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Yet another generative AI venture has raised a bundle of money. And, like the others before it, it's promising the moon. Emergence, whose co-founders include Satya Nitta, the former head of global AI solutions at IBM's research division, today emerged from stealth with $97.2 million in funding from Learn Capital plus credit lines totaling more Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this episode of Inside the Rope, David interviews Greg Mauro, founder of Learn Capital. The episode focuses on Mauro's venture capital fund, highlighting its emphasis on educational investments and some of the well-known companies Greg has invested in. Greg shares his transition from a tech entrepreneur to a significant figure in venture capital, underlining his extensive experience in technology and entrepreneurial investments. The conversation also covers his ownership stake in Powder Mountain, the U.S.'s largest ski field, alongside notable tech entrepreneur Reid Hastings, offering insights into Greg's diverse commercial interests. Additionally, Greg discusses his impactful role in the educational sector through his investments, aiming to transform educational outcomes with technology. Greg Mauro is the Founder & Managing Partner at Learn Capital and oversees the investing practice of the firm. Greg previously managed an affiliate of Founders Fund and co-founded several venture-backed startups used by millions across the education, wireless, and media sectors. Greg has helped lead Learn investments in companies such as Coursera, Udemy, General Assembly, OnDeck, Ascent, Wave Neuro, and MindPortal. Greg is the co-founder of Edmodo, the world's largest social network for learning with over 100M users. Greg also helped incubate and co-found Higher Ground Education, the world's largest Montessori operator, where he serves on the board and is the largest investor. Greg has served on the board of NewGlobe — where Learn is also the largest investor — as the company has grown from serving one school to over 8,000, transforming the lives of over 3M students across Africa and India.

Remote, the leader in building, managing, and supporting globally distributed workforces, has completed the acquisition of Easop, a compliance solution for businesses with international talent to grant and manage equity to their teams across 70+ countries.  https://hrtechfeed.com/remote-com-acquires-equity-compensation-tool/ ClearanceJobs, the leading online community for security-cleared professionals, has launched the ability to stream live videos to its platform with the introduction of ClearanceJobs Live. https://hrtechfeed.com/clearancejobs-adds-live-streaming-for-employers/ Employ Inc., the parent company of JazzHR, Lever, Jobvite and NXTThing RPO, announced the appointment of Steve Cox as CEO, effective April 1, 2024. Cox succeeds former CEO, Pete Lamson.- who decided to step down,  the company told me. https://hrtechfeed.com/employ-inc-has-new-ceo/ SAN MATEO, Calif.,— Modal, a leading skills development platform for data and analytics professionals, today announced a $25 million Series A. The round is led by Left Lane Capital and Ensemble VC with participation from leading investment firms Signalfire and Learn Capital.  https://hrtechfeed.com/modal-announces-25-million-series-a-to-upskill-employees-in-ai/ Indeed, the world's #1 job site1 and a global job matching and hiring platform, today introduces Smart Sourcing, a new AI-powered suite of products to make the hiring process faster, simpler and more efficient for both employers and job seekers. https://hrtechfeed.com/indeed-launches-ai-powered-smart-sourcing/ https://youtu.be/pduqHwS_J58?si=V9GzlMv16YHjjf4A

www.CPOPLAYBOOK.comEpisode TranscriptAboutKey takeaways from this podcast episode include a decline in confidence in traditional higher education due to rising costs and uncertain job prospects. Matt Wilkerson, CEO and Co-founder at Extern introduced externships as a solution, offering students real-world projects remotely and helping companies engage with more students efficiently. Despite the advantages of skills-based hiring, its limited prevalence is attributed to challenges in standardization. Overall, the discussion emphasizes the need for innovative solutions like externships to bridge the gap between academic preparation and workplace readiness.*Matt WilkersonMatt is the Co-founder & CEO of Extern which invented the remote Externship, a new form of work experience with integrated learning. Externships let people quickly build their resumes with real work experiences remotely while giving companies expert-designed, turnkey projects that drive business outcomes.Previously known as Paragon One, last year Extern served 8,800 multi-week Externships to students out of nearly 100,000 applications on behalf of brands like PwC, Home Depot, AT&T, HSBC, Macquarie, HP, National Geographic, Beats by Dre, Hugo Boss, and more. Extern's mission is to enable anyone from any background to access professional experience, and its vision is to enable people to build their resume while earning their degree.It's backed by Foundation Capital, Launch Fund, Learn Capital, University Ventures, and YCombinator. Matt previously co-founded and was CFO of AHAlife, a luxury online marketplace for discovering 1,000+ designers and artisans from 45+ countries, which raised over $20M of venture capital and merged with ASX-listed Design Milk.Before launching AHAlife, Matt sourced, executed, and oversaw consumer internet investments with Technology Crossover Ventures, a $10Bn venture capital fund. Prior to TCV, Matt began his career in the Media & Telecom Investment Banking Group at Morgan Stanley, focusing on M&A, IPO, and debt issuances for new media and telecom companies. Matt holds both a B.S. degree in Computer Science & Engineering and a B.S. in Management Science from MIT.

