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<ul><li>Founded by <keyword id="45125" type="General" weightage="80" keywordseo="jhunjhunwala" source="Orion">Jhunjhunwala</keyword> and Nikhil Naik, the ed-tech start-up raised $7.5 million in Series A funding.</li><li>The company will use the funds to scale up and accelerate hiring across the teams in multiple geographies.</li><li>It was recently listed by HolonIQ on its annual list of the 100 most promising EdTech start-ups from India &amp; South Asia.</li></ul>Early learning ed-tech platform <keyword id="12296471" type="General" weightage="100" keywordseo="creative-galileo" source="Orion">Creative Galileo</keyword> on Thursday said that it has raised $7.5 million in Series A funding. The funding was led by Kalaari Capital, Affirma Capital, East Ventures, Valiant Employee Investment Fund and angel investors.The ed-tech start-up has so far raised $10 million, including a pre-series A round of $ 2.5 million in October last year. Creative Galileo will use the funds to scale up and accelerate hiring across the teams in multiple geographies. It will also introduce regional languages and further strengthen the research and development of the platform. “In the last year, we have successfully built and provided millions of children access to high-quality content in our Digital and Educational Equality mission. We want to enable bespoke learning for children across the globe through their favourite characters to strengthen their foundation during their early years,” said <keyword id="14517914" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="prerna-a-jhunjhunwala" source="Orion">Prerna A Jhunjhunwala</keyword>, founder of Creative Galileo. The company was founded in July 2020, during the Covid-19 pandemic, by Jhunjhunwala and Nikhil Naik. Creative Galileo is a character-based early learning platform for kids in the ages 3-10, and claims to have over 7 million downloads and 7,00,000 monthly active users in just over a year. Creative Galileo was recently listed by HolonIQ on its annual list of the 100 most promising EdTech start-ups from India &amp; South Asia. “We are excited to strengthen our partnership with Prerna and Nikhil as they continue their journey of transforming learning experiences for children across the globe. In the last six months, they have achieved strong growth with low marketing spends. This is a testament to the founders' relentless focus and strong execution,” said Vani Kola, managing director, Kalaari Capital. The funding comes amid a massive churn in India’s ed-tech sector. Companies like <keyword id="2900267" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="byju" source="Orion">Byju</keyword>’s, Unacademy and WhiteHat jr have resorted to mass lay-offs to cope with a crash crunch. SEE ALSO: <a target="_blank" class="c-link c-message_attachment__title_link" href="https://www.businessinsider.in/business/news/india-sealed-ma-deals-worth-104-3-bn-this-year-raised-6-bn-from-ipos/articleshow/93029011.cms">India sealed M&amp;A deals worth $104.3 bn this year, raised $6 bn from IPOs</a> <a target="_blank" class="c-link c-message_attachment__title_link" href="https://www.businessinsider.in/stock-market/news/strong-corporate-earnings-drive-markets-higher/articleshow/93028512.cms">Strong corporate earnings drive markets higher</a>

Edtech startup Creative Galileo raises $7.5 million in Series A funding

New Delhi, '<keyword id="6268120" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Little-Singham">Little Singham</keyword>: <keyword id="1862" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="kids">Kids</keyword> Early <keyword id="4534290" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="learning-app">Learning App</keyword>' which was launched last year by Creative Galileo has hit a million downloads in just six months with an average rating of 4.70. This educational app is a paradigm shift from traditional teaching practices and is targeted towards children from ages of three to eight years to teach them about colours, numbers, shapes, <keyword id="2435810" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="phonics">phonics</keyword>, etc. Delivered via extremely engaging storylines of Little Singham and his friends, Babli, Lattu, Hawaldar Karate, and many others, this app helps to inculcate values of friendship, <keyword id="52350" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Kindness">kindness</keyword>, helpfulness, and morality in kids. What is making the app a favourite among kids and adults is the use of cartoon character of Little Singham, whose popularity is growing by leaps and bounds. Designed to make learning fun and embedded with a phonic program, the app gives kids access to thousands of educational videos, audiobooks and interactive games. The clutter-breaking app has been developed by experts from the world of <keyword id="6355445" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="education">Education</keyword> with an award-winning curriculum that focuses on six key domains: Language