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By Romain Dillet
November 28, 2023
French startup Augment has seen the incredible rise of online courses and edtech companies, as well as its potential when it comes to reinventing education at scale. That’s why the startup has been working on highly polished online courses sold as a package. Augment thinks its main program could potentially become an alternative to traditional […]
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Course Hero, once an edtech unicorn valued at $3.6B, conducts layoffs
Course Hero, a tutoring business last valued by investors at $3.6 billion, has cut 15% of staff, or 42 people — its first round of layoffs in 17 years, TechCrunch has learned from numerous sources. A spokesperson confirmed the layoffs, saying that “the layoffs are happening as a part of a strategic effort to set […]
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Pollen is a professional development platform for tech workers, by tech workers
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Physics Wallah enjoys a rosy IPO day, bucking the broader slowdown in Indian edtech
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PrettyDamnQuick snaps up $25M to speed up online checkout
A startup hoping to provide a credible alternative to Amazon has picked up funding to double down on the gap in the market. PrettyDamnQuick (PDQ) provides tech to retailers to let them customize and test different shipping and checkout flows, and now it has picked up a deal of its own: a $25 million Series A to expand its business. With some 200 customers already on its books since it was founded in 2020, New York-based PDQ says it currently processes around 30 million orders each month. That
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