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This evening, Philly SEED ((Supporting Entrepreneurship in Education), a crowd-sourced platform to help fund education entrepreneurs, will host a competition for a $5,000 prize pack and pro-bono services, which will go to two of several new or established Philly-based ventures aimed at improving education.
Those competing, announced by Councilman Bill Green on Saturday, include, in two categories:
Emerging Entrepreneurs:
- ApprenNet – A learning platform for mentoring and collaboration. We covered the venture last July.
- Investing in Ourselves – Community organization growing strength in nutrition, fitness, finance, workforce development and leadership. WHYY covered the organization earlier this month.
- Lessonsmith – Collaborative platform for lesson planning and material development, which is based in the new Venturef0rth accelerator space, as we reported. The organization’s conception story is here.
- PhilaSoup – Education entrepreneurs pitch for modest micro grants at these $5-admission dinner parties. See previous winners here.
- Teacher Action Group Philly – Hoping to educate educators on the value of policy-making. Coverage in the Inquirer, here.
- YES! for Schools – Healthy bodies, healthy minds, and healthy lifestyles for students in 10 major U.S. cities.
Expanding/Established:
- Education-Plus Inc.’s High School – Nonprofit celebrating three decades of existence, which helps schools determine best-practice needs for improvement.
- Springboard Collaborative – Helping create education programming for students throughout the dead months of summer, where, advocates say, learning is often lost.
- Startup Corps – Installing the value of entrepreneurship by way of launching an actual business. We covered the organization in July 2010.
- the school collective – An online network for education professional development. The founders are helping to organize PhillySEED.
- The Student Leadership Project – Empowering student leaders at Philadelphia charter schools.
- Urban Blazers – Science-focused organization that introduces students to nature through volunteer efforts.
RSVP for the event, which costs $40 (proceeds of which go to the winners) here. Hosted at WHYY in Old City. [Full Disclosure: Technically Philly is a sponsor of the event].
GIVE A GLANCE
The Business Journal’s Peter Key writes about PackLate’s recent pivot from last minute vacation rental sales to supplier of vacation rental properties to third-parties.
MetaLayer presented at GigaOM’s Structure:Data conference last week.
In response to our post last week about startup Sqoot’s controversy over sexist remarks on an event flyer, founder Mo Yehia had this apology to issue by way of email: “As you know, we’re a startup. Often, we trip and fall. This is one of those times. In hindsight, our comments were reckless. They don’t reflect who we are. Please accept our wholehearted apology.”
MIGHT BE WORTH YOUR TIME
two.one.five covers retail startup Kembrel’s popup shop in Rittenhouse.
Delaware Online writes about stealth healthcare startup Kurbi, behind a paywall.
Lose It or Lose It has launched features to maintain weight loss after losing it, according to a company blog post.
NYTechWeekly covers Mount Laurel-based startup UFeud, which provides a platform for debate about new technologies. [h/t PhillyTechNews]
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