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The Lewis Latimer Fellowship Program is currently accepting nominations for its 2024 cohort of Latimer fellows.

The 36th Annual Edison Awards landed in Fort Myers recently. It’s an annual celebration of innovation, collaboration and ideas that often revolutionize how we live and work.Hundreds of the world’s top innovators came to Fort Myers to honor excellence in new product and service development, marketing, human-centered design, and innovation.

The Edison Awards, an annual celebration of innovation and technology, aims to make Fort Myers the Cooperstown of Innovation, said Executive Director Frank Bonafilia.

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Esme Learning Solutions Secures $7.5 Million in Series A Funding BOSTON, MA / ACCESSWIRE / January 26, 2021 / Esme Learning Solutions, a leading digital learning platform, today announced the close of a $7.5 million Series A financing round led by Adit Ventures, a venture capital firm with a technology thematic investment focus. The funds will support company growth across all facets of its operations, from headcount to course offerings. The new funding will also be dedicated to further develop...

Edtech start-up Esme Learning Solutions raises $7.5m The start-up will use the Series A funding to support growth across all facets of its operations, from headcount to course offerings. Digital learning platform Esme Learning Solutions has closed a $7.5m Series A funding round, led by Adit Ventures. The edtech company was founded in 2019 by Beth Porter, formerly of edX and Pearson Education, and David Shrier, who has worked at University of Oxford, MIT and Imperial College Business School. As ...