SuperCharger Ventures 🥳 February Newsletter
1st March 2022 - 4th Edition: SCV Fund I Announcement
Thank you subscribers for joining us on this edition of the SCV Newsletter, it’s very special to us. ❤️
We are very happy to announce that our 1st Fund is live and we have made investments in some of our alumni! 🚀
As you know, SuperCharger Ventures is on a mission to build the world’s best EdTech Accelerator
And investing in startups is part of us fulfilling that.
📣 February in a Nutshell
🚀 Fund I is now public and we have invested in 3 of our Alumni companies
💸 Vygo has closed a $2m round, with Sparkmind.vc as a lead investor
🦄 Spiky.ai and Gura have some great news to share
1️⃣ EdTech Female Founders #EFF is turning one year old
🧘 Founders Taboo a platform dedicated to founders’ wellbeing has launched
📰 More news: Meet us at BETT 2021 and learn from our blog
Keep reading to find out more details…
🚀 The SuperCharger Fund
We are proud to announce Supercharger Ventures Fund I 🏆
Vygo (SCV 2.0) is our very first public investment - with more upcoming announcements soon regarding another two completed investments!
🎯 This is an incredible milestone, as it has provided us with the additional tools and the necessary financial capital to SuperCharge some of the most promising EdTech founders in our network who we are eager to strengthen.
Thank you to everyone that has supported us so far. There is so much more that we can achieve together.
Have a question or interested in our fund? Message Tamas or respond to the newsletter and we’ll reach out.
💸 Vygo Raised $2m
Vygo’s platform effectively organises student institution support services. It gives students the tools they need to connect with people, whenever they need to, wherever they are.
They joined the SuperCharger Cohort 2.0 in May 2021, with the objective of closing their round and expanding to Europe. Mission accomplished! We wanted to congratulate the excellent team.
Hear directly from Ben Hallet, Co-founder & CEO, about his experience with us 👇🏽
Investors include Sparkmind.vc, Australian Catholic University, and us SCV
🎙️: Missed their round? Want to become a client? Contact us and we will connect you with the Vygo team. 🤘
🦄 Startup News: Spiky AI + Gura
Spiky.AI is the next-gen employee/learner engagement platform that generates engagement metrics by analyzing videos from online classes and meetings.
Founders Furkan Eris and Burak Aksar recently secured a pilot with ESMT Berlin and they’ve just started the Techstars program.
Gura.io helps connect founders with top-tier startup mentors through personalized, advice-driven video messages - at any time.
As a startup, it’s always a fantastic moment when you’ve received your first source of revenue. Gura did just that - huge congratulations!
🙋 P.S. You can find Durthpreet from SCV on Gura if you want to ask him any questions about us
1️⃣ EdTech Female Founders #EFF
One year ago we started a campaign to actively showcase incredible EdTech Female Founders from across the globe. Today, we have showcased over 139 founders and cumulated 400,000 social media impressions.
This year we will expand this initiative by:
Reaching 300 nominations for EdTech Female Founders!
Strengthening our partnership with the European Female EdTech Fellowship
Organising online & live events for our community to meet
✍️ You can directly learn from our #EFF by reading their blog on Medium
If you wish to nominate someone or learn more about EFF, you can do so here
🧘 Founders Taboo: Headspace for founders
Founders Taboo will be the world's largest free online course & community for founders' mental health and wellbeing. We believe a healthier founder will generate a healthier return. Our course & community will be available to any founders globally.
The private beta is limited to the first 1,000 founders, register and you early access to:
30 contributors from world-class psychologists, coaches and VC
Hundreds of founders going through the same and wish to improve
Practical tools to improve your wellbeing and how to communicate about it
📢 If you want to improve the startup ecosystem, and support us by registering.
What else is happening at SuperCharger?
There is a lot happening, the best would meet in person! If you are BETT 2022, come to our booth FS21, we can chat about EdTech and you can even receive a free snack. 🍪
If you can’t travel, keep reading to know what we’ve been up to:
💻 Our EdTech MOOC is almost ready:
We are launching the first EdTech MOOC in the world!
This will be the first of its kind, 10 hours long available for free on Coursera
It will feature world-leading EdTech experts, stay tuned to find out more!
🚀 Podcasts: In the past few weeks, we’ve created several 2-minute podcasts for our LinkedIn and our Instagram accounts, featuring some brilliant EdTech founders:
Gauthier Van Malderen - Founder of Perlego
Jonah Vauchel - Founder of iGolf
Danielle Lacombe - Co-Founder of TechWarriors
Akash Aggarwal - Founder of EduTinker
✍️ Blogs: The SuperCharger Medium page is up and running! Have a look at some of our latest, such as:
GoStudent - The World’s First European EdTech Unicorn by Sofia Daley
How Tinder Got Its First 1,000 Users by Durthpreet Syan
EdTech Trends - 2022 by Sofia Daley
🙌 Our Instagram has been up for just over a month now! Follow us for everything EdTech!
🔑 Key Contributors
🥇 We want to highlight some key contributors we’ve identified over the past month!
Danielle Lacombe - Co-Founder of Tech Warriors: Danielle gave us her predictions for the EdTech industry in 2022 and was featured in several podcasts we created this month! Big thank you to Danielle!
Cristina Balbás Marengo - Co-Founder of Escuelab: Cristina is one of our EFF founders and we had the privilege of interviewing her this month!
Gauthier Van Malderen - Founder of Perlego: We are extremely excited to have released both a podcast and a blog featuring Gauthier’s insights and the backstory to Perlego’s success!
🏢 Open Positions at Our Portfolio Companies
February has already flown by! What did you accomplish? Send us a reply and we will share a few snippets of your accomplishments in the next newsletter!
Congratulations to Lucy from Culture Buff Games who received a pitch deck review for taking part in last month’s ask!
See you next month!
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Amazing progress, congratulations chargers :-)
Congratulation team 🐉🔥🚀