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| 11.02.2020 | Tuesday Capital teams up with design powerhouse Frog to grab startups’ attention — and keep it | In a day and age when everyone seems to have their own seed-stage venture fund, it’s hard to stand out. But Tuesday Capital, the San Francisco-based outfit formerly known as CrunchFund, thinks it has found a way. Today, the firm announced a... |
| 21.02.2018 | APAC Digest: Kidaptive closes $19.1m Series C; Everproof raises $1m+ seed round | Premium
Kidaptive has closed a $19.1 million Series C backed by Korea’s Woongjin ThinkBig while Australia’s Everproof has closed a seed round backed by Reinventure.
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| 21.02.2018 | With Eyes on Asia, Kidaptive Raises $19.1M to Grow Its ‘Invisible’ Adaptive Learning Platform | When some kids grow up, they stop gaming and go abroad. That metaphor might describe the journey that Kidaptive took on its way to a major fundraise.
Once known for a learning game, the Redwood City, Calif.-based company now touts itself as... |
| 21.02.2018 | Term Sheet — Wednesday, February 21 | 5 Qs WITH A DEALMAKER
Rich Boyle was a longtime operations executive before making the plunge into venture capital. As the CEO of LoopNet, Boyle led the commercial real estate marketplace company through an IPO in 2006 and eventually helped... |
| 20.02.2018 | Edtech company Kidaptive raises $19.1 million for its adaptive learning platform | Edtech startup Kidaptive, an adaptive-learning company that begin its life with a suite of curriculum-focused iPad games for kids, announced today it has closed on $19.1 million in Series C funding, in a round led by Formation 8 and Korean ... |
| 20.02.2018 | Kidaptive Secures $19.1M in Series C Funding | Kidaptive, a Redwood City, California-based edtech company, secured $19.1m in Series C funding.
The round was led by Formation 8 and Woongjin ThinkBig, a Korea-based education company.
Led by P.J. Gunsagar, CEO, and Dylan Arena, Chief Learn... |
| 12.04.2017 | Amazon FreeTime gets a Parent Dashboard, Discussion Cards & more | Amazon FreeTime, the subscription service offering kid-friendly books, videos, apps and games, is today rolling out a feature called Discussion Cards that will help parents better understand the content their child is viewing, reading or pl... |
| 23.03.2015 | Here are your top accelerators of 2014 | Topping the list is AngelPad, along with TechStars, 500 Startups and DreamIt Ventures
(Come mingle with hundreds of top venture capitalists representing $10B-plus in capital under management, including Khosla Ventures, Greylock and Javelin ... |
| 14.11.2013 | Funding Daily: Busy little bees | The startup community is buzzing with funding news.
Redfin takes $50M for real estate
Real estate site Redfin has collected a mezzanine round of $50 million form Tiger Global Management, a fundamentals-focused investment firm. The company s... |
| 14.11.2013 | Funding Daily: Busy little bees | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
The startup community is buzzing with funding new... |
| 14.11.2013 | Kidaptive’s interactive iPad stories prime your child to be a successful learner | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Eighty-five percent of who you are is developed by the age of five.
Early education is critical to the way a child’s brain develops, an... |
| 14.11.2013 | Kidaptive’s interactive iPad stories prime your child to be a successful learner | Eighty-five percent of who you are is developed by the age of five.
Early education is critical to the way a child’s brain develops, and Kidaptive wants to make sure that it develops right.
The ed-tech startup closed a $10.1 million funding... |
| 14.11.2013 | Kidaptive Raises $10.1M Series B | This kid's growing fast.
Kidaptive, creator of the popular Leo's Pad app, has raised $10.1 million in a Series B round. Formation 8 led the way, with Menlo Ventures, Stanford-StartX Fund, and previous investors NewSchools Venture Fund and P... |
| 14.11.2013 | Kidaptive Closes $10.1M Series B Financing | Kidaptive, a Palo Alto, CA-based edtech company focused on early learning, closed a $10.1m Series B financing.
The round was led by Formation 8, with participation from Menlo Ventures and the Stanford-StartX Fund as well as existing investo... |
| 14.11.2013 | Children’s Educational iPad App Maker Kidaptive Scores $10.1 Million Series B | Kidaptive, the company behind a suite of children’s apps for iPad which combine entertaining videos and games with a curriculum focused on kindergarten readiness, has raised an additional $10.1 million in Series B funding in a round led by ... |
| 15.10.2013 | What Can Farmville Teach Educational Game Developers? | Zynga built the social gaming industry around what used to be an overlooked demographic: middle-age females. Now it hopes to repeat its success in another sector where many big game companies have fallen: education.
