GSV Ventures

Degreed provides companies with a platform that enables employees to develop their skills and create skill profiles. Using that data, the platform can promote career mobility by connecting users to project, gigs, and job opportunities. It integrates and curates all the resources people use to learn including learning management systems and millions of courses, videos, articles, books, and podcasts. The company was launched in 2012 and is headquartered in Pleasanton, California.

Think Through Learning's key product line, Think Through Math, is America's leading online math remediation software. There are almost 3,000,000 students in over 180,000 classrooms who are paid subscribers to Think Through Math. Think Through Math is a unique SaaS system integrating student motivation, instant on-demand interventions from state-certified US math teachers, and award winning adaptive math instruction that teaches students higher order thinking skills. Winner of the 2014 and 2012 CODiE for Best Math Instructional Solution, Think Through Math is proven to raise students understanding of math. Each student starts with an adaptive placement test that moves them right to the math they need to learn. Extensive guided feedback supports them. When they are stuck, a U.S., state-cerfiied, classroom experienced math teacher will pop up within 10 seconds to tutor them in real time. A January, 2015 independent research study commissioned by the Texas Education Agency (TEA) of 755,440 students who used Think Through Math showed that students using the system on a regular basis improved their math scores an average of 23%. The study is available of the TEA website. Numerous other studies have proven Think Through Math significantly improves students understanding of math.

FrontRow offers a learning and community platform focused on creative arts and sports. The company was founded in 2020 and is based in Bengaluru, India.

Quizizz Inc. develops a mobile application that allows users to create, generate, review, and assess quizzes. It develops a multiplayer classroom activity that allows all the students to practice together. The application allows students to take quizzes and teachers to create quizzes. It caters to teachers, students, and parents. Quizizz Inc. was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Palo Alto, California.

Tango is the only workflow intelligence platform that celebrates how work gets done. Tango provides technology to help teams learn from their top performers, all in the flow of work. Tango's Chrome Extension auto-captures workflow best practices to help teams coach employees and onboard new hires.

Tekie is a live coding platform that brings the art of storytelling to make learning a movie-like experience.

ScholarMe Co. develops an online financing platform for college-funding scholarships. It connects lenders and individuals for providing financing solutions, such as scholarships and education loans for coaching, tuitions, and education. ScholarMe Co. was incorporated in 2018 and is based in New York, New York.

BEGiN is the award-winning education technology company that creates engaging and effective learning products to bring the highest quality education to young children everywhere. Their library of interactive stories helps their child fall in love with reading while building critical skills. BEGiN’s investors and partners include some of the most recognized and well-loved children’s brands including Sesame Workshop, LEGO Ventures, Gymboree Play and Music, and Fisher-Price. BEGiN was co-founded by Neal Shenoy, Noelle Millholt, and Stephanie Dua and is one of Crain’s 100 Best Places to Work in New York City.

Glimpse12 captures everything you're doing to impact student outcomes and evaluates these activities in the context of student achievement. Traditionally, eROI is virtually impossible to track and manage. The company's approach maximizes district's education return on investment (eROI) by providing answers to critical questions essential to ensure your time and money are aligned with the unique needs of your students.

Tract is the first for kids, by kids online community for student-directed learning. We are reimagining education by giving kids full control and making learning fun. We offer members (kids age 8+) unlimited on-demand courses (learning paths) and vibrant weekly live events, taught by our inspiring community of accomplished creators. Together, they enable kids to develop passions through meaningful, real-world lessons giving them the skills and mindset to address 21st-century challenges and opportunities. Tract is based on TRICK, the philosophy pioneered by our co-founder Esther Wojcicki. Esther has positively impacted the lives of thousands of children from her award-winning student-run journalism program and is a mother of three successful women (CEO of YouTube, CEO, and founder of 23andMe, and top UCSF medical researcher) all by applying TRICK. TRICK stands for Trust, Respect, Independence, Collaboration, and Kindness. These five pillars are at the core of Tract and our mission to empower all kids to become tomorrow's innovators, leaders, and global citizens. Our team is unified by Esther’s lifelong work to evolve education for the 21st century and comes from top Consumer and Education Technology companies (Uber, Microsoft, and Instracture). What We Believe: - The secret to getting kids interested in learning is giving them control - Kids are much smarter and capable than most people think - Successful people believe in themselves and aren’t afraid to take risks - Creative people with great passions don’t follow the rules - Current rates of depression and lack of career-readiness is a global epidemic - Our education system of standardization and obedience limits creativity and a growth mindset - Education is not equitable and the achievement gap is widening - We need a generation of community-minded global citizens to make the world a better place - Education that works for kids, not against them is the silver bullet for the world’s problems

