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Accredible
Company: Accredible
Founders: Alan Heppenstall & Danny King
Website:  accredible.com

The future of certificate management--Accredible allows online learning providers like Udacity to create and manage digitally verified certificates for students.


AdmitSee
Company: AdmitSee
Founders: Steph Shyu & Lydia Fayal
Website:  admitsee.com

AdmitSee is a peer-to-peer college admissions resource: the first searchable database of successful college and graduate school application materials and advice.


Allcancode
Company: Allcancode
Founders: Kostas Karolemeas & Spiros Alvertis
Website:  allcancode.com

Allcancode is a complete learning platform for coding. Elementary school students play and learn the fundamentals of computer science and then practice their skills by making their own games.


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.


BloomBoard
Company: BloomBoard
Founders: Jason Lange & Eric Dunn
Website:  bloomboard.com

BloomBoard is a differentiated instruction platform for teacher professional development. It provides districts/states with free observation and goal-setting tools to implement teacher effectiveness mandates and then offers individualized recommendations from an open marketplace of professional development providers/content.


BrainNook
Company: BrainNook
Founders: Abhi Vijayakar
Website:  brainnook.com

BrainNook is the next generation of learning games for kids under 10. It combines standards-aligned educational content and rich, massively multiplayer game environments for kids with detailed analytics and performance measurement tools for parents and teachers.


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.


Cellabus
Company: Cellabus
Founders:  Samujjal Purkayastha
Website:  cellabus.com

Cellabus is a mobile device management platform that helps schools manage large numbers of different types of devices in diverse settings. It also assists teachers with managing student-device interaction in the classroom in real-time.


Chalk Schools
Company: Chalk
Founders:  Qian Wang & Sarah Chou
Website:  chalkschools.com

With Chalk, teachers & administrators can distribute documents electronically, fill out forms automatically, and request information and e-signatures. Chalk's instant updates on critical documents save educators time and create a stress-free experience for school forms.


Chesscademy
Company: Chesscademy
Founders:  Andrew Ng, Francis Hinson & Sabar Dasgupta
Website:  chesscademy.com

Chesscademy is an adaptive learning tool for improving chess play. By analyzing how users interact with educational content on the site, Chesscademy creates a personalized curriculum tailored to their individual learning paths.


Class Central
Company: Class Central
Founders:  Dhawal Shah
Website:  class-central.com

Class Central helps learners discover Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) based on their interests. Class Central builds an ecosystem around these courses by guiding learners towards their educational goals.


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.


Classkick
Company: Classkick
Founders:  Andrew Rowland & Peter Do
Website:  classkick.com

Classkick drives more student learning by increasing checks for understanding and student feedback. Students write their work on Classkick whiteboards, and the app surfaces student work and data to teachers instantaneously, facilitating fast and organized student practice.


ClassroomIQ
Company: ClassroomIQ
Founders:  Steve Dillinger
Website:  getclassroomiq.com

ClassroomIQ is a cloud-based platform for managing open-response questions – whether pencil-and-paper, with the world's most advance scanning solution, or electronic. It makes every step in the grading and feedback process 10X more efficient.


CodeHS
Company: CodeHS
Founders:  Jeremy Keeshin & Zach Galant
Website:  codehs.com

CodeHS provides a high school computer science curriculum, including short instructional videos, in-browser programming exercises, and a support system for teachers and students to get help from experts.


Codevolve
Company: Codevolve
Founders:  Saul Costa & Lauren Wyatt
Website:  codevolve.com

Codevolve is an AI-powered platform enabling hands-on learning for anyone interested in computer programming or web development.


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.


DeZyre
Company: DeZyre
Founders:  Binny Mathews & Omair Aasim
Website:  dezyre.com

DeZyre gets you job-ready by getting you experience. Professionals learn job-skills, by working on industry projects from companies, through fully live online interactive sessions.


