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Benefits #CBD oil promotes for your health – SPONSOR: Empower Clinics $CBDT.ca $WEED.ca $CGC $ACB $APH $CRON.ca $HEXO.ca $OGI.ca $FAF.ca

Posted by AGORACOM-JC at 12:03 PM on Wednesday, October 2nd, 2019

Why Empower Clinics

  • A leading owner/operator of physician staffed health and pain management clinics
  • Patient database of over 165,000 patients 
  • Platform generating $4MM USD in revenue annually (2019)
  • Proprietary technology platforms including Electronic Health Records portal and e-Commerce for CBD product distribution
  • Launching CBD extraction facility
  • First extraction system capacity = 6,000 Kg per year.
  • CBD based products are poised to be a $20B global industry by 2022
  • Medical cannabis is poised to be a $100B global industry by 2025

Benefits CBD oil promotes for your health

CBD oil is a much talked about product, it is a topic of hot conversation, it is in the news and everyone has an opinion! Some opinions are based on fact, others on assumption and there are a group of people who just do not know what to think at all. This article will attempt to provide you with some information as to the possible health benefits which can be derived from taking CBD oil. CBD oil has much recent research attached and there is also increasing testimony from those who regularly take the product for a number of very different conditions from which they are suffering.

The first point to mention is that CBD or to give it its chemical name, Cannabidiol, should not be confused with its sister chemical THC or Tetrahydrocannabinol. Both chemicals are derived from the cannabis plant which in itself has over 100 chemicals and although the two chemicals are similar in a sense, they differ in the way in which their atoms are put together. Here, in the UK, CBD is legal to purchase whether it be as an oil or as part of another preparation.  It is the THC which is not legal and any product containing CBD can only contain trace elements of THC at the most, in fact products can contain no more than 0.2% THC. Each country has their own rules and so if you are planning to use CBD anywhere else other than in the UK, you should check the legal status first.

CBD is extracted from the cannabis plant using different processes and each manufacturer will use their own particular method of extraction. When the CBD has been extracted, it will then be mixed with a carrier oil and it is then known as CBD oil.

Many people have conditions which cause them to be in serious pain or have quite debilitating symptoms. Sometimes conditions can be treated and sometimes they cannot be treated and instead they are managed by medication, which is not the best solution for a long term problem. CBD has shown promise in giving relief and even turning around certain conditions. Evidence for its effectiveness has come in anecdotal form from those who have used the product and it comes also with scientific back up for many conditions and as more and more research emerges with results, CBD is becoming a go to product of choice for many. So what conditions is CBD oil known to help?

  • Chronic pain can be significantly lessened
  • Anxiety can be relieved
  • Depression
  • Stress
  • Both rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis
  • Seizures including epilepsy
  • Inflammation
  • Nausea
  • Chronic headaches and migraines
  • MS
  • Parkinsons
  • Alzheimers
  • Obesity
  • Cancers

And the list goes on, in fact conditions throughout the body can be addressed using CBD oil.

It is not something that we are used to as when we are given ‘a pill for an ill’, we would not expect to receive the same pill for a headache and an infection for example, yet CBD would appear to treat and relieve many non similar conditions, the following provides an explanation as to why that is the case.

Our body is a complex series of structures which we have grouped into systems, we have the Nervous system, the Cardiovascular system, the Immune system and so on but one system which was only discovered around 30 years ago is the Endocannabinoid system. This system is the system which is responsible for bringing about an equilibrium or balance to the body, sometimes referred to as homeostasis. It does this via cannabinoid receptors. These receptors look for cannabinoids to attach to them and when they are satisfied that they have their requirement, the balance is restored and as long as the supply and uptake is maintained, so is the balance. When the system becomes unbalanced, the receptors are not fulfilled and when that balance is no longer there, illness and pain are felt. The body naturally produces its own endocannabinoids, sometimes it will not produce enough and sometimes the endocannabinoid being produced fail to reach the receptor points. CBD is a cannabinoid and it is thought that it works with the bodies own system to satisfy the receptors. This is why CBD can be used for all manner of illnesses and difficulties within the body. It can even be used in lower doses by healthy people to keep their system in check and many use it for this purpose.

