September Newsletter
It's Time For Cohort Five.
Welcome to the September edition of the SCV Newsletter! 🍾
Cohort 5.0 Is Up And Running 🏃🏻♀️
🚀 Welcoming our 12 new startups from all across the globe, from Japan to Mexico. 🌎
We have had a strong first couple of weeks with our new founders, from our engaging “Meet the Cohort” call, to their first investor session with David Guerin from Brighteye Ventures this week!💰
If you want to be connected with any of our startups from Cohort 5.0, reach out to Sofia Daley, or respond to this newsletter! 🗞
SuperCharger Ventures continues its mission to build the world’s leading EdTech Accelerator.
We would love to meet you in person, so if you are attending the Bett Asia Startup Competition, let us know, as our co-founder Alessandro will be there. We’re excited to also be supporting the EdVentures GBA Fellowship, and attending EdTech Next in Germany at the end of October. 🎉 Reach out to us for details on these events!
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📣 September in a Nutshell
🚀 Cohort 5.0 : We’ve officially launched Cohort 5.0! Are you ready to meet our startups?
🌆 Bett Asia : EdTech Startup Competition - The finalists have been revealed, and half of them are SCV alumni.
🌟 EdVentures GBA Fellowship - A fellowship looking for proven EdTech solutions that can strengthen global education, enterprise and lifelong learning. Will you be at the Summit?
🦄 SCV Portfolio News - Keeping you updated on everything SCV.
👨🏻💼 Meet the Team - The SCV family continues to grow. We’ve even got a new office!
🎤 EdTech Next Summit and Other Events - It’s time for the biggest EdTech start-up event in Europe.
Stay with us, we’re just getting started…
🚀 Cohort 5.0
We are thrilled to announce the launch of our Accelerator Cohort 5.0! 🚀 Our Cohort is scattered across the globe, from Spain to Japan. 🌎
It's time for you to meet the startups that are re-shaping the #edtech space.
🌟 Cohort 5.0 🌟
✅ Oxinity 🇪🇸
✅ SYLVA 🇨🇭
✅ Corrsy 🇫🇮
✅ ScholARLab Innovations 🇮🇳
✅ BeyondTheBox 🇮🇹
✅ Wyblo 🇮🇹
✅ Yeira | E-learning Technologies 🇲🇽
✅ Ludenso 🇳🇴
✅ Persona Education 🇬🇧
✅ Poodll 🇯🇵
✅ Emotika 🇱🇹
✅ Rescale Lab 🇸🇬
👋🏻 Our Accelerator Cohort 5.0 started strong with our 'Meet the Cohort' session on the 21st of September, where we got to know all of our founders, from their impressive backgrounds, to their favourite foods. 🍔
We’re super excited to be working with such a strong group of founders. 🌟 Yeira, one of our Cohort 5.0 startups, recently wrote a press release announcing their partnership with us, which you can find here.
If you’d like to be connected with any of our Cohort 5.0 startups, respond to this newsletter or get in touch with our Marketing Associate, Sofia Daley.
🌆 Bett Asia Startup Competition
We're super exited to announce that we are collaborating with Bett Global Asia, to create the first Bett Asia Startup Competition! 🚀
The finalists have been announced, and we're excited to see so many of our portfolio startups amongst the list! 🚀
The finalists are...🥁
✅ Summatic - SCV Cohort 4.0 🚀
✅ Noodle Factory - SCV Cohort 2.0 🚀
✅ Globish Academia (Thailand) Co., Ltd
✅ BSD Education - SCV Cohort 1.0 🚀
✅ OnMyGrad
✅ PDacademia
✅ ExtraaEdge
✅ AKADASIA - SCV Cohort 2.0 🚀
The final will include a shark tank style pitching contest and will take place on the 11th and 12th of October in Bangkok, Thailand. 🌎 In addition, our co-founder, Alessandro Di Lullo, will be speaking at the final 🎤.
Interested? Visit the website for more information.
🌟 EdVentures GBA Fellowship 🌟
🇭🇰 For those of you in Hong Kong, make sure you don't miss Esperanza Life's Global Business Acceleration Fellowship on the 14th of October. 🌎 However, the event can also be joined online! 💻
Join thought-leaders, talent-development experts, EdTech innovators and technology specialists to look into 🔍 :
👉🏻 Talent development needs and trends in Hong Kong and the wider Asia region.
👉🏻 The use of emerging technologies (AI, blockchain, data analytics and XR) to make adult learning more flexible, engaging, personalised and cost effective.