DigitWhiz
Company: DigitWhiz
Founders:  Kasey Brown
Website:  digitwhiz.com

With DigitWhiz, kids master foundational math skills in a fun and effective way. Our online program evaluates current abilities, prescribes games and guides kids to master basic and pre-algebra skills. It’s easy for teachers to setup their class and for parents to use at home.


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.


Eduvant
Company: Eduvant
Founders:  Ben Glazer
Website:  eduvant.com

Eduvant brings school data into the 21st century with an integrated, open development platform and a suite of tools that empower decision-makers with real-time analytics. The platform’s open API enables developers to build integrated data solutions for schools.


Eduvee
Company: Eduvee
Founders:  Chirag Patel & Sunil Patel
Website:  eduvee.com

Eduvee enables 1-to-1 learning to happen at scale with an innovative machine learning approach, which allows it to adapt content to each student.


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.


Formative
Company: Formative
Founders:  Craig Jones & Kevin McFarland
Website:  goformative.com

Formative is a real-time formative assessment platform and classroom response system. All student responses are sent into a standards-based gradebook in real-time for instant data-driven analytics and feedback.


Freckle
Company: Freckle
Founders:  Sidharth Kakkar & Alexandr Kurilin
Website:  freckle.com

Freckle is the first differentiation platform that empowers teachers to reach students at the level that is perfect for them.


Geddit
Company: Geddit
Founders:  Justin Mann, Anton Troynikov, William Madden & David Lyons
Website:  letsgeddit.com

Geddit gives teachers the real-time feedback they need to address each student’s needs, by giving every student an easy way to report their confidence in class. Geddit is simple to use, engaging for students, powerful for teachers, and works on any web-enabled device.


GigaBryte
Company: GigaBryte
Founders:  Mo Akade
Website:  gigabryte.com

GigaBryte introduces elementary school kids to computer programming by channeling their natural passions and creativity. Kids work in teams to program wearable electronics using a visual programming environment and challenge-based curriculum.


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.


InstaGrok
Company: InstaGrok
Founders:  Kirill Kireyev
Website:  instagrok.com

InstaGrok is an interactive educational research engine that empowers self-directed learning. It displays any topic as a visual, interactive concept map, allowing students to explore the topic, grasp key concepts, discover content, adjust the difficulty, and quiz themselves.


Jumpcut
Company: Jumpcut Studios
Founders:  Kong Pham, Peter Lu, Jesse Jhaj
Website:  jumpcut.com

Jumpcut creates online courses that look and feel like movies. The founders of Jumpcut come from the entertainment industry and saw a need for higher student engagement in online learning. For a monthly Jumpcut subscription, lifelong learners can access online courses such as “Growth Hacking Facebook,” “Anatomy of a Viral Video,” “The Art of Vlogging,” and more.


Kaizena
Company: Kaizena
Founders:  Maxwell Brodie & Edward Sun
Website:  kaizena.com

Kaizena helps teachers close the feedback loop for students. Teachers make highlights on student work, giving feedback with voice comments, videos, and links to other resources. Kaizena also tracks the skills students need to improve, allowing teachers to differentiate.


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.


KickUp
Company: KickUp
Founders:  Jeremy Rogoff, Vicky Kinzig & Eric Krupski
Website:  kickup.co

KickUp is an analytics tool that helps instructional teams support their teachers and report to stakeholders. Districts access actionable dashboards showing teachers' progress and needs related to strategic goals.


Kodable
Company: Kodable
Founders:  Jon Mattingly & Grechen Huebner
Website:  kodable.com

Kodable is a curriculum introducing kids aged 5 and up to the basics of programming in a fun game. It offers teachers and parents tools and resources to help kids start their programming education before they can read.


Lambda School
Company: Lambda School
Founders: Austen Allred, Ben Nelson
Website:  lambdaschool.com

Lambda School trains people to be software engineers at no up-front cost. Instead of paying tuition, students agree to pay a percentage of their income after they're employed, and only if they're making more than $50k per year.


