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Abwaab raises $20M Series A led by BECO Capital to expand across MENA and Pakistan

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Jordan-based online learning platform Abwaab has raised $20 million in a Series A funding round (following a $5 million seed round in March of this year), making it one of the most funded edtech startups in the Middle East, North Africa and Pakistan (MENAP), a region that encompasses 160 million students.

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Korea’s Riiid raises $175M from SoftBank to expand its AI-based learning platform to global markets

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The funding is coming at a high-watermark moment for edtech — with the shift to remote learning in the last year of pandemic living highlighting the opportunity to build better tools to serve that market, and a number of startups in the category subsequently raising hundreds of millions of dollars to tackle the opportunity.

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India’s Uolo raises $22.5M to bring edtech to the masses

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Uolo , an Indian edtech platform that works with private K-12 schools to offer online learning programs to middle and low-income families, has raised $22.5 million in a funding round led by UAE-headquartered VC fund Winter Capital. India’s Uolo raises $22.5M

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