Evan Baehr is the managing partner of Learn Capital, a venture capital fund that backs and builds companies that drive human flourishing. He's Founder of Teneo, a national leadership organization, author of the best-selling book Get Backed from Harvard Business Press, and host of the Arena, a TV show celebrating bold founders. On this episode, Evan and Chris discuss: How Evan is advancing human flourishing The roles of government vs. community in human flourishing How to build and grow communities We'd appreciate you filling out our audience survey, so we can continuously work on providing relevant content to our listeners.  https://www.thefortpod.com/survey Links Learn Capital Teneo Evan on Twitter Topics (00:01:36) Human Flourishing (00:14:38) The rise in deaths of despair (00:23:03) The role of government in human flourishing (00:28:52) Teneo (00:34:17) How to build a community (00:41:43) How communities change as they grow (00:54:57) Writing a bill to protect international mail-order brides (00:58:06) Evan's perspective on ESG Support our Sponsors Fort Capital: https://bit.ly/FortCapital Follow Fort Capital on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/fort-capital/ Chris on Social Media: Twitter: https://bit.ly/3BYIjcH LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/45gIkFd   Watch The Fort on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3oynxNX Visit our website: https://bit.ly/43SOvys Leave a review on Apple: https://bit.ly/45crFD0 Leave a review on Spotify: https://bit.ly/3Krl9jO  The FORT is produced by Johnny Podcasts

Money habits Asians learn from their elders Pros and cons of growing up in a culture that revolves around money The importance of teaching kids about moneyWhy finance isn't taught in schools? Ways we can teach kids about finance and money management The Life & Money Show Spotlight:Your Life & Money: What is one thing you're doing to live a meaningful and intentional life by design?Other's Life and Money: What is one life or money hack that you can share that will make an impact in others' lives right now? Life & Money in the World: What's the one thing you're doing right now to make the world a better place? RESOURCES/LINKS MENTIONEDMake Your Kid a Money Genius by Beth Kobliner | Paperback & AudiobookGreenlight Allschool ABOUT JAMES LEOJames Leo's entire professional career has been devoted to education ventures and helping people obtain better futures through learning. He is the founder of Bamboo Finance, a financial management and literacy app for kids designed specifically to serve the unique needs of Asian families while making financial literacy and management fun and easy.  James previously served as Chief of Staff at VIPKID where he assisted the CEO with fundraising, building out the team, and driving various aspects of the business as it scaled from 30k to 1M students. He also founded a coaching marketplace for professionals in China called 职飞 (Chinese for Direct Flight or Career Flight). James most recently led Corporate Development and Strategy for a dance education startup in LA, and has worked at education-focused venture capital funds, Learn Capital, and University Ventures. He continues to invest in and advise various ed-tech startup companies around the world. James completed his master's at Stanford (Learning, Design & Technology); his undergrad at USC (philosophy, business, and engineering); and an HBS program for executives in China. He began his career serving in the US Army as both an infantry soldier and an intelligence officer and loves to work out, learn about learning, and be helpful wherever he can! CONNECT WITH JAMESWebsite: BambooEmail: james@bamboofi.orgLinkedin: James Leo CONNECT WITH USTo connect with Annie and Julie, as well as with other Investing For Good listeners, and to get the latest scoop on new and upcoming episodes, join Life and Money Show Podcast Community on Facebook.To learn more about real estate syndication investment opportunities, join the Goodegg Investor Club.Be sure to also grab your free copy of the Investing For Good book (just pay S&H)--Thanks for listening, and until next time, keep investing for good!

In this episode, Mihir Gupta (Co-Founder & CEO, Teachmint), joins our host Digjay, to talk about his path leading up to Teachmint, surviving the 0 to 1 phase as first time founders, building a foundation to scale up rapidly and how to sustain momentum after scaling up, benefits & challenges of pursuing inorganic growth, finding a balance between core venture building & fundraising, aligning fundraising strategy with market dynamics, optimizing for 'conviction' & 'speed' of decision making when choosing your investors and more. Founded in 2020, Teachmint is an edtech-infrastructure startup that helps teachers and institutes create their own virtual classrooms and build direct relationships with students. The startup that is backed by marquee investors like Learn Capital, Rocketship.vc, Better Capital, Lightspeed India, Vulcan Capital among others, has scaled up rapidly in the past 2 years to become one the of the largest teaching platforms in the world. Prior to founding Teachmint, Mihir held leadership positions in startups like OYO and Open Financial. An IIT Bombay alum, Mihir spent the early years of his career as a consultant with McKinsey, working extensively in South East Asia and India. You can connect with him here on Linkedin or Twitter. ---- Show notes – (02:16) Mihir's background & path leading up to Teachmint; Bringing together the founding team (08:42) Surviving the 0 to 1 phase as first time founders (10:46) Building a foundation to scale up rapidly (14:19) What should founders focus on, to sustain momentum after scaling up? (17:09) Teachmint's approach to attracting & retaining quality talent (20:43) Benefits & challenges of pursuing inorganic growth (27:22) Finding a balance between core venture building & fundraising (29:51) Aligning fundraising frequency & strategy with market dynamics (33:29) Optimizing for conviction & speed of decision making when choosing your investors; How to gauge conviction when talking to investors? (37:26) How has being a founder influenced his personality over the years? (38:30) Rapid fire and closing remarks ---- If you liked our episode, you can subscribe to our podcast on any podcast platforms of your choice (like Spotify & Apple iTunes). We would appreciate if you could leave us a review on Apple iTunes. This helps others discover the podcast organically. You can visit thevcpreneur.com and follow us on Twitter @thevcpreneur_ & Instagram @thevcpreneur for more episodes and interesting insights on the startup ecosystem. You can also follow our host Digjay here on Linkedin & Twitter

Michael Staton is a partner at Learn Capital, a venture capital firm that focuses exclusively on the global education technology sector. Michael shared with us the difference between being an entrepreneur and being a VC investor, how to protect your business from the inside-out and how to succesfuly apply the confidenciality tools available when building your team.

