Prosus and Workday Ventures
Valo Ventures
EduMe
Millicom
LatAm and Africa)
Waern
Airbnb
Deloitte
Uber
Vodafone
LearnUpon
Jacob Waern
Prosus
Doordash
Deliveroo
Deskless
Mark Peek
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Latin America
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London
U.S.
Gopuff
Attensi
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“Deskless” workers have become a big focus for tech companies looking for new opportunities in the B2B market, and today a startup targeting this segment with e-learning tools is announcing a round of funding to fuel its own growth.EduMe, a London startup that provides online corporate training and education in the form of “microlearning” modules that companies build themselves — aimed at fast-scaling tech businesses and others dealing with large numbers of workers or partners that typically do not work in the same physical location as the business itself — has picked up $20 million in a Series B round. “They don’t want to have ten apps, and so we are looking to integrate with CRM platforms and others to deliver connected content to workforces.”For Prosus, this is one of many bets it’s putting into edtech: today it also announced it was leading a big round for online tutoring platform GoStudent, targeting younger, consumer users.EduMe’s focus on deskless workers, a market that was once sidelined but has now become mainstream, mirrors the startup’s own DNA.It was originally hatched at Millicom, a telco that focuses on emerging markets (currently in Latin America; historically both LatAm and Africa), with the service originally intended to provide e-learning to the telco’s customer base.
As said here by Ingrid Lunden