Lux Blox
Non Equity Assistance in 2024
Lux Blox is a manufacturing and distribution company specializing in educational toys for children. Its primary product line consists of construction toys that incorporate unique, flexible hinges, allowing young builders to create diverse structures and develop critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
Thinking Crown
Non Equity Assistance in 2024
We’re an ed-tech platform built by a teacher and social worker. Thinking Crown is a holistic learning experience designed to empower students. Our platform teaches students to understand, identify, express and manage emotions, build healthy relationships and self-compassion.
Bilin Academy
Non Equity Assistance in 2024
Bilin Academy is an e-learning platform that provides multilingual educational content for children. It offers online classes in a child's second language to reinforce language acquisition and promote cultural understanding.
Adaptive Reader
Non Equity Assistance in 2024
Adaptive Reader is a company that enhances educational accessibility by translating books into multiple languages and reading levels. It employs artificial intelligence and smart design to offer web-based and hardcopy solutions, ensuring no student falls behind due to language barriers or learning disabilities.
Inveterate
Non Equity Assistance in 2021
Inveterate’s SaaS platform streamlines the upfront interviewing process for Hiring Managers. Inveterate’s platform allows hiring managers to hear directly from candidates through a short video recording explaining their career background and forward path. Inveterate currently has one educational institution and two successful startups ready to pilot the platform.
Abloh
Pre Seed Round in 2021
Abloh operates an education technology platform that facilitates interaction between university teachers and students. Its platform enables students to connect with peers, join groups, discover activities, providing administrators new insights into campus life and helping students make the most of their university experience.
Peak Mind
Non Equity Assistance in 2021
Founded in 2020, Peak Mind is a digital technology company specializing in employee well-being applications. It focuses on mental health, personal development, and team engagement to enhance employee satisfaction, improve work-life balance, boost productivity, and foster collaboration within organizations.
Prismatext
Pre Seed Round in 2021
Prismatext offers an innovative language learning method via its proprietary technology. It seamlessly integrates target language vocabulary into books, allowing users to learn new languages effortlessly while reading. The platform caters to all ages and provides over 15 language options.
Frontlines of Justice
Non Equity Assistance in 2021
Frontlines of Justice is an online learning platform that specializes in educational content focused on social, racial, and educational justice. Founded by Chad Williamson, the company offers interactive, on-demand video modules designed to help schools track student progress, identify trends, and gain deeper insights into their districts.
EduReality
Non Equity Assistance in 2021
EduReality develops virtual reality software that delivers virtual classroom experiences and science lab simulations for education. Its high-quality VR simulations enable hands-on learning without budget constraints, safety concerns, or staffing needs, expanding accessibility for students and supporting distance learning. Professors collaborate with EduReality's development team to tailor experiences and access a library of premade content to integrate into coursework.
Seraph 7 Studios
Non Equity Assistance in 2021
Seraph 7 Studios develops engaging games that blend entertainment with educational value. They offer STEAM programs to local students.
UpBrainery Technologies
Non Equity Assistance in 2021
UpBrainery Technologies specializes in AI-driven virtual learning platforms. It aims to enhance teaching and learning experiences at home, school, and work by utilizing machine learning algorithms to tailor education to individual learners.
Eduocity
Non Equity Assistance in 2021
Eduocity is an education technology company focused on enhancing learning outcomes for K-12 students and educators, particularly in urban communities. It serves as a clearinghouse for innovative teaching methods, training, and curriculum models. Eduocity provides micro-content curriculums, courseware, and e-delivery systems tailored to meet the needs of its users. By offering practical and engaging curriculum solutions alongside professional development programs, the company integrates technology to facilitate effective learning experiences. Its holistic approach ensures that both students and educators are well-prepared for future challenges in education.