Rebecca and I dive into the Capital Raising journey for scaling syndicators and dive into the mindset of passive investors. https://starboardequity.com

Levi Belnap wants to make this clear from the beginning—artificial intelligence will never replace human teachers, at least not in our lifetime. What he and his colleagues at Merlyn Mind believe is that AI can enhance teachers' work. In this episode, Levi introduces us to his nascent company's offering and provides some insights on how they believe the classroom experience can be better for all involved.The company launched out of stealth mode last month to unveil the first digital assistant built specifically for education that empowers teachers to more naturally use the technology in their classrooms and simplify their work. The company also announces it has closed $29 million in funding to date, led by Learn Capital.The Merlyn Mind team spent the last three and a half years working in tandem with educators to create Merlyn, the first digital assistant built specifically for education. In 2021 alone, Merlyn Mind has piloted Merlyn in over 50 classrooms across more than 20 different schools as the company accelerates the release of Merlyn to help educators take back their classrooms from the complexities of technology. Merlyn gives teachers more natural command of the devices and digital services in their classrooms and untethers them from the front of the room. Responding to both voice and remote control, Merlyn empowers teachers with choices that simplify how they use classroom technology.“We've been investing in education technology companies for more than a decade at Learn Capital, and Merlyn Mind has brought together what is quite simply the dream team,” said Rob Hutter, Founder & Managing Partner at Learn Capital and board member of Merlyn Mind. “Incredible professionals from IBM Watson Labs, HP Education, Amazon Alexa, Google, Facebook, Broadcom, and Roku have come together to work on a unified product experience for an extremely urgent mission--that of reclaiming the classroom for teaching from the complexity of technology itself.”“I've worked closely with the Merlyn Mind team to understand what educators really need from their technology, and what we know is teachers don't just need more technology, they need the right technology,” said Emily Schindler, Associate Director at Creativity Labs, University of California-Irvine. “Merlyn Mind wants to give teachers what they need most, more time and freedom to think about student learning and the ability to better leverage their greatest asset, themselves.”Before COVID-19, teachers already spent half of their time focused on administrative tasks (McKinsey & Co., 2020), managing more than 900 different applications in the classroom according to LearnPlatform. After COVID-19, teachers' jobs have become even more difficult, with more than 97% of K-12 educators reporting learning loss in students over the past year when compared with children in previous years, according to Horace Mann Educators Corporation. Merlyn helps teachers manage the complexity of teaching with technology in the classroom and frees teachers to focus more of their time on the individual needs of their students.The Merlyn assistant is accessed through Symphony Classroom, an AI hub custom-built for the unique needs of education. With Symphony Classroom, teachers can control classroom devices like the front-of-room displays, teacher laptops, the internet browser, and the applications teachers use daily. Merlyn integrates with the apps and devices teachers already use and love, including Google Slides, Google Drive, Classcraft, Nearpod, Newsela, and more to meet teachers where they already are.

Robin Rosenberg, PhD, is a psychologist, CEO and Founder of Live In Their World. They use Virtual Reality to address issues of bias an incivility in the workplace. Robin's professional curiosity and clinical practice drew her towards the burgeoning field of virtual reality (VR) about 25 years ago. Robin followed the psychology of virtual reality literature for years, and then collaborated on research about VR. At the same time, the world was hearing about the frequency of young Black people being killed by white people, including police (2012 on), which led to a surge in focusing on challenges in diversity and Black Lives Matter. In turn this led some white people to say “all lives matter.” Through her work as a psychologist, she hypothesized that if white people could get enough of a sense of a Black person's lived experience, they would understand what the statement Black Lives Matter really means and, in turn, wouldn't say “all lives matter.” It wasn't until early 2018 , when the Oculus Go VR headset was in the works and soon to be released, that VR technology made the idea feasible. That timing coincided with the rise of the #MeToo movement. Rob Hutter of Learn Capital had heard Robin's idea earlier on, and in 2018 offered to fund a proof-of-concept study to see whether her idea could move the needle on gender bias and awareness. We welcome support of the Nonprofit SnapCast via Patreon. We welcome your questions and feedback via The Nonprofit Snapshot website.

Boston's Transmit Security, which provides workforces risk management and passwordless identity solutions, has announced its Series A fundraise of $543 million, led by Insight Partners and General Atlantic. Additional investors include Cyberstarts, Geodesic, SYN Ventures, Vintage, and Artisanal Ventures. The company's pre-investment valuation was $2.2B, and it looks to work towards passwordless protection and identity risk management.Oyster, a software HR platform to address hiring problems in companies, announced its Series B fundraise of $50M, led by Stripes. The funding comes on the heels of its Series A funding, which it raised in February this year from San Mateo-based Emergence Capital. Chicago-based G2, a marketplace for business organizations to buy, research and manage their software, has attained unicorn status, raising $157M in a Series D funding round led by Permira and bags the unicorn tag. The round has valued the startup at $1.1 Billion.Insilico Medicine, an AI-based platform for medication discovery and research, has raised $255 million in a Series C round. It is a Hong Kong-based company founded in 2014 to discover novel drug targets for currently untreatable illnesses. In 2020, the firm identified a novel therapeutic target for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), a disease in which the tiny air sacs in the lungs scar and make breathing difficult.Splunk, a company that develops operational intelligence software, has secured $1 billion in funding from private equity firm Silver Lake. Silverlake's chair and managing partner, Ken Hao, will join the Splunk board of directors. The San Francisco-based company has introduced Splunk Security Cloud. Splunk also announced the completion of its acquisition of TruStar, a developer of security software.Mollie, a unicorn payments service provider in Europe, has announced its Series C fundraise of €665 million ($800 million) in a round led by Blackstone's growth equity investing business- Blackstone Growth (BXG). The company revealed that its valuation has touched €5.5 billion ($6.5 billion) post this round, making it one of the top five most valued privately held fintech companies in Europe.Merlyn Mind, an AI assistant for teachers, has received $29 million as initial funding from edtech investor Learn Capital and other undisclosed investors. With this announcement, Merlyn Mind has come out of stealth. It spent nearly three years developing its first version and, more recently, piloting the service in more than 50 classes across more than 20 schools.Zeller, a fintech company based in Melbourne that serves SMBs, has announced that it has raised AUD 50 million at an AUD 400 million valuation. The round was led by Spark Capital. Other participants include Square Peg, Apex Capital Partners, and Addition. The funds will be used to expand Zeller's research and engineering centre, including hiring 18 new engineering positions to help the company achieve its goal of being a fully regulated business bank.Memory.ai, a company that creates AI-based applications, has received $14 million in a round headed by Melesio and Sanden. The money will be utilized to develop new apps that will aid individuals in becoming more productive. Dewo and Glue are two applications that are in the works. Both of these apps will be available in the second half of this year.Toronto-based Joyride, offering solutions for micromobility operators, has announced that it has raised an oversubscribed amount, $3.7M as demand and popularity for e-scooters, bikes and mopeds go up. Its software platform enables businesses to launch, manage and scale their scooter-sharing and bike-sharing businesses all in one place. Joyride stated that the funding would enable it to take its micromobility software to the next level, to thousands of new markets