Each person will have a dose that suits them best and it is up to each user to find that dose. It is always tempting to read about all of the good that a product has to offer and go about taking a high dose to try to access some of that good but this is the wrong way to go. Start with a small amount and gradually increase the amount until you feel a benefit. At that point, that should be the dose that suits you. Start with the weakest preparation and if you need to move to a stronger preparation, do that next. Do not assume that you will be able to copy the dose that someone else is taking, that is just not true, you have to work slowly to find your own.

Source: https://augustafreepress.com/benefits-cbd-oil-promotes-for-your-health/

BetterU Education Corp. $BTRU.ca – How these #Edtech startups are disrupting education and teaching young #India $ARCL $CPLA $BPI $FC.ca

Posted by AGORACOM-JC at 10:06 AM on Wednesday, October 2nd, 2019
SPONSOR:  Betteru Education Corp. aims to provide access to quality education from around the world. The Company plans to bridge the prevailing gap in the education and job industry and enhance the lives of its prospective learners by developing an integrated ecosystem. Click here for more information.
BTRU: TSX-V

How these edtech startups are disrupting education and teaching young India

  • According to a 2016 KPMG report, the Indian edtech market is pegged to touch $1.96 billion by 2021.

By Apurva P

Not just study material, the edtech sector is a career-shaping space that has all the tools to enhance skillsets. From teaching normal subjects to robotics or blockchain through technology, these startups are at the helm of an industry worth over $247B.

In a country like India where the participation of the IT sector in GDP is irreplaceable, the growth and relevance of the edtech sector is not surprising. According to a 2016 KPMG report, the Indian edtech market is pegged to touch $1.96 billion by 2021.

Today, it is a highly demanding sector for investors and entrepreneurs. While the edtech space in India has got a unicorn like Byju’s, there are also other players like Simplilearn, Toppr, Khan Academy and UpGrad among others leading the disruption.

Here are some edtech startups that are making technical education accessible, and are enabling talented personnel.

Learning Matters 

Having recognised the need for school education to be more engaging – especially in rural and semi-urban schools – three colleagues came together to launch Learning Matters, a technology-driven solution that not only makes learning more engaging but also helps teachers upgrade their skills.

Learning Matters Founders (L-R) Saras Ramamoorthy, Ramamoorthy G, and Gowri Mahesh are working on creating tech-driven solutions for the education sector.

This Bengaluru-based startup set up by Ramamoorthy G (aka Moorthy), Gowri Mahesh and Saras Ramamoorthy uses Alexa and videos to teach lessons.

Learning Matters offers four (related) products: The Star Teacher programme, the Star Teacher Tool Box, Tara (the cloud-based, NLP-powered virtual voice teacher), and Kengine, a curated library of learning videos from across the world, translated into Indian languages.

Great Learning

Gurugram-based edtech startup Great Learning aims to set professionals up for a “learning for life” with the high-quality and industry-relevant programmes. 

Its user base is mostly mid-career professionals who want to upskill to stay relevant with market requirements or are unsatisfied with the education they have received earlier.

Team Great Learning

Founded in 2013 by Mohan Lakhamraju, the edtech startup claims to have impacted more than 60,000 people so far by providing various opportunities for upskilling.

Great Learning offers courses in business analytics, machine learning, artificial intelligence, data science, cloud computing, etc. 

Extraclass

Launched by Persainjit Singh, Prakash Gupta, and Swati Gupta, Extraclass aims to motivate students with rewards for studying by measuring the effort and not the outcome. 

The Extraclass app, presently available for Android, helps students prepare for school, college, and competitive entrance exams, including engineering, medical, foreign university admission, management entrances and government jobs. 

