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Abwaab Amman, Jordan

Changing how students learn outside the classroom

Abwaab is an online learning platform that allows students to learn at their own pace, test themselves, and get ahead with our expert tutors anytime and anywhere. Abwaab offers short, engaging video lessons, visualized learning journeys, continuous assessment, and performance analytics.

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AdmitKard Noida, India

Study abroad with expert guidance from international students

AdmitKard is was founded in 2016 by IIT-IIM Alumni (Piyush Bhartiya & Rachit Agrawal), with an aim to mentor students in the college application process. AdmitKard boasts of a robust technical platform to make the entire application process effortless and to enable you to apply from the comfort of your home, hostel, or wherever you are in the world, to make your dreams come true!

Learn more about AdmitKard.

Amira Learning San Francisco, CA

The First AI-Powered Reading Assistant

Amira Learning is reinventing learning to read with AI. Leveraging AI innovation developed by and licensed from Carnegie Mellon University over 20+ years, Amira is an intelligent reading assistant able to assess, listen to and coach developmental readers. Just like a patient grandparent, Amira reads along with a child, helping to make reading practice productive. Just like the best teacher’s aide, Amira can assess oral fluency, tutor and generally make teacher’s life easier.

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Andela New York, NY

Global Talent Accelerator

In the next ten years, there will be 1.3M software development jobs created and only 400,000 domestic computer science graduates to fill them. Africa, meanwhile, is home to the largest untapped talent pool and seven of the 10 fastest growing internet populations in the world.

Andela is on a mission to give the top 1% of talent in Africa an on-ramp to the digital economy while giving companies all over the globe like Viacom, Mastercard Labs, GitHub and SeatGeek  access to untapped, world-class talent. The Andela team identifies high-potential developers throughout the African continent, shapes these fellows into world-class technical leaders via their free training program, and pairs them with companies as full-time, distributed team members.

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Antwalk Bengaluru, India

Empowering Employees, Driving Change

Founded with the belief, ‘together we can achieve more’, AntWalk is an Ed-Tech platform that helps companies accelerate and transform their L&D strategy, paving the way to continuous learning. The core team consists of ISBians and ex-Mckinsey alums who are extremely passionate about sharing, learning and growing together.
Antwalk is powered by 4,000+ experts from 500+ global brands who offer effective solutions to improve employee development, enhance the competencies of employees and develop newer ones that align with business goals. This enables employees to learn in the flow of work, develop a growth mindset and propel their careers to the next level.

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apna Bengaluru, India

India’s largest career platform for the rising workforce

apna is the leading professional app in India focused on blue and grey collar workers. It is a horizontal and vertical network for workers in different trades and cities, enabling them to get hired and upskilled.

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Begin New York, NY

Early Learning Literacy Platform for Children PK-3

BEGiN, the parent company of the Speakaboos and Homer early childhood literacy and language learning program, is on a mission to provide children the best educational start possible. The platform produces the industry’s highest engagement by combining two award-winning programs supporting “Love to Read” and “Learn to Read, and is the only company with two top 10 subscription services in the Kids and Education categories in the App Store and Google Play.

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Bookclub Salt Lake City, UT

Book clubs, reimagined

Bookclub enables life changing conversations through virtual book clubs led by the authors themselves.

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BrightChamps Singapore

Next-generation skills academy for your child

BrightChamps offers live one-on-one courses in technological skills for kids in grades 1 – 12. The startup provides courses on coding and mathematical thinking. BrightChamp’s vision is to ensure that its young students are prepared for what the future holds.

Learn more about BrightChamps

CampusLogic Phoenix, AZ

Powering technology in the classroom.

CampusLogic transforms the way higher education delivers student financial services with a self-service SaaS platform for students, staff, and schools. CampusLogic’s innovative software means more students can access aid—and the education it pays for, make better decisions that reduce borrowing, and easily navigate student finance with less staff burden and cost. Today, 450+ colleges and universities serving 3 million students are on the platform, including ASU, Arizona, Georgia, Colorado State, Western Governors, and Morehouse.

