Receiving a late-night call from a parent of a child in your school could be terrifying for a teacher. When Chioma’s mum called to speak to her teacher at 9 pm, it wasn’t to complain as one would expect. It was to express her gratitude. Chioma had struggled to assimilate in class because she was […]
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A year after it raised a seed round of $3.1m, Nigerian Edtech platform uLesson founded by former Konga’s CEO Sim Shagaya, announced today that it has closed a $7.5m Series A round. uLesson, which was founded in 2019, is working on bridging the educational gaps for K-7 to K-12 students across Africa by delivering affordable, […]
To weather the coming economic storm, business leaders will have to be decisive and think deeply about what they prioritize for their companies. That’s according to Sim Shagaya, founder of uLesson and an experienced entrepreneur in the African technology space. Shagaya was the guest for TechCabal’s first edition of Building in Tough Times, a series […]