Astrid is one of the 200 companies selected to the 2023 GSV Elite 200, a group of the world’s most innovative early-stage startups in digital learning and workforce skills. Astrid was hand-picked from a record-sized global applicant pool after being evaluated by a vanguard of leading global venture capital firms as well as strategic partners in digital learning and skills.
Astrid (www.astrideducation.com) has been selected to The Elite 200, and to the distinguished list of semifinalists set to compete in the 2023 GSV Cup, widely recognized as the world’s largest competition for early-stage digital learning and workforce skills startups. It will take place at the ASU+GSV Summit April 17–19, 2023, in San Diego, CA and is powered by GSV Ventures, Google Cloud, HolonIQ, HubSpot for Startups, and ASU RealmSpark, with $1m in cash & prizes.
Astrid was selected from a global applicant pool of 900+ startups across 69 countries, representing the largest and most competitive applicant pool for the GSV Cup. More than 200 judges from leading venture capital firms and strategic partners in digital learning and workforce skills, including Accel, Bessemer Venture Partners, Blume Ventures, ECMC Group, NEA, Pear, Owl Ventures, Reach Capital, and more, leveraged a rigorous framework to evaluate each startup and determine the 200 most promising companies.
“We are honored to be recognized as one of the most innovative startups in the world in our space and the acknowledgement of our unique approach to one of the biggest challenges that businesses face in the hybrid work era,” said Dr Thuy Ngoc Tran, CTO of Astrid. “We are on a mission to improve how people and businesses communicate in the hybrid work era by leveraging our proprietary speech recognition and generative AI which we’re thrilled to see is perfectly aligned with this year’s GSV theme.”
“Our GSV Cup semi-finalists epitomize our 2023 theme, Brave New World — you can’t use an old map for a new world. These 200 companies are charting new courses and drawing new maps to achieve the scaled delivery of learning and skills. We all hope to achieve the mission that ALL people deserve equal access to the future through the innovations of these great founders,” said Deborah Quazzo, Managing Partner of GSV Ventures and Co-founder of the ASU+GSV Summit.
The Elite 200 companies support learners from Pre-K to Gray and are well-distributed across the categories of Early Childhood, K-12, Higher Education, Adult Consumer Learning, and Workforce Learning. The 2023 Elite 200 join an illustrious group of startups with past winners and semifinalists, including, Abwaab, Curious Cardinals, Ethena, Kibo Schools, LingoAce , uDocz, and many more. See Astrid and all of the companies selected to the GSV Cup Elite 200 at https://www.asugsvsummit.com/gsv-cup-elite-200.
About Astrid
Astrid is on a mission to improve people’s lives by improving communication skills. Every day, businesses and people from around the world trust Astrid to help them improve how they communicate in spoken English with products combining proprietary speech recognition, generative AI and the best of empowered human tutoring skills. The team is composed of engineers, academics, and company builders from organizations such as Spotify, EF, King, and Kry. Astrid is one of the GSV Elite 200, a group of the world’s most innovative EdTech startups, selected by a vanguard of leading global venture capital firms as well as strategic partners in digital learning and skills. Astrid is located in Stockholm, Sweden and is backed by a global group of prominent tech entrepreneurs and investors.
About ASU+GSV Summit
The ASU+GSV Summit is the premier global event focused on technology innovation in education and skills. We believe that ALL people deserve equal access to the future. Started in 2010 with a collaboration between Arizona State University (ASU) and Global Silicon Valley (GSV), the annual Summit connects leading minds focused on transforming society and business around learning and work. Educators, investors, industry leaders, and entrepreneurs from around the world come together to innovate the future of education for all. Hosted in San Diego, over 5,300 people attended in April 2022. Speakers from previous years include President Barack Obama, President George W. Bush, Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, John Legend, Common, Marian Wright Edelman, Bill Gates, Sandra Day O’Connor, Reed Hastings, President Vicente Fox, Malcolm Gladwell, Gloria Steinem, Tony Blair, and Howard Schultz.