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Classplus Noida, India

India’s Shopify for Education

Classplus empowers educators to take their offline institutes online. The full-stack and mobile-first platform enables tutors to distribute their content, acquire students, and teach virtually. The vision behind Classplus is to be the leading provider of infrastructure SaaS for digital learning.

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Clever San Francisco, CA

Powering Technology in the Classroom

At the heart of the software and Big Data revolution underway in education, Clever makes using a school’s technology faster, safer, and simpler than ever before. With Clever, learning applications get a platform to easily connect with schools and school districts have a central location to manage their technology. Today, half of K-12 schools in the U.S. trust Clever to secure their student data as they adopt learning software in the classroom, and the company works with more digital products and companies than any other platform in education aside from Apple.

Learn more about Clever

CLI Studios Los Angeles, CA

Transforming the Delivery of Dance & Visual Arts Instruction for K-12

Led by an outstanding team of former and current professional dancers and choreographers (one of whom was also a Cooley lawyer), CLI Studios delivers synchronous and asynchronous arts instruction to schools and arts studios. K-12 schools today are starved for arts curriculum and CLI offers access to professional instruction that is fun and engaging but also very affordable for most school budgets.

Learn more about CLI Studios

CoLearn Jakarta, Indonesia

Improving education standards in Indonesia

CoLearn is an edtech platform that empowers tuition centers and tutors to create online learning experiences for their students.

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Course Hero Redwood City, CA

Peer-to-Peer Marketplace for Educational Resources & Expert Tutors

Harnessing marketplace network effects and the power of community crowdsourcing, Course Hero is an online learning platform that empowers students and educators to succeed through study tools and resources. Fueled by a passionate community of over 20 million students and educators who share their course-specific knowledge and educational resources, Course Hero offers the biggest and best library of study documents, expert tutors, customizable flashcards, and course advice.

Course Hero is aligned with an increasing consumer preference for on-demand, unbundled, digital education resources among higher education’s key constituents. By connecting students and educators from over 11,000 colleges and universities, Course Hero continues to foster a more collaborative and personalized learning experience for students and educators around the world.

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Create & Learn Palo Alto, CA

Coding for kids

Broad, multi-disciplinary CS instruction platform offering live group classes trying to solve key issues within K12 CS today: 1. Narrow (Mostly Coding) 2. Shallow (Bare minimum introduction to the topics). Led by industry tech experts, the instruction focuses on real-world applications of CS for groups of K-9 students.

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CreativeLive San Francisco, CA

Creative Classes Taught by the World’s Top Experts

Founded by one of the most influential photographers of the last 20 years, CreativeLive is the go-to continuing education resource for creative professionals. A community of innovators and doers, CreativeLive is the world’s leading live, online classroom for creatives. Anyone can use the platform to take classes taught by the world’s most inspiring instructors. With over 2 billion minutes of content consumed to date, CreativeLive now has 10 million users and counting.

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ASI

Learn faster than ever.

digest.ai is building AI to help people understand text.

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DISCO Toronto

One platform to build, market and sell live courses, workshops and learning communities.

DISCO is a platform for creators to build and scale their live learning empire easily in one place.

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Domestika Berkeley, California

Find your creative match

Domestika is the fastest-growing creative community where the best creative experts share their knowledge and skills through professionally produced online courses. It all started as an online forum and a small but dynamic showcase of creative professionals, designed to help them connect and learn from each other.

Inspired by their thriving community, Domestika widened its reach by producing online courses for anyone interested in unleashing their creative potential and connecting with like-minded creatives from around the world. Domestika carefully curates the teacher roster and produces all the courses in-house, to ensure a high-quality online learning experience for everyone. Today, the online community is home to millions of people from around the world who are curious and passionate about learning new creative skills.

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Dreamscape Learn Culver City, CA, USA

Dreamscape Learn is a transformational education company born from a groundbreaking entertainment platform.