In October 2012, Zynga.o... |
| 16.09.2013 | iStoryTime Debuts A “Netflix For Ebooks” For Kids | If a startup called Oyster is the Netflix for e-books, then iStoryTime is the children’s alternative. One of the oldest players in the kids’ interactive e-books app market is zuuka (aka iStoryTime), a company founded in 2009 and backed by $... |
| 18.07.2013 | Hullabalu, A Startup With A Different Take On Touchable Storybooks, Arrives On iPhone | Hullabalu, the New York-based kids app maker backed by $1.8 million from SV Angel, Great Oaks and others, is today bringing its iPad storybook app to the iPhone. Like the big-screen version, the new app also features the same cast of charac... |
| 02.07.2013 | Fun and Games (and Science) Make For Perfect Pitch | Yep, the hair was memorable.
Eric Gradman's perky orange mohawk signaled that the edtech business pitch he and his colleague, Brent Bushnell, were going to do would be a different twist on this year's LAUNCH Education & Kids event, an e... |
| 14.05.2013 | App Maker Kidaptive Debuts “Parent’s Pad,” A New Way To Track A Child’s Educational Development On iPad | Parents of preschoolers can finally let go of “iPad guilt” – the term that refers to that terrible feeling you get when you use the iPad as babysitter. Today, a company called Kidaptive is launching one of the most comprehensive feedback sy... |
| 05.05.2013 | Zynga.org Teams Up with NewSchools Venture Fund to Create Ed-Tech Accelerator | According the the company’s blog (read here), Zynga.org is partnering with NewSchools Venture Fund to create a new ed-tech accelerator.
The initiative, which will officially kick off this summer, will focus on enhancing the quality and reac... |
| 01.05.2013 | Zynga & NewSchools team up to launch an accelerator for educational gaming startups | BURLINGAME, CA.: Zynga founder and CEO Mark Pincus just announced that the gaming giant is launching a learning accelerator for gaming startups.
Pincus took to the stage this afternoon at the NewSchools Venture Summit, a major ed-tech confe... |
| 10.04.2013 | Which Way for K12 Blended Learning? | Read the first part of Alex's series,
Which Way for K12 Blended Learning? (Part 1 - Boarding the Mayflower)
Just beyond the mountains, there is a land where unicorns run free, jumping from rainbow to rainbow. The children call the land “Edt... |
| 23.02.2013 | The Real Top 15 Venture Capital Deals Of 2012 | Editor’s note: Brad Garlinghouse is CEO of YouSendIt, the cloud file collaboration service. Brad previously held senior executive positions at AOL and Yahoo. He’s also an avid angel investor in and advisor to several consumer and enterprise... |
| 08.02.2013 | Here's The Coolest New Startup From The Kids At Stanford | Stanford's student startup accelerator StartX just hosted its eighth demo day.
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It's worth paying attention to StartX because of the success of Google, Instagram, and Snapchat – all companies that were all founded by Stanford g... |
| 08.02.2013 | Here's The Coolest New Startup From The Kids At Stanford | Stanford's student startup accelerator StartX just hosted its eighth demo day.
It's worth paying attention to StartX because of the success of Google, Instagram, and Snapchat – all companies that were all founded by Stanford graduates.
Out ... |
| 07.02.2013 | Meet The Next 10 Companies To Come Out Of StartX, Stanford’s Student Startup Accelerator | Stanford’s student startup accelerator, StartX, had its eighth demo day tonight in Palo Alto, showing off the latest class of 11 companies* to go through the program. The accelerator, which just raised another $400,000, has already had abou... |
| 09.01.2013 | Kids’ Educational App Companies Fingerprint & Mindshapes Team Up To Launch A Collection Of Interactive “Appisodes” | San Francisco-based kids’ app platform Fingerprint is teaming up with UK educational app maker Mindshapes. The two companies are collaborating on a series of new digital learning activities called “appisodes,” which combine both storytellin... |
| 12.10.2012 | Kidaptive Raises Large Seed Round From Menlo, CrunchFund & Others To Bring Children’s Educational Apps To iPad | The iPad is the first computer a generation of children will have access to – a shift in computing which has birthed an industry of kid-focused startups. While some companies build apps purely for entertainment, others are attempting to lev... |
