• Quipper
    日本互联网巨头Recruit有一个新的2500万美元的区块链基金 加密市场价格可能会大幅下跌,但新投资者继续进入区块链领域。最新的是Recruit Holdings,这家价值450亿美元的日本互联网巨头拥有Glassdoor 除此之外,还悄悄推出了2500万美元的基金。 该基金位于新加坡之外,并于2018年11月关闭,但其存在仅在本周宣布其首次交易后才公布,这是对Beam的一项未公开投资。Recruit对其提供加密基金的意图一直非常直言不讳 - 去年我在新加坡的Coindesk活动中采访了SVP Youngrok Kim,同时通过其中央企业基金Recruit Strategic Partners(RSP)对区块链公司进行了股权投资。目前的RSP基金是1亿美元,是该公司的第六个。 现在,通过加密基金,在RSP和新基金内运营的Kim表示,Recruit可以自由地进行代币和股权交易,并且通常会更深入地进入区块链。 “当我们拥有股票基金时,我们并不像我们想要的那样灵活,”金在本周的电话采访中告诉TechCrunch。“我们无法购买代币和资产。我们将继续拥有两辆车; 我们将根据需要串联使用加密基金和RSP基金。“ 这一切都很好,但随着泡沫破灭,ICO的数量下降但不完全消失。该动力肯定有改变,与令牌现在销售几乎普遍进行私下而不是公开和专职的投资者和专业人士,而不是任何人。不过,Kim认为有充足的理由来运营基于令牌的基金。 “我们仍然看到很多ICO,相对数量较小但我们仍然看到大量的交易流量用于代币和股权融资。我们对前景持乐观态度,“他解释道。“我们坚信区块链和分散技术。” 除了直接投资,该基金还将投资其他基金作为LP,以帮助扩大其影响范围。 “我们的投资领域很广泛,也涵盖了应用层的深层技术,”Kim解释道。“我们仍在进行研究,以了解核心技术及其潜力。我们将非常谨慎地投入这笔资金,我们寻求发现具有真正影响力和社会的公司,以及我们可以作为Recruit做出贡献的公司,“他补充道,声称有许多即将到来的交易正在筹备中。 去年,Recruit通过以12亿美元的价格收购了Glassdoor,引起了美国许多人的关注,但它已经成为日本数字领域的一个主要名称,最近Bloomberg的个人资料详细解释了这一点。 它成立于1960年,在东京证券交易所上市,价值超过450亿美元。尽管如此,它在日本不仅仅很大,而Recruit在全球60个国家拥有约45,000名员工。 其核心服务是招聘和人力资源,但它也在房地产,旅游,餐饮和其他领域运作。它有收购历史,其中一些包括美国的Indeed.com(2012)和  Simply Hired(2016),以及欧洲服务餐厅网站Quandoo(2015),  美发服务Wahanda(2015)  和  教育科技公司Quipper(2015)。 尽管如此,Kim表示,他预计Recruit不会收购该基金所投资的区块链公司,因为该技术在开发,采用和货币化方面仍处于早期阶段。但是,有了该基金,Recruit决心密切关注事态发展,以确保不会错过潜在的重大创新。 Recruit并不是唯一一家启动 加密令牌基金的公司。 Line是另一家以其消息应用程序而闻名的日本公司,去年推出了价值1000万美元的加密基金,而韩国竞争对手Kakao则拥有区块链咨询服务,并积极开展交易。Kakao于去年12月进行了第一次区块链投资,当时该公司以未公开的方式支持以色列的Orbs 。     文章来源:Jon Russell   https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/22/recruit-blockchain-fund/ 以上由AI翻译完成,仅供参考
    Quipper
    2019年02月23日
  • Quipper
    日本招聘巨头Recruit 3900万美元收购教育科技创业公司Quipper Quipper是一家教育科技创业公司,总部位于伦敦,其分部涵盖包括印度尼西亚和泰国在内的9个国家,它为全球150万多名学生和150000名教师提供教育支持与帮助。   日前,日本招聘巨头Recruit以3900万美元收购了Quipper,至此,2015年亚洲的教育科技类公司的交易量持续增长。此次收购是一项战略性举措,使Recruit的教育水平直线上升,并扩大了其k – 12产品在全球的销售渠道。   Quipper,2010年在英国建立,它最初是通过Quipper Quiz手机移动端平台帮助初学者学习语言和数学的。随后,2014年,Quipper推出了Quipper School以及在线学习平台的k – 12,此平台的教学内容与政府认可课程同步。   Quipper School首先在菲律宾创建,之后扩展到了包括印度尼西亚、泰国和墨西哥在内的九个国家,现在,它为全球150万多名学生和150000名教师提供教育支持与帮助。   2012年,Recruit因收购全球最大的工作招聘网站Indeed.com而闻名。Recruit一直对教育行业兴趣浓厚,它们也通过两个系统提供教育服务,一个是Benkyo Sapuri(课外辅导),另一个Juken Sapuri(高考辅导)为高考生提供学习辅导。   目前,Juken Sapuri以学习精要高质量数字点播的方式,及较低的月订阅费(平均每月10每月)赢得了市场,打破了原有100亿美元考试产业的垄断。此次收购为它们迅速扩张的k – 12的用户群和准备学生们后阶段的高考建立了联系。   “Recruit以商业领域的“破坏者”和创新者而闻名,它们对如何在科技教育领域发挥作用很在行。最重要的是,我们两个企业对未来抱有共同的愿景。”Quipper的首席执行官Masayuki Watanabe说到。 Quipper 和Recruit 在教育服务领域有一个共同的理念,正如它们当前的策略一样,强调以低价格提供高质量的服务。Recruit知道如何发展技术并使Quipper的资本增值。Recruit战略突出,在过去的18个月里,它们仅在亚洲的员工就从2名增加到了60名。   “作为一个创业公司,Quipper灵活应变,应对了诸多挑战,但它也存在局限性。Recruit大量优质的业务资源无疑会加速我们公司的成长,”Quipper的营销总监Takuya Homma说到。   随着电子教育平台的迅速崛起,其他类似的教育平台,如美国的Edmodo,近年来也筹集了很多资金以实现转型。在数字化方面,教育部门明显落后于其他行业,但现如今,主导的出版商不断寻求学习和教育的数字化发展,该情况得到了改善。   数字化的缓慢应用不仅为创业公司提供了机会,也为非传统企业进入教育平台和空间提供了机会,正如马来西亚的企业巨头YTL集团。通过与国家教育部(MoE)的直接合作,YTL发展了Frog Education,一个虚拟学习平台 (VLE) ,为马来西亚10000多所学校提供教育服务。 与Edmodo还有 Frog Education一样,Quipper School 通过云平台来下发作业来简化老师的备课和评估工作,发挥了巨大的作用。   游戏化的教学元素、对学生详尽的分析、与各国国家教育部同步的课程,以及当地的相关教材和老师,使Quipper 在新兴市场处于十分有利位置。   Japan’s Recruit Holdings buys edtech startup Quipper for US$39M Edtech dealflow across Asia continues to increase in 2015 as edtech startup Quipper has just been acquired by Japan-based Recruit Holdings for US$39 million. The acquisition appears to be a strategic move that will enable Recruit’s education vertical to enhance and expand their K-12 products globally.   Founded in the UK in 2010, Quipper began with Quipper Quiz, a mobile-based quiz platform that helped learners to primarily study language and math subjects. The company then pivoted in 2014 with the launch of Quipper School, an online learning platform for the K-12 segment that features content aligned with government-approved curriculum.   