👉🏻 The roles of governments, businesses and NGO’s in re-skilling and up-skilling the workforce.
👉🏻 The EdTech investment market and business opportunities in Asia.
At SuperCharger Ventures, we are thrilled to have partnered with Esperanza Life in order to support this event! 🎉
Visit the website for more information : www.edventuresgba.com
🦄 SCV Portfolio News
Our founders have some exciting news to share! 🗞
Ludenso
Ludenso officially just launched in the UK 🇬🇧
They’ve teamed up with the star talent Matthew Jones, who previously worked as VP of content at Perlego. 🙌
Incluzon
Incluzon is collaborating with the event "StartupsXchange Launchpad" for female entrepreneurs worldwide. To support female founders, Incluzon will be offering credits worth $1000 to help these entrepreneurs to build their workforces. 💰
ScholARLab Innovations
They were recently shortlisted for the Bett Asia Awards 2022 under the "Disruptor" category. 🏆
Corrsy
Corrsy has just surpassed +100k downloads in Iraq within only 6 months of launching. 🎊
They’ve also just had their first event with students ambassadors in Iraq. 👩🏻🎓
VEDX Solutions
VEDX Solutions continues to grow its educational partnerships in VR.
Linfield University and Dufur High School are now live in the Metaverse – offering classes and experiences to their students.
VEDX is helping schools from end-to-end with their journey into VR.💰👏🏻
ROYBI
ROYBI is on the list of HolonIQ Top 200 EdTech Companies in North America.
The Founder & CEO of ROYBI is an honoree of Inc. Magazine Top 100 Female Founders 2022.
They just opened a new round of $1.2M on SAFE and are looking for private investors. Get in touch if this is of interest to you!
Persona Education
Persona Education has been shortlisted as a Top 10 Finalist in the GESS Education Awards, as one of the 'Best Products to Promote Wellbeing in the Classroom', in recognition of its mission to take on the global teenager wellbeing crisis, with ‘Persona Life Skills’, a unique social-emotional learning platform built around personality insights.
Oxinity
Oxinity presented at the investor forum of IESE, the internationally recognised business school, in its September edition (Sept 8th and 14th).
They passed the first stage and reached the final, along with 7 other projects. They presented to more than 80 investors and, as a result, they have achieved 5 meetings with Spanish investors with whom they are currently speaking.
👨🏻💼 Meet the Team
We’re super excited to be growing the SuperCharger team! We’ve even upgraded our office this week. 🙌
Meet Matt! 🇳🇿 Matt is from New Zealand and has an impressive background in Law. He’s joined the team working in ‘Investor Relations’.
Meet Adel! 🇱🇧 Adel is from Lebanon and has a degree from Imperial in Finance. He’s a Programme Associate, also working in Investor Relations.
Meet Jennessa! 🇭🇰 Jennessa is from Hong Kong and has a background in Data Science. She’s joined us as a "Startup Scout & Data Analyst”, and she’s already helped the team automate all of our operations.
Meet Maftuna! 🇺🇿 Maftuna is from Uzbekistan and she’s currently based in Japan🇯🇵 . Maftuna has a Masters degree in International Public Policy, and has recently joined us as a Research Associate.
EdTech Next Summit
It’s the biggest EdTech startup event in Europe…
We’re excited to be heading to the EdTech Next Summit, which will be taking place from the 24-26th of October in 2022 in Bielefeld, Germany. 🇩🇪
The EdTech Next Summit is the first and only event in Europe with a sole focus on EdTech Start-Ups, bringing Europe’s most important EdTech companies and start-ups together with investors, tech-companies, supporters and political actors from more than 20 different European countries.
🎤 Our co-founder, Tamas Haiman, will be speaking on a panel at the event!
If you’re planning on attending, let us know! We’d love to have a coffee with you!
Other Events
New York EdTech Week
Our co-founder, Tamas Haiman, was a judge on the NYEdTech Week's "The EdTech Cup Virtual Semi Final Shark Tank"!
Eight fantastic Pre K-Workforce Learning companies pitched from around the world, 🌎 competing for one of the 5 EdTech Cup Finalist spots. 🏆
A…Is For ‘Amsterdam’ 🇳🇱
Tamas Haiman will also be participating as a panellist at the EduTech Europe Startup Competition 2022 in Amsterdam, taking place from the 5th to the 6th of October.
For more information on the event, click here.
See you next month!
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