Britain is also increasingly adrift in each of the four categories that the WEF assesses in compiling its rankings: down from 37th to 46th in economic participation; from first to 32nd in educational attainment; from 63rd to 94th in health; and from 12th to 33rd in political empowerment.
In addition, edX will look to encourage participation from third-party developers by providing technical and process guidelines as well as additional support.
The news comes a week after another carrier, Telefonica, announced that it would expand its Blue Via API platform with participation from third-party carriers, and just one day after Twilio — which also offers developers API-based access to services like voice — announced 150,000 developers and 1.5 million phone calls per day based on its voice APIs, with its service now covering 40 countries.
(Curalate's round was led by NEA and included participation from First Round Capital and MentorTech Ventures).
The round was led by Baseline Ventures with participation from First Round Capital, Tandem Capital and Arafura Ventures.
The round was led by Index Ventures, with participation from First Round Capital, Mangrove Capital Partners, and O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures.
The round was led by August Capital with participation from First Round Capital, Data Collective, Webb Investment Network, Tahoma Ventures, Engineering Capital and a number of angel investors as well.
The round, which officially closed in late 2012, was led by North Coast Technology Investors, and included participation from First Step Fund and the Michigan Pre-Seed Capital Fund, which gives the state of Michigan an equity stake in the new company.
The small team announced today that they've raised a $10.5 million Series A led by Index Ventures, with participation from First Round Capital, Kleiner Perkins, Google's Gradient Ventures, LDVP, A+E and WndrCo.
Flatiron Health, a startup that organizes real-time oncology data to help cancer patients and doctors, has raised $130 million in Series B funding led by Google Ventures, with participation from First Round Capital, Laboratory Corporation of America, and angel investors.
Today, the startup is announcing that it has raised $5 million in series A financing led by The Social+Capital Partnership, with participation from First Round Capital and Great Oaks Venture Capital.
