Business Spotlight on EduLift

Tonight's the night! It's our Education Startups #MeetandEat and we can't WAIT. Here's the very last startup spotlight for this dinner. Ollie Capehorn is Co-Founder and COO of EduLift. Their flagship product is LinguaLift - a web app for those wishing to learn Japanese, French, Russian or Chinese. What's the elevator pitch for your startup? LinguaLift is a set of tools for motivated self-learners to introduce themselves to, and master a foreign language. When you use our ...

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Last night’s “Tales from the Trenches”: Startup Journeys with Sokratis Papafloratos, tech entrepreneur & co-founder of Trusted Places

Last night we returned to Central Working in Google Campus for dinner and networking. Sokratis gave an insightful after-dinner talk, which was followed by a lively Q&A. Sokratis talked about the importance of having passion for a project, how he works better with a co-founder and his plans for his current project, Togethera, a private social network for families to share photos and memories. He is an inspiring and honest ...

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Business Spotlight on Jim Moodie from edspire

Our Edtech Startups #MeetandEat is tomorrow. In the lead up to the dinner, we've been spotlighting some of the great startups that will be joining us. Today's spotlight is on Jim Moodie from edspire. What's the elevator pitch for your startup? edspire is a search engine for online learning resources. There has been a recent massive expansion in educational resources being made available online in a wide variety of formats. This is ...

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Business Spotlight on Tes Macpherson from PTASocial

Just a couple of days until our Education Startups #MeetandEat at the Open Kitchen in Shoreditch. A big thanks for Tes Macpherson, Founder of PTA Social for her spotlight interview and for telling all! What's the elevator pitch for your startup? PTAsocial provides private social networks to help school parents get to know each other and fundraise for their school. It’s easy and fun to use, and makes organising big events together a piece ...

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Education startups dinner: Business Spotlight on ReferenceMe

It's time to meet Tom Hatton from ReferenceME. Tom will be at our edtech dinner next week, but for those of you that won't be, here's a little more about him. What's the elevator pitch for your startup? ReferenceME is Referencing, Made Easy. Scan a book or journals barcode with our app or use our web platform to create citations in seconds.  What were you doing before you launched your startup? I ran ...

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Speaker Profile: Bernhard Niesner, founder of busuu

It's just wall-to-wall good news on this blog! We are pleased to announce that Bernhard Niesner, CEO & Co-Founder of busuu, will be joining us and giving an after dinner talk with Q&A at our Education Startups #MeetandEat next week (26th Feb). busuu is the world's largest social network for language learning with more than 35 million users. Their goal is to revolutionise the way people learn languages via the use of ...

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New sponsor for our startup dinners: Blick Rothenberg

We are pleased to announce that our startup dinners have a new sponsor. Blick Rothenberg are sponsoring their first dinner next week. Education Startups #MeetandEat on 26th February at The Open Kitchen, Shoreditch. We first met them at Vator Splash London 2013 when we were pitching TableCrowd. Blick Rothenberg are tech and startup focused and are perfectly placed to provide support to the community. Their Tech City team works with entrepreneurs and ...

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Business Spotlight on Sinead Mac Manus from Fluency.io

Time flies! Our education startups dinner is next week (Tuesday 26th) and we wanted to introduce our partner for the evening, Fluency.io. We met Fluency.io's co-founder, Sinead Mac Manus whilst we were both pitching at Vator Splash in London and the rest is history! What's the elevator pitch for your startup? Fluency is a learning platform and crowd work marketplace that gets young people into work. We teach 18 to 25 year ...

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