The promise of Dreamscape Learn was made in late 2019, when Michael Crow, President of Arizona State University, the nation’s largest and, for eight years running, “most innovative” university, visited a unique virtual reality entertainment center in Los Angeles, California called “Dreamscape Immersive.”.

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Ethena New York, NY

Sexual Harassment Training for Today’s Teams

Ethena provides sexual harassment training teams don’t hate. Compared to cringe-worthy, ineffective videos, Ethena’s evidence-based approach delivers personalized content in frequent, digestible doses via email and Slack nudges. Ethena handle details like reminders and compliance tracking, and keeps teams continually in compliance with evidence-based content that meets the newest regulations.

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Fairygodboss New York, NY

Improving the Workplace for Women Everywhere

In a market starved for disruption and transparency, Fairygodboss is an online community improving the workplace for women. Today, one million women are turning to Fairygodboss every month for job and company reviews, salary info, career advice, and job postings at companies women love.

Learn more about Fairygodboss

Filo Gurgaon, India

Connect to a tutor in 60 seconds, 24×7.

Filo is the world’s only live instant tutoring app where students are connected with expert tutors in less than 60 seconds for 1-1, interactive video sessions.

Learn more about Filo

FrontRow Bengaluru, India

India’s leading platform for passion learning

FrontRow is building the leading online platform for passion learning in India. The startup offers asynchronous celebrity-led courses, live expert-led courses, and community activities like competitions. Instructors include cricketer Suresh Raina and singer Neha Kakkar.

Learn more about FrontRow

Glimpse Huntsville, AL

Maximizing Education Return on Investment

Glimpse is trying to cut ineffective spending at schools. The company meshes education institutions’ accounting systems with student achievement data to help education institutions understand what they’re pumping money into and see where they’re getting the best return on investment when it comes to positive student outcomes.

Learn more about Glimpse

GoodTime San Francisco, CA

GoodTime is a scheduling automation software that helps enterprises streamline the interview process.

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Gradescope Berkeley, CA

Using AI to Turn Grading into Learning

Run by a team of MS and PhD graduates from Stanford and UC-Berkeley, Gradescope has created a modern, concept-based assessment platform that leverages machine learning to turn grading into an automated, highly repetitive exercise. Having aggregated a dataset of 300K+ graded STEM questions alongside detailed rubrics and 37M+ graded answers for 300+ universities including UC-Berkeley, Stanford, Harvard, MIT, Duke, Brown, and the University of Michigan, Gradescope is becoming the “GitHub for higher education.”

Learn more about Gradescope

Handshake San Francisco, CA

Transforming the College Recruiting Experience

Handshake is the ultimate career network and recruiting platform for college students and young alumni. With over 500 U.S. universities, 8 million students, and 200,000 companies (including 95% of the Fortune 500), Handshake has redesigned the recruiting experience for students, recruiters, and career centers.

Learn more about Handshake

Hellosaurus New York, NY

Interactive videos for kids

Hellosaurus is an e-learning platform that offers creative programs, fun activities, and video classes for kids.

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Hustle New York, NY

Scaling Genuine Human Relationships

Hustle is a one-to-one text messaging platform that scales and humanizes the way that organizations communicate with people. Founded in 2014 as a tool to help advocacy organizations conduct meaningful one-to-one texting conversations with their members, Hustle quickly saw success in the 2016 election cycle, where it helped more than 100 campaigns and political groups, scale and humanize their ability to communicate with millions of voters and volunteers. Since its founding, Hustle has helped clients — political groups, colleges and universities, workforce organzations — manage more than 38 million one-to-one conversations with more than 25 million people across the United States, Canada, and Australia.

Learn more about Hustle

Intellispark Washington, D.C.

Making student success a team sport

Intellispark is redefining how schools, families, and communities work together to prepare successful, future-ready kids. Parents and educators agree that education is about much more than academic proficiency, yet today education data mostly means grades and test scores. It’s time to give schools, families, and communities the instrumentation they need to measure development of the whole child while ensuring every child gets the support she needs to succeed in school and in life.

