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Create & Learn Raises $1.7M Led By GSV Ventures Teaching STEM To Kids

(Palo Alto) June 24, 2020 — Create

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(Palo Alto) June 24, 2020 -- Create & Learn, the first company to teach computer science in small online groups, today announces raising its seed round of funding to hire more instructors and take on more students and expand across the US and, eventually, worldwide. Built from the ground up on small group, project based online learning, Create & Learn has a 2.5 year head-start with its innovative approach to teaching online in the COVID-19 era. Led by one of the founding members of the Google Cloud Platform, computer science Ph.d and Stanford MBA, Jessie Jiang was first inspired to develop Create & Learn's curriculum by teaching computer science to her six-year-old daughter and seeing the enormous gaps between innovation in the real world and what was being taught in K-12 computer science.

While the pace of layoffs might be

Degreed lands new ca …

Intellispark, an education

Intellispark Secures …

Corporate harassment training is

Ethena raises $2 mil …

Degreed lands new ca …

While the pace of layoffs might be slowing

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While the pace of layoffs might be slowing down, an extended recession is forcing companies to get smarter about the way they grow. One way to stay lean and stealthy? Have a team that is constantly learning and equally flexible. Degreed helps employers do exactly that by connecting employees to learning resources to master new skills. The edtech startup today announced it has raised $32 million in venture capital in a round led by Owl Ventures, bringing its total known raised to $182 million. The company was founded in 2012.

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Intellispark, an education

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Corporate harassment training is

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Intellispark, an education technology company

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Intellispark, an education technology company focused on improving student success for PreK-12 schools, today announced that it has raised $2.3 million in seed funding led by GSV Ventures. The funding will be used to accelerate the company’s product development, set the foundation for a scalable go-to-market plan, and round out the leadership team.

(Palo Alto) June 24, 2020 —

Create & Learn …

While the pace of layoffs might be

Degreed lands new ca …

Corporate harassment training is

Ethena raises $2 mil …

Ethena raises $2 mil …

Corporate harassment training is often

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Corporate harassment training is often defined by mandatory annual workshops, stock photo-ridden curricula and, often, outdated scenarios. Harvard graduates Roxanne Petraeus and Anne Solmssen think there’s a business in doing better than that.

The duo co-founded Ethena, a software-as-a-service startup that sells anti-harassment training software that is more comprehensive and flexible than the status quo.

(Palo Alto) June 24, 2020 —

Create & Learn …

While the pace of layoffs might be

Degreed lands new ca …

Intellispark, an education

Intellispark Secures …

Dawn of the Age of D …

Moving From B.C. to A.D. The Coronavirus has

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Moving From B.C. to A.D.

The Coronavirus has instantly forced 1.6B students and teachers online. Effectively, more than 90% of total enrolled learners and educators around the world have been thrown into the deep end of the online learning pool and told to sink or swim.

Some of these new online learners will sink. Some will crawl out of the pool and never go back in. But we believe most will get the hang of it, like it, and will no longer be confined to the shore. Effectively, the genie is not going back in the bottle… digital learning has come of age. We have a B.C. (Before Coronavirus) world transitioning to A.D. (After Disease).

(Palo Alto) June 24, 2020 —

Create & Learn …

While the pace of layoffs might be

Degreed lands new ca …

Intellispark, an education

Intellispark Secures …

Announcing QuillBot� …

The QuillBot team is excited to announce we

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The QuillBot team is excited to announce we have raised a $4.25 million Series Seed round led by Sierra Ventures and GSV Ventures with participation from Service Provider Capital. This marks a major milestone in the journey of QuillBot! We’re thrilled to be working with our two new board members: Mark Fernandes and Michael Cohn. Mark from Sierra Ventures has extensive experience investing in technology companies, and Michael from GSV Ventures has deep domain expertise within the EdTech industry. Having such strong investors will help us further grow and refine QuillBot.

(Palo Alto) June 24, 2020 —

Create & Learn …

While the pace of layoffs might be

Degreed lands new ca …

Intellispark, an education

Intellispark Secures …

Degreed Acquires Ade …

For the past seven years, Degreed has been

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For the past seven years, Degreed has been building a platform to develop and measure the in-demand skills people need for the future. We believe that data about the skills people have (or don’t have) can help organizations make smarter decisions about how they hire, manage, and develop talent. We’ve come a long way. The business has quadrupled over the last two years and the number of people using our platform has tripled in the last year alone. We’ve built a more engaging platform, which helps our customers unlock new insights about the supply of skills within their companies. The next step is helping our customers identify and respond to shifts in the skills that are in demand. So today, we’re pleased to announce that we have acquired Adepto to complete our vision and empower our customers to bridge the divide between the supply and demand for skills.

(Palo Alto) June 24, 2020 —

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Degreed lands new ca …

Intellispark, an education

Intellispark Secures …

Tara.ai, which uses …

Artificial intelligence has become an

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Artificial intelligence has become an increasingly important component of how a lot of technology works; now it’s also being applied to how technologists themselves work. Today, one of the startups building such a tool has raised some capital, Tara.ai, a platform that uses machine learning to help an organization get engineering projects done — from identifying and predicting the work that will need to be tackled, to sourcing talent to execute that, and then monitoring the project of that project — has raised a Series A of $10 million to continue building out its platform.

(Palo Alto) June 24, 2020 —

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Degreed lands new ca …

Intellispark, an education

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FinTech Disruptor St …

Stride Funding offers Income Share Agreements

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Stride Funding offers Income Share Agreements to fund higher education

Award-winning education funding startup, Stride Funding (formerly AlmaPact Inc.), announced it closed its seed equity round of funding led by GSV Ventures along with Slow Ventures, Sinai Ventures, and Strada Education as co-investors.

(Palo Alto) June 24, 2020 —

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While the pace of layoffs might be

Degreed lands new ca …

Intellispark, an education

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Degreed raises $75 m …

Degreed, a learning and skills tracking

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Degreed, a learning and skills tracking platform for workers, has raised $35 million in an equity round of funding from Owl Ventures, Jump Capital, Signal Peak Ventures, GSV Accelerate, and Alliance Bernstein. The company also raised $40 million in debt financing from Alliance Bernstein Growth Stage Capital.

(Palo Alto) June 24, 2020 —

Create & Learn …

While the pace of layoffs might be

Degreed lands new ca …

Intellispark, an education

Intellispark Secures …

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