Extraclass Team (L-R): Persainjit Singh (CEO), Swati Gupta (Head of Customer Delight), Prakash Gupta (COO), Divyansh Raj (CPO)

The startup provides free learning content to anyone between the ages of five and 25 years. With the app, students can start studying for free using animated videos and infographic study material, which aim to make learning more thought-provoking, accessible and enjoyable.

It offers video lectures, practice question banks, and adaptive assessment and test series. The company aims to make education more accessible, free while promoting self-study.

Source: https://yourstory.com/2019/09/edtech-startups-byjus-great-learning

INTERVIEW: Affinity Metals $AFF.ca discusses extensive land package hosting historical reserves + multiple past-producing mines $SII.ca $TUD.ca $GTT.ca $AMK.ca

Posted by AGORACOM-JC at 8:29 AM on Wednesday, October 2nd, 2019

Affinity Metals controls the Regal Property, an incredible asset in BC that has a history of Pollymetallic production & hosts several past producing small-scale historic mines.

Most people are unaware of but are about to find about.

A complete feasibility review of the Regal Silver Mine, including a reserve report, mine plan, processing recommendations and mill plan was developed in 1971 to put Regal into production at $1.75 OZ Silver on a reserve of 590,000tonnes. grading 71.6 grams per tonne silver, 2.66 per cent lead, 1.26 per cent zinc, 1.1 per cent copper, … needs to be updated with current 43-101 so investors should not be relying on these figures until then.

Past producing mines on property may be potential indicators of a major mineralized system underneath the property.

Grab your favourite beverage and find out more.

This #Edtech startup wants to become the #MakeMyTrip for India’s $2B online education market – SPONSOR: BetterU Education $ARCL $CPLA $BPI $FC.ca

Posted by AGORACOM-JC at 10:28 AM on Tuesday, October 1st, 2019
SPONSOR:  Betteru Education Corp. aims to provide access to quality education from around the world. The Company plans to bridge the prevailing gap in the education and job industry and enhance the lives of its prospective learners by developing an integrated ecosystem. Click here for more information.
BTRU: TSX-V

This edtech startup wants to become the MakeMyTrip for India’s $2B online education market

  • In India, a whopping 9.6 million users will be paying for online courses by 2021. And that’s not all.
  • The online education market itself is expected to witness a huge surge, growing 8x since 2016 to reach the $1.96 billion mark in the next two years.

By Sutrishna Ghosh

In India, a whopping 9.6 million users will be paying for online courses by 2021. And that’s not all. The online education market itself is expected to witness a huge surge, growing 8x since 2016 to reach the $1.96 billion mark in the next two years.

While currently, the data – courtesy of a joint report by KPMG and Google – indicates that “reskilling and online certification courses” commands the major chunk of this market, the tables, however, are set to turn in the near future.

With an estimated 280 million students enrolling in schools, the demand will shift towards online primary and secondary supplemental education. Regardless of the category driving this market, one thing is certain: Indians are no longer taking upskilling or online learning lightly

But with the plethora of courses floating online, how does one find out which course is suitable for one’s career growth? Or which skills are in demand in the market and which trainer can be your ideal fit? Here’s where Get Me A Course comes into the picture.

Founding team of Get Me A Course

As the name implies, GMAC is an online aggregator of both online and classroom courses, curating courses from various learning platforms and bridging the gap between learners and trainers.

“The model is very similar to travel aggregation sites and apps that list all the different airlines, hotels, and travel service providers,” says Rohan Krishna, the CEO and Co-Founder of the Bengaluru-based startup. “GMAC is bringing the same efficiency to education and skilling,” he adds.