PayNearMe is a provider of web and mobile-based cash payments platform designed to facilitate online purchases and bill payments. The company's platform helps users to pay with cash for a range of goods and services from companies in e-commerce, property management, consumer finance, and transportation, enabling businesses, government agencies, and retail stores to digitize their cash collection process, reduce the headache of traditional cash and money order acceptance. PayNearMe's technology provides a simple way for lenders to collect payments through an intuitive, consistent experience for their customers. In addition, payment reminders and mobile wallet integration drive more on-time payments. PayNearMe was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California, USA.

Ethena, Inc., a software-as-a-service company, develops anti sexual harassment training software for teams. It offers Ethena for personalized short-form bits of personalized, digestible training content to employees throughout the year. The company’s Ethena provides compliance with content that meets the newest regulations; monthly training emails; data and insights; and facilitates discussions. The company was incorporated in 2019 and is based in New York, New York.

Learn In provides a comprehensive upskilling-as-a-service platform, which enables companies to offer employees sabbaticals, during which time they can acquire the new skills that are essential within an evolving workplace. It delivers companies and their employees online, low-cost training programs, as well as traditional degree options particularly focused on digital skills and hard-to-fill roles such as data science and software engineering.

CLI Studios is an internet company that specializes in the fields of eCommerce and arts education. It features an online educational platform, students, and teachers at schools can learn from over 100 world-renowned instructors and performers like tWitch from The Ellen Show, Tiler Peck from New York City Ballet, Broadway performers, and more. The company was founded in 2014 and headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

Degreed provides companies with a platform that enables employees to develop their skills and create skill profiles. Using that data, the platform can promote career mobility by connecting users to project, gigs, and job opportunities. It integrates and curates all the resources people use to learn including learning management systems and millions of courses, videos, articles, books, and podcasts. The company was launched in 2012 and is headquartered in Pleasanton, California.

OpenClassrooms designs and develops an online Web platform known as Site du Zéro and the collection Livre du Zéro. It offers online educational courses accessible to all. The company was founded in 2007 and is based in Paris, France.

BookClub Inc. owns and operates BookClub.com, an author-led virtual book club. The company was incorporated in 2020 and is based in Alpine, Utah.

CoLearn develops an edtech platform that enables tuition centers and tutors to create online learning classes for their students. It provides online classes and livestreamed homework and exam assistance. It also features a practice platform that allows students to learn independently and at their own pace, with the help of hints and solutions to each problem. CoLearn was founded in 2020 and is based in Kebayoran Baru, Indonesia.

ClassDojo, Inc. operates an online school communication platform that connects teachers, students, and families to build communities by sharing what’s being learned in the classroom home through photos, videos, and messages. The company was formerly known as Class Twist, Inc. and changed its name to ClassDojo, Inc. in December 2017. ClassDojo, Inc. was founded in 2011 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Disco is a platform for creators to build and scale their learning empire easily in one place. Our vision for learning leaves the industrial age behind and looks to a world of lifelong learning, that's live, with peers, led by creators we trust and accessible from anywhere.

