Electric vehicle chargers, heads-up displays for soldiers, and the Costco of weed were some of our favorites from presitigious startup accelerator Y Combinator’s Winter 2019 Demo Day 1. If you want to take the pulse of Silicon Valley, YC is the place to be. But with over 200 startups presenting across 2 stages and 2 […]
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This YC-backed startup preps Chinese students for US data jobs
In recent years, data analysts have gone from optional to a career that holds great promise, but demand for quantitative skills applied in business decisions has raced ahead of supply as college curriculum often lags behind the fast-changing workplace. CareerTu, a New York-based startup launched by a former marketing manager at Amazon, aims to close […]
View More This YC-backed startup preps Chinese students for US data jobsTake NVIDIA’s new Deep Learning Robotics Workshop at TC Sessions: Robotics + AI
As part of TechCrunch Sessions: Robotics + AI, we are happy to announce a partnership to deliver a brand new course from NVIDIA’s Deep Learning Institute (DLI). Called the NVIDIA Deep Learning for Robotics Workshop, this brand new, never before offered workshop will provide training in a new 3D accelerated remote desktop environment on April […]
View More Take NVIDIA’s new Deep Learning Robotics Workshop at TC Sessions: Robotics + AINewsela raises $50M to expand a content repository for K-12 learning that replaces traditional textbooks
As schools continue to look for new ways to cut costs while at the same time reboot their curriculum to better tap new innovations and improve understandings of how children learn, e-learning startups are attracting attention, both from educators and the VCs that fund them to fuel growth. In the latest development, Newsela — which […]
View More Newsela raises $50M to expand a content repository for K-12 learning that replaces traditional textbooksGoalsetter gives parents a way to teach their kids how to save money
When the bubble burst in the year 2000, Tanya Van Court lost over $1 million in stock and options over the course of a few minutes. Then and there she vowed to never let something like that happen to her children. Five years later, her daughter Gabrielle was born. At the time, she was a […]
View More Goalsetter gives parents a way to teach their kids how to save moneyFunerals are tough. Ever Loved helps you pay for them
Alison Johnston didn’t plan to build a startup around death. An early employee at Q&A app Aardvark that was bought by Google, she’d founded tutoring app InstaEDU and sold it to Chegg. She made mass market consumer products. But then, “I had a family member who was diagnosed with terminal cancer and I thought about […]
View More Funerals are tough. Ever Loved helps you pay for themTufts expelled a student for grade hacking. She claims innocence
As she sat in the airport with a one-way ticket in her hand, Tiffany Filler wondered how she would pick up the pieces of her life, with tens of thousands of dollars in student debt and nothing to show for it. A day earlier, she was expelled from Tufts University veterinary school. As a Canadian, […]
View More Tufts expelled a student for grade hacking. She claims innocenceWho are the next billion users and what do they want?
Entrepreneurs and tech executives are widening their gazes outside of developed nations for their next source of growth. Ubiquitous cheap phones and increasingly affordable phone plans such as Jio in India are helping another billion users join the internet. What do those users want though, and how are they the same and different than existing […]
View More Who are the next billion users and what do they want?Three imperatives for educators to get more women in tech
Want to see more women in tech? Don’t wait up for CEOs to bridge the gender gap.
View More Three imperatives for educators to get more women in techGoogle introduces educational app Bolo to improve children’s literacy in India
Google is expanding its suite of apps designed for the Indian market with today’s launch of a new language-learning app aimed at children, called Bolo. The app, which is aimed at elementary school-aged students, leverages technology like Google’s speech recognition and text-to-speech to help kids learn to read in both Hindi and English. To do […]
View More Google introduces educational app Bolo to improve children’s literacy in IndiaSalesforce releases myTrailhead, a customizable training platform
Salesforce has been using the notion of trailblazers as a learning metaphor for several years, since it created a platform to teach customers Salesforce skills called Trailhead. Today, the company announced the availability of myTrailhead, a similar platform that enables company to create branded, fully-customizable training materials based on the Trailhead approach. It’s worth noting […]
View More Salesforce releases myTrailhead, a customizable training platformClassDojo, an app to help teachers and parents communicate better, raises $35M
Messaging apps have become the de facto way that many people today keep in regular contact with each other, and that trend has also found its way into the classroom. ClassDojo, a startup that has built a platform for teachers and parents to communicate small and big updates to each other, today is announcing that […]
View More ClassDojo, an app to help teachers and parents communicate better, raises $35M