Source: https://yourstory.com/2019/09/bangalore-edtech-startup-aggregator-online-courses

ThreeD Capital Inc. $IDK.ca Announces Completion of its USD$500,000 Commitment Into #TODAQ $HIVE.ca $BLOC.ca $CODE.ca

Posted by AGORACOM-JC at 9:42 AM on Tuesday, October 1st, 2019
IDK: CSE
  • Completed its commitment of USD$500,000 to acquire 248,201 Preferred Series A-1 Stock in TODAQ Holdings Inc.
  • The Subject Shares represent approximately 1.3% fully diluted of all issued and outstanding preferred and common shares of TODAQ as of September 30, 2019.

TORONTO, Oct. 01, 2019 — ThreeD Capital Inc. (the “Company”) (CSE:IDK), a Canadian-based venture capital firm focused on investments in promising, early stage companies and ICOs with disruptive capabilities is pleased to announce that it has completed its commitment of USD$500,000 to acquire 248,201 Preferred Series A-1 Stock (the “Subject Shares”) in TODAQ Holdings Inc. (“TODAQ”). The Subject Shares represent approximately 1.3% fully diluted of all issued and outstanding preferred and common shares of TODAQ as of September 30, 2019. The Subject Shares have been acquired in a series of private placements and not through the facilities of any stock exchange. The Company, through the preferred stock acquisition, also receive Toda Notes (“TDN”) royalty rights of approximately 175 million TDN out of a total supply of 237 TDN, representing approximately 0.13% of the total TDN supply. 

“I’m pleased to announce the close of this important investment. We’ve followed our thesis of investing in secure, efficient, confidential, scalable and interoperable decentralized technology and focusing on fundamentals rather than the hype cycle of a still nascent industry. I’m looking forward to bringing the TODAQ enablement factor to bear across our other investment verticals,” said ThreeD’s Founder, Chairman and CEO Sheldon Inwentash.

TODAQ is a founder of the Sovereignty Tech movement and aims to restore ownership and control of identity, assets and data for all as a human right.  The company serves businesses, financial institutions and governments and offers the open API TaaS (TODA-as-a-service’) platform which provides ownership management and settlement for all digital assets. It is powered by TODA, a decentralized protocol for ownership management. It enables the secure and efficient creation, ownership and transfer of meaningful digital assets and can be hosted fully on just mobile devices. TODA’s proof of provenance data structure can wrap any type of data, providing a transferrable, self-contained, immutable proof of its history and integrity. The uniqueness enforced by the proof of provenance also allows the creation and distribution of assets that carry real value, without a central management system like a ledger or database. TODA enables digital things to behave like tangible assets.

“Over the course of this last year working with ThreeD Capital as our investor, we’ve brought academic institutions in to collaborate on TODA Protocol decentralization and R&D, built the first version of the TODA Protocol into an enterprise grade open API platform called TaaS, partnered with global corporations in preparation to scale out to the first hundreds of thousands of people, and readied ourselves to launch and exchange list the TODA Note, the first decentralized digital asset on TODA designed to support real economy utility. We’re looking forward to integrating ThreeD Capital as our Canadian investor partner, and its portfolio, into our main partners markets in Asia, Middle East and Europe,” said Hassan Khan, the Co-Founder and CEO of TODAQ.

The TODA Note is a reserve backstopped digital note designed to accelerate commerce and industry as well as complement existing fiat currencies (which can also be put directly on the TODA). Due to the TODA Protocol’s efficiency, TDN is not needed to settle or reach consensus on transactions of TODA based digital assets. There will be a total of 237 cryptographically generated TDN, with a distribution period of about ten years to place the entire supply into the global market. Any node or low power device taking part in distributed consensus or settlement work can also have a very small probability of generating a net new TDN so that there is a slow but capped inflation of the overall TDN supply over time. 

To find out more about TODAQ’s mechanisms and value proposition, please visit https://www.todaqfinance.com/.

About ThreeD Capital Inc.

ThreeD is a publicly-traded Canadian-based venture capital firm focused on opportunistic investments in companies in the Junior Resources, Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain sectors. ThreeD seeks to invest in early stage, promising companies and ICOs where it may be the lead investor and can additionally provide investees with advisory services, mentoring and access to the Company’s ecosystem.