Initially launched in the Philippines, Quipper School has since expanded to nine countries including Indonesia, Thailand and Mexico and now serves over 1.5 million students and 150,000 teachers.   Known for their acquisition of the world’s largest job recruitment website Indeed.com in 2012, Recruit has a strong interest in the education vertical as they also provide educational services through Benkyo Sapuri (Japanese for “study supplement”), and grade 12 university entrance exam test prep Juken Sapuri (Japanese for “entrance exam supplement”).   Juken Sapuri is currently disrupting the US$10 billion exam prep industry in Japan with quality digital on-demand content and low monthly subscription fees that are considerably cheaper than other test prep alternatives at an average cost of US$10 per month. The acquisition appears to be an attempt to provide a link between a rapidly expanding K-12 user base and their eventual need for university test prep at the later phase of secondary education.   “Recruit is famous for being a disrupter and innovator of business and has a lot of know-how on this edtech business domain as well. And above all, we share the same vision,” said Quipper’s CEO Masayuki Watanabe.   Quipper and Recruit appear to share a common approach in providing educational services as their current strategy is backed by an emphasis on relevant high-quality content at lower price points. Recruit’s business development know-how and capital will add value to Quipper’s current capacity and strategy which has undergone a growth spurt of two employees to 60 in Asia alone over the past 18 months.   “As a startup, Quipper could be agile and make a lot of trials flexibly but there was a limit to it. With Recruit’s substantial and excellent business assets we can now surely accelerate our growth,” said Takuya Homma, Marketing Director at Quipper.   Similar education platforms such as US-based Edmodo have also raised considerable funding in recent years as the steady switch to educational digital content begins to gain more momentum. The education sector has lagged behind other sectors in digital adoption as the dominant publishers position themselves for a new era of learning and education itself becomes redefined.   The slow adoption to digital has provided opportunities for not only startups but also non-traditional players to enter the educational platform and content space as is the case with Malaysia’s corporate giant YTL Group. In direct cooperation with the national Ministry of Education (MoE) YTL has helped to develop Frog Education, a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) that provides content and communication services to over 10,000 schools in Malaysia.   Similar to Edmodo and Frog Education, Quipper School creates value by minimising teacher preparation and grading time by providing them with an easy to use cloud platform to create and distribute homework online.   High student retention rates as a result of gamified elements, more detailed data and analysis for each student, and curriculum directly aligned with MoE standards for each country in addition to local teacher input for localisation and content relevancy has put Quipper in a strong position to engage new markets.   The author is the Co-founder and Managing Director of EdTech Asia, a consultancy, information and research hub that fosters a community of education and technology enthusiasts.  Source:e27 原文链接:http://e27.co/japans-recruit-holdings-buys-edtech-startup-quipper-us39m-20150705/
    Quipper
    2015年07月07日