Leada
Company: Leada
Founders:  Brian Liou & Tristan Tao
Website:  teamleada.com

Leada provides online courses with instructor support to prepare students for jobs in data science & analytics. Students build a portfolio of functional data products in each course.


LearnSprout
Company: LearnSprout
Founders:  Frank Chien, Joe Woo & Anthony Wu
Website:  learnsprout.com

LearnSprout helps school administrators and teachers identify attendance trends, track college readiness and spot at-risk students with a simple 5-minute setup.


Literably
Company: Literably
Founders:  Tyler Borek & Habib Moody
Website:  literably.com

Literably is a classroom tool that helps elementary teachers monitor students’ progress in reading. The site administers and scores oral reading assessments, so teachers can spend less time assessing and more time teaching.


MathChat
Company: MathChat
Founders:  Sam Woodard & Kostub Deshmukh
Website:  math.chat

MathChat is a mobile collaboration platform for math, enabling students to get instant math help. Students and their friends can take a photo of any math problem and collaborate in real time through drawing, typing math and messaging.


Mission 100 Percent
Company: Mission 100%
Founders:  Janice Smith
Website:  mission100percent.com

Mission 100% is an online video library of short, targeted observation clips from real K-12 classrooms across the country, used for teacher development and training. Schools can create their own libraries and organize content to support teacher development.


Mosa Mack Science
Company: Mosa Mack Science
Founders:  Lissa Johnson
Website:  mosamack.com

Mosa Mack Science provides a cost-effective, engaging, inquiry-based science curriculum built around short animated science mysteries with a fun and diverse cast of characters. Each episode's curriculum includes hands-on activities and engineering challenges.


Mystery Science
Company: Mystery Science
Founders: Keith Schacht, Doug Peltz
Website:  mysteryscience.com

Mystery Science provides open-and-go lessons that inspire kids to love science. Our aim is to reach children before they've lost their natural curiosity about the world, and to inspire them to develop a scientific understanding of it.


Nimble
Company: Nimble
Founders: Lauren Dachille, Jill Greenberg
Website:  hirenimble.com

Nimble’s mission is to help school districts find and hire the best educators for their classrooms. We provide a smart applicant tracking tool that seamlessly manages the hiring workflow, while leveraging data to identify the teachers who will perform best and stay longest.


NoRedInk
Company: NoRedInk
Founders:  Jeff Scheur
Website:  noredink.com

NoRedInk is an adaptive learning engine that helps students improve their grammar and writing skills. NoRedInk generates a personalized curriculum from kids' interests, adjusts to their abilities with instant feedback, and provides actionable performance data to teachers, schools, and districts.


OOHLALA Mobile
Company: OOHLALA Mobile
Founders:  Danial Jameel, James Dang, Alice Dinu
Website:  oohlalamobile.com

OOHLALA is building the mobile OS for higher education to improve student engagement and communication on campus. With OOHLALA, administrators and professors can reach students effectively, provide access to campus services, and organize community events. OOHLALA serves over 150 institutions in 7 countries, of all types and sizes, including Harvard Law School, McGill University, Rutgers University, and more.


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.


Panorama Education
Company: Panorama Education
Founders:  Aaron Feuer & Xan Tanner
Website:  panoramaed.com

Panorama helps schools write and administer surveys on parental engagement, teaching and learning, bullying, and other important topics. Panorama's interactive analytics platform allows educators to explore the data and understand the feedback.


Paragon One
Company: Paragon One
Founders: Matt Wilkerson, Byron Hsu
Website:  paragonone.com

Paragon One coaches international students to land competitive jobs and internships in the U.S.


Peekapak
Company: Peekapak
Founders:  Ami Shah & Angie Chan
Website:  peekapak.com

Peekapak bridges the gap between learning in class and learning at home with K-3 curricula aligned to the Common Core. All lesson plans include both an original storybook covering important social and emotional learning topics and related activities.