For further information:
Sheldon Inwentash, CPA, CA. LL.D.
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
[email protected]
Phone: 416-941-8900

St-Georges Eco-Mining $SX.ca $SXOOF – Kings of the North Subsidiary Sold to UK’s BWA Group PLC.

Posted by AGORACOM-JC at 5:34 PM on Monday, September 30th, 2019
  • Company has completed the sale of its subsidiary Kings Of The North Corp to BWA Group Plc of London, United Kingdom (NEX:BWAP)
  • The total transaction is evaluated at approximately CAD 7.5M. St-Georges holds 50.18% of Kings of the North.

Montreal – September 30, 2019, St-Georges Eco-Mining Corp. (CNSX:SX.CN) (OTC:SXOOF) (FSE:85G1) is pleased to inform its shareholders that the Company has completed the sale of its subsidiary Kings Of The North Corp to BWA Group Plc of London, United Kingdom (NEX:BWAP). The total transaction is evaluated at approximately CAD 7.5M. St-Georges holds 50.18% of Kings of the North.

BWA’s shareholders voted to approve the acquisition of KOTN earlier today with over 99.1% of vote cast in favour. Management of St-Georges, Kings of the North, and BWA Group spent the remainder of the days finalizing the regulatory documentation.

Vilhjalmur Thor Vilhjalmsson, President and CEO of St-Georges, commented, “(…) This is another important milestone achieved, and our management looks forward to working with BWA Group to unlock the potential value of these projects. St-Georges’ restructuring is starting to take shape and we look forward to the next steps on the path of this journey (…).”

ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS

“Vilhjalmur T. Vilhjalmsson”

VILHJALMUR THOR VILHJALMSSON

President & CEO

About St-Georges

St-Georges is developing new technologies to solve some of the most common environmental problems in the mining industry. The Company controls directly or indirectly, through rights of first refusal, all of the active mineral tenures in Iceland. It also explores for nickel on the Julie Nickel Project & for industrial minerals on Quebec’s North Shore and for lithium and rare metals in Northern Quebec and in the Abitibi region. Headquartered in Montreal, St-Georges’ stock is listed on the CSE under the symbol SX, on the US OTC under the Symbol SXOOF and on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange under the symbol 85G1.

The Canadian Securities Exchange (CSE) has not reviewed and does not accept responsibility for the adequacy or the accuracy of the contents of this release.

#Coors $TAP Enters #CBD Market With New Distribution Deals – SPONSOR: NORTHBUD $NBUD.ca $CGC $ACB $APH $CRON.ca $HEXO.ca $TRST.ca $OGI.ca

Posted by AGORACOM-JC at 4:05 PM on Monday, September 30th, 2019

SPONSOR: NORTHBUD (NBUD:CSE) Sustainable low cost, high quality cannabinoid production and procurement focusing on both bio-pharmaceutical development and Cannabinoid Infused Products. Learn More.

NBUD: CSE
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Coors Enters CBD Market With New Distribution Deals

  • As CBD continues to hit fever pitch with consumers, Molson Coors Brewing Company is entering the business
  • Company recently inked distribution deals with Colorado’s Best Drinks and DRAM Apothecary.

Emily Cappiello Contributor 

As CBD continues to hit fever pitch with consumers, Molson Coors Brewing Company is entering the business. The company recently inked distribution deals with Colorado’s Best Drinks and DRAM Apothecary.

“We are very excited to add Colorado’s Best Drinks and DRAM to our portfolio, giving us the ability to offer amazing CBD hemp products to retailers and consumers in the Denver Metro area. We see a big demand for high quality and unique products in the non-alcoholic space and we think Colorado’s Best Drinks and DRAM are the perfect solution to fill that consumer demand,” says Jennifer DeGraff, director of marketing, Coors Distributing Company.

Moose Koons, co-owner of Colorado’s Best Drinks, explains that the process started about eight months ago when one of the company’s beverages ended up in the hands of someone at the company.