Digital Leader Academy
Non Equity Assistance in 2021
Digital Leader Academy is an educational platform that equips students with essential knowledge in emerging technologies, fostering their development into digitally literate and innovative leaders. The academy employs an interdisciplinary approach that aligns modern high school curricula with the digital economy, emphasizing areas such as artificial intelligence, blockchain, cryptocurrencies, and NFTs. By offering interactive classes and comprehensive modules, Digital Leader Academy provides educators with the necessary tools to demonstrate how technology is reshaping various subject areas. Furthermore, the platform enables students to earn certifications in technology courses, thereby enhancing their skill sets and preparing them for the evolving job market.
SuperBetter
Seed Round in 2021
SuperBetter is a platform that develops a mindset intervention and software to unlock human potential by applying the psychology of gameplay to personal and social wellbeing. The company creates an easy-to-teach mental framework that helps users reduce anxiety and depression and improve resilience, self-efficacy, and recovery. It partners with organizations across education, healthcare, sports, and cybersecurity to co-develop training, curricula, mentoring programs, and technology-enabled products that address real-world needs. Backed by clinical research from Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania, SuperBetter's approach has shown improvements in wellbeing in randomized trials and is recognized by the World Economic Forum as an innovator in youth mental health. The platform has broad adoption, including classroom applications and consumer use, and continues to evolve as a scalable wellbeing solution.
Maro
Non Equity Assistance in 2021
Maro partners with schools and families to provide integrated physical and mental healthcare for students. Their platform coordinates care and data across various environments influencing a child's well-being, enabling better learning outcomes.
Integrate School
Non Equity Assistance in 2021
Integrate School simplifies lesson planning for administrators and educators. Its platform enables efficient creation, sharing, and feedback on lesson plans, aligning them with state standards. This results in time savings and improved student performance.
Boddle
Non Equity Assistance in 2020
Boddle is an education technology company that provides a game-based learning platform for K-12 students, with a focus on STEM. The platform combines gameplay, adaptive learning, and AI to personalize practice, monitor progress, and identify foundational skills that need reinforcement. It translates student responses into actionable reports for teachers to differentiate instruction and support mastery at an appropriate pace. Founded in February 2018 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Boddle is designed to engage students and help teachers measure growth in STEM learning.
STRUT Learning
Non Equity Assistance in 2020
STRUT develops adaptive emotional intelligence technologies to improve access, delivery, and measurement of Social Emotional Learning (SEL) within schools and communities. Its solutions adapt to learning preferences, emotional intelligence, and emotional states, increasing engagement, speed, retention, and measurement.
BeeReaders
Seed Round in 2020
BeeReaders is an innovative edtech company focused on improving English language learning for K-12 Spanish-speaking students. The company has developed a digital reading platform that fosters foundational literacy skills through personalized learning experiences and authentic Spanish content. This platform features an español placement test and a proprietary leveling system, ensuring that the content is culturally relevant and tailored to each student's needs. Additionally, BeeReaders offers a supplemental program that supports hybrid instruction, allowing students to monitor their progress and advance their skills in a game-like learning environment. By redefining the learning experience, BeeReaders aims to enhance academic success for its target demographic.
BlendEd
Non Equity Assistance in 2020
BlendEd is a course authoring platform and content marketplace that enables college professors to build online and in-person courses by connecting them with curated digital learning materials from other professors. The platform uses machine learning to analyze syllabi, recommend relevant materials from its network, schedule virtual meetings, provide access to content, and integrate with learning management systems to give students a centralized place for course resources.
Babypalooza
Pre Seed Round in 2020
A community platform connecting first-time pregnant mothers and new parents with essential products, resources, and support systems. It offers virtual events, online courses, and a marketplace for relevant items, providing guidance from pregnancy through preschool years.
Whizara
Non Equity Assistance in 2020
Whizara is an online education platform offering live, instructor-led coding and math classes for children aged 5 to 18. Its personalized, small-group classes integrate math with coding, computational thinking, and design thinking, covering a range of age-appropriate courses such as Scratch, Python, JavaScript, and AI. The platform aims to provide equitable learning opportunities through certified tutors.