This week in Indian Startup News, WhiteHat Jr withdraws defamation case against Pradeep Poonia, Government approves experimental drone deliveries, Private banks looking to ban crypto transactions again, PUBG's return to India, Swiggy's four-day workweek and Ola's international expansion plans. In funding news, Byju's in talks to raise $150 million, Teachmint raises $16.5 million & Nivesh raises $1.6 million. Introduction Government approves experimental drone deliveries WhiteHat Jr withdraws defamation case against Pradeep Poonia Private banks looking to ban crypto transactions again PUBG's return to India Swiggy's four-day workweek Ola's international expansion plans Byju's in talks to raise $150 million Teachmint raises $16.5 million Nivesh raises $1.6 million WhiteHat Jr withdraws the defamation case against Pradeep Poonia: After months of slugging it out in court, Pradeep Poonia has got some relief after WhiteHat Jr finally withdrew their defamation case against him. Pradeep Poonia has been a vocal critic of WhiteHat Jr for a long time and has been crucial in unveiling some of the companies alleged questionable marketing and business practices. Government approves experimental drone deliveries: The government has approved experimental drone flights for 20 consortiums including Swiggy, Dunzo, ShopX and Asteria Aerospace. They will be testing the drone for deliveries for the next year and the government will be updating the drone rules based on results. Private banks looking to ban crypto transactions again: Top Indian private banks like HDFC Bank, ICICI Bank, Axis Bank, Kotak Mahindra Bank and Induslnd Bank have allegedly been ordered by the RBI to ban cryptocurrency transactions. PUBG's return to India: PUBG has announced the launch of Battlegrounds Mobile India (previously known as PUBG Mobile India). While the date of the launch has not been revealed, it is expected to open pre-registration for the game in May or June. Swiggy's four-day workweek: Amidst the rising number of COVID19 cases in India, Swiggy has decided to make work more flexible for their users in the month of May by allowing for a four-day workweek and the employees can choose the days they want to work. Ola's international expansion plans: Ola Electric has hired Wayne Burgess as their new head of design, a guy who has worked with leading car companies like Bentley, Aston Martin and Jaguar, to help Ola Electric design their electric scooters and also electric four-wheelers in the future. Furthermore, the company is planning to enter European markets like France, Italy, and Germany in FY22. Byju's in talks to raise $150 million: Byju's is in talks with the UBS Group to raise up to $150 million at a valuation of $16.5 billion – which would make it India's most valuable startup. Teachmint raises $16.5 million: Edtech startup Teachmint has raised $16.5 million in a round led by Learn Capital to get more teachers on their platform and explore acquisition opportunities. Nivesh raises $1.6 million: Wealth management startup Nivesh has raised $1.6 million in a round led by Indian Angel Network Fund to add new insurance and credit products.

Susan is a Principal at Learn Capital, an early stage EdTech VC fund based in the Bay Area, where she is responsible for sourcing, researching, evaluating, and supporting early stage companies changing the ways we learn and work. Prior to joining Learn, Susan spent three years at the Strategy & Ventures group of Sesame Workshop, the media and education non-profit creator of Sesame Street. There, she worked on growth and strategic planning projects, and helped manage Sesame Ventures, the VC arm of the company that invests in mission-aligned early stage kids-oriented startups. Susan began her career in investment banking at Credit Suisse after earning her BCOM and BA in Math at Queen's University in Kingston, Canada. She has since worked in Toronto, Shanghai, New York City, and San Francisco. In her spare time, Susan enjoys reading, learning, running, singing, and good journalism.

Today, On Deck is announcing that it's raising a $20 million Series A led by Keith Rabois at Founders Fund with participation from Learn Capital, Chamath Palihapitiya, Slack Fund, Village Global, Eric Yuan, Fred Ehrsam, Allison Picken's The New Normal Fund, Charles Hudson at Precursor Ventures, Adam D'Angelo, Jen Rubio, Elad Gill, Julia DeWahl, Henry Ward, Afton Vechery, Jules Walter, Eric Su, Julia Lipton, Scott Belsky, Anthony Pompliano, Bloomberg Beta, Dylan Field, Aarti Ramamurthy, and many, many more members of the On Deck community. We cover why On Deck has a chance to build a Stanford for the internet: On Deck Investment Thesis. Natively Integrated Education. Platform and Team Constellation. The On Deck Opportunity. You can read the full original post and subscribe at notboring.co. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/notboring/message