“We started the process from there and Coors really saw an opportunity,” he says. “Working with Coors is going to open up our distribution into restaurants, grocery, bars, convenience stores — they have a fantastic network. But it’s also about the validation and legitimacy of our organization. We’ve been selling CBD drinks for more than a year now.”

Koons explains that Colorado’s Best Drinks has worked closely with the Colorado Department of Health in order to figure out healthy CBD boundaries in consumables, which he feels is one of the reasons that Coors was drawn to the company.

Additionally, Koons adds that what makes Colorado’s Best Drinks different from other CBD-infused beverages out there is the fact that the company is hands-on in the manufacturing process.

“We understand how ingredients go together and how they bond. Sometimes, CBD can be tricky and may not want to blend, but we found solutions to make sure we are putting out a quality product,” he says.

As for teaming up with Coors as far as distribution, Koons says the company is poised for growth already, modeling its processes after the booming craft beer industry in Colorado.

“We watched the craft beer industry and we’ve been working on scalability for two or three years. We should be able to increase distribution without having to change the facility and we put a lot of processes and procedures in place already,” he says.

Currently, distribution will be limited to Colorado while the Food and Drug Administration irons out regulations regarding hemp-based food and beverages. However, Koons notes that continuing the education of the consumer will help to eliminate stigma, questions and concerns surrounding the growing food and beverage category.

“One of our goals is to continue to educate the consumer that hemp is fantastic. It’s sustainable and there are even receptors in your body that allow you to be able to process it. We are going to continue to try to really bring hemp into the spotlight,” he says.

Colorado’s Best Drinks offers a full line of sparkling beverages infused with broad spectrum hemp extract. Each flavor – Black Cherry, Cola, Ginger Ale, Lemonade and Root Beer – is crafted with just five ingredients: sparkling water, organic agave nectar, natural flavors, non-GMO citric acid, and broad spectrum hemp extract. Each 12oz BPA-free can contains 100 calories and are all vegan, gluten-free, non-GMO, and free of sodium and preservatives.

Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilycappiello/2019/09/24/coors-enters-cbd-market-with-new-distribution-deals/#19e7012f4bc5

Electric-Car Dreams Could Fall a Nickel Short – Tartisan #Nickel $TN.ca hosts measured and indicated resource of 7.14 million tonnes at 0.62% $ROX.ca $FF.ca $EDG.ca $AGL.ca $ANZ.ca nickel

Posted by AGORACOM-JC at 10:48 AM on Monday, September 30th, 2019

SPONSOR: Tartisan Nickel (TN:CSE)  Kenbridge Property has a measured and indicated resource of 7.14 million tonnes at 0.62% nickel, 0.33% copper. Tartisan also has interests in Peru, including a 20 percent equity stake in Eloro Resources and 2 percent NSR in their La Victoria property. Click her for more information

Electric-Car Dreams Could Fall a Nickel Short

Demand for a form of nickel needed in electric-vehicle batteries is starting to outpace supply

  By Rhiannon Hoyle  

SYDNEY—Global producers of electric cars have big ambitions and a bigger problem: Supplies of a key material are running short.

Nickel sulfate is a brilliantly colored crystalline substance used in electric-vehicle batteries. The ore most commonly used to produce it is mined in only a handful of places—and they include some of the most politically or operationally challenging, such as Russia or Canada’s frozen Northeast.

Nickel sulfate accounts for just a fraction of global nickel sales; about 70% of nickel is used in stainless steel. But auto makers will launch more than 200 new plug-in electric vehicles through 2023, consulting firm AlixPartners estimates—and that isn’t counting hybrids. UBS expects batteries in electric vehicles to account for 12% of global nickel demand by then, up from 3% in 2018.

And after years of low prices that stalled investment by global miners, nickel supply is falling short of demand. “There’s no new nickel in the pipeline,” said Angela Durrant, principal metals analyst at Wood Mackenzie, a U.K.-based consulting firm.