Learn more about Intellispark

Kyron Learning San Francisco, CA, USA

Interactive video lessons with expert teachers powered by conversational AI.

Kyron Learning is built on the idea that great education starts with great teachers and that students succeed most when they have access to high-quality, one-on-one feedback.

Learn more about Kyron Learning

LEAD Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Transforming schools into centers of excellence

LEAD is a major K-12 EdTech player that transforms affordable private schools via its Integrated System. It combines technology, curriculum and pedagogy into an integrated system of teaching and learning, thus improving student learning and teacher performance in schools across the country. LEAD partners with 2000+ schools with an estimated 8 lakh+ students in more than 400 cities, including tier 2 to tier 4 cities, in 20 States.

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Learn In Salt Lake City, UT

First Full-Service Upskilling Benefits Platform

Learn In is an upskilling-as-a-service platform helping companies with their large-scale, internal upskilling initiatives by helping them manage the financing, time, program selection, and candidate selection considerations across the organization. The Learn In team found the biggest impediment to companies upskilling their people was time, so the company is building a SaaS platform for enterprise that helps companies appropriate time to employees for bootcamps and other upskilling programs.

Learn more about Learn In

Lightneer Helsinki, Finland

“Invisible Learning” Gaming Company

Bringing together seasoned gaming veterans from Rovio and Digital Chocolate responsible for 50 published titles, 3 billion downloads, 5 billion YouTube views, and revenues of nearly $1 billion, Lightneer is a learning game studio focused on creating and developing next-generation “invisible learning” games.

Learn more about Lightneer

Loom Los Angeles, CA

Your body partner

Loom is a wellbeing platform empowering women through reproductive and sexual health education.

Learn more about Loom

Mattilda Mexico City, Mexico

mattilda ensures the income of your school.

mattilda solves your finances so that you can focus on what really maters, educating.

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MasteryConnect Salt Lake City, UT

K-12 SaaS Assessment & Analytics Platform

MasteryConnect is an innovative assessment and curriculum platform that provides innovative tools to over 2.5 million educators and 21 million students worldwide. The cloud-based assessment and data analytics platform enables teachers to track student mastery of skills, target students for intervention, personalize learning, and incorporate data to evaluate their own practices.

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Mighty Salt Lake City, UT

Connecting Work, Performance, People & Skills

Mighty helps companies bring together execution and employee development by connecting goals, work, people, and skills to the most important initiatives inside of an organization. Its solution helps people maximize their impact and development by aligning the needs of employees with the needs of the organization, resulting in better innovation, productivity, and collaboration across the company.

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Motimatic San Francisco, CA

Motivational Ad Platform Keeping College Students Inspired to Stay in School

Motimatic is an automatic motivation system for educational institutions seeking to improve student retention and completion. The company blends the latest advances in advertising technology and behavioral science to deliver motivating messages to students in place of commercial messages that they’d typically encounter on social media networks like Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, as well as SMS and email.

Learn more about Motimatic

NoRedInk San Francisco, CA

Adaptive Learning Platform to Improve Grammar & Writing Skills

NoRedInk is a web-based learning platform that helps students improve their grammar and writing skills. The platform incorporates each person’s favorite celebrities, personal interests, and Facebook networks to generate grammar questions and enable teachers to give quizzes, assignments, and practice exercises to help students work through misconceptions.

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Openhouse Kolkata, India

Your child’s new happy place.

Designed to be complementary to schools, the Openhouse learning hub is a holistic afterschool learning space for children aged 4 to 18 years with classes on academic and extra curricular topics of interest, located in the comfort of their neighborhood.

Learn more about Openhouse

Pace AI Boston, MA

Learn English 10x faster from real-world content.

AI-native English language learning platform that transforms any content into personalized, interactive lessons tailored to different student levels. With Pace AI, teachers and learners can upload any content (e.g., news articles, PDF training manuals, and more) and our AI will create adaptive skills-based exercises, with real-time feedback and on-demand support—just like a human tutor would!

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PeopleGrove San Francisco, CA

The single destination for career, community, and connection.

