PinnedWhy global EdTech’s moment is nowPublished by GSV Ventures. It is an exciting time to be in EdTech. Despite the devastating impact of COVID-19 on health and the economy, the pandemic accelerated education’s inevitable journey towards the digital age. In all corners of the globe, students logged onto online platforms (others tuned in to TV…Education7 min readEducation7 min read
Published inThe Startup·Dec 10, 2021EdTech in Latin America: The Opportunity in Workforce DevelopmentI collaborated with Felipe Arango and Vedant Agrawal for this article. Latin America is ripe for investment and awash with business opportunities. Yesterday (December 9, 2021), challenger fintech NuBank raised $2.8 billion in a top-of-range IPO in the US. …Edtech6 min readEdtech6 min read
Aug 9, 2021EdTech in Africa: A LandscapePublished by GSV Ventures This article seeks to explain the macro and micro fundamentals of EdTech in Africa. It might be useful to entrepreneurs in early stages of their market research, to investors trying to understand the space or to anyone who’s curious about the next big emerging market. TL;DR (Citing…Africa14 min readAfrica14 min read
Jul 22, 2021Helpful Resources for African EdTech foundersA brief list of resources to help African founders and startups build and grow their ventures in the EdTech space. 🚀 Incubators & Organizations that support EdTech companies 🚀 👩🏻💻 Incubation Injini: an EdTech accelerator based in Cape Town, South Africa. Join their mailing list here EdVentures, an EdTech VC and incubator in Egypt SuperCharger Ventures, now recruiting for their third…Africa2 min readAfrica2 min read
Published inThe Startup·Jan 15, 2021Is VC an Old Boys’ Club? Insights From Co-Investments in ~70K Transactions Between 2010 and 2020In this blog post, I explore ~70,000 VC transactions between 2010 and 2020, focusing on co-investments. Specifically, I explain which VCs co-invest the most with each other, which pairs of VCs have the largest amount of co-investments, and the fraction of successful investments for a given pair of VC co-investors…Venture Capital8 min readVenture Capital8 min read
Dec 30, 20202020: The year in 20 (nerdy) graphsIn this blog post, I teamed up with Eleno Castro to tell the story of this eventful year in 20 graphs. Most of the graphs in this post are borrowed from other sources (all properly cited), and a few are constructed based on available data. …20206 min read20206 min read
Published inThe Startup·Nov 25, 2020Data Science to the rescue: re-creating FC Barcelona’s glory team with new blood and fresh feetUsing 1.7 Million data points in FIFA (the PlayStation game) datasets to “clone” FC Barcelona’s 2014/2015 squad. In this blog post, I use the widely available FIFA datasets, a simple data science algorithm, and a tribe of football “experts” (really, just my friends and I) to construct the closest team…Data Science8 min readData Science8 min read
Published inThe Startup·Nov 10, 2020Mapping the Global EdTech Venture Capital Space: Insights From 2015–2020Following up on my earlier post on EdTech investments in 2020, and digging deeper into venture capital in EdTech, this article explores the space’s trends, players and insights between 2015 and 2020. This article contains a small part of the insights that I was able to generate with this dataset…Edtech8 min readEdtech8 min read
Published inThe Startup·Oct 22, 2020Hypothesis testing on Instagram: COVID-19 prevalence in my networkOn an otherwise boring Friday night, I decided to launch a poll on my Instagram to ask my friends if they had tested positive for COVID-19. This post recounts the story. As the days of 2020 went by, I started counting the number of people that I knew who had…Covid-197 min readCovid-197 min read
Oct 9, 2020COVID-19 and the Economy: insights from a cross-country viewI thank my friend Luca Sartorio for giving me access to his data on the stringency of COVID- related lockdowns, as part of his reseatch at the Torcuato di Tella University in Buenos Aires. COVID-19 has upended the entire world in 2020. The economic news from Q2 of 2020 are…Covid-196 min readCovid-196 min read
