Almost everyone has played Operation at one point in their life, and everyone can remember the focus and patience they applied when using the tweezers to pull out an ailment from Cavity Sam. Real doctors don’t practice using Hasbro’s Operation; they use FundamentalVR, the latest medical training device that uses VR and haptic touch to […]
Education
This London Startup Just Raised £1.3M to Empower You Through Financial Literacy
Saving money looks different for everyone. Regardless of your preferences to accomplish your personal financial goals, your financial planning app needs to be on same page as you and understand your goals and objectives. Thankfully, Oval Money accomplishes just this. The company’s app teaches financial literacy and empowers users to define their own rules for […]
Survival Tips for Edtech Startups
You’re confident that your education technology product is going to support student learning and success in the K-12 sector. You’ve assembled your team, and your engineers are ready to go to work. The market research tells you that with the right investment to back your launch and a good dose of sweat equity, your business […]
This London Startup Raised £600K to be the Gate Keeper for Lifelong Learners
The internet is the single greatest educational resource ever created, but it is still challenging to search and get accurate results that result in learning. Between clickbait, biased sites, and poorly sourced material, the self educators who rely on Google search for need to add a layer of curation to direct their educational. Knowledge Officer […]
This London Startup Just Raised £5.1M To Bring a New Standard of Creativity to The Classroom
Children have a wealth of creativity within them waiting to be unleashed. Traditional education curriculums may not engage youth to discover the world of creativity and the world of coding. SAM Labs, is shaking up the edtech space by empowering teachers with an actionable and engaging set of tools through their award-winning technology kits and […]
Project Connect Launches Interactive Map: Visualizing Digital Divide in Education
Technology has increasingly become the focus of education aid and international action. However, much of these education resources are predicated on schools having reliable access to the Internet. While traveling through Mauritania, I saw computers sitting, dust-covered, on shelves because they couldn’t be kept charged, and well-designed education materials unused because they relied on Internet […]