Abwaab is an online learning platform that allows secondary-school students in MENA to learn at their own pace, test themselves and get ahead with our expert tutors anytime and anywhere. By offering short, engaging video lessons, visualized learning journeys, continuous assessment and performance analytics, we are changing the way students learn outside the classroom.

Fairygodboss, Inc. operates a self-described social network platform for career-minded women. It provides information on pay and bonus, corporate culture, benefits, and work flexibility; company ratings, job listings, discussion boards, and career advice; maternity and paternity leaves; company reviews; and work-life balance. Fairygodboss, Inc. was founded in 2015 and is based in New York, New York.

Filo, Edtech, transactional learning model by online tutors available for students in less than 60 seconds. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.filo.student&hl=en&gl=US

Clever operates as a single sign-on platform for K-12 education. It unlocks a wealth of digital learning, so teachers can meet each student where they are. Clever brings all applications into one secure portal and provides single sign-on for everyone in the district. It was founded in 2012 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Guild Education's lifelong learning platform offers classes, programs and degrees for working adults, with a path for them to move forward in their education and career. Guild offers these adults support from start to finish, with their technology platform for discovery, learning, and organizing the experience, and extra support with their tech-enabled student advising model. Founded in 2015, the company is headquartered in Denver, Colorado, United States.

Abwaab is an online learning platform that allows secondary-school students in MENA to learn at their own pace, test themselves and get ahead with our expert tutors anytime and anywhere. By offering short, engaging video lessons, visualized learning journeys, continuous assessment and performance analytics, we are changing the way students learn outside the classroom.

Coursera is an online education company that serves over 20 million registered learners by partnering with 140 of the world’s best universities and education institutions. On Coursera, anyone, anywhere can access over 1,000 online courses and Specializations in dozens of fields in order to achieve meaningful career, educational, and personal enrichment goals throughout their lives. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California.

Hustle, Inc. operates an online peer-to-peer text messaging platform that enables organizations to text their contacts. It’s a software-as-a-service platform that is used to send personal text messages for event attendance, fundraising, admissions and recruiting, advocacy, and sales and marketing. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Apna is a recruitment platform that gives opportunities for blue or grey collar jobs. The company works for those who require jobs and those who are looking for the best employees for their companies. It gives maximum opportunities through a single platform for the biggest job groups in India. The company was founded in 2019 and based in Bengaluru, Karnataka.

Verto Education, Inc. provides semester traveling services for students to travel overseas and earn college credit for campus programs and admissions. It offers semester traveling services to Central America, South Pacific, and Southeast Asia to learn about subjects, including environmental science, public health, business, and finance. The company also provides on-campus programs in Ireland, England, and New Zealand. Verto Education, Inc. was founded in 2017 and is based in Portland, Oregon.

Intellispark helps schools to maximize student achievement through a data-driven, community-centered approach to student advising. Their team includes experienced education and technology leaders who are passionate about ensuring every child has the chance to make a difference.

HotChalk is a leading provider of education technology and services. The Silicon Valley company partners with universities to provide turnkey solutions that put degree programs on line. HotChalk solutions incorporate all phases of the education lifecycle and deliver industry leading student retention and graduation rates. HotChalk operates the largest global network of free education content on the Internet through the HotChalk Education Network. The company believes all people should have access to education, and is on a mission to make meaningful education outcomes available to everyone, everywhere. To learn more, visit HotChalk.com.

GoodTime is the leading Interview Logistics Platform that uses AI and automation to help recruiting teams schedule complex interviews, scale interview training, and provide actionable metrics. Companies of all sizes are making interviews more effective and efficient with GoodTime. Founded in 2016, the company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.

Quizizz Inc. develops a mobile application that allows users to create, generate, review, and assess quizzes. It develops a multiplayer classroom activity that allows all the students to practice together. The application allows students to take quizzes and teachers to create quizzes. It caters to teachers, students, and parents. Quizizz Inc. was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Palo Alto, California.