PeopleGrove is a SaaS platform for companies and schools to foster professional networks in their communities, enhance career outcomes and create a culture of giving back.  Schools such as Stanford and USC work with PeopleGrove to match students with alumni mentors. Meanwhile, companies like Intuit license PeopleGrove software to drive powerful connections and mentorship to catalyze collaboration and inclusion in their organizations, particularly among Millennial hires.

Learn more about PeopleGrove

QuillBot Chicago, IL

State-of-the-Art AI Technology to Make Writing Painless

QuillBot is developing state-of-the-art AI technology to make writing painless. Quillbot was founded under the belief that learning and applying knowledge is more rewarding than the mundane aspects of writing. The QuillBot team seeks to continue that mission, automating those tasks and allowing you to focus on what you write, not how you should write it.

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Quizizz Bangalore, India / Santa Monica, CA

Gamified learning platform

Quizizz is a learning platform designed to motivate every student. The Quizizz platform is used in over 65% of U.S. schools and more than 100 countries around the world. Quizizz helps teachers find and create gamified quizzes, interactive lessons, and engaging study materials.

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RaiseMe San Francisco, CA

Micro-Scholarship Platform Reinventing Financial Aid

RaiseMe is reinventing educational pathways and changing the way students access billions of dollars each year in financial aid for college. Rather than waiting until the end of high school to award financial aid, Raise.me enables students to automatically earn “Micro-Scholarships” throughout high school based on their individual achievements in and outside of the classroom.

With over $1 billion in Micro-Scholarships that have already been made available by colleges, universities, and other sponsors across the US, Raise.me’s platform is bringing together experienced educators & technology professionals to reinvent financial aid and help close the achievement gap. Raise.me now has over 18,000 high schools with students on the platform and 260+ college partners including ASU, Penn State, Oberlin, Michigan State, NYU, and Carnegie Mellon.

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Simplilearn Bangalore, India

The world’s leading digital skills provider, enabling learners across the globe.

Simplilearn programs and certifications empower learners to achieve their career goals faster.

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ScholarMe New York, NY

Centralized College Financing Platform Helping Students Efficiently Pay Tuition

ScholarMe Co. is a centralized college-financing platform that helps students pay their tuition as efficiently as possible. ScholarMe consists of a simple, two-step process: First, students apply for hundreds of scholarships at once using the Universal Scholarship Application™, which hundreds of scholarship donors mutually agree upon accepting. Then, students apply for the lowest interest rate student loan possible using the ScholarMe Loan Comparison Tool. ScholarMe is a 100% free platform for high school and college students.

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Stride Boston, MA

The most affordable way to pay for school

Stride Funding is an outcomes-driven funding platform that supports students and creates transparency around outcomes across alternative and higher education. Stride offers flexible income share agreements (ISAs) and deferred tuition agreements (DTAs) as an alternative to private student loans.

Stride has a dual-pronged go-to-market strategy and connects with students through a host of bootcamp and university partnerships as well as direct-to-consumer channels. The company collects and analyzes meaningful earnings data across a diverse set of customers over time and seeks to drive alternative credit underwriting to transform who can gain access to financial products.

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Tango Los Angeles, CA

Capturing how work gets done

Tango delivers supercharged training for remote operations teams.

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Tara San Jose, CA

The Intelligent Product Builder

Tara.ai is an intelligent product builder platform to help manage outsourced, on-demand programming projects. True to its name Tara —which stands for Talent Acquisition and Recruiting Automation— has developed a platform that is built for growth and that delivers clear ROI to SMB and enterprise customers. Tara’s pre-screening algorithm integrates with GitHub to hire and assign contractors, and the platform stages a development environment, facilitates workflow, and manages contractors through machine learning, including inline QA/QC methods.

Over 50,000 contractors are already on Tara’s network with backgrounds from Y-Combinator, Amazon, MIT, Pixar, Facebook, and Microsoft, to name a few.

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TAP Dallas, TX, USA

Next-generation technician training.

TAP enables advanced manufacturers to evaluate and train technicians at unprecedented scale and speed.

