SuperCharger Ventures 📩 June Newsletter
7th Edition: Closing Accelerator Cohort 5.0 Applications on the 14th July
Welcome to the June edition of the SCV Newsletter! 🍾
We know what you’re thinking…we’re getting good at this Newsletter thing - this is our 7th edition now - so you’re expecting big things, it’s only fair. Well, don’t worry. We’ve written you a poem!
Roses are Red,
Violets are Blue,
Apply to our Accelerator,
We’ll SuperCharge You!
Incase you didn’t quite get that, applications for our Accelerator Cohort 5.0 are open and are CLOSING on the 14th of July. 🗓️
👉 Interested in joining our Accelerator programme? Don’t wait any longer! Apply now.
This month, we’ve achieved a lot. We’re excited to have started our Incubator 2.0, and we had an exciting oscars-themed Demo Day for our Accelerator 4.0 Cohort! 🎉
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…who else is going to write you an EdTech themed poem? (Or any poem for that matter?) Go on then. Make our day that little bit better. 😉
📣 June in a Nutshell
🚀 Accelerator Acquisition 5.0 - Applications closing soon! Apply now
🎥 Accelerator 4.0 Cohort Demo Day- It was a success!
👩🏫 EdTech MOOC - We are about to surpass 1000 learners. Start learning here.
🌆 EdTech X Summit 2022 - Did we meet you there?
🦄 SCV Portfolio News - Our Founders have some awesome news to share
🏆 Incubator 2.0 is Up and Running - 19 startups from 10 countries. See who’s in it.
🌸 Female EdTech Fellowship - Applications are open for Cohort 2.0!
🔨 Introducing the SCV Toolbox - What tools are we using? It’s time to find out.
Stay with us, we’re just getting started…
🚀 Accelerator 5.0 - Applications Are Closing!
We are preparing for the 5th edition of our Accelerator programme. If you are a growth-stage EdTech startup, making more than 100k ARR, then you might be what we’re looking for.
However, don’t leave it too late because applications are closing on the 14th of July, so make sure you apply now. (Don’t do that thing that we all do, that we all hate, where we leave things for later, and then later comes, and we didn’t do it, and we spend the rest of eternity hating ourselves and wishing procrastination didn’t always rule our lives. Apply now, or spend forever living in the past. 😉)
To briefly summarise, there are 3 key areas that the Accelerator focuses on:
1️⃣ Investment Readiness For the Next Round
We review your company's goals, KPIs, and help you work towards achieving them. With our powerful network of mentors and seasoned curations of workshops, we prepare you to perform your best for raising your next round.
2️⃣ A World-Class Ecosystem Access
We strive to provide you with unique access to leading investors, educators, institutions, and fellow successful founders around the world. Meet, learn, and network with the brightest minds in EdTech.
3️⃣ Founder Mental Health
SuperCharger considers the mental health of founders to be a key priority. We’ve developed a series of content to support founders across the globe! Register here.
🎥 Accelerator 4.0 Cohort Demo Day
Our Demo Day was a huge success!
We had around 280 people join our oscars-themed event to watch our startup founders present their companies. They did an outstanding job. 🏆
We’re super proud of our Cohort 4.0 Accelerator startups, click here to find out who they are.
👩🏫 Edtech MOOC
We’re about to surpass 1000 learners……👀
The EdTech MOOC is a course which unites educators and industry experts from across the globe to explore and dig deep into the fundamentals of the e-learning movement. The course was co-developed by EDHEC Business School and SuperCharger Ventures.
We’ve had lots of interest in the course, as in just a few weeks we’ve gained nearly 1000 learners.
Did you get a chance to see our trailer for it? Click here to watch it now.
If you’re just as passionate about EdTech as we are, or you simply want to learn more about the sector, why not register for the course?
Let us be blunt for a second - This course is completely free. No, we’re not going to send you a bill. No, you won’t have to pay to simply up-skill yourself. Yes, you can become the world’s next EdTech Mastermind and rule the EdTech Sector without spending a penny. So, what are you waiting for? 😉
🌆 EdTech X Summit 2022
We loved every second of the EdTech X Summit! We met lots of interesting startup founders and EdTech enthusiasts, as well as having the opportunity to listen to experts speak on the future of education. 📚
If you met us at EdTech X and you would like to apply to our Accelerator 5.0 programme, speedily click here!