Ethena, Inc., a software-as-a-service company, develops anti sexual harassment training software for teams. It offers Ethena for personalized short-form bits of personalized, digestible training content to employees throughout the year. The company’s Ethena provides compliance with content that meets the newest regulations; monthly training emails; data and insights; and facilitates discussions. The company was incorporated in 2019 and is based in New York, New York.

Tynker is a creative computing platform where millions of kids have learned to program and built games, apps and more. Tynker's mission is to provide every child with solid foundations in Computer Science, programming, and critical thinking skills to prepare them to become better architects of their future world. Tynker offers self-paced online courses for children to learn coding at home, as well as an engaging programming curriculum for schools. Tynker’s intuitive visual programming language enables kids to build web and mobile apps, design RPG and platformer games, control robots, program drones, and even modify Minecraft worlds.

Tango is the only workflow intelligence platform that celebrates how work gets done. Tango provides technology to help teams learn from their top performers, all in the flow of work. Tango's Chrome Extension auto-captures workflow best practices to help teams coach employees and onboard new hires.

Course Hero is an online learning platform with study resources that help students feel confident and prepared, from day one to graduation. The company provides a free and subscription online learning platform that empowers students and educators to succeed through unlocked study tools, documents, and resources. It also offers free and subscription membership that includes access to practice problems, study guides, videos, class notes, and step-by-step explanations for every subject that students study, from economics to literature, biology to history, and accounting to psychology. In 2016, Andrew Grauer, Gregor Carrigan, and Jared Grauer established Course Hero in Redwood City, California.

KaiPod Learning delivers a deeply personal education for each child with an experiential curriculum tailored to their interests, a learning platform that allows them to move at their own pace, and 1:1 support from an on-site Coach.

Educents Inc. operates as an online marketplace for selling educational products to students, parents, homeschoolers, and educators in the United States. The company offers science kits, curriculum packs, books, art supplies, math and reading books, and others. It also provides digital products, such as downloads and online programs for international customers. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Tango is the only workflow intelligence platform that celebrates how work gets done. Tango provides technology to help teams learn from their top performers, all in the flow of work. Tango's Chrome Extension auto-captures workflow best practices to help teams coach employees and onboard new hires.

BookClub Inc. owns and operates BookClub.com, an author-led virtual book club. The company was incorporated in 2020 and is based in Alpine, Utah.

Lead School enables every child to get educated with use of technology. It empowers teachers through our app which has detailed lesson plans and audio-visual resources. And make sure that teachers, parents and the school can collaborate to work for the unified goal of excelling in education with our integrated academic system.

Stride Funding (AlmaPact Inc.) is a mission-driven company focused on enabling debt-free lives for students, by supplementing student loans with flexible income sharing agreements. Unlike student loans that lock students into a single rigid payment, Stride’s payments rise and fall with a student’s income so that payments are always affordable. The company has been recognized as a visionary leader by FinTech analysts for its efforts on income protection and career support. Stride was created by students, for students, aiming to change student lives for the better. The company has been recognized by Harvard and MIT as a top new venture. Stride has received venture investments from GSV Accelerate, Slow Ventures, Sinai Ventures and Pear VC; and its strategic investors include Strada Education. Its advisors include serial entrepreneurs, Doug Levin and Tina Sharkey. Fund your Future, Find your Stride!

Andela is a global talent network that connects companies with engineering talent in emerging markets. Hundreds of leading companies like GitHub, Cloudflare, and ViacomCBS leverage Andela to scale their engineering teams quickly and cost-effectively. A distributed organization spanning four continents, Andela is backed by investors including Generation Investment Management, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Spark Capital, and Google Ventures.

Guild Education's lifelong learning platform offers classes, programs and degrees for working adults, with a path for them to move forward in their education and career. Guild offers these adults support from start to finish, with their technology platform for discovery, learning, and organizing the experience, and extra support with their tech-enabled student advising model. Founded in 2015, the company is headquartered in Denver, Colorado, United States.

