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📣Happy 2025 - Unwrapping Sidekick📣 Since launching in 2017, we've curated content on building companies in the #Edtech space for our portfolio and beyond. We're now launching Sidekick, an open & searchable resource hub - free to access for all! ▶️Here: brighteyevc.com/sidekick

❄️ See you at @SlushHQ?❄️ Team Brighteye will be out in force in 🇫🇮Helsinki, with @bthewirz, @guerindavid, @IsabellaVahdati, Ghita Targhi & @HegeTollerud all busy 🐝 joining activities and meetings. Who wants to 🍧 catch up? Please let us know! #Edtech #slush2024

🇵🇹 @WebSummit Week 🇵🇹 Who else 👀 is in Lisbon this week? Team Brighteye’s Ghita Targhi will be exploring exciting startups and catching up with investment colleagues in Portugal on 11-14 November. ☕️ Please reach out if you’d like to meet! #Edtech

📫 The Brighteye Bulletin – our fortnightly take on all things #Edtech, HRTech and Workforce Empowerment, both from a Startup & VC perspective – just landed in 9K+ inboxes. Not in yours? Here’s all you need to read the latest and sign up for future ones: brighteyeweekly.substack.com

How about kicking off @SlushHQ week with breakfast in Tallinn 🇪🇪 on Mon 18 Nov? With our friends at @trindvc, we'll get a selection of folks in the #Edtech and Consumer space together for insights, breakfast & conversation. ✍🏽Register your interest now: lu.ma/hglyvws5

❓ Attending unleash WORLD this week? ❓ We are! Team Brighteye’s Ghita Targhi and Rhys Spence will be busy at the @UNLEASHgroup HR conference in Paris 🇫🇷 this week, on Wednesday 16 and Thursday 17 October. Please let us know 👋🏽 if you are around and want to catch up!

At this year's Education Summit: Ed tech and AI educational investing landscape with @bthewirz (@brighteyevc), @geoffstead (@MyTutor), John Loder (@nesta_uk) and Rajay Naik (@SkilledEdu). Book your ticket now: eu1.hubs.ly/H0cZdxP0 #EdSummit24

🇷🇴 Hello Bucharest – How to Web? 🇷🇴 This week, on 2 & 3 Oct, we’re attending @how_to_web - a leading Eastern European startup and technology conference. Bissan Salman is looking forward to connect with investors, innovators and Founders - ping us to ☕️ catch up!

☀️La Solive - Why we Invested☀️ Our portco La Solive recently closed their €4M Series A. In "Why We Invested" @guerindavid shares how "With La Solive it is MORE than just a financial commitment—it's a shared vision for the future." 🔗 Read it here: brighteyevc.com/post/why-we-in…

🇫🇷🌱 French startup La Solive raises €4M to expand and launch new training programs, led by Partech (@PartechPartners) and joined by Brighteye Ventures (@brighteyevc). techfundingnews.com/french-startup… #EUtech #EUstartup #tech #funding #news

🍂 New AI in L&D Meetup in London 🍂 Join @MindstoneHQ, @OrrickTech and Brighteye in London 🇬🇧 on Tuesday 1 October to discover practical AI in L&D! #Edtech ✍🏽 Register here, now: community.mindstone.com/events/ai_in_l…

📣 Funding alert – LabLabee €3.4M We're proud to share that we've been part of our portfolio company @lablabee_app's latest round – closing at €3.4M, led by @reachfund. 💡 Immersive, industry-specific training in 5G, cloud, and networking tech to address the telco skills gap.

🙏🏻 Festival Wrap🙌🏼 The Brighteye Edtech Startup Festival 2024 has concluded – and what a week! Massive thanks to all speakers & attendees who joined us for the 7️⃣ Sessions of learning, conversations, great questions and advice across the past 3️⃣ days! 📹 Recordings coming soon!

⏱️The Edtech Startup Festival - starts tomorrow⏱️ Still not registered for any of our free, online Sessions at our Brighteye #Edtech Startup Festival 2024? We're running 7️⃣ of them this week, on Tues 3-Thurs 5 Sept. Details and link to register here: 🔗lnkd.in/d8PYxuVX

💡All set for the Edtech Startup Festival💡 Next week 🍏 3-5 Sept 🍏we’re looking forward to getting stuck into our Brighteye #Edtech Startup Festival 2024. The 7 online Sessions across 3 days are set, register ✍🏽 for your preferred Session(s) now. 🔗 form.typeform.com/to/JRsM5alf

📮 The latest Brighteye Bulletin, out today, brings you a Guide to GTM Metrics from @poyark & a story on @ilo Concerns About Youth Unemployment. And more, including investment deals and jobs in #Edtech. Read and subscribe now - 🖇️brighteyeweekly.substack.com/p/your-guide-t…

Save the 🗓️ date!! The next AI in L&D Meetup in London that we are co-hosting with @MindstoneHQ and @OrrickTech will take place on Tue 3 Sept. Join to get Practical AI Learning Applications and Insights, Empower Your L&D Strategy & Great Networking! 🙋🏼‍♀️lnkd.in/d23fgQgP

✍🏽 Festival Registration✍🏽 Details of our 3️⃣ days of the #Edtech Startup Festival are out! Sign up now to join your favourite 💻 online Session(s) on Tuesday 3 - Thursday 5 September here: 🔗 form.typeform.com/to/JRsM5alf Watch this space for 📣 on Speakers - see you in a few weeks!

⏱️ The countdown is on! ⏱️ Our annual #Edtech Startup Festival is starting in 4 weeks, and today we are happy to share a few details for Day 1️⃣. Join us to explore some updates from Brighteye on Tuesday 3 September – register interest now! 🔗 form.typeform.com/to/qOrXNz9o 🔗

In today’s 📮 Brighteye Bulletin 📮 newsletter we are leading with our own content, sharing the brand new "H1 - What got funded in #Edtech?" You can check that and more content out and subscribe here: ▶️ brighteyeweekly.substack.com/p/gen-z-strike…