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Genius Group Appoints Leading Edtech Investor Michael Moe as Board Chairman

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Venerdì, Aprile 19, 2024
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SINGAPORE, April 19, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Genius Group Limited (NYSE American: GNS) (“Genius Group” or the “Company”), a leading AI-powered education group, today announced the appointment of Mr. Michael Moe as Non Executive Chairman of its Board.

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  • SINGAPORE, April 19, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Genius Group Limited (NYSE American: GNS) (“Genius Group” or the “Company”), a leading AI-powered education group, today announced the appointment of Mr. Michael Moe as Non Executive Chairman of its Board.
  • He has been appointed in this role following the Genius Group’s recently announced business combination with FatBrain AI, where Mr Moe is also a shareholder and Chairman.
  • Michael Moe is the Founder and CEO of GSV Holdings.
  • Michael is an exceptional addition to Genius Group, and we are very fortunate to have him join us both as a shareholder and as the new Chairman of our Board.”

ClassDojo Unveils First-Ever District Offering to Help District Leaders Build Engaged School Communities

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Martedì, Febbraio 27, 2024
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Across the country, superintendents and school leaders are grappling with re-building strong school communities in the wake of the pandemic--resulting in increased classroom behavioral disruptions, rising absenteeism, teacher burnout, and family disconnection. In a recent survey by the Education Advisory Board, 80% of superintendents reported that student behavior has worsened over the last four years, and 74% reported that parent communication has become more disrespectful. ClassDojo for Districts makes it simple for administrators to help schools and families stay engaged, all on a private, secure platform that districts can trust—and that tens of millions of teachers, kids and families already love and use.

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  • Built with school districts, for school districts, ClassDojo for Districts helps leaders build close-knit school communities and increase student engagement with district-level security and controls, and tangible insights —all for free.
  • Built in collaboration with district leaders, ClassDojo for Districts provides  seamless single sign-on capabilities, personalized support, and more insight into school and family engagement.
  • This new product offers districts a beautiful, simple, safe—and free—platform to enable the central office to build positive and engaged school communities.
  • Having seen ClassDojo in action in individual classrooms, they wanted to go beyond to create deeply engaged school communities in every school across their district.

Genius Group Launches AI Education Ecosystem in Partnership with FatBrain AI

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Lunedì, Dicembre 11, 2023
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SINGAPORE, Dec. 11, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Genius Group Limited (NYSE American: GNS) (“Genius Group” or the “Company”), a leading entrepreneur edtech and education group, today announced the launch of a full AI Education Ecosystem for Governments, Companies, Universities and Schools in Partnership with FatBrain AI.

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  • SINGAPORE, Dec. 11, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Genius Group Limited (NYSE American: GNS) (“Genius Group” or the “Company”), a leading entrepreneur edtech and education group, today announced the launch of a full AI Education Ecosystem for Governments, Companies, Universities and Schools in Partnership with FatBrain AI.
  • FatBrain AI delivers peer intelligence and hierarchical insights to connect GOV, F500 and SMEs (Companies with 500 or less employees) with a variety of sector-specific SAAS solutions.
  • The partnership signed between Genius Group and FatBrain AI will enable the delivery of a full end-to-end AI Education Ecosystem which includes:
    For Schools: Government and company funded AI camps and accelerators together with a scholarship fund for young students to learn future-focused skills, both virtual and in-person, personalized with their Genie AI.
  • Genius Group is a Singapore-based company, and this week the Singapore Government released its National AI Strategy 2.0, with a plan for 15,000 AI experts and practitioners around AI Centers of Excellence.

SIIA Releases Principles for the Future of AI in Education

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Martedì, Ottobre 24, 2023
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AI technologies used in education should account for educational equity, inclusion and civil rights as key elements of successful learning environments.

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  • AI technologies used in education should account for educational equity, inclusion and civil rights as key elements of successful learning environments.
  • AI technologies used in education should strive for transparency to enable the school community to effectively understand and engage with the AI tools.
  • Companies building AI tools for education should engage with education institutions and stakeholders to explain and demystify the opportunities and risks of new AI technologies.
  • The education technology industry should work with the greater education community to identify ways to support AI literacy for students and educators.

O'Shaughnessy Ventures, LLC Announces Investment in Synthesis School, The Future of Education

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Martedì, Febbraio 7, 2023
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GREENWICH, Conn., Feb. 7, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- O'Shaughnessy Ventures LLC, a creative investment firm that empowers creators and allows them to bring their ideas to life, announced today that they will be investing in the Synthesis School with the goal of developing and empowering the creators of tomorrow, today.

