Esade launches the first accelerator for EdTech start-ups
The pandemic has turned the spotlight on the increasing need for innovation in education in order to deal with future challenges. In response, Esade, through the Esade Entrepreneurship Institute, has launched its first eWorks EdTech Accelerator programme designed to pinpoint and support high-growth ideas for the future of education.
“As one of Europe’s foremost business schools, particularly in innovation and enterprise, we want to boost the development of enterprising projects in education”, explained Jan Brinckmann, eWorks academic director.
The first edition of this programme, open to the general public and not only Esade students, began this July and will end in autumn with a demo for investors. This free, intensive programme aims to bolster the implementation of EdTech start-ups and certified projects in early development phases.
Fourteen projects and expert mentors
LearnAla is an app to help foundations and institutions create courses and scale their impact; Klasea, a B2B SaaS designed to enable educational establishments to manage and organise online workspaces simply; Alumniverse, an alumni management platform for educational establishments; Doceo focuses on improving communications and feedback between tutors, students and parents, and Filmpedia is a video-learning platform that combines films and education and transforms audiovisual content into teaching material. These are some of the fourteen projects chosen to form part of this new accelerator.
The programme also features expert mentors in this sector including María Balbás, president of elev8 education; Sebastian Borek, co-founder of Founders Foundation; Tobia De Angelis, CEO of Strive School; Karol Górnowicz, CEO of Skriware and Gopi Tanna, an expert in LEAD School.
