October Newsletter
Cohort 6.0 - The First of Its Kind.
Welcome to the October edition of the SCV Newsletter! 🍾
Cohort 6.0 - Investing Our Knowledge and Capital
We’ve got a lot to announce this month, from our ‘The Best of EdTech Demo Days’, the 2-day event that will showcase all of our Accelerator and Incubator startups on the 29th and 30th of November, to our new deal.
You heard that right, at SCV, we have a brand new deal with improved terms. 📄
Applications for Cohort 6.0 are open, and we’re leaving our service for equity model behind, as we’re now looking to invest up to $270k in capital, as well as providing hands-on support and access to the SuperCharger Venture’s network for life. 🙌
Thinking of applying to Cohort 6? Click here and apply now, as applications close on the 10th of December.
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📣 October in a Nutshell
🚀 Cohort 6.0 : We’ll invest up to $270k!
📆 Two Demo Days?! Get ready for ‘The Best of EdTech Demo Days’ on the 29th and 30th of November! Who wants one demo day, when you can have two?
🇫🇷 Female EdTech Fellowship - We attended the FEF retreat in France, and we’re feeling shiny and new.
📖 EdTech Book - The world’s first crowdsourced book on EdTech is coming out on Amazon!
🦄 SCV Portfolio News - Keeping you updated on everything SCV.
🌆 EdTech Next - It was amazing! Did we meet you at the Summit?
Stay with us, we’re just getting started…
🚀 Cohort 6.0 - We’ve got a new deal.
Cohort 6.0 - One Like No Other.
Our terms have been completely rewritten and Cohort 6.0 is the very first of its kind, as this is the very first Cohort which leaves behind our outdated service for equity model.
We’re ready to bring forth the most competitive terms in the industry, as we’ve prepared a brand new deal, one where selected startups will receive up to $270k in capital, as well as providing hands-on support and access to the SuperCharger Venture’s network for life. 🌎
Applications are now open and will be closing on the 10th of December, so make sure to apply now for Cohort 6.0 🚀.
SuperCharger Ventures is now the biggest EdTech Accelerator in the world in terms of portfolio size, so join us now in this new step of our journey. 🚶🏻
Click here to apply!
🙌 The Best of EdTech Demo Days
Save the date! 📆 2 days, 2 Cohorts, 30 Startups 🌟
SuperCharger Ventures is proud to present our 'Best of EdTech Demo Days', taking place on the 29th and 30th of November. 🚀
On the 29th, you'll have the chance to meet 12 fantastic Seed-Series A #edtech #startups from our Accelerator Cohort 5.0, whilst on the 30th we will showcase our Incubator 2.0 startups, 18 Pre-Seed startups who are innovating the future of EdTech.🌎
Unless you’re best man at your sister’s wedding 🤵🏻♂️, you wouldn’t want to miss out on the SCV Demo Days! So register now on zoom👇🏻
https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_yC1pNrk6TFitXI2atAvtmQ
🇫🇷 FEF : Paris Retreat
That’s right, we managed to have a French holiday whilst the rest of the world continued to count down the hours until their 15 minute coffee break. But, hey, who could say no to French wine and big pots of red “je ne sais quoi”? 🇫🇷
This past weekend, (28th-30th October) our Female EdTech Fellowship Cohort 2.0 fellows enjoyed a retreat in France, where over wine and great food, they bonded and strengthened their networks. 🍷 Our head of programmes, Yiran Qin, as well as our Co-Founder, Tamas Haiman, both attended.
The Female EdTech Fellowship, co-founded by SuperCharger Ventures and European EdTech Alliance, has 14 outstanding fellows from 10 different European countries 🇪🇺.