Peergrade
Company: Peergrade
Founders: David Kofoed Wind, Simon Lind, Malthe Jorgensen
Website:  peergrade.io

Peergrade is a free online platform to facilitate peer feedback sessions with students.


PicoLab
Company: Picolab
Founders:  Ben Cohen & Ian McDowell
Website:  getpicolab.com

Picolab is a meeting and collaboration platform for teams, tying together Google Docs, Drive and Calendar, and automating the best practices for productive meetings. Picolab is the system of record for teams currently collaborating with Google Apps.


Plickers
Company: Plickers
Founders:  Nolan Amy
Website:  plickers.com

Plickers offers real-time assessment that works for every classroom. Teachers capture student responses instantly using their own smartphones, while students answer using paper, instead of electronics. Teachers can immediately use feedback to tailor instruction.


Py
Company: Py
Founders: Derek Lo, Will Tennien
Website:  getpy.com

Py is a skill-based education app that teaches topics like app development, building websites and data science with a focus on programming.

Quero Education
Company: Quero Education
Founder:  Bernardo de Padua, Lucas Gomes, Thiago Brandão
Website:  quero.education

Quero is an online marketplace for college programs in Brazil. Students can conduct their entire college application process with Quero. Students can find information about courses and schools where they want to study, compare options and get the best tuition price available, and enroll and save until graduation. Quero is currently available for over 700 partner colleges in Brazil, and plans to expand to Latin America soon.


RaiseMe
Company: RaiseMe
Founders:  Preston Silverman
Website:  raise.me

With RaiseMe, students can earn "micro-scholarships" throughout high school based on their individual achievements in class and overall progress towards college. Scholarship providers leverage RaiseMe to allocate their scholarships more efficiently to help more students.


ReadWorks
Company: ReadWorks
Founders:  Dave Ciulla
Website:  readworks.org

ReadWorks gives teachers the research-based instructional materials they need to improve students’ reading comprehension. ReadWorks offers a variety of standards-aligned curriculum and an expanding library of high-quality texts.


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.


RocketLit
Company: RocketLit
Founders:  Brendan Finch, Grenard Madrigal
Website:  rocketlit.com

RocketLit is an adaptive learning and assessment platform for science and social studies. We write articles at 7 different reading levels, serve them to every student in a classroom at their independent reading level, and fluidly adapt the level students receive as they improve. RocketLit’s platform will soon be expanding to include more grade levels.


The Rumie Initiative
Company: The Rumie Initiative
Founders:  Tariq Fancy
Website:  rumie.org

The Rumie Initiative (Rumie) brings free digital education to underprivileged children around the world through low-cost tablets and the support of a global community of volunteer educators.


SchoolMint
Company: SchoolMint
Founders:  Jinal Jhaveri & Forum Desai
Website:  schoolmint.net

SchoolMint provides a cloud-based student enrollment and school choice platform to PreK-12 school systems, streamlining all aspects of student enrollment - student registration management, application, lottery, and school choice management, and digital forms & document uploads. Available online and on mobile devices, SchoolMint integrates with leading student information systems (SIS) and transforms the end-to-end enrollment experience for school staff and parents.


Securly
Company: Securly
Founders:  Bharath Madhusudan & Vinay Mahadik
Website:  securly.com

Securly is the first cloud-based web filter that solves the issue of "over blocking" in schools by allowing educators to safely use 21st century instructional tools (Google, YouTube, Wikipedia). It is simple to set up and more cost effective than other enterprise solutions.


Sense
Company: Sense
Founders:  Ronen Tal-Botzer & Shahar Ben David
Website:  sense.education

Sense is a scalable artificial intelligence solution that enables educators to evaluate hundreds of open-ended assignments in a matter of minutes, as well as provide students with personalized feedback and adaptive learning experiences.


Sesame
Company: Sesame
Founders:  Ian Tao & Wen-Hao Lue
Website:  sesamehq.com

Sesame makes it easy to visually capture and evaluate student skills. Students get a much more personal experience, teachers save a ton of time, and schools can show evidence of student competencies.