Mindful Measures
Pre Seed Round in 2020
Mindful Measures collects performance measures and process data associated with students' education and employee skill sets.
With the use of its proprietary software system, it produces its trademarked "Real-Time Resume". This Resume displays the real-time collected measures of skill sets, attributes, and characteristics, of candidates' total work experience creating fair wages and opportunity.
Learning MN
Pre Seed Round in 2019
Learning MN modernizes professional development for educators through its centralized virtual library, allowing educators to be where it matters most, engaging teachers and industry experts in conversations via video and podcasts.
Enlightapp
Non Equity Assistance in 2019
Enlightapp is an educational platform that uses AI-driven surveys and dynamic data science to help teachers and administrators build deep, authentic connections with diverse student communities, foster inclusive classrooms, and tailor instruction to individual needs. By collecting and analyzing student data, the platform enables educators to understand each student's strengths and challenges, inform personalized learning approaches, and monitor progress over time.
CLI Studios
Non Equity Assistance in 2019
CLI Studios operates an online dance education platform that connects students with world‑renowned choreographers, offering on‑demand classes and training. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Los Angeles, the company serves schools, studios, and individual learners seeking structured instruction across diverse dance styles.
smallTalk
Pre Seed Round in 2019
smallTalk develops innovative IoT products that facilitate early language learning for infants through interactive foreign language lullabies, songs, and stories. The company's patent-protected technology targets the critical period of early brain development, allowing parents to introduce their children to foreign languages while they are most receptive to language acquisition. This approach not only promotes lifelong language skills but also unlocks important developmental benefits during infancy. smallTalk's solutions can be utilized in various settings, including hospital neonatal intensive care units and at home for toddlers.
Ellipsis Education
Non Equity Assistance in 2018
Ellipsis Education provides comprehensive computer science curriculum for K-12 schools through its platform Codelicious. The platform offers customizable, grade-level differentiated learning pathways, empowering educators to teach critical thinking and problem-solving skills while fostering collaboration.
Pro Up
Pre Seed Round in 2018
Pro Up operates an online marketplace focused on higher education, aiming to connect high school students with various extracurricular educational and career development opportunities. The platform allows users to discover classes, workshops, summer programs, internships, and other resources that enhance their educational experience. By providing real-time data on these opportunities, Pro Up helps students ignite their passions and define their career paths, facilitating a smoother transition from education to professional life.
Holos
Non Equity Assistance in 2018
Holos, Inc. is a company that specializes in spatial computing, providing a platform designed for educators and students to create and learn in immersive 3D environments. Founded in 2015 and based in Madison, Wisconsin, Holos offers a suite of user-friendly, no-code tools that enable users to develop training content in Augmented Reality. Its platform functions as a 3D equivalent of traditional presentation software, allowing users to integrate photos, videos, text, and 3D models into virtual spaces. Holos also features a collaborative "magic table" for presenting content and a library of pre-vetted 3D learning experiences. The solutions are designed to operate on desktop VR headsets, catering to both educational settings and technical training for critical sectors.
Studioso
Pre Seed Round in 2018
Studioso is a music education platform designed to connect music teachers with their students, enhancing the learning experience in music education. The platform facilitates effective communication between teachers and students by allowing educators to assign practice objectives and track progress in real-time. This feature motivates students and helps optimize their learning journey, making it easier for them to develop their musical skills. By focusing on the integration of technology in music education, Studioso aims to improve the overall progress of students while providing a supportive environment for both teachers and learners.
Stimmi
Non Equity Assistance in 2017
Stimmi is a caregiving platform designed to support individuals with autism and other developmental disabilities. It offers centralized care profiles featuring video, audio, and text functionalities, enabling parents and guardians to share crucial information with caregivers, educators, and clinicians for consistent and informed care.