Episode 2: Gautum Tambay of Springboard THE PATH: An Entrepreneur's View on When and How to Raise Capital Welcome to The Path, hosted by Gup Ghuiliani, Operating Partner at Telstra Ventures. In this videocast and podcast series, we uncover how successful entrepreneurs navigate the world of venture capital to scale rapidly. For each episode, we invite the founders of successful businesses to share their experiences and insights on what they're going through and the changes they've made going forward. Today, we talk with Gautam Tambay, co-founder and CEO of Springboard, a mentor-led online education platform that provides upskilling and reskilling courses for people looking to learn in-demand skills. Watch the interview on video In this episode we ask Gautam: What motivated you to start Springboard? What challenges did you have in building the company? What metrics do you use to measure early business success? The pandemic has accelerated demand for alternate learning. How does Springboard ensure students stay engaged? Genuinely learn new skills? Get hired? What challenges did you have in deciding whether to take VC capital or not? Where are you on your funding path, and why did you need to raise capital? How did you choose which path to follow? What was your approach to selecting the right investors? You raised your Series B last summer, despite social distancing. How did your approach to raising venture investments change? What advice would you offer young entrepreneurs looking to raise capital for their fast-growing businesses? How did you develop your leadership style as a young entrepreneur? What advice would you offer others? Why You Started Springboard, Early Growth Your Funding Path/Leadership: What's Next? Your goal is to educate 1m people in 10 years. How will you get there? (both internal and external drivers).  How will university partnerships play a role? Building a network of mentors is core to Springboard. Are there other models that you look to in benchmarking this program going forward (consulting, university professors, Backroads travel company, etc.)? How will student placement change? Will you link content and projects to more tailored placement (eg did well in this facet of data science as such marketing attribution would be a great career) Do you have an exit strategy? If so, what is it? If not, why not? Springboard Funding Info Springboard raised $31 million to expand its mentor-guided education platform to more geographies. Springboard, an online education platform that provides upskilling and reskilling training courses to people looking to learn in-demand roles, has raised $31 million in a new financing round as it looks to expand to more geographies. The Series B financing round for the San Francisco-headquartered startup was led by investment firm Telstra Ventures . Vulcan Capital and SJF Ventures, as well as existing investors Costanoa Ventures, Pearson Ventures, Reach Capital, International Finance Corporation (IFC), 500 Startups, Blue Fog Capital, and Learn Capital also participated in the round, said the seven-year-old startup, which has raised more than $50 million to date. https://www.springboard.com/

This episode is sponsored by Cronofy, the scheduling platform for business and HR professionals. Don’t let impersonal and lengthy interview scheduling stop you from acquiring top talent! https://www.cronofy.com/rectech   Recruiting Technology Headlines   NextStep, a mobile-based training and job placement company aiming to radically expand the supply of qualified Certified Nursing Assistants (CNAs) to address the nation’s caregiver shortage crisis, today announced a $3.6 million investment round from health and education technology-focused investors including Springrock Ventures, JAZZ Venture Partners, Learn Capital’s LearnStart fund, and the managing directors of Pioneer Square Labs.   NextStep’s unique program, free to students and supported by employers, is helping to retrain workers in distressed industries as Certified Nursing Assistants, the most in-demand role in health care. Through courses delivered on mobile devices in 10-15 minute modules that can be consumed during a commute or after hours, displaced workers with experience in service and hospitality roles can retrain for jobs in the health care industry with higher earning and promotion potential.   “NextStep is led by an experienced and nimble executive team that knows how to create technology-enabled solutions to meet our healthcare workforce needs,” said John Harris, managing partner at JAZZ Venture Partners. “I can’t think of any company that is better suited to having a positive impact on society and businesses in a world shaped both by the COVID crisis and an aging population.” The investment round was led by Springrock Ventures, the url is nextstep.careers https://hrtechfeed.com/skills-training-platform-raises-3-6m-to-help-workers-transition-to-health-care-roles/ Cornell Capital and Trilantic North America, two private investment firms, announced that they have acquired trustaff Management, Inc., a leading provider of travel nurse and allied healthcare staffing services, and CardioSolution, a managed services offering providing cardiologists and support personnel to hospitals.  As part of this transaction, Cornell Capital and Trilantic North America they also agreed to acquire Stella.ai, Inc., a VC-backed, AI-driven online marketplace for employers and job seekers that brings cutting-edge technology expertise to the staffing sector. The combination of these companies will create a leading healthcare staffing platform with a unique technology-driven approach.  In conjunction with the announcement, Adam Zoia, CEO and Co-Founder of Stella, has been named CEO of the combined company, succeeding Brent Loring, CEO of trustaff, who is retiring. STella launched as stell.ai and now operates asStella.jobs, the company pivoted at one point and appears to have given up on its current course as their platform will now pivit again to healthcare. Stella had raised $10 million back in 2017 under the guise of a shared talent network. https://hrtechfeed.com/stella-ai-acquired-by-private-equity-firms/ WizeHire, has announced the closing of $7.5 million in Series A funding co-led by Amplo and Mercury. Additional investors include existing backers Ruchit Shah and RigUp co-founder Sandeep Jain. WizeHire intends to use the funds to provide small businesses a faster, easier hiring experience previously only available to large corporations. That includes creating more personalized resources to address clients’ unique hiring needs, hiring more support staff and expanding its partner program to build a network of experts in its key industries of real estate, insurance, mortgage, legal and hospitality. “WizeHire is focused on a future where small business owners have easy access to the elevated hiring experience large corporations already have,” said Amplo’s Sam Garcia, who will join WizeHire’s board. “They’re not just creating a better alternative to current recruiting solutions; they’re giving employers more peace of mind about the hiring process so they can get back to building their business.” “We are thrilled to support WizeHire’s opportunity to define talent acquisition for small businesses,” said Heath Butler, Managing Director at Mercury, who will also join WizeHire’s board. “By systematically helping hiring managers align company values, behavioral competencies, technical skills and industry requirements to identify the best candidate, WizeHire is enabling their clients to maximize productivity, reduce turnover cost and increase customer loyalty.” Wizehire.com is the address https://hrtechfeed.com/wizehire-raises-7-5m-for-smb-hiring/ Circa (formerly known as Local job network)  is launching AI Candidate Matching, to help companies accelerate their success toward building more diverse, innovative, and high-performing teams. The new product delivers a SaaS-based artificial intelligence solution guaranteeing unbiased sourcing and matching of diverse, qualified talent from a curated 160 million+ candidate database. When looking to reduce or mitigate unconscious bias, AI Candidate Matching redacts ethnic, gender, age, LGBTQIA+, veteran status, community, culture, and disability to present candidates based on their skill sets to be evaluated in fair, equal and consistent manners. This includes automatically reviewing job postings and optimizing them to make it as engageable as possible for a diverse community while removing biases within the description.  AI Candidate Matching focuses on candidate sourcing and matching that reaches both active and passive candidates. The active and passive candidates are sourced from 3,500 different online organizations from community groups to service organizations that provide more than 160 million diverse candidates. The diverse candidate database network reaches 13 million veterans with approximately four million having security clearances.   https://hrtechfeed.com/circa-announces-ai-candidate-matching-product/ Careerist raised a $1.25 million Seed round of VC for its marketplace that provides training for software training and QA roles, career coaching, and job board in exchange for a percentage of the salary of any jobs found via the service.   Analyst george larouqe says...Merging education with jobs and career services isn’t a new model, neither is charging placed candidates a percentage of salary. The amount being charged and the placement success rate make this model either a vehicle/accelerant to a tech career for those who need it or something more predatory.---careerist.com   https://hrtechfeed.com/careerist-raises-1-25m-for-tech-education-career-coaching-job-board-for-a-percentage-of-salary/  

Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture-capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. Happy 2021, or as our own Danny Crichton aptly names it, December 38, 2020.Equity crew is back to start the new year in full force, with Alex, Natasha, and Danny on the mics and Chris behind the scenes. The reunion led to extreme Dad joke energy from all of us, which helped get through the mountain of tech news that we had in front of us.In fact, there was so much to talk about that we have a bonus episode coming out Saturday dealing with Roblox and the gaming environment. Stay tuned.For now, here's what's in today's episode:The remote work space is rushing to cure your Zoom fatigue, or at least give you new ways to handle it. This week, we saw GitHub alumni raise millions for a video repository tool, and Teamflow raise more for a virtual platform meant to mimic the serendipity (and productivity) of your currently-shuttered office.WeLink raised a $185 million Series A round and, while we could have made financial nomenclature jokes, there was much to unpack on the opportunity of 5G and wireless.Divvy locked down $165 million, making itself a unicorn in the process. Consider this one another win for Utah, and a big moment for the company itself, which is working in a very competitive space.We also noted a series of new VC funds that closed in the final days of 2020, including One Way, USV, Learn Capital, and Madrona.Hopin went shoppin', picking up StreamYard for a quarter-billion because they thought it was boppin'. Please forgive our attempt at poetry. Regardless, Hopin spent $250 million for StreamYard, a livestreaming technology platform that it intends to operate independently. The combined company has around $65 million in annual recurring revenue, with the purchased-entity bringing $30 million of that on its own. A big deal.Twitter is also out in the market with a checkbook, picking up a podcasting app and a design studio.And on the podcast front, Amazon is also in the market. This brings up the question, what really is Amazon Prime, anyways?Finally, we had few words on why P&G backing off from buying Billie impacts DTC startups everywhere. As you can tell by our laughs and jokes this week, it is really good to be back. Enjoy the show, and don't forget the Saturday extra!

Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture-capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. Happy 2021, or as our own Danny Crichton aptly names it, December 38, 2020.Equity crew is back to start the new year in full force, with Alex, Natasha, and Danny on the mics and Chris behind the scenes. The reunion led to extreme Dad joke energy from all of us, which helped get through the mountain of tech news that we had in front of us.In fact, there was so much to talk about that we have a bonus episode coming out Saturday dealing with Roblox and the gaming environment. Stay tuned.For now, here's what's in today's episode:The remote work space is rushing to cure your Zoom fatigue, or at least give you new ways to handle it. This week, we saw GitHub alumni raise millions for a video repository tool, and Teamflow raise more for a virtual platform meant to mimic the serendipity (and productivity) of your currently-shuttered office.WeLink raised a $185 million Series A round and, while we could have made financial nomenclature jokes, there was much to unpack on the opportunity of 5G and wireless.Divvy locked down $165 million, making itself a unicorn in the process. Consider this one another win for Utah, and a big moment for the company itself, which is working in a very competitive space.We also noted a series of new VC funds that closed in the final days of 2020, including One Way, USV, Learn Capital, and Madrona.Hopin went shoppin', picking up StreamYard for a quarter-billion because they thought it was boppin'. Please forgive our attempt at poetry. Regardless, Hopin spent $250 million for StreamYard, a livestreaming technology platform that it intends to operate independently. The combined company has around $65 million in annual recurring revenue, with the purchased-entity bringing $30 million of that on its own. A big deal.Twitter is also out in the market with a checkbook, picking up a podcasting app and a design studio.And on the podcast front, Amazon is also in the market. This brings up the question, what really is Amazon Prime, anyways?Finally, we had few words on why P&G backing off from buying Billie impacts DTC startups everywhere. As you can tell by our laughs and jokes this week, it is really good to be back. Enjoy the show, and don't forget the Saturday extra!

