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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 developing Esme Learning s course methodology and core artificial intelligence technology, which includes developing more tools underpinned by AI to reinvent remote learning for increased student engagement and success.
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 digital transformation continues to accelerate, the need to for professionals to upskill will become critical. Esme Learning Solutions uses an AI-enabled digital learning system and leverages dozens of lessons from cognitive and neuroscience to deliver online course offerings.
22 January 2021
The number of adults living with obesity could rise dramatically unless robust measures are implemented to halt childhood obesity.
The STOP Project (Science and Technology in childhood Obesity Policy), funded in 2018 by the European Commission to identify new interventions to reduce childhood obesity in Europe, has released its latest findings, providing new evidence to support governments and help policy makers identify the most effective childhood obesity interventions.
With over 375 million children affected worldwide, obesity has risen to the top of the public health policy agenda in countries at all levels of income and development. If no effective action is taken, this wave of childhood obesity will lead to more than one in three adults aged 20 in the UK being obese by 2025.” Professor Franco Sassi Professor of International Health Policy and Economics, Business School
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Top New Year Honours for Imperial academics
A leading Imperial economist is made a Dame in the 2021 New Year Honours, which also recognise an engineer, a neurologist and a medic from Imperial.
Professor Dame Carol Propper from Imperial College Business School has received a Damehood for her contribution to economics and public health.
Also recognised is Visiting Professor Raad Shakir from the Department of Medicine, who receives a CBE for services to global neurology. Visiting Professor James Calder, from the Department of Bioengineering, receives an OBE for services to sport and to exercise. Dr Azeem Alam, an honorary clinical research fellow in the Department of Surgery and Cancer, has been awarded a British Empire Medal for outstanding contributions to medical education during COVID-19.