and Literacy; Numeracy; Discovery of the World; Motor Skills; Creative Expression; and Cognitive Development. Talking about the app, founder Prerna Jhunjhunwala, said: "Traditionally, education and fun were supposed to be two things that are complete opposite of each other but we believe that when the children are having fun then they are more interested in learning. Our carefully curated content brings together the best of education and entertainment. "A million downloads of 'Little Singham: Kids Learning App' proves that parents and children are hungry for content that holistically targets the learning of the children via unconventional teaching methods. A kids app that meets the end to end needs of parents and children". SEE ALSO: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/business/ecommerce/news/radhakishan-damani-dmart-ready-takes-cautious-steps-against-jiomart-and-amazon/articleshow/80209971.cms">Pitted against JioMart, Amazon and others, Radhakishan Damani’s DMart has opted for “controlled acceleration” in e-commerce</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/business/startups/news/oyo-cashes-in-another-cheque-from-swedish-billionaire-martin-hp-sderstrm-for-its-vacation-homes-business-in-europe/articleshow/80214916.cms">OYO cashes in another cheque from Swedish billionaire Martin HP Söderström for its vacation homes business in Europe</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/apps/how-to/how-to-backup-and-restore-messages-in-signal-app/articleshow/80226649.cms">How to backup and restore messages in Signal app</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/apps/news/whatsapp-says-your-privacy-wont-be-affected-if-you-dont-use-these-features/articleshow/80225748.cms">WhatsApp says your privacy won't be affected if you don't use these two optional features</a>

Creative Galileo's kids learning app 'Little Singham' hits million downloads in six months

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="6360549" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="Creativity">Creativity</keyword> has taken a hit during the pandemic due to a decrease in remote employee <keyword id="6379846" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="collaboration">collaboration</keyword>.</li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/bengmn">Ben Crudo,</a> an ecommerce expert and CEO of <a href="https://www.diffagency.com/?utm_medium=pr&amp;utm_source=csuite&amp;utm_campaign=benpublicationsications">Diff Agency</a>, says bosses can step in to fix this issue.</li><li>He says bosses can enable employee's creativity by supporting their needs and avoiding micromanaging.</li></ul>You know the feeling. It's already afternoon and your goal to make headway on your work to-do list is slipping out of reach. In the office, you could be inspired by chatting with a colleague or charting things out on the conference room whiteboard. But now it's just you, facing a creativity desert.We hear a lot about the challenges of sustaining productivity in the <keyword id="1384155" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="WFH">WFH</keyword> context. But the deeper, underlying issue has gone unaddressed: You can't have productivity without creativity. Without access to the activities and people we've traditionally sought inspiration from - whether colleagues or concerts, travel or theatre, dance or Degas - our creative wells are drying up, which has enormous consequences in the workplace. <h2>Why creativity is another WFH casualty </h2>In the before-times, our odds of encountering a new idea were far greater. When our worlds extended beyond the four walls of our homes, picking up pebbles of inspiration was a natural, almost unconscious process. While waiting for my coffee I'd overhear the barista gush about a new podcast, I'd pass fresh graffiti en route to the office, then I'd run into a colleague and we'd talk shop before parting ways at the boardroom. Pebbles everywhere; and every so often one would come in handy.Our pandemic-forced isolation severely limits that organic process of finding inspiration. One in four remote managers surveyed said that<a href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/report-collaboration-creativity-suffer-in-today-s-dispersed-workforces-1029652125"> their teams' creativity has suffered</a> since working from home. That inspiration gap, in turn, hurts our businesses, as studies show that <a href="https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/mckinsey-digital/our-insights/creativitys-bottom-line-how-winning-companies-turn-creativity-into-business-value-and-growth">creative leaders outperform their peers</a> on key financial metrics like organic revenue growth. Pre-COVID, <a href="https://www.verywellmind.com/differences-between-extrinsic-and-intrinsic-motivation-2795384">extrinsic motivators</a> like praise, shame, or exclusion played a bigger role in our decision-making and creative process. Now, we now need to turn inwards for inspiration. The good news: Intrinsic motivators like interest, enjoyment, and