As 2020 comes to a long-awaited end, a series of filings indicate that venture capitalists are ending the year with fresh money. According to SEC paperwork, Learn Capital and USV have filed paperwork that shows the firms have raised new, multimillion-dollar funds. If you've been paying attention to news this past year, it's clear that […]

As 2020 comes to a long-awaited end, a series of filings indicate that venture capitalists are ending the year with fresh money. According to SEC paperwork, Learn Capital and USV have filed paperwork that shows the firms have raised new, multimillion-dollar funds. If you’ve been paying attention to news this past year, it’s clear that […]

In a Nutshell: In this era of "fake news" and deep divisions between people, understanding the context behind dominant narratives can help build bridges, stimulate new ideas, and push us all forward. Guests: Nathaniel Whittemore, a strategy and communications consultant for leading crypto companies as well as the host of The Breakdown, which is my favorite podcast in the crypto world. Nathaniel was also a principle at the venture capital firm Learn Capital and he was on the founding team of Change.org. My Key Takeaway: As you try to anticipate some of the narratives that could shape your story in 2021: Think macro. Big ideas like Bitcoin and MMT could have more of an impact on global economics than they do on how we buy and sell things day to day. Explore in good faith. There are thoughtful folks on both sides of every issue who are worth listening to and learning from. Share your diagnoses. When we talk about problems we agree on, we're more likely to arrive at meaningful and inclusive solutions. Also Learn: Why, as a financial tool, Bitcoin might not be an "either or" but more of an "and." What the broader applications for crypto could mean for developing countries and creative companies. How narratives can create self-fulfilling prophesies that alter our beliefs. Which narratives Nathaniel Whittemore is trying to break right now to expand the range of political and economic possibilities he shares with his audience.

Even before #COVID19 and the Remote Learning crises, the Learn team and I were working to develop better tools for parents to discover, curate, and manage extraordinary experiences for their families. Now with #COVID and #PandemicPods, we're giving parents the tools to organize their families in their pursuit of extraordinary learning. Michael Staton is a lifelong educator, colearner, and entrepreneur. Beginning as a public school teacher, Michael redesigned his classroom around getting typical high-school students ready for the academic rigors of college. Now a Partner at Learn Capital, he spent over a decade as an education entrepreneur and investor, backing innovators like Coursera, Outschool, Photomath, MakeSchool, Minerva, Clever, and NearPod. He was also helpful to the founding of Million Lives Fund, Reach Capital, Higher Ed Live, UnCollege, YearOn and Dev Bootcamp. He was co-founder and CEO of Uversity, which changed the way colleges do admissions and enrollment management. https://www.colearn.com https://www.pandemicpods.org

Produced by Foundersuite.com, "How I Raised It" goes behind the scenes with startup founders who have raised capital. This episode is with Gautam Tanbay, CEO of Springboard.com an educational software platform and online courses that help customers level up and make career transitions. In this episode, Gautam talks about how fundraising is not about convincing investors, but rather "a search for believers," how he starts socializing his deal several months in advance of fundraising, how he divides his work week while raising capital, and why he views a "no" as simply "not right now." We also cover specific tactics he employed during COVID19 including changes he made to his pitch deck structure, tips for pitching over Zoom, qualifying investors' activity, and much more. The company recently raised $31 million of Series B venture funding in a deal led by Telstra Ventures and Reach Capital on August 5, 2020. Pearson Ventures, International Finance Corporation, Vulcan Capital, SJF Ventures, Costanoa Ventures, Learn Capital, 500 Startups and Blue Fog Capital also participated in the round. This series is produced by Foundersuite, makers of software to raise capital and manage investor relations. Foundersuite's customers have raised over $2.2 Billion since 2016. Create a free account at www.foundersuite.com

Rob Hutter shares his story on his ventures with Learn Capital and investments in the global education sector. He also dives into the rise of EdTech, social networking software, and new collaborative tools that have seen a surge in impact and use due to the current crisis. (Recorded March 20 2020)Support the show (https://imanetwork.org)

John Danner (@jwdanner) of Dunce Capital and Michael Staton (@mpstaton) of Learn Capital join Erik on this episode.They discuss:- How EdTech has evolved and the ways that perspectives have changed on the space.- Their theses about the future of the space and the key challenges that it faces.- Why the pandemic might be the catalyst for an increase in homeschooling. - The problems with the current ways that education is delivered and how certain companies are well-positioned to change things for the better.- Whether there will be an expansion of ISAs to different, more regulated, verticals.- The challenges that for-profit companies face in education.- Whether there will be such a thing as a “Walmart University” or “Amazon University.”- Their requests for startups in the space.Applications for the summer vintage of our Network Catalyst accelerator are now open! The early decision deadline is May 15th and final deadline is June 5th. Learn more and apply today at www.villageglobal.vc/network-catalyst.Thanks for listening — if you like what you hear, please review us on your favorite podcast platform. Check us out on the web at villageglobal.vc or get in touch with us on Twitter @villageglobal.

John Danner (@jwdanner) of Dunce Capital and Michael Staton (@mpstaton) of Learn Capital join Erik on this episode.They discuss:- How EdTech has evolved and the ways that perspectives have changed on the space.- Their theses about the future of the space and the key challenges that it faces.- Why the pandemic might be the catalyst for an increase in homeschooling. - The problems with the current ways that education is delivered and how certain companies are well-positioned to change things for the better.- Whether there will be an expansion of ISAs to different, more regulated, verticals.- The challenges that for-profit companies face in education.- Whether there will be such a thing as a “Walmart University” or “Amazon University.”- Their requests for startups in the space.Applications for the summer vintage of our Network Catalyst accelerator are now open! The early decision deadline is May 15th and final deadline is June 5th. Learn more and apply today at www.villageglobal.vc/network-catalyst.Thanks for listening — if you like what you hear, please review us on your favorite podcast platform. Check us out on the web at villageglobal.vc or get in touch with us on Twitter @villageglobal.

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Chuck Cohn is the co-founder and CEO of Varsity Tutors which is a live learning platform that connects students and professionals with personalized instruction to achieve any goal. The company has raised so far over $100 million from investors such as TCV, Learn Capital, and the Chan Zuckerberg initiative to name a few. 

Chuck Cohn is the co-founder and CEO of Varsity Tutors which is a live learning platform that connects students and professionals with personalized instruction to achieve any goal. The company has raised so far over $100 million from investors such as TCV, Learn Capital, and the Chan Zuckerberg initiative to name a few. 