Outlier.org Inc. develops an online educational platform. It offers Outlier.org, a platform that provides online courses on calculus and psychology. The company’s platform also provides video content, online textbooks, one-on-one tutoring, artificial intelligence-proctored assessments, problem sets, and active learning techniques. Outlier.org Inc. was formerly known as Outlier School Inc. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Brooklyn, New York.

The platform allows tutors and institutions to manage their own classroom through a mobile app. It helps them to create their own learning apps by managing the attendance, parent-tutor communication, online tests, payment of fees and others. The startup has also created a zero-typing product keeping in mind its usage by middle-aged tutors. It is now building a vertical for system intelligence to automate all the manual touch points of the current product.

NoRedInk helps millions of students in grades 4-12 become better writers. Our writing platform allows learners to improve through engaging, adaptive exercises and a proven process for self-review and peer-review — and then delivers actionable performance data to teachers and administrators. Used in more than 50% of school districts in the US, we're on a mission to unlock every writer's potential.

Ender is a venture-backed startup on a mission to make kids employable before 18 by pioneering the first learn-to-earn model that pays kids to build a portfolio. Ender's product is a competition platform where kids can win cash prizes for building apps, games, websites, and other real-world projects. Based in Austin, TX, Ender is a team of passionate game developers, educators, engineers, and designers and is funded by some of the best investors in the education and gaming space. Join the team at https://careers.joinender.com.

Class provides Class for Zoom, which integrates the Class software on the Zoom Meetings platform to help teachers take attendance, hand out assignments, give a quiz or test, grade work, proctor exams, or talk one-on-one with a student.

Lead School enables every child to get educated with use of technology. It empowers teachers through our app which has detailed lesson plans and audio-visual resources. And make sure that teachers, parents and the school can collaborate to work for the unified goal of excelling in education with our integrated academic system.

Tango is the only workflow intelligence platform that celebrates how work gets done. Tango provides technology to help teams learn from their top performers, all in the flow of work. Tango's Chrome Extension auto-captures workflow best practices to help teams coach employees and onboard new hires.

Toucan develops a Google chrome extension for learning new languages and communicating with others. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Santa Monica, California.

Degreed provides companies with a platform that enables employees to develop their skills and create skill profiles. Using that data, the platform can promote career mobility by connecting users to project, gigs, and job opportunities. It integrates and curates all the resources people use to learn including learning management systems and millions of courses, videos, articles, books, and podcasts. The company was launched in 2012 and is headquartered in Pleasanton, California.

Section4, Inc. publishes news and stories related to business and economy. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in New York, New York.

Stride Funding (AlmaPact Inc.) is a mission-driven company focused on enabling debt-free lives for students, by supplementing student loans with flexible income sharing agreements. Unlike student loans that lock students into a single rigid payment, Stride’s payments rise and fall with a student’s income so that payments are always affordable. The company has been recognized as a visionary leader by FinTech analysts for its efforts on income protection and career support. Stride was created by students, for students, aiming to change student lives for the better. The company has been recognized by Harvard and MIT as a top new venture. Stride has received venture investments from GSV Accelerate, Slow Ventures, Sinai Ventures and Pear VC; and its strategic investors include Strada Education. Its advisors include serial entrepreneurs, Doug Levin and Tina Sharkey. Fund your Future, Find your Stride!

Photomath is an app for your math homework. Just point the camera toward a math problem and it will display the answer with step-by-step instructions with how they got there. It can also draw graphs. This app will help you practice so you can learn how to do this stuff all by yourself. The app supports everything from basic arithmetic to more advanced levels of math like trigonometry. It’s a free app and is available for both iPhone and Android.

The college landscape today is broken for millions of students. Equal access to higher ed has become one of the greatest issues of our time. At RaiseMe, we're reinventing educational pathways and changing the way students access billions of dollars each year in financial aid for college. Rather than waiting until the end of high school to award financial aid, which is too late to affect students' college ambitions or specific application decisions, RaiseMe enables students to earn "micro-Scholarships" automatically throughout high school based on their individual achievements in and outside of the classroom. Students have already earned over $2 billion in micro-scholarships from our university partners. We're on the look out for talented individuals to help us build a large, impactful business and a product that will change millions of lives.