a good challenge are<a href="https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/how_your_work_environment_influences_your_creativity"> a treasure-trove for creativity</a>. Here's how to get those juices flowing. Read more: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/what-you-can-learn-from-jeff-bezos-leadership-style">How Jeff Bezos' leadership style propelled him to become the richest man in the world, and what you can learn from it</a><h2>Tap into your Renaissance mindset </h2>You've heard the expression Renaissance man (or woman). It harkens back to great thinkers like Galileo, Leonardo da Vinci, and Michelangelo who saw no boundary between art, science and life. Rather than specialize, they did it all. Busting up the creativity log jam comes down to that Renaissance spirit. We think creatively when our imaginative and rational brain networks fire on all cylinders to make new neural connections. This isn't a left brain versus right brain issue - creativity is a<a href="http://openforideas.org/blog/2016/10/12/the-science-behind-creativity-what-happens-in-the-brain-and-why/"> whole brain function</a>. The key to unlock your Renaissance mindset will come from sampling ideas outside of your specialties. Start with scheduling unstructured conversation with colleagues and clients. Then notch it up by deliberately seeking out the unusual: learn to carve wood, watch a foreign documentary, or seek out books from an author you've never read before. To quote <a href="https://davidwhyte.com/pages/writing">poet David Whyte</a>, "Just beyond yourself. It's where you need to be." Case in point, I've been starting team meetings with poems lately. With just a few short verses, poems can make space for thoughtful discussion in an otherwise banal day.The goal here isn't strictly acquiring new thoughts or skills; it's to break the flow of your workday thinking and spark something new. <h2>For bosses, find ways to enable your <keyword id="6357081" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="employees">employees</keyword>' creativity</h2>An employer's role is not so much kindling creativity but making sure not to inhibit it on your team. This comes down in large part to how you're assigning projects. The best projects <a href="https://hbr.org/1998/09/how-to-kill-creativity">challenge without overwhelming</a> employees. A well-designed task should build on and extend existing abilities, sparking intrinsic motivation. Next, you want team members to know they have your support. That starts with setting clearly defined goals, offering encouragement, and ensuring teams have the resources they need to innovate. Time and money constraints can kill creativity. Finally, know when to get out of the way. Give your employees the freedom to get it done. Nothing crushes creativity and initiative faster than micromanagement.Ultimately, the license to create<a href="https://thenextweb.com/growth-quarters/2020/10/16/heres-how-to-foster-a-culture-of-creativity-within-your-company-to-attract-creators/"> comes from the top</a>. Focus on building an environment that nurtures intrinsic motivation, and you'll provide the foundation for your team - and business - to thrive. Read more: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/salesforces-ai-ethics-chief-kathy-baxter-safely-return-office-2021-2">Salesforce's AI ethics chief shares 3 ways to use tech when planning a safe return to the office</a><h2>Use physical and mental fitness to unlock inspiration</h2>I may not leave my house anymore, but I've been pushing myself to bike up the (virtual) Alps, do at-home-pilates, and beat my push-up record. But it's about more than just getting healthy: a physical workout clears the mind, and opens up the space for creativity to enter. Mental fitness is just as important. Meditation may sound hokey to some, but it can be a powerful tool to make space for new ideas and connections. Talking to a therapist or even a close friend about what you're experiencing day-to-day can also help in gaining new perspectives. And it's important to remember to just let go. Without clear, physical boundaries between work and home, remote workers say<a href="https://buffer.com/state-of-remote-work-2019"> unplugging after work</a> is their greatest challenge. Encourage your colleagues to escape their home offices whether it's for a workout, a 20-minute meditation session, or even just a walk around the block. Inspiration often strikes when you least expect it.The crisis has proven how a company's ability to adapt and innovate can predict its success -- and survival. It's time we stop treating creativity like an afterthought and get disciplined about cultivating it instead. The future of business depends on it.<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/benjamin-crudo/">Ben Crudo</a> is CEO of <a href="https://www.diffagency.com/?utm_medium=pr&amp;utm_source=csuite&amp;utm_campaign=benpublicationsications">Diff Agency</a>. A retailer turned technologist, Crudo is an ecommerce expert helping retailers win today and tomorrow.

