As its meandering route to monetization will demonstrate, Duolingo isn’t mission-oriented, it’s mission-obsessed. Co-founders Luis von Ahn and Severin Hacker never wanted to charge consumers for access to Duolingo content,…
Duolingo CEO and co-founder Luis von Ahn was tired of the gray and dreary design aesthetic edtech companies used to emulate universities. Instead, he and the company’s early team sought…
Luis von Ahn, an entrepreneur who has dedicated his career to scaling free education, has probably annoyed you more than once. In fact, you’ve likely been annoyed by his work…
Education may well be the most important activity we conduct as a society — and it may also be the hardest space to build a startup in. Selling to school…
Hello and welcome back to Equity, TC’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This is Equity Monday, our weekly kickoff that tracks the latest private market…
Crowdfunding platform Milaap has partnered with Amazon to support Swasth & ACT Grants to urgently procure and deploy oxygen concentrators in the country.Under the arrangement, Amazon users can either donate…
With already 10 unicorns early in the year in 2021, despite the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s been indeed historic for the Indian startup ecosystem.India is positively brimming with startups these days.…
Despite PoS terminals being a familiar sight in retail establishments for years, the Indian market has only 0.003 terminals for every residentLooking to help SMBs bridge the digital gap, Perpule,…
Can you actually believe April is already over? 2021 is not messing around. The weeks and months are flying by, and that means that brighter times are coming! (Quite literally,…
The IPO will be a mix of a primary and secondary share sale. Investment banks Citi, Nomura, Axis Capital and Kotak Mahindra Capital are advising CarTrade on the IPOCarTrade is…