Jurgita Jaruševičienė building MOKOSI
Aude Guéneau building Plume
Aleksandra Kozera building The Village Network
Sylvie Milverton building Lynx Educate
Mervi Palander building GraphoGame
Elia Barahona Márquez building ClassOnLive
Miriam Mertens building DeepSkill GmbH
Catherine de Vulpillières building EvidenceB
Cristina Angelillo building Marshmallow Games
Diana Knodel building Fobizz
Kaisa Vuorinen building Positive Learning
Stine Schulz building Learningbank
Sara Zetterberg building Haldor
Ingrid Skrede building Ludenso
European Edtech Alliance x SuperCharger Venture
📖 The EdTech Book
We’ve got exciting news! 📚 We’re publishing The EdTech Book on Amazon!
🚀 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
If you’re reading this newsletter, (which yes, you are), you’re certainly an edtech enthusiast. Why else would you spend 20 minutes of your busy day reading what we’ve got to say? We’re not quite Elon Musk level just yet, (….give us time 😉). So, you love the industry and you want to know more about the sector, either that or you simply really enjoy our excessive use of emojis 😏. Well then, get your hands on a copy of The EdTech Book, it’s got everything edtech from industry experts. 👨🏻💻
🦄 SCV Portfolio News
Our founders have some exciting news to share! 🗞
Summatic
Summatic secured a paid contract with Cambridge Judge Business School. Through diagnostic assessment and tailored learning resources, their platform helped incoming Masters of Finance students learn the pre-requisite maths/stats content required for their programme.
We are delighted to mention that Summatic was one of the finalists at the BETT Asia 2022 start up competition!
Cyber Mentor Dojo
Cyber Mentor Dojo is at over 5k members on its mentoring platform! 🎉
They just got 10k followers on LinkedIn and are starting on-demand cyber security courses provided by chosen cyber security professionals.
Mussila
Mussila has done a deal with Digitales in Australia. Through this partnership, libraries in Australia and New Zealand can access Mussila Music and Mussila WordPlay. 👏🏻
New features! The “Teachers” dashboard. Now districts, schools, and teachers can buy Mussila and create multiple accounts for their students. Each teacher can have a complete overview of their students' progress; it is easily accessible and straightforward for educators to have a better and more profound overview.
Now anyone can listen to their composition, edit it by changing the instruments, or make their remix. Being an effective collaborator means not only being able to work with others but also being able to learn from, share with, and express oneself to them. This is the start of Mussila going social. Mussila will release many more features in this direction in weeks and months. 📆
Persona Education
Less than two years since its launch, Persona Education has reached a milestone of 300 secondary schools and colleges registered to use its Persona Life Skills social-emotional learning platform, with over 85,000 students. These span 38 countries across all continents, illustrating the strong global demand for a personal development solution that addresses teenager wellbeing and employability. 🚀
Persona Education has also agreed its largest deal to date, with Seth M.R. Jaipuria Schools, the influential and fast-growing school group in India. The group's 35 schools will start using the Persona Life Skills platform with about 15,000 secondary students across the country in the coming weeks. 🌍
Analytikus
This week, Analytikus is participating at one of the largest EdTech events in US, EDUCAUSE. EDUCAUSE Annual Conference 2022 | Frequency Foundry
On November 22nd-24th, Analytikus will be participating at SIMO, one of the largest EDU innovation events in Spain. They will be sharing booth with Bechtle, a multinational technology partner. They’ll also be speaking at a Microsoft sponsored session during the event on Tuesday afternoon.
Yeira
Yeira has just launched their new website! They have been working on their product for a long time, which now has wonderful new features, so it’s time for their website to reflect them!
They have changed their domain yeira.training to yeira.io , to better reflect that they are a tech & international company.
Wyblo
Wyblo is raising €1.5M and they’ve been selected by the Italian Trade Agency for the Global Startup Program for Singapore (together with Beyond the Box).
If anyone is interested and would like to know more, feel free to reach out to kevin.giorgis@wyblo.com.