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Tekie Gurgaon, Haryana, India

Teaching coding through storytelling

Tekie is the only kids coding company in India focused on teaching syntax coding. Prioritizing Return on Education, the platform teaches Python so that students acquire tangible skills. Users, mostly middle and high school students, learn by watching animated episodes that embed coding concepts as well as by playing games in order to progress through a story. Tekie distributes both through schools and direct-to-consumer.

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Think Through Math Pittsburgh, PA

Personalized, Interactive Math Instruction

Imagine Learning, a leader in elementary language and literacy software solutions, acquired Pittsburgh-based Think Through Learning Inc., provider of the Think Through Math (TTM) supplemental online math program. Through this acquisition, Imagine Learning is poised to fill a critical need for innovative and adaptive language, literacy, and math solutions in the K–12 space.

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Toko

Practice English conversations anytime, anywhere

Toko is an AI-powered, voice-based platform that helps you improve your English conversation skills.

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Toucan Santa Monica, CA

Redefining Contextualized Learning

Toucan is an immersive learning tool that is the most efficient way to learn new concepts while going about your day.

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Tract San Francisco, CA

Tract is a peer-to-peer community where kids discover new interests, fuel their creativity, and develop college-ready skills. Tract’s outstanding student leaders inspire, mentor, and guide children’s learning, driven by a passion for sharing knowledge.

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Tutored by Teachers New York, NY

Online Tutoring. Powered by Teachers.

Tutored by Teachers is a public benefit company that seeks to close the opportunity gap and advance equity in education by supporting high needs students. In the process, we empower our nation’s teachers to express their full potential by tutoring students and supporting their peers in the classroom.

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Tynker Mountain View, CA

Game-Based Platform for Young Learners to Develop Coding & Critical Thinking Skills

Tynker is a creative computing company empowering millions of kids to learn to program by building games, apps, and more. Tynker’s platform enables kids to master foundational coding skills via an intuitive, visual programming environment. Its universal programming language translates to HTML, iOS, Android, and Linux, and through the platform kids learn to code for fun things like games, apps, class projects, or how to program drones and robots.

Following a 2016 rollout of visual programming functionality for Minecraft, the Tynker team recently unveiled a global partnership with Apple’s youth coding camps across all Apple retail stores. A proven product, Tynker is currently used by a global community of more than 50 million kids across 60,000+ schools. All in all, that adds up to over 2.4 billion lines of code!

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uDocz Lima, Peru

All your study materials in one place.

uDocz is a peer-to-peer learning platform comprised of a course note marketplace generated by college students for college students and an AI tutor chatbot.

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UpSmith Dallas, TX, USA

Find, build, and retain skilled labor.

UpSmith helps you source, screen, train, deploy, and retain skilled labor with technology-backed services and workforce analytics.

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Valenture Institute Cape Town, South Africa

Global private online high school offering a curriculum recognized by the world’s leading universities

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Verto Education Berkeley, CA

Transforming The Student Gap Year Experience at Scale

Verto Education is reshaping the pathway to college as well as the experience of your first year. By putting choice in the hands of students and providing a program that helps students identify purpose and direction for themselves, Verto empowers students as they choose and enter college. Verto is where students own their first year of their learning, find purpose, and empower their mindset for a fulfilling college and professional career.

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Voxy New York, NY

Personalized, Cloud-Based Language Learning Platform Changing the Way the World Learns English
Voxy is changing the way the world learns English. As a language learning platform offering personalized, adaptive, and career-aligned courses, Voxy provides truly personalized English language instruction to corporations, educational institutions, and governments across the globe. Based on more than 30 years of academic research, Voxy’s solution meets the needs of every user by combining patented technology that adapts lessons in real time with personalized live instruction—all delivered in a fully mobile experience.

The Voxy learning platform has been used by more than 4 million learners and hundreds of institutions in over 150 different countries. Additionally, Voxy’s innovative approach has been recognized by major media outlets including The New York Times, Forbes and CNN.

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