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Genpact Partners AI-led Platform EdCast to Launch Free E-Learning Platform for Professionals

Genpact , an American professional services firm, has partnered with New York-based EdCast, a US-based AI-powered knowledge cloud services company, to launch Adapt and Rise, a role-based online learning platform that leverages Genpact's expertise honed from delivering real-world change for hundreds of clients.

With this e-learning platform, Genpact aims to enable professional resilience and accelerate adoption of the most critical professional skills and competencies required to succeed in the digital age -- At No Cost.



The platform leverages an in-house learning solution created by Genpact, earlier in November 2018, called 'Genome', which is a dedicated platform  created by Genpact to skill its sales workforce. The platform includes courses on professional skills, change management, conflict resolution.

Adapt and Rise is available in both desktop/web and mobile app forms. To access the web version, visit https://adaptandrise.edcast.com/ or the Chrome Web Store and enter "adaptandrise. To download & access its apps, download EdCast from either the App Store, Google Play.

Based on work done by MIT's Center for Collective Intelligence, Genome harnesses the collective intelligence of Genpact's more than 90,000 employees. Using Genpact's experts to curate knowledge for its distributed workforce, Genome encourages the flow of information and easier learning. Adapt and Rise takes this tested foundation and is now offering it to the public.

By opening to the public parts of its highly successful continuous learning platform, Genome, Genpact is helping to accelerate the professional learning process for everyone.

With the quickening pace of change, professionals need to constantly improve their skills to distinguish themselves and provide maximum value in a hyper-competitive job market. Skills that were once seen as nice to have are now critical to succeeding as part of the adaptive workforce required in the digital economy.

With Genome, Genpact is continuously preparing internally for the future of work by enabling its talent to acquire new skills and evolve quickly as industries and technologies change.

"In this time of unprecedented global change, it is incumbent on those who have resources to provide access to those who need them," said Tiger Tyagarajan, chief executive officer of Genpact.

"We believe it is important to share the insights honed from our business and technology expertise to help people reach their professional potential and maximize their ability to drive meaningful impact in the world," Tyagarajan said.

Genpact, in partnership with EdCast, provider of an award-winning Learning Experience Platform (LXP) used by Global 2000 companies and large government organizations, is making content available globally to enable people at all levels to amplify their capabilities. Participants can learn and master a wide variety of essential skills relevant to many key roles at the heart of digital transformation.

Expert curators have rigorously curated 1,500 pieces of the most relevant publicly available content that will help professionals upskill in 13 vital roles: Business Analyst, Digital Program Manager, Finance and Accounting Professional, Human Resources Professional, Infrastructure and Logistics Professional, Process Operations (Individual), Process Operations (Team Leader), Process Operations (Organization Leader), Procurement Professional, Project Manager, Risk and Compliance Professional, Sales and Marketing Operations Support, and Tech Support Engineer.

Each role-based channel features approximately 100 hours of bite-sized learning content, including videos, articles, blogs, podcasts, and more. The content is categorized into 14 skills that are common across roles, including Artificial Intelligence Basics, Change Management, Customer Experience, Design Thinking, Digital Business Strategy, People Leadership, and Storytelling. These skills have become core to career advancement across roles and career stages.

The content is presented in the context of thematic journeys, each with up to four levels of proficiency. The learning order is neither prescriptive nor linear; the learner can self-identify a starting point and engage with the content in any order.

"EdCast helps global workforces meet their upskilling and reskilling needs to become future-ready," said Karl Mehta, chief and founder of EdCast.

"This is why we launched the Future of Work Alliance that is squarely focused on bringing this vision to fruition. We are very proud to partner with Genpact on the Adapt and Rise platform to bring personalized, role-based learning that is seamlessly integrated with tools that most people regularly use, including Microsoft Teams, Slack, Workplace by Facebook, Google, ServiceNow, Salesforce, and others."

Genpact is democratizing learning at a moment of historically high unemployment and when economic pressures will likely impact company budgets that were earmarked for learning and development. The company aims to enable professional resilience in a hyper-competitive job market by making available learning for all on the most critical modern skills and competencies that organizations require to succeed in the digital age.

"Whether it's a graduating student, a transitioning worker, or a working professional, we at Genpact believe that everyone should have the opportunity to learn from our experience accumulated through thousands of engagements with hundreds of clients," said Gianni Giacomelli, chief innovation leader at Genpact. "Our collective knowledge allows us to determine what people should know and learn, and serve them the right knowledge to ignite insights, boost skills, and amplify talent. We are leveraging the collective intelligence enabled by the Genome platform to make the most contemporary real-world learnings available to millions of people at no cost."

Source - PRNewswire

Acquisitions: Online Learning Firm EdCast Buys Sales-University And Jiyo Natural Acquires Sangeetha Aahar

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Online learning firm EdCast has acquired Seattle-based sales training app maker Sales-University, while health food firm Jiyo Natural has bought food delivery company Sangeetha Aahar for an undisclosed sum.

Online Learning Firm EdCast Buys Seattle Based Sales Training App Maker Sales-University

Online learning platform EdCast Inc has acquired Seattle-based sales training app maker Sales-University (formerly WAGmob), for an undisclosed amount, to expand its enterprise learning to Sales organisations.

