🍁 Our October Update: Portfolio Summit Success
Happy Thursday, all,
This month we are buzzing 🐝 ⚡️ from the extremely rewarding experience of getting portfolio founders, external investors, industry experts and our full team together for the Brighteye Portfolio Summit 2023 ☀️.
We really believe that builders in Edtech have a lot to learn from each other. Judging by the sound levels 📣 💬 across the venue in the French countryside, our community seem to agree. The event proved the importance of meeting in person to make deeper connections through sessions of open sharing and exchange of knowledge, networks and experience. We are truly impressed by the entrepreneurs and what they are accomplishing 🚀. And we had a pretty good time, too! 🎞️ You can check out the vibe in the video below. Will we do it again? ✅
Other October updates include:
Selected News from the Portfolio – Rise In acquires web3-focused edtech BlockBuild (US)
Insights – Exploring Upskilling and Reskilling in Healthcare
Events – the Portfolio Summit video and preparing for Slush
We hope you’ll enjoy!
Best,
Team Brighteye 👋🏽
📣 SELECTED NEWS FROM THE PORTFOLIO
🚀 Rise In acquires Web3-focused BlockBeam
We are proud to share that our portfolio company Rise In, a leading education platform that onboards web2 developers into web3, has further expanded its 200k+ talent community with the acquisition of BlockBeam, one of the first and largest web3-focused Edtech companies in the US, thanks to its partnerships with 90+ university blockchain clubs, including Princeton Blockchain Club, Blockchain at Berkeley, and Harvard Blockchain. 🔥 Well done Gülcan, Emre & team Rise In!
🗞️ TeachFX on EdSurge
In the news, we were pleased to come across a great EdSurge story on TeachFX. Titled Will Teachers Listen to Feedback From AI? Researchers Are Betting on It, the piece offers a thorough introduction to the company’s approach to supporting teachers – including the teachers’ perspective. A recommended read, indeed!
🔎 INSIGHTS
🩺 Exploring Reskilling & Upskilling in Healthcare
In a new market map and analysis, we dove into opportunities in the health and wellbeing upskilling and reskilling space. Where Now and What's Next?
The report contains:
Market map with 'training type' and 'frequency' axes
Summary of market leaders and their differentiation approaches
Segment-by-segment analysis of the market map
Our summary of insights
🎪 EVENTS
📽️ The Portfolio Summit recap
⭐️ We were truly amazed by the energy ⚡️, openness and culture for sharing that our brilliant Founders brought to the Brighteye Portfolio Summit 2023!
For two intense days, we got together at Le Barn Hôtel in the beautiful French 🇫🇷 countryside, to exchange knowledge and experience in working sessions as well as over great food and drink and social activities 🎈
❄️ Preparing for Slush
After attending SaaStock in Dublin and participating in the Discovering the Edtech Gold Rush panel at enlightED in Madrid (pictured below) this October, we are looking ahead to Slush in Helsinki 🇫🇮 in late November/early December. It is still a few weeks away, but there will be a lot happening during that week and we want to prepare 🗓️ well and catch as much and many as possible. 📍 Brighteye’s Founding Partner Ben, Principal David, Associate Izzy and Head of Community Hege will be there – will you? Let’s meet!