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Answerky
Company: Answer.ky
Founders:  Michael Xia, Kael Greco
Website:  answer.ky

Answer.ky is a scantron-like tool, but for handwritten open response questions. We've packaged the latest handwriting recognition technology, into a simple online tool that works with any printer and scanner!


Blendspace
Company: Blendspace
Founders: Amy Lin & Gabriel Cebrian
Website:  blendspace.com

With Blendspace, teachers can easily create and deliver blended-learning lessons that adapt to students needs with easy drag-and-drop internet resources, built-in assessments and lesson tracking.


BrightLoop
Company: BrightLoop
Founders:  Molly Levitt & Ben Rabidou
Website:  brightlooplearning.com

BrightLoop helps teachers track, communicate and act on student needs in real-time. Teachers track and share student observations via their mobile phones or tablets.


ClassDojo
Company: ClassDojo
Founders:  Sam Chaudhary & Liam Don
Website:  classdojo.com

ClassDojo is a simple, free app that helps teachers build stronger relationships with students and parents. It gives teachers an easy way to encourage students for skills and strengths, and engage families beyond the classroom.


DeansList
Company: DeansList
Founders:  Matt Robins
Website:  deanslistsoftware.com

DeansList is a gradebook that helps schools assess critical “soft skills” like perseverance, diligence, leadership, teamwork and grit. Schools capture and analyze data on classroom behavior and disciplinary interventions to define metrics and goals for student improvement.


edoome
Company: Edoome
Founders:  Leonardo de la Fuente & Francisco Rubio
Website:  edoome.com

Edoome is an online community focused on the Latin American market that connects teachers, students and their parents so they can communicate and collaborate in an easy and secure way with real-time discussion forums, file sharing, quizzes and assignments.


EDpuzzle
Company: EDpuzzle
Founders:  Quim Sabria, Santi Herrero, Jordi Arriola & Xavier Verges
Website:  edpuzzle.com

With EDpuzzle, you can make any video your lesson. EDpuzzle combines simple video-editing tools with powerful analytics so that a teacher can take a video and make it personal, engaging and effective. Together we are building a pool of the best video lessons for the classroom.


edshelf
Company: edshelf
Founders:  Mike Lee & Thomas Sha
Website:  edshelf.com

Edshelf helps educators and schools find, buy, and use the best education technology for their needs. Edshelf combines the best of Yelp and the App Store into a convenient launchpad to be educators' single destination for accessing and managing all of their edtech.


Educents
Company: Educents
Founders:  Kate Whiting, Kaitlyn Trabucco & Ron Peled
Website:  educents.com

Educents is the trusted marketplace for every child’s education. Educents gives teachers, homeschoolers and parents access to innovative and fun educational products for their classroom and/or home. Specializing in innovative products created by a community of experts, the platform has already distributed over 1,500,000 high-quality educational resources throughout the world.


Educreations
Company: Educreations
Founders:  Wade Roberts & Chris Streeter
Website:  educreations.com

Educreations turns any iPad or web browser into a recordable, interactive whiteboard, making it easy for teachers and experts to create engaging video lessons and share them on the web. Students can replay these lessons any time, any place, on any connected device.


Edusight
Company: Edusight
Founders:  Vikram Somasundaram, Garros Li, Dev Chakraborty & Qiming Weng
Website:  edusight.co

Edusight is an intuitive gradebook with built-in student learning portfolios, making it easy for teachers to capture assessment data. Edusight’s student portfolios help teachers review all this data in one place, and easily share with students and parents.


Emote
Company: Emote
Founders: Julian Golder, Lei Xu
Website:  emotenow.com

Emote is a K-12 app that helps schools catch student behavior problems before they start. With Emote, staff can proactively work together to anticipate and avert student crises and behavioral problems; and school leaders can assess non-academic initiatives, such as Social-Emotional Learning programs, and support accountability metrics, such as ESSA.


Goalbook
Company: Goalbook
Founders:  Daniel Yoo & Justin Su
Website:  goalbookapp.com

Goalbook empowers educators to design rigorous and engaging instruction with research-based resources, intuitive technology, and professional development.


Hapara
Company: Hapara
Founders:  Jan Zawadzki & Tony Kong
Website:  hapara.com

Hapara makes Google Apps easier to use for schools and teachers. Hapara's platform delivers a consistent learning environment, reduces the configuration and maintenance effort, eliminates most administrative overhead for teachers, and provides additional transparency in the classroom.


Kaymbu
Company: Kaymbu
Founders:  Kin Lo
Website:  kaymbu.com

Kaymbu is the iPad-based teacher documentation system to capture the essence of classroom activities and strengthen relationships between home and school. Teachers use it to record, store, organize, and securely share photos and videos of key classroom activities.


Padlet
Company: Padlet
Founders:  Nitesh Goel
Website:  padlet.com

Use Padlet to share a collection of text, images, videos, and documents easily with anyone - a fundamental need without an obvious solution. Padlet has achieved massive adoption in schools and colleges.


Remind
Company: Remind
Founders:  Brett Kopf & David Kopf
Website:  remind.com

Remind provides a safe way for teachers to text message students and stay in touch with parents. Remind's online dashboard makes it easy for a teacher to safely reach an entire class of students on their terms, over SMS.


Showbie
Company: Showbie
Founders:  Colin Bramm
Website:  showbie.com

Showbie makes it easy for teachers to assign, collect and review student work in 1:1 tablet classrooms. Showbie unlocks the creative potential of classroom tablets with easy document sharing and powerful markup tools.

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