Varsity Tutors is a Live Learning Platform that seamlessly connects experts and learners in any subject, anywhere, at any time. To date, students have accessed nearly four million hours of live instruction on the platform. Experts are available to meet in person or through the company's award-winning online and mobile platforms, which account for the majority of all sessions. The company has raised $107 million in funding from investors including TCV, Learn Capital and The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. Varsity Tutors was founded in 2007 at Washington University in St. Louis. Kevin Gaugush from Varsity Tutors returns to my daily tech podcast. The last time we spoke, we learned about their mission to help people learn and their vision to seamlessly connect experts and learners in any subject, anywhere, anytime. I found myself inspired by their motto of forever learning and always growing. Recently the platform announced that they now offer Instant Tutoring in every high school and middle school subject. With Instant Tutoring, students can log on via mobile or desktop and be matched with a highly vetted expert in less than 10 seconds. Perfect for late night test prep or homework related questions parents may not know. "We're continuing to see momentum with Instant Tutoring because parents and students have seen firsthand the benefits of being able to connect with an expert in any subject right from your laptop or mobile phone. Instant usage is up triple digits year over year, with the bulk of demand coming from our middle and high school-aged students." The recent addition of 77 subjects brings Instant Tutoring to 216 subjects in total, making it the most robust on-demand tutoring service available to students and their families. The platform includes live video chat, a whiteboard, subject-specific tools like a document editor, and session recording and playback functionality.

Who is Shannon Grant?     Shannon Grant is an investor, community builder and startup advisor. She leads knowledge programs for the best and brightest minds in tech to facilitate high-level knowledge transfer and create powerful experiences for time-strapped leaders.     In 2014 she developed the Salon Series events at MKThink focusing on the future of education, and she helped build a membership organization of over 80 mission-driven CEOs with The Tugboat Group. She has coached founders to create original talks for CEO summits, hosted Jeffersonian dinners for awesome engineers and connected tech founders with the people or information they need to grow.     To support this vision, she started Deus Capital to invest in companies with billion-dollar market opportunities that have at least one female founder.     Her social impact work includes converting a liquor store into a children's writing center in the heart of San Francisco's Tenderloin neighborhood with 826 Valencia and building a new model for charity with Mama Hope.      Show Highlights  Shannon shares her journey through venture capital into angel investing.   We talk about our shared interest in getting more women to invest and invest in female founders including the statistics around this.   We discuss the importance of getting girls to see what is possible by exposing them to investing, startups, entrepreneurship, and technology.    We talk about this being an economic opportunity and the importance of encouraging men to join us in investing in women and encouraging more exemplar men in this awakening.   If Shannon could wave a magic wand and change something in this world, she would encourage people to speak; your voice is needed.      Terri’s Key Takeaway  Investing in women will create trillions of dollars in economic opportunity.  It is not a zero sum game.     References in the Podcast  MKThink:  http://www.mkthink.com/  Tugboat:  http://www.thetugboatgroup.com/  Robyn Fisher:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/robynsuegoldman/  Smitten Ice Cream: https://www.smittenicecream.com/  StitchFix: https://www.stitchfix.com/  Katrina Lake:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/kmlake/  Learn Capital:  http://learncapital.com/  Accenture Ventures: https://www.accenture.com/us-en/innovation-architecture-accenture-ventures  First Round Capital Study: http://10years.firstround.com/  Darya Shaked: https://www.linkedin.com/in/darya-henig-shaked-361539a9/  Wonder Ventures: https://www.wonderventures.com/  Dear Madam President:  https://www.dearmadampresidentbook.com/  Brazen Global: https: https://brazenglobal.com/  Jennifer Ehlen: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenniferehlen/      Contact  Shannon can be reached via LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/shannon-grant-6164139/.    You can follow Terri on Twitter at @terrihansonmead or go to her website at www.terrihansonmead.com or on Medium:  https://medium.com/@terrihansonmead.   Feel free to email Terri at PilotingYourLife@gmail.com.  To continue the conversation, go to Twitter at @PilotingLife and use hashtag #PilotingYourLife. 

Tom Vander Ark is a titan in the world of education technology. Few have experience as wide and deep as he. His career journey ... - Superintendent of Federal Way Public schools. - Managed $3.5 billion dollars and one-on-one with Bill Gates as the Executive Director of Education for the Gates Foundation. - President of X Prize, an organization that runs multimillion dollar contests for innovation in learning, exploration, energy & environment, global development, and life sciences. - Director of INACOL, the International Association for K-12 Online Learning. - Partner at Learn Capital, an education VC firm that’s invested millions in companies like General Assembly, Edmodo, Minerva, AltSchool, Coursera, and Make School. -Runs one of the most popular education blogs: Getting Smart [lesson] Given his 360 view of education I wanted to get down to the basics. How to teach. How to engage students, how to motivate students, help them direct their own learning. We also cover the big picture on where innovation is happening in education, the biggest impact per dollar and how we as learners can benefit from all of this. It’s jam-packed. The episode is an index into many of Tom’s favorite education thought leaders, methods and students. That’s just the start!

On today's episode of My Angular Story, Charles Max Wood interviews Minko Gechev. Minko is a software engineer at Learn Capital and has been contributing to the open source community. He talked about Immutability with Angular in episode 54 of the Adventures in Angular Show. Listen to how he got into programming and what he's currently up to!

On today's episode of My Angular Story, Charles Max Wood interviews Minko Gechev. Minko is a software engineer at Learn Capital and has been contributing to the open source community. He talked about Immutability with Angular in episode 54 of the Adventures in Angular Show. Listen to how he got into programming and what he's currently up to!

On today's episode of My Angular Story, Charles Max Wood interviews Minko Gechev. Minko is a software engineer at Learn Capital and has been contributing to the open source community. He talked about Immutability with Angular in episode 54 of the Adventures in Angular Show. Listen to how he got into programming and what he's currently up to!

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