February Newsletter
We're Ready For Cohort 6.0 🔥
Welcome to the February edition of the SCV Newsletter! 🍾
February has been a blast, as we’ve been finalising our brand new Cohort, which we will be announcing publicly on the 13th of March on our LinkedIn page! 🚀
👉🏻 Founders that applied to Cohort 6.0: We received 311 applications for only 6 places. Thank you for taking the time. You should have received an e-mail on how you can join our slack community and stay in touch with us. If you haven’t, just respond to this newsletter as we care to build a relationship with you and include you in the SCV community. 🤝
SuperCharger Ventures continues its mission to build the world’s leading EdTech Accelerator.
If you’re not subscribed to the SCV monthly newsletter, well, we can’t really make you, can we. This is kind of awkward. 🤷🏻♂️
But…it really only takes a second. And, what’s the worst that could happen? Go on then, make our month that little bit better. 😉
📣 February in a Nutshell
🚀 Cohort 6 : After having received over 300 applications, we’re almost ready to reveal our final 6.
📖 EdTech Book : The paperback version is ready, so what are you waiting for?
💻 UK Market Entry Webinar : It was TODAY and we loved every second.
🦄 SCV Portfolio News : Keeping you updated on everything SCV.
📆 EdTech Events : We’ve tracked and mapped all the places to be in 2023!
📝 Job Openings : Join a leading global EdTech Accelerator.
😹 EdTech Banter : Thought EdTech wasn’t funny? That’s because it isn’t. (Great sector overall, but no one is perfect right?). So, we’re on a mission to restore banter within EdTech sector.
Stay with us, we’re just getting started…
🚀 The Countdown Till Cohort 6.0
Thank you to everybody that applied to Cohort 6.0!
We were thrilled with the number of applications (over 300 😍) and we’re almost ready to announce Cohort 6.0! 🤩
However, for those of you that weren’t accepted into the programme, we’d still love for you to form a part of the SuperCharger Community. *Please don’t leave us yet 😅*
👉🏻 Slack community : We have an ever-growing slack community of founders in the EdTech space. If you’d like to join, get in touch with our Marketing Associate, Sofia Daley, or reply to this newsletter!
📖 The EdTech Book
We’ve got exciting news! 📚 We’ve published The EdTech Book on Amazon, and both the kindle and paperback versions are now available!
🚀 The EdTech Book has taken the approach to crowd-source the knowledge of the best subject matter experts on the topic of how education will include technology. 👏🏻
👉🏻 With over 50 contributors, we are covering trends around the world, in specific sectors and age groups.
The book focuses on EdTech within following topics :
Covid 19 ~ Schools ~ Universities ~ Professionals ~ Frameworks ~ Governments ~Technology ~ Future
Click here to find the book on Amazon.
💻 UK Market Entry Webinar
The UK Market Entry Webinar took place TODAY 🌟 and it was amazing.
The UK market discovery webinar was organized by Dave Smith (British Educational Suppliers Association (BESA)) and our brilliant Co-Founder, Tamas Haiman (SuperCharger Ventures), members of the European Edtech Alliance representing the UK.
There’s was an amazing line up of speakers such as, Peter Doyle Tamas Haiman, Yiran Qin, Daniel Appleby, CFA, Dr Vangelis Tsiligiris SFHEA, FCMI, Al Kingsley, Anthony Staneff (Tony), Ellasaid Woodhouse, Tom Humphreys and
🦄 SCV Portfolio News
Our founders have some exciting news to share!
Beyond The Box
Beyond The Box closed an investment round Pre-Seed of €650,000 underwritten by POLIMI Graduate School of Management, CDP Venture Capital through the Accelerators Fund and Supercharger Ventures. Thanks to the new funds raised, they intend to accelerate their growth process with increased investment in acquiring new clients, adding new talent to the team, and further developing matching technology. 🎉
They were selected to participate in the inauguration of Boom, the innovation hub by CRIF, one of the world's leading providers of credit & business information systems. They were able to participate in discussions with Italian institutions and companies and brought the innovative contribution of their solution to the world of corporate training. 👏🏻
On Wednesday the 1st 13:00 (GTM+1) they will be hosting a free webinar on “How to unlock the creative process for creating new content”. Here’s the link to register.
ROYBI
ROYBI launched its edutainment Metaverse, RoybiVerse, and is looking to onboard partners (it's free). 👏🏻
Wyblo
Wyblo have been selected among top 5 edtech startups globally to pitch at the 4 Years From Now (4YFN) of the Mobile World Congress (MWC) which is an 80k-attendee event in Barcelona from Nov 27th to the 2nd of December.
