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Intel, Arm and Nvidia propose new standard to make AI processing more efficient
In pursuit of faster and more efficient AI system development, Intel, Arm and Nvidia today published a draft specification for what they refer to as a common interchange format for AI. While voluntary
Cybrary secures $25M to grow its platform for cybersecurity training
The cybersecurity industry has taken a hit recently, with economic headwinds prompting layoffs and a broad investor pullback. But some firms have escaped unscathed, like cybersecurity training platfor
Multiverse nabs $220M at a $1.7B valuation to expand its tech apprenticeship platform
We’ve been tracking a worrying trend of layoffs in the technology industry, but that is not the full story. There is, concurrently, a wave of organizations that are also in the process of traini
How our startup boosted productivity with ‘get s*** done’ day
During the pandemic, we realized that we were swamped with work and there was an information overload. So we came up with an idea to fix that.
Cybersecurity trainer HackerU acquires Cybint for $50M, say sources
Florida-based HackerU, which creates cybersecurity and other digital skills programs, is acquiring Cybint, a SaaS-based cyber education company. TechCrunch sources understand this to be a $50 million
After bootstrapping since 2002, Articulate raises $1.5B on $3.75B valuation
Most companies don’t announce their first venture investment after almost 20 years in the business, nor do they announce that round is the equivalent of a good startup’s entire private fun
Training platform Virti raises $10M Series A led by IQ Capital to teach soft skills in VR
As the pandemic took hold, training staff had to “go virtual.” Typically, that would have meant falling back on existing corporate training solutions, which we all know and “love.” Cou
Since colleges are failing to prepare students for tech jobs, it’s time to bring back apprenticeships
In the explosion of edtech businesses with new approaches, we are in danger of overlooking an established model that can be adapted to solve these challenges. That model is apprenticeships.
User-generated e-learning site Kahoot acquires Actimo for up to $33M to double down on corporate sector
Norwegian company Kahoot originally made its name with a platform that lets educators and students create and share game-based online learning lessons, in the process building up a huge public catalog
GO1, an enterprise learning platform, picks up $40M from Microsoft, Salesforce and more
With a large proportion of knowledge workers doing now doing their jobs from home, the need for tools to help them feel connected to their profession can be as important as tools to, more practically,
Fitness app Aaptiv raises from Insight Partners, launches Enterprise channel
With a lot of towns instituting shelter-in-place orders to restrict how people physically interact in order to slow down the spread of the novel coronavirus, fitness has come into its own. In places w
WorkClout shifts focus to manufacturing performance support and raises $2.3M seed
WorkClout, a graduate of the Y Combinator Winter 2019 cohort, announced today that it has shifted its focus from manufacturing automation to manufacturing performance support and has raised a $2.3 mil
Amazon invests $700 million to retrain a third of its US workforce by 2025
Amazon announced this morning a plan to invest more than $700 million to retrain workers across the U.S. to allow them to move into skilled technical and non-technical roles across its corporate offic
Backed by LG, AmazeVR is hoping to resurrect virtual reality’s consumer dreams
For more than 100 years, entrepreneurs have come to Hollywood to try their luck in the dream factory and build an empire in the business of storytelling. Propelled by new technologies, new businessmen
Microsoft aims to train and certify 15,000 workers on AI skills by 2022
Microsoft is investing in certification and training for a range of AI-related skills in partnership with education provider General Assembly, the companies announced this morning. The goal is to trai
Salesforce releases myTrailhead, a customizable training platform
Salesforce has been using the notion of trailblazers as a learning metaphor for several years, ever since it created Trailhead, a platform to teach customers Salesforce skills. Today, the company anno
CEOs from Mindshow, SVRF and TheWaveVR are talking social VR at TC Sessions: AR/VR
With Facebook holding a dominant role in the VR space, one would think that the social networking implications are all taken care of — but for the time being, it actually seems to be one of the
Broadening education investments to full-stack solutions
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For ScopeAR, the market is finally catching up with the technology
ScopeAR, a graduate of the Y Combinator Summer 2015 class, came to the augmented reality game very early, launching in 2011 when there was very little hardware and most people didn’t understand
Techtonic Group raises $2 million to transform tech hiring through apprenticeships
Creating a pathway for a more diverse talent pool to enter the technology industry has given the Techtonic Group, a development services firm that operates an outsourced apprenticeship program aimed a