills Union wants to close the skills gap via live video training

TechCrunch

That’s why Skills Union wants to connect tech startup workers looking to level up with an array of field-specific experts over live video. Much of the skills training for high-growth startups is happening through pre-recorded videos on platforms like Coursera or Codecademy. The model also enables more flexible learning.

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TaskHuman lands $20M to expand its virtual coaching platform

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TaskHuman , a professional development platform focused on coaching, today announced that it raised $20 million in Series B funding led by Madrona with participation from Impact Venture Capital, RingCentral Ventures, Sure Ventures, USVP, Gaingels, PeopleTech Angels, Propel(x) and Zoom Ventures.

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Leaders Coaching Leaders: One Secret to Sustainable Leadership Development

Let's Grow Leaders

You need leaders at every level engaged with your training as leader coaches to facilitate application and learning. The Power of Leaders as Coaches. But what if that same sales SVP showed up as an active coach in the process? Leaders coach, and reinforce, the skills they’re learning. ” We get it.

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Computer vision transforms tennis coaching at Billie Jean King Cup

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Other sports have been quick to embrace the use of data and analytics to transform how athletes are recruited, trained, and prepped for competitions, how they adjust to changing circumstances during play, and how they break down successes and failures after competition.

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Caliber, with $2.2 million in seed funding, launches a fitness coaching platform

TechCrunch

Caliber , a startup that focuses on one-to-one personal training, is today launching a brand new digital coaching platform on the heels of a $2.2 “My co-founders started testing the idea of coaching people individually and that’s where the light bulb really went off,” said co-founder and CEO Jared Cluff.

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HacWare lands $2.3M to expand cybersecurity awareness training

TechCrunch

million in seed funding to expand its cybersecurity awareness and training offering. HacWare aims to give companies an easier onramp to provide meaningful and engaging cybersecurity training to their employees that they won’t hate or that gets in the way of their day-to-day work.

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Emerge Career’s pre-release job training lands $3.2M seed and new state contracts

TechCrunch

The team previously worked on Ameelio , which upended years of bad and exploitative video calling services in prisons, but also made the problem of education clear to them. Emerge changes that with modern video lectures and regular video call office hours with educators who specialize in the subject matter.

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