One of our co-founders, Tamas Haiman, moderated the panel, ‘The Importance of Fun in Learning to Drive Outcomes’.
Did we miss you at the event? It’s not too late to reach out to us, we’d love to hear from you! Send us a message on LinkedIn. 👋
🦄 SCV Portfolio News
Our founders have some exciting news to share!
Cyber Mentor Dojo
They have recently just passed 4000 users, with 400 of those being Volunteer Mentors. 🎉
VEDX Solutions
As always, VEDX Solutions continues to impress, working towards bringing more schools into the Metaverse with their platforms and partnership with Victory XR.
In fact, this fall there will be 10 more schools going online with VR classes. Many teachers have been excited about the prospect of having a content builder, a language pack and a science pack all integrated in their solution to support their physical class space.📚
Kendir Studios
The Portuguese National Agency for Innovation accredited Kendir Studios as an entity that performs R&D in Technology for Educational Purposes. 🏆
It's not only a relevant award that certifies that what they’re doing is based on scientific research but, by granting this accreditation for a full 8 years, they're saying they consider educational adventure games as a relevant innovative way for the future of education.
Zoropay
Zoropay now has 200+ local secondary schools partnered, 380+ local and international tertiary institutions which they can actively fund. 🎉
They’ve added universities in the US and Canada to the school pool that they disburse to, through a partner that funds international loans.
🏆 Incubator 2.0 is Up and Running
Our second Incubator Cohort is up and running, with 19 startups from 10 countries.
Our startups have had some great sessions with very impressive guest speakers, such as :
👉 Megha Baskar, Learning Experience Manager at upGrad
👉 Reshma Kabir, Senior Product Expert at BYJU
👉 Brandon Chung, Product Lead at BondAval
A big thank you to all of our guest speakers this month!
🌸 Female EdTech Fellowship
The Female EdTech Fellowship, co-founded by SuperCharger Ventures and European EdTech Alliance, has opened applications for their Cohort 2.0!
Apply until July 1st for the second cohort starting July 18th!
The Female EdTech Fellowship is a strong business focused network for the most promising women founders in European EdTech.
Want to be a part of the second cohort? Apply directly on the FEF website before the 1st of July : edtech-fellowship.eu 🚀
The SCV Toolbox 🧰 ~ It’s Time to Find Out What’s Inside 😉
So, what do we do at SCV to keep our company as cool, up-to-date, awesome, remarkable, stupendous, extraordinary, awe-inspiring, flabbergasting, and, of course, mind-blowing as it currently is? (Not to sound arrogant or anything, we’re just stating facts. 😉)
It’s simple : good tech. Efficiency is key.
SCV Secret Weapons - (Part 1 ~ You’ll have to read next month’s issue for more…)
1.) Airtable : We love Airtable. It just keeps us grounded. We have all of our information safely stored on our databases, and we keep our marketing under control with our content calendars.
2.) Hootsuite : Do you ever feel like you just need to go on autopilot for a couple of days? Kick back and relax, but yet you feel like you’d have to watch your company go up in flames? Do not fear! Hootsuite is here! Hootsuite allows you to automate all of your social media posts so that you can relax and forget about manually posting everything.
(Don’t worry marketers, it will not put you out of a job. You’ll still have to fight with it every once in a while…. though you might not always win).
3.) Slack : Look, if you don’t already love Slack, we’re not sure we even want you reading this. Slack is love, Slack is life. Simple as. Communication is essential in any successful business. You should be updating your colleagues all the time, and we all know that as soon as it goes to WhatsApp, your mum is going to see that you were online and she is going to be offended that you didn’t respond to her message. And rightly so. Thats your invitation to Christmas dinner gone. So, for the love of God, just use Slack!
4.) Descript : Now, you probably weren’t expecting this one. We weren’t either, but a connection has formed this month between SCV and Descript, the chemistry is undeniable. We love making podcasts for our social media platforms, and Descript just knows how to get the job done.
See you next month!
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