Founded in January 2011 by Microsoft Engineers - Kalpit Jain and Kavita Jain, Sales-University creates apps for learning and training for iOS, Android and Windows mobile. Its clients include Google, Samsung, Snapdeal and a few Fortune 500 companies. Sales University has over 300 mobile apps for learning and training for iOS, Android and Windows and has over 4 million consumers.

Recently EdCast raised $16 million in its second round of funding led by GE Asset Management, with participation from SoftBank Capital, Cervin Ventures, Standford StartX Fund and Peneta Global.

Going forward, Edcast would continue to scout for acquisitions that provide specialised services in specific sectors, and singled out healthcare as a top priority. “Besides healthcare, we will look at the hospitality sector as well as online retail for acquisitions,” said Edcast founder Karl Mehta.

Health Food Company Jiyo Natural Acquires Food Delivery Firm Sangeetha Aahar

Health food company Jiyo Natural has acquired Bangalore-based food delivery company Sangeetha Aahar for an undisclosed amount.

With this acquisition, the four-year-old company, Jiyo Natural now aims at growing its revenue by 30%. Besides the growth in revenue, Jiyo Natural will increase its capacity by 140%.

After the acquisition, Jiyo will be delivering around 2,700 meals a day and aim to reach close to 4000 in three months.

Going forward. Indian Angel Network-backed Jiyo Natural, which competes with Freshmenu and Cookaroo, also have plans to introduce ready-to-cook meals from the next quarter.

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EdCast Raises $16M in Series B to Expand its Leadership in Knowledge Network

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EdCast, a Stanford StartX company empowering individuals, teams and organizations using the EdCast Knowledge Media & Intelligence Network, has completed a $16 million round of financing led by GE Asset Management. Other investors joining GE Asset Management include SoftBank Capital, Cervin Ventures, Stanford StartX Fund and Penta Global. This new capital comes in addition to $6 million Series A round led by Softbank Capital in late 2014.

“We are laser focused on our mission to expand the knowledge economy with curated, contextual bite size knowledge,” said Karl Mehta, Founder & CEO of EdCast. “Millennials in the workplace along with the complexity of engaging and educating customers and partners is creating the need for daily relevant insights from the world’s foremost experts and influencers in a variety of industries, from tech, health, financial services, highered, entrepreneurship and expanding to telecom, banking, media, retail.”

“We are excited about EdCast’s vision, innovation, and the disruptive power of its technology in enterprise knowledge discovery, sharing and learning,” said Carlos Monfiglio, partner at GE Asset Management. “The list of Fortune 500 companies using EdCast is impressive and we believe the Company is on its way to defining and leading a new category in enterprise knowledge and intelligence.”

The Series B financing builds on an exceptional month of growth for EdCast, which earlier announced a partnership with HP to power its HP LIFE knowledge community of over 500,000 users worldwide and other large Fortune 100 companies like GE, Salesforce, and EMC.

The Company is based in Mountain View CA, with offices worldwide.

About Founder

Karl Mehta is a serial entrepreneur, investor, engineer, author and civil servant with over 20 years of experience in founding, building and funding technology companies in the U.S. and international markets. He is currently the founder & CEO of EdCast Inc, graduated from Bombay University, in electronics engineering with a dream to go to the United States to study and make it big in the technology space. Apart from being the Venture Partner at Menlo Ventures, he is also the founder of Code For India – a Silicon Valley-based tech-driven non-profit organisation. Previously, he founded a company called PlaySpan Inc., which was acquired by Visa in March 2011, for about $240 million.

EdCast Raises $16M in Series B to Expand its Leadership in Knowledge Network

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EdCast, a Stanford StartX company empowering individuals, teams and organizations using the EdCast Knowledge Media & Intelligence Network, has completed a $16 million round of financing led by GE Asset Management. Other investors joining GE Asset Management include SoftBank Capital, Cervin Ventures, Stanford StartX Fund and Penta Global. This new capital comes in addition to $6 million Series A round led by Softbank Capital in late 2014.

“We are laser focused on our mission to expand the knowledge economy with curated, contextual bite size knowledge,” said Karl Mehta, Founder & CEO of EdCast. “Millennials in the workplace along with the complexity of engaging and educating customers and partners is creating the need for daily relevant insights from the world’s foremost experts and influencers in a variety of industries, from tech, health, financial services, highered, entrepreneurship and expanding to telecom, banking, media, retail.”

“We are excited about EdCast’s vision, innovation, and the disruptive power of its technology in enterprise knowledge discovery, sharing and learning,” said Carlos Monfiglio, partner at GE Asset Management. “The list of Fortune 500 companies using EdCast is impressive and we believe the Company is on its way to defining and leading a new category in enterprise knowledge and intelligence.”

The Series B financing builds on an exceptional month of growth for EdCast, which earlier announced a partnership with HP to power its HP LIFE knowledge community of over 500,000 users worldwide and other large Fortune 100 companies like GE, Salesforce, and EMC.

The Company is based in Mountain View CA, with offices worldwide.

About Founder

Karl Mehta is a serial entrepreneur, investor, engineer, author and civil servant with over 20 years of experience in founding, building and funding technology companies in the U.S. and international markets. He is currently the founder & CEO of EdCast Inc, graduated from Bombay University, in electronics engineering with a dream to go to the United States to study and make it big in the technology space. Apart from being the Venture Partner at Menlo Ventures, he is also the founder of Code For India – a Silicon Valley-based tech-driven non-profit organisation. Previously, he founded a company called PlaySpan Inc., which was acquired by Visa in March 2011, for about $240 million.

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