BEGiN is the award-winning education technology company that creates engaging and effective learning products to bring the highest quality education to young children everywhere. Their library of interactive stories helps their child fall in love with reading while building critical skills. BEGiN’s investors and partners include some of the most recognized and well-loved children’s brands including Sesame Workshop, LEGO Ventures, Gymboree Play and Music, and Fisher-Price. BEGiN was co-founded by Neal Shenoy, Noelle Millholt, and Stephanie Dua and is one of Crain’s 100 Best Places to Work in New York City.

Voxy provides truly personalized English language instruction to corporations, educational institutions, and governments across the globe. Based on more than 30 years of academic research, Voxy’s solution meets the needs of each user by combining patented technology that adapts lessons in real-time with personalized live instruction all delivered in a fully mobile experience. Launched in 2010, it has been used by millions of learners and hundreds of institutions in over 50 different countries. Voxy’s innovative approach has been recognized by major media outlets including The New York Times, Forbes, and CNN. Backed by leading investors in education technology, Voxy is headquartered in New York City and has an office in São Paulo.

LOOM is a wellbeing platform empowering women through reproductive and sexual health education. Weaving together inclusivity, empathy and science, LOOM is an entirely new approach to health education that helps women thrive in their bodies at every stage. Founded in 2016 by Erica Chidi and Quinn Lundberg, LOOM is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

CoLearn develops an edtech platform that enables tuition centers and tutors to create online learning classes for their students. It provides online classes and livestreamed homework and exam assistance. It also features a practice platform that allows students to learn independently and at their own pace, with the help of hints and solutions to each problem. CoLearn was founded in 2020 and is based in Kebayoran Baru, Indonesia.

Software should work for you, not the other way around. Yet, most software for product development is difficult to use and needs a lot of time to configure; it was not purpose-built for modern, cross-functional teams building rapidly. At Tara, we’re designing simple yet powerful software to solve these complex problems. We've built a smart platform that's helping thousands of engineers and teams deliver on planned releases, with improved predictability. Launched in public beta in April, 2020.

The college landscape today is broken for millions of students. Equal access to higher ed has become one of the greatest issues of our time. At RaiseMe, we're reinventing educational pathways and changing the way students access billions of dollars each year in financial aid for college. Rather than waiting until the end of high school to award financial aid, which is too late to affect students' college ambitions or specific application decisions, RaiseMe enables students to earn "micro-Scholarships" automatically throughout high school based on their individual achievements in and outside of the classroom. Students have already earned over $2 billion in micro-scholarships from our university partners. We're on the look out for talented individuals to help us build a large, impactful business and a product that will change millions of lives.

Think Through Learning's key product line, Think Through Math, is America's leading online math remediation software. There are almost 3,000,000 students in over 180,000 classrooms who are paid subscribers to Think Through Math. Think Through Math is a unique SaaS system integrating student motivation, instant on-demand interventions from state-certified US math teachers, and award winning adaptive math instruction that teaches students higher order thinking skills. Winner of the 2014 and 2012 CODiE for Best Math Instructional Solution, Think Through Math is proven to raise students understanding of math. Each student starts with an adaptive placement test that moves them right to the math they need to learn. Extensive guided feedback supports them. When they are stuck, a U.S., state-cerfiied, classroom experienced math teacher will pop up within 10 seconds to tutor them in real time. A January, 2015 independent research study commissioned by the Texas Education Agency (TEA) of 755,440 students who used Think Through Math showed that students using the system on a regular basis improved their math scores an average of 23%. The study is available of the TEA website. Numerous other studies have proven Think Through Math significantly improves students understanding of math.

