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...An educational technology empire rapidly assembled by Byju’s during a pandemic funding boom is now set to be dismantled, as what was once India’s most valuable start-up looks to asset disposals to settle...
...“Companies were raising way ahead of where they should have been, and then valuations fell off the cliff,” said Sanjay Swamy, managing partner at Bengaluru-based venture capital firm Prime Venture Partners...
...Javice founded Frank to help students apply for college financial aid in 2017 when she was just 24 years old and drew early backing from Apollo’s Marc Rowan as well as Israeli venture capital firm Aleph....
...The distributions mostly came from acquisitions, such as Uber’s $4.4bn purchase of the delivery start-up Postmates and Intuit’s $8.2bn deal for the fintech company Credit Karma, Tiger Global said....
..., Chainstry, Hash, KOSMOS Capital, Kyros Ventures, LD Capital, Minted Labs, P2P Capital, Phoenix VC, Staking Facilities, YBB Capital, Moonwhale Ventures, and Decentralab....
...This week Griffin sold a $1.15bn stake in Citadel Securities to venture capital firms Sequoia Capital and Paradigm, electrifying the finance industry....
...Venture capital money is also pouring into content aggregator platforms: with little to differentiate the podcast aggregators, exclusive content may be key to winning customers....
...Doctolib’s existing investors, including venture capital firms Accel, Eurazeo, Kernel and Bpifrance, took part in the latest funding round, as did several German healthcare entrepreneurs....
...They added: “We also see wonderful futures ahead, as parents, friends, partners in ventures and projects, and as individuals pursuing ventures and projects.”...
...Sound Ventures....
...“The bottom line is that the outlook for growth in Asian private equity and venture capital has rarely looked stronger,” says Mr O’Hare....
...Eton says profits from the venture will be decanted into its bursary programme. Other venerable British schools have gone further....
...emerging market solar finance company; Nestlé, Novartis and Vodafone, which are collaborating to improve the business ecosystem in Kenya; and Pearson, the owner of the Financial Times, which is funding educational...
...Googles’ venture capital arm was set up in 2013....
...In 2011, Providence purchased educational software provider Blackboard for $1.6bn....
...One issue in the Random House-Penguin talks has been the terms on which Pearson might ultimately exit the venture....
...Yahoo had earlier sought a complex, three-way deal with Alibaba and SoftBank, majority owner of Yahoo Japan, in which it would have shed its stakes in the Asian ventures in a tax-free deal....
...Anyone can enter, which brings all kinds of programmers into the company’s orbit, many self-taught and outside the usual educational or corporate channels....
...País newspaper is locked in its second renegotiation with its lenders in less than a year after a restructuring earlier this year and sales of part of its stakes in domestic broadcaster Digital Plus and educational...
...“He wanted to pursue some other financial ventures.”...
...Intuit co-founder Scott Cook gave $1m. Sean O’Sullivan, an Irish venture capitalist, has committed $5m. But big donations from tech moguls are not enough to explain Khan’s recent success....
...McGraw-Hill, which owns the Standard & Poor’s rating agency and a large educational publisher, would only say it was “exploring strategic options” for Business Week. Evercore did not return calls....
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