Read More: https://www.wsj.com/articles/electric-car-dreams-could-fall-a-nickel-short-11569780257

The Huge Opportunity Education Investors Are Missing – SPONSOR: #BetterU Education $BTRU.ca $ARCL $CPLA $BPI $FC.ca

Posted by AGORACOM-JC at 10:16 AM on Monday, September 30th, 2019
SPONSOR:  Betteru Education Corp. aims to provide access to quality education from around the world. The Company plans to bridge the prevailing gap in the education and job industry and enhance the lives of its prospective learners by developing an integrated ecosystem. Click here for more information.
BTRU: TSX-V

The Huge Opportunity Education Investors Are Missing

  • Of course, there’s no such thing as a sure investment but here’s why getting aboard the education train in India sure feels like it.
  • HolonIQ, KPMG and others relay the numbers – India has 260 million students studying at 1.5 million schools.

By: Derek Newton Contributor 

If you pay attention for more than even a few minutes, it’s easy to be dumbfounded by the decision-making of education and education technology investors as they routinely pour money into businesses and concepts that have no hope of working. They continually believe education ventures and education markets function like normal ventures in other markets and that what they hear from misinformed pundits is accurate. They don’t. And it’s probably not.

At the level of the individual decision and the particular funding round, there is a parade of examples. But the easiest example is at the macro, international level where investors and speculators have yet to move on what may be the greatest educational growth opportunity they will likely ever see – India.

To say the education and education investment opportunities in India are massive is to not understand the word massive.

As you review the statistics and projections about India, keep in mind that ed and edtech investment there is just 10% of the global total, behind China and the U.S. According to HolonIQ, just $700 million was invested in India edtech in 2018 and just one company, Byju’s, raked in $540 million of that. Every other investment in education in India shared a paltry $160 million. 

Of course, there’s no such thing as a sure investment but here’s why getting aboard the education train in India sure feels like it.  HolonIQ, KPMG and others relay the numbers – India has 260 million students studying at 1.5 million schools.

The country has 600 million people under the age of 25 and some 27 million undergraduate college students. That’s 4.5%. For comparison, the U.S. has about 17 million undergrads out of population of about 100 million in the under-25 bracket, obviously, that’s about 17%. The growth potential in higher ed alone should be obvious.

With 400 million smart phone users, it’s the second-largest connected country on the planet. And India’s projected economic growth is heavily tied to service and technology and dependent on education. If the country is going to continue to grow, its education system has to too. National leaders know this are likely to continue big investments and favorable policies.

Further, most education in India is done in English. All of higher education is. Which means that for U.S. investors and innovators especially, India ought to be a comparatively easy market to understand and reach. Even more significantly, India allows for 100% direct foreign investment in education.

The KPMG report predicts more than 50% annual growth in online learning in India, due to the rapid growth in young people and Internet connectivity. They expect that business in the reskilling and continuing credential market to grow 38% annually.

And like many young people, students and prospective students in India are highly responsive to educational quality as represented by brand.  In other words, known American and European education brands that get in India now could really clean up as the country’s warp-speed growth kicks in.  

Overall, the KMPG report is not subtle about the India education market, saying, “The education market in India … presents a lucrative opportunity for monetization.” HolonIQ says the environment there “translates into a huge opportunity as the target market for education and upskilling.”

It appears so.

Yes, education providers should not chase money, they should follow a more noble purpose. But that case is sitting in India too. With 30% of India’s population under the age of 14, the risk that India’s education won’t keep pace is a real, geopolitical threat. Helping them grow in size and quality is important on a number of fronts. And, if India’s education system can keep pace, the growth will dwarf anything in China and not even compare with anything in the U.S.  

And yet investors and education providers have been comparatively slow to move to and in India. In 2018, education funding in the U.S. was twice what it was in India and education investment in China was nearly seven times larger. To an observer, that makes little sense.