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<ul><li>Farm incomes grew between 1.3-1.7 times in FY22, non-farm income grew between 1.4-1.8 times, according to a <keyword id="3209999" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="SBI-report" source="Orion">SBI report</keyword>.</li><li>SHGs are entities, which usually have a membership of 15 to 20 members from very low income families, usually women.</li><li>A total of eight lakh fresh SHGs were financed in FY22 – with Bihar taking the biggest share.</li></ul>Self-help groups (SHGs) are not just providing economic independence to rural women, but also contributing heavily to the growing non-farm incomes across the country. While farm incomes grew between 1.3-1.7 times in FY22, non-farm income grew between 1.4-1.8 times, according to a Special Report on Agriculture by SBI. Rural women and their cottage industries, allied agricultural businesses and petty trade help generate large-scale employment for rural Indians who engage in the seasonal trade of agriculture. “SHGs, crucial in imbibing an entrepreneurial spirit among farmers at the lower band of the spectrum, in particular women, have a high concentration in select states and within those states also they remain confined to certain districts though their performance in aspirational districts of NITI Aayog has been noticeable of late,” says a Special Report on Agriculture by SBI. SHGs are entities, which usually have a membership of 15 to 20 members from very low income families, usually women. They mobilise savings from members and use the pooled funds to give loans to the needy members. <cmsannotation type="cmsannotation" annotationid="Andhra, Telangana rank higher" comment="subhead" text="Andhra, Telangana rank higher">Andhra, Telangana rank higher</cmsannotation> A total of eight lakh fresh <keyword id="6501158" type="General" weightage="80" keywordseo="shg" source="Orion">SHG</keyword>s were financed in FY22 – with Bihar taking the biggest share. Amaravati and Telangana districts together account for a majority of SHG finance. Of the total SHG financing in the country, 18% outstanding belongs to the 124 aspirational districts. Launched in January 2018, the Aspirational Districts programme aims to quickly and effectively transform 112 most under-developed districts across the country. “Aspirational districts programme…has been a ‘huge success’ in just a period of four years at least in respect of SHG financing,” says the SBI report. This concentration, however, is very high in states like Karnataka, where the top five districts accounted for 83% of total SHG financing of the State. Similarly, the top five districts in <keyword id="37102" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="andhra-pradesh" source="Orion">Andhra Pradesh</keyword> and <keyword id="20154" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="tamil-nadu" source="Orion">Tamil Nadu</keyword> accounted for more than 50% share — all indicating that while a change is afoot, it’s not evenly distributed across the regions of this vast country. <cmsannotation type="cmsannotation" annotationid="UP, Haryana and Punjab have the worst credit quality" comment="subhead" text="UP, Haryana and Punjab have the worst credit quality">UP, Haryana and Punjab have the worst credit quality</cmsannotation> In terms of credit quality, <keyword id="6357713" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="uttar-pradesh" source="Orion">Uttar Pradesh</keyword>, Haryana and Punjab rank the lowest — with a high non-performing assets ratio (<keyword id="79363" type="General" weightage="80" keywordseo="npa" source="Orion">NPA</keyword>) of over 25%, according to SBI’s Special Report on Agriculture. <div type="image" title="NPA Ratio" msid="93036535" hostid="261" sizebytes="77358"></div> Arunachal Pradesh and Tripura, with an <keyword id="1039815" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="NPA-Ratio" source="Orion">NPA