Degreed provides companies with a platform that enables employees to develop their skills and create skill profiles. Using that data, the platform can promote career mobility by connecting users to project, gigs, and job opportunities. It integrates and curates all the resources people use to learn including learning management systems and millions of courses, videos, articles, books, and podcasts. The company was launched in 2012 and is headquartered in Pleasanton, California.

CampusLogic provides critical tools and resources for the 15 million students who travel the higher education journey each year. The company currently serves more than 750 schools increase enrollment, retention, and graduation rates with a platform, which includes a net price calculator, complete scholarship management, personalized digital communications, simplified financial aid verification, 24×7 personalized virtual advising, tuition, and scholarship crowdfunding, and integrated data visualizations.

Abwaab is an online learning platform that allows secondary-school students in MENA to learn at their own pace, test themselves and get ahead with our expert tutors anytime and anywhere. By offering short, engaging video lessons, visualized learning journeys, continuous assessment and performance analytics, we are changing the way students learn outside the classroom.

Create & Learn is a K12 education company pioneering the next generation of Computer Science education. They teach k-9 kids the latest technologies in an age-appropriate way with the ultimate goal of developing their creativity and critical thinking skills. The company takes a whole-brain approach to STEAM learning, which means kids not only have hands-on experiences with the latest technologies such as AI and Data Science. Create & Learn employs effective creative learning approaches in every aspect of their curriculum design to develop kids' creativity and critical thinking skills. Their small classes mean there are a lot of interactions in the class, and every student will receive personal attention from the teacher.

To be able to address a rapidly changing market we created a market first / market fast approach to game development. Our world-class team takes the best concepts to market in just a handful of weeks from dozens of original ideas. We look for strong marketability and high player engagement from the outset to help determine if games have hit potential.

Toucan develops a Google chrome extension for learning new languages and communicating with others. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Santa Monica, California.

ClassDojo, Inc. operates an online school communication platform that connects teachers, students, and families to build communities by sharing what’s being learned in the classroom home through photos, videos, and messages. The company was formerly known as Class Twist, Inc. and changed its name to ClassDojo, Inc. in December 2017. ClassDojo, Inc. was founded in 2011 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Course Hero is an online learning platform with study resources that help students feel confident and prepared, from day one to graduation. The company provides a free and subscription online learning platform that empowers students and educators to succeed through unlocked study tools, documents, and resources. It also offers free and subscription membership that includes access to practice problems, study guides, videos, class notes, and step-by-step explanations for every subject that students study, from economics to literature, biology to history, and accounting to psychology. In 2016, Andrew Grauer, Gregor Carrigan, and Jared Grauer established Course Hero in Redwood City, California.

CreativeLIVE, Inc. provides an online platform that enables users to view and purchase online courses related to photography, video, design, business, audio, music, crafting, and software training. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in Seattle, Washington.

Photomath is an app for your math homework. Just point the camera toward a math problem and it will display the answer with step-by-step instructions with how they got there. It can also draw graphs. This app will help you practice so you can learn how to do this stuff all by yourself. The app supports everything from basic arithmetic to more advanced levels of math like trigonometry. It’s a free app and is available for both iPhone and Android.

Voxy provides truly personalized English language instruction to corporations, educational institutions, and governments across the globe. Based on more than 30 years of academic research, Voxy’s solution meets the needs of each user by combining patented technology that adapts lessons in real-time with personalized live instruction all delivered in a fully mobile experience. Launched in 2010, it has been used by millions of learners and hundreds of institutions in over 50 different countries. Voxy’s innovative approach has been recognized by major media outlets including The New York Times, Forbes, and CNN. Backed by leading investors in education technology, Voxy is headquartered in New York City and has an office in São Paulo.

Andela is a global talent network that connects companies with engineering talent in emerging markets. Hundreds of leading companies like GitHub, Cloudflare, and ViacomCBS leverage Andela to scale their engineering teams quickly and cost-effectively. A distributed organization spanning four continents, Andela is backed by investors including Generation Investment Management, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Spark Capital, and Google Ventures.

