School Operations
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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