The Creative Business Network and Marble hosted a webinar and pitching session with startups and investors.
Iuliia Shnai, founder of Marble, introduced a panel discussion with experts and entrepreneurs that are working to innovate education in Africa: Petra Dillmann from the Autism Association of Namibia, Divine Kpe from Africa Education Watch, Victoria Joel, entrepreneur and special need teacher, Nisha Ligon from Ubongo, Titus Ngatia from FEWA – Future of Education and Work in Africa and Neil O’Toole from Teach Millions.
During the second half of the event, an investor panel (Alberto Corti | Stockholm School of Entrepreneurship – Sweden, Amit Gupta | NCR Eduservices – India, Antti Korhonen | xEdu – Finland, Enrico Poli | Zanichelli Venture – Italy, Safa Sharif | MASY Holding – Bahrain) assessed the following 5 Play & Learn startups and companies from Africa pitching their projects on edtech, gamification and learning through play:
This pitching competition was won by Shriram Bharatam with Kuza.One (Kenya) and follows the CBN Play & Learn challenges we hosted on 10.11.2020, won by Sari Hurme-Mehtälä with Kide Science (Finland), on 30.11.2020, won by Sara Božanić with Twisted Tales (Slovenia), on 28.01.2021, won by Ilias Vartholomaios with Owiwi (Greece) and on 25.01.2021, won ex aequo by Kelly Lilles with Alpa Kids (Estonia) and by Marie Jacobsen Lauvås with Capeesh (Norway).
You’re welcome to join thisis.cbnet.com to signup for the event and to find keynote speeches, highlights and web resources on Play & Learn.
Did you found a Play & Learn startup?
CBN frequently hosts pitching sessions and events. Startups from the Play & Learn field developing artificial intelligence, augmented reality, edtech, gaming, learning through play, virtual reality solutions are welcome to join the community and apply for the next pitching sessions here on F6S.