ratio</keyword> of 19 and 18 respectively, are also part of the list of worst NPA states. Andhra Pradesh, however, is the best performing state with an NPA ratio of 0.8. NPA ratio is calculated by dividing non performing assets by total loans given. SEE ALSO: <a target="_blank" class="c-link c-message_attachment__title_link" href="https://www.businessinsider.in/entertainment/news/top-10-most-watched-hindi-web-series-on-ott-platform-as-per-omax-report/slidelist/93032569.cms">Top 10 most watched Hindi web originals in the first half of 2022</a> <a target="_blank" class="c-link c-message_attachment__title_link" href="https://www.businessinsider.in/business/startups/news/edtech-startup-creative-galileo-raises-7-5-million-in-series-a-funding/articleshow/93029916.cms">Edtech startup Creative Galileo raises $7.5 million in Series A funding</a>

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<div class="KonaFilter image-container float_right click-to-enlarge"><div class="image on-image"><a title_source="Flickr/Disco Techs Team 1099" title_caption="Dean Kamen and " Ashley="" a="" member="" of="" the="" Disco="" Techs="" robotics="" team="" from="" Brookfield="" and="" Newtown="" High="" Schools.="" class="zoomin" href="http://static3.businessinsider.com/image/52b4c6c469bedde957966005-960/dean-kamen-and-teen.jpg"></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/team1099/7848587596/sizes/l/">Flickr/Disco Techs Team 1099</a>Dean Kamen and "Ashley" a member of the Disco Techs robotics team from Brookfield and Newtown High Schools.</div></div>Dean Kamen might be best known as the inventor of the <a href="http://www.segway.com/">Segway</a> personal transportation vehicle, but, as cool as that is, that's not even close to the most amazing thing he's done.
Kamen has spent his life solving some of the world's most difficult challenges and holds a mind-boggling 500 U.S. and foreign patents. He founded a research and development company, DEKA, based in Manchester, NH that today <a href="http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2013/08/features/engine-of-progress">employs about 400 people.</a>
Kamen was recently the 2013 recipient of the prestigious <a href="http://thetechawards.thetech.org/media_room/pioneering-health-care-technologist-dean-kamen-named-2013-james-c-morgan-global">James C. Morgan Global Humanitarian Award</a>, joining previous honorees like Bill Gates and Gordon Moore (Intel co-founder and creator of Moore's Law). 
Kamen was granted this award for inventing a scope of things that have improved life on Earth including
<ul>
<li>the first portable drug delivery device for providing drugs that previously required round-the-clock hospital care.</li>
<li>a portable dialysis machine</li>
<li>an insulin pump for diabetics</li>
<li>a vascular stent</li>
<li>the iBOT -- a motorized wheelchair that climbs stairs</li>
<li>a prosthetic arm for maimed soldiers</li>
<li>and a portable energy and water purification device, <a href="http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2013/08/features/engine-of-progress">called Slingshot,</a> for the developing world.</li>
</ul>
Now he's taking on the problem of how to inspire kids in the U.S. to enter careers in the math and sciences. The non-profit he founded, called <a href="http://www.usfirst.org/">FIRST</a> (which stands for For Inspiration Recognition of Science and Technology), is just about to award $18 million in college scholarships to at least 900 high school students in 2014.
It will also support science programs and competitions in 29,000 schools in 80 countries, with over 1 million kids, and 121,000 professional scientists participating, Kamen told Business Insider.
We had a chance to speak with Kamen about the First program, his career, the life of an inventor. Here's a lighted edited transcript:
Business Insider: Tell me about FIRST. What's the goal there?
