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Teen banking service Step raises $50M, adds TikTok star Charli D’Amelio to investor list

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Step , a mobile banking service aimed at teens , announced this morning it has raised $50 million in Series B funding after growing to over 500,000 users only two months after its official launch. To date, Step has raised over $75 million. Now she will do that not only as a partner and customer, but as an investor, as well.

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This new language app is like Netflix meets Masterclass, but for learning French

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Julien Frei and Lea Perret [Image: 6pm in Paris] Learning as a lifelong journey Perret imagined 6pm in Paris as a way to help students learn French beyond the classroom. Since the pandemic, her team also launched online classes toover 50,000 students. By next yearif the team can raise the $1.2

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Leverage Edu raises $6.5 million to help Indian students land in top colleges abroad

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Each year, millions of students in India rush to get an admission in universities abroad. Scores of legacy and newfound firms are attempting to offer counselling to these students. Crimson Education, a platform to help students get into top universities, nabs $5M at a $245M valuation. “It’s one digital dashboard.

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Teens and Twitter: A Mini Focus Group with Teens

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Mashable blog raised the question, "Why don't they tweet?". Yesterday, I had an opportunity to ask about 100 teens attending the Asian Liver Center's Youth Leadership Conference on Asian and Pacific Islander Health this question directly. International Youth Conference. View more presentations from kanter. .

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Tunisian edtech startup GOMYCODE raises $8M to expand across Africa and the Middle East

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Yahya Bouhlel started coding in his early teens. When he came home to Tunis, he met many students who wanted to build products like him each summer. It raised $850,000 seed in October 2020. Students are required to spend 50% of their time learning online and the other half at one of GOMYCODE’s network of 20 physical centers.

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Nonprofit Leadership Isn’t Perfect, and That’s the Point

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Throughout my life, from teenage years to now, my career has been filled with leadership training programs: Teen leadership, student leadership, emerging leadership, and executive leadership. I cant think of a term more widely used in the professional world than leadership. Its an idyllic view of leadership.

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With schools increasingly focused on mental health, PsycApps raises seed round for US expansion

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seed capital raise from U.S.-based Describing itself as an “evidence-based gamified mental health game for teens and young adults”, eQuoo is now aiming its platform at the 50% of teens and tweens who self-report struggling with one or more issues of mental health. based Morningside Ventures. In the U.K.,

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