HEX snaps up Sydney-based edtech company EntryLevel
In a partnership both companies hope will “leverage their combined strengths to tackle the global employability and skills gap”, HEX and EntryLevel joined forces on January 24 – coinciding with the sixth annual International Day of Education, this year themed around preserving human agency in the age of AI.
“In a post-AI education world, what we’re seeing in the market is fear and uncertainty,” said Jeanette Cheah, CEO and co-founder of HEX.
“Traditional institutions are reacting too slowly, and AI is eroding the value propositions of many edtech startups, so we have the chance to take a really fresh approach. We’ll be teaching AI literacy in our cross-disciplinary programs and building the AI operating systems we need as a global education provider – while still delivering world-class offline education and building actual human networks.”
She added that joining forces with EntryLevel would allow the company to “deliver impact on a much larger scale”.
“Together, we’ll prepare the workforce for an exponentially-changing world – by deploying HEX’s Exponential IntelligenceTM capabilities framework and keeping students’ career dreams at the centre of everything we do,” she said.
Together, we’ll prepare the workforce for an exponentially-changing world
Jeanette Cheah, HEX
Meanwhile, Ajay Prakash, CEO and co-founder of EntryLevel, said that the deal “felt like a natural fit to blend two very complementary models”.
HEX boasts “renewed support” from the Atlassian Foundation, as well as “new backing” from the Toyota Community Trust.
Its merger with EntryLevel marks the next step in HEX’s expansion journey. It branched out into Vietnam last year, where it provided 100 scholarships to students of its online programs in the country.
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