Dean Kamen: FIRST is a real chance to be a cultural change agent that will prevent this country from sliding from its leadership position held for 200 years. We've been a beacon of the world that innovation works, solves problems, creates wealth. [That won't continue] unless kids get into science and tech in a meaningful way and have as much passion that as they have for sports and entertainment. We want to reverse that trend and create a generation of people that sees innovation and are willing to take reasonable risks of time, ego, money to ty and create a new world better than one we have.
BI: Of all the things you've invented, do you have any personal favorites?
DK: I'm asked that a lot over the years and I've grown more comfortable with my answer: I don't know, it hasn't happened yet.
In any category, is like comparing apples and oranges. But here's two extreme examples:a prosthetic arm that we made that literally can give someone their right arm back. It allows someone that gave that arm for this country to do things we take for granted, like scratch their nose or pick up grape or eat in a restaurant with some dignity. That project will help a few hundred people and I hope it never becomes a big global market. But if someone needs it, it matters very much to that person.
At the other extreme, we're building a water system that can get rid of water-born pathogens at a relatively low cost, pennies a day. That's a piece of technology that could help a few billion people. The water machine, with the support of the Coca-Cola Company, will be by far most impact on the most people.
[NOTE: After Kamen invented the a next-generation Freestyle soda-fountain vending machine, Coca-Cola committed to setting <a href="http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2013/08/features/engine-of-progress">up the Slingshot water purification machine </a>in 15 developing countries worldwide].
BI: Who do you admire as the biggest innovators in the tech world?
DK: When I think of great icons for tech industry, I'm not one of them for a lot of reasons.
What these people do is get some massive success, like Amazon or Google, and can bring enormous scale. They don't do what I do, just create it and then hand it off to big global partner. They create a whole company. A Jeff [Bezos] or a Larry [Page] and Sergey [Brin] build something and then lead a multibillion juggernaut. I'm not in the league with those kinds of people.
They have companies in filled with smart and technically excited people and can come up with self driving cars and space ships and I'm always rooting for them. It takes people like that with those kinds of resources and courage.
BI: What advice can you offer on creativity that allows you to keep tackling such difficult problems?
Most people, once they get good at something, they make iterations and make a career out of that.
We're good at trying to try some crazy idea that probably won't work. When you look at the number of times we ever have a huge success, only every couple of years, and we're always working on a dozen projects at time. Instead of looking in the mirror and saying "You're an idiot. Give up."
We say, "We've been at it for a few years and we're not smart enough to implement it yet." If we found 73 ideas that don't work, I protect my ego from facing catastrophic failures by saying it's all about timing. You have to be that way if you want to play in a field were failure is so common. You have to be somewhat schizophrenic to wake every day and say, "Today it's going to work!" To get up optimistic every morning and when you go to bed at night tell yourself, "Well, I've been at this one five and half years and its still a frustration. But I knew that going in. I have a plan for that."
You have to be filled with unbridled optimism or you'll never even try to work on projects that seem so daunting.
BI: Is it harder today to invent The Next Big Thing than it was when you first started?
DK: Contrary to much of popular opinion, that says the so-called age of the individual inventor is over .. I would say its just the opposite of the way it was 20 years ago. Today you have the ability and access to computational power, or lab equipment. Today a kid in high school biology lab can swab his cheek and do DNA sample. 20 yrs ago, that would have won you a Nobel Prize. People have access to more information tech in their pocket today than any advanced lab could have dreamed of years ago. More than ever, the barriers to real innovation are lowered. All that's necessary is imagination and courage.
BI: What's the biggest, hardest invention that you really want to create but fear you can't?
I never say never. But the the one field, the one invention that has intrigued me forever is from H.G. Wells. The one thing I really, really want … I want a time machine. I want to go talk to Archimedes or Galileo or Einstein, or go forward and know what the world looks like in 100 year. I'm sadly afraid that's not going to happen in my lifetime.

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