China Daily: Shared passions can fire up trade links
A podcast from Chris Marquis, Professor of Chinese Management at Cambridge Judge Business School, interviewing Kenneth Wong of NavPac, is mentioned in this article about shared passions firing up trade links. Whether it is the roar of a Harley-Davidson motorcycle,…
Cambridge News: Arabic school teaching refugee children their mother tongue through pandemic
Kalamna startup that was previously on the Cambridge Social Ventures programme run by the Cambridge Centre for Social Innovation is featured in the article. The venture provides Arabic language classes to children and adults in Cambridge. Founder Saussan Khalil said:…
Middle East Eye: Teaching Arabic to kids: How families are putting the fun back into reading
Kalamna startup that was previously on the Cambridge Social Ventures programme is featured in the article. Founder Saussan Khalil tells how the idea for Kalamna, that provides Arabic language classes to children and adults in Cambridge, came up: “You don't…
New York Times: Speaking in mother tongue
The Kalamna Arabic startup is featured in the article. The startup provides Arabic language classes to children and adults in Cambridge in a fun and stimulating environment focusing on everyday spoken language. Kalamna Arabic was previously on the Cambridge Social…
Learning languages
Speechmatics, a firm supported by the Accelerate Cambridge programme at Cambridge Judge Business School, wins a Queen's Award for Enterprise. Speechmatics, a machine learning and speech recognition company that was supported by the Accelerate Cambridge programme at the Cambridge Judge…
Business Weekly: Cambridge life science and technology companies win Queen’s Awards
Some technology and life science companies were among East of England businesses to win the Queen’s Award for Enterprise. Speechmatics, a venture that was on the Accelerate Cambridge, was one of the winners. The machine learning and speech recognition company…
Venturing forth: Crayfish
Cambridge MBA alumna founded an online platform that connects qualified bilingual talent to companies aiming to do business with China. Ting Zhang, CEO and founder of Crayfish has more than 20 years' experience in facilitating investment and trade between the…
The Economist: Tongue tried
Jonathan Beckman, deputy editor of 1843 magazine, writes about his experience of learning the nearly extinct Ainu language via the Tribalingual platform – “an admirable project keeping endangered ones alive online.” The startup, founded by Inky Gibbens, seeks to save…
Smithsonian: Want to learn Cherokee? This startup is teaching endangered languages
Inky Gibbens, founder and CEO of Tribalingual startup, talks about her venture and why it’s important to save endangered languages. “When languages die we lose an incredible opportunity to learn about our collective human psyche. This is because languages aren’t…
Fast Company: Tribalingual
Inky Gibbens, founder and CEO of Tribalingual startup, talks about her venture and why it’s important to save endangered languages. Tribalingual seeks to save endangered languages from extinction by encouraging new people to learn them. “I wanted to do something…