MatchUp Global
New strategic investor & partner joining MatchUp generating impact in key areas: A week ago, MatchUp Global received an investment commitment of USD 100,000 from an Argentine Super Angel! 😇 The name of this angel is Joaquin Navasal. Joaquin has been an entrepreneur all his life, his most relevant company is a company that operates in the TurTech industry, named Consolid Global Travel Solutions (you can review its profile by clicking here), which is the largest content consolidator in Latin America.
The launch of MatchUP Universities Tour 2022: As part of their universities business centre, and after a successful cycle of online conferences together with prestigious international universities: MatchUp Virtual Sessions, we are pleased to inaugurate a new cycle of face-to-face conferences: *MatchUp Universities Tour – 2022. *
The 1st event will be held on November 15th, at one of the oldest and best known schools in Argentina, and will be a regional event for 5th and 6th grades from secondary schools (and their parents), with the prestigious presence of representatives from the Universita di Pisa, a 700-year-old top 10 Italian institution, home to famous graduates such as Galileo Galilei, many popes, cardinals, Nobel prize winners and even an Italian president.
Acreditta
Their freemium account is live, anyone can open and certify up to 25 users for free. 👏🏻 Right now, they have have +500 organisations using it.
Acreditta is participating in Plugfest hosted by JFF, and by November 14th this year, they will be the only startup in LATAM issuing badges in OpenBadges 3.0 format and be integrated with Learning Economy and Digital Bazaar Wallets.
Coming soon: stackable badges feature, API, and improved analytics dashboard.
123Kid
123Kid had a live interview on French TV (Business Channel - BFM Ile de France - Paris region) to present their new product: a box regarding the management of emotions for parents, a mix of physical and digital content.
Find the link to the interview here : https://www.bfmtv.com/paris/replay-emissions/paris-business/ile-de-france-business-le-salon-kidexpo-a-paris-expo-ce-week-end-25-10_VN-202210250667.html
Zoropay
Zoropay has crossed $100k in tuition financing. 🎉
Zoropay can now fund students in 20 schools in Australia with their just agreed upon partnership for their post-graduate degree. This takes them one step closer to their goal of removing the financial barriers that students face in pursuing international education, and increasing their reach to 19+ countries. 🌎
Fructify Network
The Knowledge Hub on Sustainability is on its way. The all-in-one knowledge-sharing and learning platform guides the conscious-minded professionals and businesses through their sustainability journey by providing hands-on information about how to run their businesses more sustainably. Through bite-sized, understandable, and practical information about the different aspects of sustainability, everyone will be able to understand what sustainability is and how they can implement and scale the impact. In the online community, they can share best practices and find partnerships to solve local and global challenges.
Get notified about the Knowledge Hub's launch by pre-registering here: https://fructify-network.mylearnworlds.com/knowledge-hub-coming-soon
Fructify Network launches the first workshop for ecosystem builders & start-ups. The 'Sustainability for Start-Ups - Any start-up can & should be a sustainability startup!' workshop will help start-ups understand the business case for sustainability, to acknowledge & map their impact (positive or negative), to get an overview of easily implementable steps toward sustainability, to understand the importance of communicating sustainability, and, finally, to provide a glance into what is next in sustainability and why to be future-proof.
EdTech Next Summit
We loved meeting so many startups, and we’ve got a newfound appreciation for “flans” thanks to our hotel’s unique wallpaper! 🍮
The SCV team loved the #EdTechNext Summit in Bielefeld, Germany this week! 🚀 Our Head of Programmes, Yiran Qin, and Co-Founder, Tamas Haiman attended and enjoyed a great couple of days.
It was great to see the European Edtech Alliance and many more familiar faces at the summit, such as Jochen Siess, Tobias Himmerich, Julia Pichler, Annet Kloprogge, Jannie Jeppesen, as well as to meet so many new #edtech startups and connections!
For those of you who didn't get a chance to speak to us at the summit, send one of our team members a message, we'd love to speak with you.
See you next month!
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