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  • Synthesis represents a new way of thinking about education, leveraging team thinking games to teach kids problem-solving, collaboration, and communication.
  • Synthesis School officially launched in November 2020, led by Dahn and CEO Chrisman Frank, a veteran educator and engineer from Ed-tech unicorn ClassDojo.
  • Chrisman Frank, the CEO of Synthesis School, commented: "Jim and his team see the pervasive problems with the industrial-educational complex.
  • I'm thrilled to welcome Jim as an investor and partner in our mission to advance human civilization through education."

ZineOne announces $28M in Series C Funding led by SignalFire for its In-Session Marketing Capabilities

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Martedì, Settembre 6, 2022
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Currently, 80-90% of site visitors are anonymous, and ZineOne is able to intelligently segment visitors within five clicks to optimize conversions.

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  • Currently, 80-90% of site visitors are anonymous, and ZineOne is able to intelligently segment visitors within five clicks to optimize conversions.
  • The $28M series C investment will support ZineOnes vision of building out the in-session marketing category a new concept designed to increase e-commerce revenue and conversions in a privacy-forward world using advanced machine learning (ML).
  • We are solving a wide-spread challenge that brands face every day when privacy concerns are at an all time high, said Debjani Deb, CEO and co-founder of ZineOne.
  • Leading brands like Mens Wearhouse, Wynn Resorts, KEEN, Advance Auto Parts and Kohls increase revenue and site engagement from anonymous traffic using ZineOne.

Bloomz Provides Equitable School Communication with Language Translation

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Giovedì, Agosto 4, 2022
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With so much info being shared between home and school, it is essential that schools provide equitable communication.

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  • With so much info being shared between home and school, it is essential that schools provide equitable communication.
  • Because Bloomz offers a variety of features which focus on accessibility and fostering equitable communication, every family member is included and becomes more involved.
  • Because of potential language barriers, having functionality such as school language translation is essential.
  • While there are many communication apps out there, such as Class Dojo and Seesaw, that can facilitate communication from home to school, they do not offer what Bloomz does in a unified and streamlined communication platform.

Health Gorilla Raises $50 Million Series C to Securely Enable the Exchange of Actionable and Aggregated Clinical Data

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Lunedì, Marzo 7, 2022
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With this latest round of funding, Health Gorilla plans to expand its go-to-market strategies, accelerate product development, and enhance its staffing capabilities.

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  • With this latest round of funding, Health Gorilla plans to expand its go-to-market strategies, accelerate product development, and enhance its staffing capabilities.
  • To create a healthcare system with effective health information exchange, healthcare organizations need more than a series of connections between each other.
  • While health information exchange has made tremendous strides over the last few years, unreliable patient data identifiers, information blocking, and disparate systems continue to cause various challenges.
  • Founded in 2014, Health Gorilla delivers an innovative FHIR-native Health Interoperability Platform and a Health Information Network that solves these problems and creates a more equitable healthcare ecosystem by allowing the entire industry to securely exchange aggregated clinical data.

Faros AI Raises $16 Million for Its EngOps Platform, Launches Free Community Edition

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Mercoledì, Marzo 2, 2022
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"The Faros AI founding team played a pivotal role in building Salesforce Einstein, the leading enterprise AI platform that helps businesses improve their processes with data and AI.

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  • "The Faros AI founding team played a pivotal role in building Salesforce Einstein, the leading enterprise AI platform that helps businesses improve their processes with data and AI.
  • Today, the company is also announcing the general availability of its free open-source Community Edition, Faros CE.
  • Faros CE is container-based, and is able to run in any environment, including the public cloud with no external dependencies.
  • "Unlike Sales, Marketing, or Finance, todays engineering organizations are not very data-driven, said Vitaly Gordon, CEO of Faros AI.

Avela Selected to the GSV Cup Top 20

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Venerdì, Febbraio 25, 2022
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SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Avela has been selected to The Top 20, the acclaimed list of finalists in The GSV Cup the world's largest pitch competition for EdTech startups.

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  • SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Avela has been selected to The Top 20, the acclaimed list of finalists in The GSV Cup the world's largest pitch competition for EdTech startups.
  • Companies selected to The Top 20 represent the top pre-seed and seed stage startups in digital learning across the "Pre-K to Gray" space.
  • Avela was selected from an initial applicant pool of 750+ global companies, which was further narrowed to The Elite 200 semifinalists.
  • The GSV Cup is powered by Google Cloud, HubSpot for Startups, HolonIQ, and GSV Ventures.