They’ve also been invited by ESADE to a panel of the 4YFN to discuss the Future of EdTech;
The Wyblo team is organising a national event regarding professional and corporate training in Italy in November in Rome. If interested in the Italian professional training industry, reach out to one of the founders, Kevin Giorgis.
Persona Education
Persona Education partners with BenQ in the UK 👏🏻
BenQ and Persona Education have agreed a partnership linking the popular student personal development platform Persona Life Skills directly from the app store ‘BenQ Suggests’, available on its tens of thousands of interactive BenQ Boards installed in UK secondary schools and colleges.
Link to press release: https://www.persona-life.com/press/persona-education-partners-with-benq-in-the-uk/
iGolf.One
iGolf.One has been featured on Canal+ TV, where Pierre, a co-founder, was interviewed for 30 minutes. 📺
iGolf.One is now available on Android. 📲
🗓 EdTech Events
We shared with you some of our favourite events in our last Newsletter, and this month, we’ve got even more for you 🔥
💛 March
Attending Bett UK? 🤔
👉🏻 We’re also having our own event during BETT UK in London! 🎉
If you’re attending BETT or you’re in London from the 29th to 31st of March, register your interest by replying to this newsletter!
💛 April
International Conference on Educational Technology and Current Issues 🇵🇹
(April 13-14, 2023) Location : Lisbon, Portugal The International Research Conference is a federated organization dedicated to bringing together a significant number of diverse scholarly events for presentation within the conference program. Events will run over a span of time during the conference depending on the number and length of the presentations. With its high quality, it provides an exceptional value for students, academics and industry researchers.
💛 May
Learning Technologies 🇬🇧
( 3rd - 4th of May) Learning Technologies is Europe's leading showcase of organisational learning and the technology used to support learning at work. With over 9000 attendees from 50 different countries, 200 unmissable seminars and 200 exhibitors, it continues to grow in importance, value and attendance year on year. Location : London, Excel Centre
EdTech World Forum 🇬🇧
( Wed 17 – Thu 18 May) Need to book soon. Keynotes from Google, Cambridge, British Council. Location : Kensington Conference and Event Centre, Kensington Town Hall, Hornton St, London W8 7NX
Bett Brasil 🇧🇷
( 9th-12th May) Bett Brasil is the largest education and technology event in Latin America. It annually brings together over 270+ national and international leading companies, 30 exciting edtech start-ups and 30,000+ participants from the education community. Educators, learners and innovators come to Bett Educar to seek inspiration, discuss the future of education and discover edtech products and solutions to improve teaching and learning outcomes. Location : Av. Dr. Mário Vilas Boas Rodrigues, 387 - São Paulo/SP - Brazil
💛 June
London EdTech Week 🇬🇧
( Monday 19th June - Sunday 25th June ) London EdTech Week is a week-long celebration featuring 40+ event hosts showcasing the Now & Next of the future of learning and work. Location : London ~ Several events in different locations
👨🏻💼 Job Openings
Looking to join a fast-paced team of ambitious and energetic thinkers? Great, I think Google still has some openings!
…..Sorry, we know we need to keep the self-deprecating humour at bay 😅, and the truth is, at SCV, we do move fast. 🤷🏻♀️ We’ve only been around for 2 years and we’ve already got a base in Singapore, Malta and London ( and we’re certainly not done 🤫 ) as well as having nearly 100 companies in our portfolio.
We might not be Google (yet 😉) but we’ll catch up soon 🤑. So apply for one of our openings if you want to join us for the ride! 🚀 💥
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😹 EdTech Banter
Welcome to EdTech Banter, the new category that we’ve created for our Newsletter where we bring some humour to the world of education. We will probably strongly regret having done this, and I therefore highly doubt that you will find it in the March edition, or ever again. So, enjoy!
……Ok, so none of them are laugh out loud funny 🤷🏻♀️. But, I bet one of them will make you smile 😉.
Teacher: Why are you late?
Student: Because of the sign.
Teacher: What sign?
Student: The one that says, "School Ahead, Go Slow." That's what I did.
A linguistics professor was lecturing to his English class one day.
“In English, a double negative forms a positive,” he said. “In some languages, though, such as Russian, a double negative is still a negative. However, there is no language where a double positive can form a negative.” A voice from the back of the room said, “Yeah, right.”
Thank you, student loans, for getting me through college.
I don’t think I’ll ever be able to repay you.
👉🏻 If you found this section of the newsletter utterly useless and it’s ruined your day, know that you are not alone. There are others out there going through the same thing.
👉🏻 If you’d like to teach the Marketing Associate a lesson about humour and let her know that you can do better (which, to be honest, she doesn’t doubt), reply to this Newsletter with your very best EdTech joke!!
If it’s really good, we might just post it in our next edition. 🤷🏻♀️
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