Overview of tech startups in education over the week by April 24th

What’s happening with investments in EdTech startups globally

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The next edtech startups raised investments:

1. Financepeer AI-based peer-to-peer lending platform that offers loans to students to pay school and college fees

Financepeer raises USD 31M in Series B

2. Vitruvian In-home strength and personal training platform

Vitruvian raises USD 15M Series A

3. iNurture enabling career-ready formal higher education in India

Edtech startup iNurture raises Rs 75 Cr in debt

4. Knoma A payment solution and marketplace for lifelong learning

Knowledge Marketplace Knoma Secures Additional $4M in Equity Investment

5. Aspecta.ai A talent engine platform whose recruiting modules are powered by artificial intelligence technology

Aspecta.ai Completes Approx. USD2M Funding

6. HiCounselor A career accelerator that combines technology & professional mentorship to help job seekers land a job in tech faster

HiCounselor raises USD 1.8M in funding

7. Learnlife An open ecosystem for a new lifelong learning paradigm to positively change education worldwide.

Learnlife raised €1,546,813.21 at crowdfunding

8. Vivify Online booking platform to help schools hire out facilities

Manchester-based Vivify Receives ￡1M From Arete Capital Partners

9. Fitr Training A platform for coaches to elevate the career of coaching

Fitr Training Closes USD1.2M Funding Round

10. SchoolTalent provides personalized tutoring to students in primary and secondary schools

Dutch EdTech Startup SchoolTalent Raises €850k To Expand Its Reach In Netherlands And Germany

11. NextMeet A MetaVerse platform

IIIT-Hyderabad’s Avishkar Startup NextMeet raises US $200k angel investment

12. Eduvacancy Provider of recruitment platform intended to fulfill recruitment needs of the Education sector

Eduvacancy raises USD 200,000 from angel investors

13. Focus MRS A mixed-reality virtual learning platform

UK-based Mixed- Reality Virtual Learning Startup Focus MRS Raises ￡150k In Seed Funding

14. Thimble Live STEM classes + robotics kits to bring hands-on coding to every school Successfully funded and closed on April 21, 2022 $192,828

15. DevCareer Tech organization to support the rising Tech Ecosystem in Africa.

With a fresh $100k grant, DevCareer is plugging Africa’s talent gap by providing laptops for tech newbies

16. Solvery provides service for recruiting mentors in digital hard skills

Russian service for finding digital specialists mentors? Solvery attracted investments from red_mad_robot

Here are recent investments not covered yet in our previous reviews

17. Digital Dream Labs provides hands-on educational technology for children ages 4 to 9

Pittsburgh-based Digital Dream Labs Raises $2M in Bridge Round Led by iNetworks

18. PlusOne leveraging AI+MR technologies to help enterprises train their employees to better interact with their clients

PlusOne raised an undisclosed amount / Series Unknown from Gakken Holdings Japan and United Corporation Japan