What's Behind The Drop in Job Tenures?

The corporate landscape is evolving, and so is the C-suite (Gad Levanon): The Burning Glass Institute, in partnership with SHRM, takes a deep dive into the shifting dynamics of executive leadership. Click for "The Evolution of the C-Suite Series."

Featured Startup

Body.Scratch (Alvin Arthur, Cofounder & CEO): Body.Scratch is an immersive game for 8-16 youth to learn programming by dancing. It's a more engaging entry point to a acquiring valuable skill. With spatial computing rising, we aim at changing the process of creating digitally.

Investment

YC-backed edtech startup receives €2.5 million funding (Analytics India Magazine): Turing College’s approach combines AI-powered personalized learning with human mentorship, creating a scalable solution for the growing demand for tech skills.

Hack A Boss Secures €5.5M Funding Round to Consolidate Its Growth in Spain (Startups Real): They offer well-regarded Bootcamps in Web Development, Data Analytics, and Data Science & AI, trusted by over 2,000 students across Spain.

HiringBranch Secures CAD 5M in Series A Funding (FinSMEs): Their tailored conversational voice and chat assessment experience allows candidates to preview the job before getting the job while AI scores role-critical soft skills for the recruiter. 

Orbite Closes Series A Funding (FinSMEs): A space training company for adventurers, it will construct the first commercial Astronaut Training and Spaceflight Gateway Campus with specialized commercial astronaut training facilities to reimagine the human spaceflight experience.

Dallas Gig Wage Relaunches, Raises Additional $8.25M for Series A Extension (Dallas Innovates): In addition to its payroll system, the new Gig Wage helps businesses optimize operations and drive growth, providing independent contractors with a full suite of tools typically offered only to W2 employees.

Unipal secures pre-Series A round from Falak Angels (Wamda): Unipal offers a unique platform that combines technology and innovative design to deliver exclusive discounts and personalised offers for students in restaurants, cafes, electronics, and sports.

Absorb to Acquire Together in Bid to Bring Mentorship to Its Learning Software (BetaKit): They address a critical gap created by remote and hybrid work, by offering a best-in-class mentoring and coaching platform alongside their leading LMS.

QuickStart Acquires Career Development Solutions (FinSMEs): CDS specializes in career readiness and workforce training, with extensive expertise in career transition support, employer partnerships, and government funding programs.

Ziplines Education Acquires Clicked to Integrate Enhanced Work Simulations (Higher Ed Dive): Clicked's on-demand, active-learning career network offers world-class work simulations and boasts an 83 NPS, giving Ziplines more firepower in serving adult learners for the evolving workforce.  

Raptor Technologies Acquires SmartPass (PR Newswire): SmartPass has revolutionized how schools track and manage student movement, promoting accountability and reducing classroom disruptions.

Quickstart Acquires Promineo Tech to Expand Online Training and Workforce Development Solutions (PRWeb): With a focus on community colleges, Promineo provides students with affordable, job-ready skills in fields such as software development, data engineering, AI, and more. 

Pin Raises $3M in Funding (FinSMEs): An AI-powered recruiting agent, Pin leverages advanced automation and data-driven insights to help organizations source, engage, nurture, and schedule candidates with speed and efficiency.

UK-based Amazy Education raises pre-seed funding (EdTech Review): Amazy's AI-powered workspace simplifies content creation for educators, allowing them to design, manage, and share materials more effectively while saving time to focus on what matters most in teaching.

Besolo Raises Funding (FinSMEs): Besolo's platform, which integrates benefits (including healthcare, retirement, life, etc.), tax filings, accounting management, and compliance, generates more than $10,000 in annual tax savings for most of its members.

Kaymbu Secures Growth Funding from Decathlon Capital Partners (FinSMEs): Kaymbu equips educators with assessment, instructional planning, family engagement, and professional development tools to drive positive outcomes for children.

OpenAI-backed Speak raises $78M at $1B valuation to help users learn languages by talking out loud (TechCrunch): Speak provides learning and review materials designed around courses, to complement what users may have studied elsewhere.

Nectir Raises $6.3M Seed to Give Every Student Their Own Personalized Learning Partner (WebWire): Nectir is the one-stop solution for schools looking to deploy AI safely, integrating seamlessly with major LMS technologies & allowing schools to quickly create custom AI assistants for students, teachers, and administrators.

Leland lands $12 million to grow its coaching platform (TechCrunch): Leland’s marketplace model matches coaches and aspirants to fulfill goals ranging from getting into a university to passing an entrance exam and excelling at product management.

Legion Technologies Receives $50M in Financing from Silicon Valley Bank (FinSMEs): Legion's workforce management platform enables businesses to optimize labor efficiency and employee engagement simultaneously.

Antrim-based Texthelp buys EdTech peer Scholarcy (Business Sale Report): Scholarcy helps students to read and understand academic texts, via an AI powered study tool that can organise, summarise and critically evaluate sources.

Resources

The EdTech Insiders Generative AI (EdTech Insiders): A market map and database featuring 60+ use cases for GenAI in education and 300+ GenAI powered education tools.

FlexJobs Releases 2025 Remote Work Stats & Trends Report (PRWeb): The report details key data on the impact, benefits and continued preference for remote work, providing insight from workers and job seekers about their perspectives and expectations surrounding the ever-changing world of work.

Launchpad Jobs: Connecting Students to Career Opportunities (Burning Glass Institute): The report identifies 73 roles, termed "Launchpad Jobs," that offer a combination of strong wages, job stability, and upward mobility -- and showcasing how initial job choices influence future earnings and advancement potential.

Events

The State of Education Venture Capital: What's Still Getting Funded and Where is Fundraising Headed Next (Education Week): (Available on-demand) Discussing how education VCs believe the next few years will play out in ed tech, and how they see the overall interplay between fundraising, innovation, and M&A playing out.

Opportunities

Applications now open for next round of Skills Development Fund (Government of Ontario): The province is investing $74 million to build, expand and retrofit training facilities for workers in construction, manufacturing, technology and health care -- projected to support over one million workers.

In The News

The one role companies are struggling to fill (BetaKit): Hiring managers across industries are finding it difficult to hire qualified digital marketers; 56% of employers report a lack of suitable candidates.

Neurodiversity as a Catalyst for Change in the Modern-Day Workplace (European Business Review): One in seven people now identify as neurodivergent, and companies need to stay ahead of the curve and recognise the unique strengths that neurodiverse employees bring to the table.   

Social Impact Meets VC: Rubio Impact Ventures' Rise (Forbes): Driven by a shared belief that businesses can generate strong social impact while creating financial returns, they built a VC firm that invests in companies tackling critical climate, health, education, and food security challenges.

30 Under 30 Education 2025: The Ones to Watch in AI, Tutoring, Education Nonprofits, School Boards, and More (Forbes): Meet the entrepreneurs and changemakers who impressed a panel of expert judges from a pool of thousands.

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