Hi there. As Europe's largest female-founded VC fund, Revaia, announced a new €250M fund this week, see every VC fund with a least one female Partner. 

A+ for European edtechs

In 2021, funding for Europe's edtech startups is already double that of 2020, with €1.3B raised. European edtech funding is now growing faster than in any other mature market, and  is now home to three Edtech unicorns (two of which passed this billion dollar mark this summer).

As students head back to school after 18 months of the biggest forced disruption to education in living memory, check out the startups working on the future of learning, education and skills.

(More on edtech from us coming soon 👀let us know if you'd like to get involved.)

Africa's startup ecosystems

Zero to six in three years. This week, Senegal's Wave became Africa's 6th unicorn with a $200M Series A raised from Sequoia, Partech, Stripe and others. 

VC investment in Africa is at an all-time high in 2021, with €1.3B raised year to date, and investment growing at every funding stage. With almost 1,000 startups founded in the last two years, Africa's tech ecosystems are hotting up.

Also

📆 Save the date: Oct 21 for the Innovation Radar Prize 2021 final.

🥳 This week we launched our first dedicated Impact newsletter, subscribe to our new weekly Impact, Fintech and Marketplaces newsletters. 

🍄 Mushrooms, the ultimate sustainable material?

🛒 Online groceries: an insatiable foodtech battleground.

 🌽 Your food prices are at risk as the world runs short of workers  - Bloomberg, with Dealroom data.

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