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.


SmarterCookie
Company: SmarterCookie
Founders:  Tess Brustein & Mike Gerson
Website:  beasmartercookie.com

SmarterCookie makes it easy for schools, instructional coaches, and mentors to use video coaching to support teachers. Teachers record video of a lesson, upload it, share it with colleagues, and receive specific, actionable, and time-stamped feedback from coaches.


Socrative
Company: Socrative
Founders:  Ben Berte & Michael West
Website:  socrative.com

Socrative is a smart student response system that empowers teachers to engage their classrooms through a series of educational exercises and games via smartphones, laptops, and tablets.


Sown to Grow
Company: Sown to Grow
Founders:  Rupa Gupta & Dennis Li
Website:  sowntogrow.com

Sown To Grow is a learning tracker driven by students instead of teachers. Students set learning goals, enter in their own scores to track progress, and reflect on their strategies to continuously improve.


StudyRoom
Company: StudyRoom
Founders:  Emerson Malca & Pindi Albert
Website:  getstudyroom.com

StudyRoom creates communities around classes. Students can meet their classmates online, collaborate, and study together using a super easy-to-use collaborative whiteboard. StudyRoom brings the value of study groups and social learning to the web and mobile.


Swing Education
Company: Swing Education
Founders:  Mike Teng, Asha Visweswaran & Osbert Feng
Website:  swingeducation.com

Swing Education is the on demand workforce for schools. We make it easy for schools to find high quality substitute teachers.


TapToLearn
Company: TapToLearn
Founders:  Roby John
Website:  taptolearn.com

TapToLearn makes engaging education apps for tablets geared towards age groups 8 - 13, focused on math, english grammar, and spelling. Each app focuses on just one area of learning and has back end analytics for performance tracking.


TeachBoost
Company: TeachBoost
Founders:  Jason DeRoner, Mike Gioia & Andrew Gioia
Website:  teachboost.com

TeachBoost is a collaborative teacher development platform with an initial focus on teacher evaluation. Schools use TeachBoost to create a culture of growth and learning among teachers to focus professional development, and to save time and money.


Teach Me Math Games
Company: TeachMe
Founders:  Bill Karamouzis & Rhys Jones
Website:  mathgames.com

TeachMe makes educational games and apps powered by over 1,200 different ways to practice math. Created by the founders of AddictingGames, TeachMe games and apps are designed to capture and hold students' attention.


Tickle app
Company: Tickle
Founders:  Mike Chen & Jackey Wang
Website:  tickleapp.com

Tickle offers programming education re-imagined for the world of connected devices and the future of Internet of Things. With a visual, block-based user interface, anyone can learn to code to pilot an air drone, navigate a robot, and program their smart home.


Trinket
Company: Trinket
Founders:  Elliott Hauser, Brian Marks & Ben Wheeler
Website:  trinket.io

Trinket lets anyone code in their browser. Teachers love the instant setup and students love using real code to make games, apps, and data visualizations. Trinket programs can be easily shared on websites, blogs, and in online curriculum, just like a YouTube video.


Vidcode
Company: Vidcode
Founders:  Allie Diracles, Melissa Halfon, Leandra Tejedor
Website:  vidcode.io

Vidcode teaches teenagers computer science through their favorite video technologies: instagram, snapchat and virtual reality. Vidcode offers a Javascript curriculum that can be used as a full year course or a unit within an existing CS course. Teachers in other subject areas can also use Vidcode's projects to introduce occasional coding activities. Vidcode is already being used to bring coding into science, math, English, history, art, and theater courses.


VideoNotes
Company: VideoNotes
Founders:  Clement Delangue & Arnaud Breton
Website:  videonot.es

VideoNotes is the best way for online students to take notes from video lectures. By synchronizing notes with their context (videos, slides, etc.), we make them more understandable, actionable and easy to share.

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