Post-Secondary
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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