It feels that if you have a MOOC platform or a lab school or a random digital learning app – investments with little hope of financial return and even less hope of educational reform – venture capital flows like wine at a bacchanal.

Maybe that’s overstated. What’s probably not overstated is what’s coming in the education space in India. That feels very real. Let’s see if the wizards of Wall Street and the sultans of Silicon Valley recognize it.

Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/dereknewton/2019/09/28/the-huge-opportunity-education-investors-are-missing/#7b006c0152d0

Enthusiast Gaming $EGLX.ca Congratulates Its #Esports Team, Vancouver Titans, for Record Breaking 2019 #Overwatch Season $EPY.ca $FDM.ca $WINR $TCEHF $ATVI $TNA.ca

Posted by AGORACOM-JC at 7:11 AM on Monday, September 30th, 2019
  • Congratulates the Vancouver Titans, a professional esports team the Company has a non-controlling interest in, for a record breaking first season in the Overwatch League and for making it to the Overwatch Grand Finals in Philadelphia.
  • Throughout the season and coming into the Grand Finals, the Vancouver Titans were ranked #1 and finished with a season record of 25-3. 

TORONTO, Sept. 30, 2019 – Enthusiast Gaming Holdings Inc. (“Enthusiast Gaming“) (TSX-V: EGLX) (FSE: 2AV), congratulates the Vancouver Titans, a professional esports team the Company has a non-controlling interest in, for a record breaking first season in the Overwatch League and for making it to the Overwatch Grand Finals in Philadelphia. Throughout the season and coming into the Grand Finals, the Vancouver Titans were ranked #1 and finished with a season record of 25-3. 

Managed by Enthusiast Gaming’s esports division, Luminosity Gaming Inc. (“Luminosity Gaming”), the Vancouver Titans battled the San Francisco Shock in the final match of the Grand Finals tournament, at the sold out Wells Fargo Arena in Philadelphia. The total prize pool for the tournament was US$3.5 million.

On September 29, the Grand Finals were broadcast live across North America mainstream media channels, ABC, ESPN and TSN and were livestreamed on Twitch in 190 countries. Overall viewership is projected to be higher than the 10.8 million global audience that watched the 2018 finals.  The Overwatch League consists of 20 teams across six countries and three continents. Its projected that over 40 million people play Overwatch worldwide.

Luminosity Gaming is a leading esports organization with 7 championship teams across the world’s most popular game titles. Enthusiast Gaming acquired its interest in the Vancouver Titans from the team’s majority owner, the Aquilini Investment Group.  The Company recently announced that it will be joining the 2020 Call of Duty League, with the acquisition of a non-controlling interest in the Seattle based team. 

Steve Maida, President of Luminosity Gaming, Enthusiast Gaming’s esports division commented, “Congratulations to both teams for making it to the 2019 Grand Finals! I am sure the millions of fans around the world enjoyed watching teams of this calibre. As owners and managers of the Vancouver Titans, we are very proud of the team for an unbelievable first season and for the hard fought battle against the San Francisco Shock. We eagerly await next season from Rogers Arena.”

About Enthusiast Gaming 

Enthusiast Gaming is one of the largest vertically integrated video game and esports companies in the world. The Company’s digital platform includes +100 gaming related websites and 900 YouTube channels which collectively reach 150 million visitors monthly. Enthusiast’s esports division, Luminosity Gaming, a leading global esports organization consists of 7 professional esports teams under ownership and management, including the #1 ranked Overwatch team, the Vancouver Titans and over 50 gaming influencers with a total audience of 60 million followers. Collectively, the community reaches over 200 million gamers on a monthly basis. Enthusiast also owns and operates Canada’s largest gaming expo, Enthusiast Gaming Live Expo, EGLX, (eglx.com) with approximately 55,000 people attending in 2018. For more information on the Company, visit www.enthusiastgaming.com. For more information on Luminosity Gaming, please visit luminosity.gg

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