Ansaro helps companies interview better and hire the people who will do the job best. We apply machine learning to workforce data our customers already collect, but have never tapped before, allowing them to identify new patterns and reduce biases in hiring. Our systems help customers find more top performers, reduce turnover, and streamline the hiring process.

Outlier.org Inc. develops an online educational platform. It offers Outlier.org, a platform that provides online courses on calculus and psychology. The company’s platform also provides video content, online textbooks, one-on-one tutoring, artificial intelligence-proctored assessments, problem sets, and active learning techniques. Outlier.org Inc. was formerly known as Outlier School Inc. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Brooklyn, New York.

Mighty translates detailed individual workflows from the tools people use into automated, dynamic team timelines that anyone can follow to see where teams are focused and that managers can use to easily maintain alignment, keep leadership informed, and spot opportunities for recognition and coaching. It automatically builds directly from workflows in tools such as Jira, Asana, and Slack to help lead teams, coach people, and keep everyone informed.

Clever operates as a single sign-on platform for K-12 education. It unlocks a wealth of digital learning, so teachers can meet each student where they are. Clever brings all applications into one secure portal and provides single sign-on for everyone in the district. It was founded in 2012 and is based in San Francisco, California.

CampusLogic provides critical tools and resources for the 15 million students who travel the higher education journey each year. The company currently serves more than 750 schools increase enrollment, retention, and graduation rates with a platform, which includes a net price calculator, complete scholarship management, personalized digital communications, simplified financial aid verification, 24×7 personalized virtual advising, tuition, and scholarship crowdfunding, and integrated data visualizations.

Hellosaurus is an e-learning platform that offers creative programs, fun activities, and video classes for kids. It offers an interactive video platform for children and specializes in the fields of online portals and the internet.

To be able to address a rapidly changing market we created a market first / market fast approach to game development. Our world-class team takes the best concepts to market in just a handful of weeks from dozens of original ideas. We look for strong marketability and high player engagement from the outset to help determine if games have hit potential.

MasteryConnect helps educators identify levels of student understanding, target students for intervention, personalize learning, and use data to evaluate their own practice. It specializes in the fields of educational technology, software as a service, education, and professional development. The company was founded in 2009 and headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Valenture Institute operates as a private online high school with a recognized curriculum. The company as founded in 2019 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Tynker is a creative computing platform where millions of kids have learned to program and built games, apps and more. Tynker's mission is to provide every child with solid foundations in Computer Science, programming, and critical thinking skills to prepare them to become better architects of their future world. Tynker offers self-paced online courses for children to learn coding at home, as well as an engaging programming curriculum for schools. Tynker’s intuitive visual programming language enables kids to build web and mobile apps, design RPG and platformer games, control robots, program drones, and even modify Minecraft worlds.

Amira Learning offers an intelligent reading assistant that listens, assesses, and tutors. Amira recommends appropriately challenging stories, listens as a student reads aloud, and intervenes when helpful. The company assesses oral reading fluency and analyzes errors to pinpoint strengths and weaknesses. Every time a student and Amira read together, Amira generates diagnostic reports that empower teachers and parents. It gives teachers more time to teach and gives students a more effective way to practice.

Degreed provides companies with a platform that enables employees to develop their skills and create skill profiles. Using that data, the platform can promote career mobility by connecting users to project, gigs, and job opportunities. It integrates and curates all the resources people use to learn including learning management systems and millions of courses, videos, articles, books, and podcasts. The company was launched in 2012 and is headquartered in Pleasanton, California.

Intellispark helps schools to maximize student achievement through a data-driven, community-centered approach to student advising. Their team includes experienced education and technology leaders who are passionate about ensuring every child has the chance to make a difference.

Degreed provides companies with a platform that enables employees to develop their skills and create skill profiles. Using that data, the platform can promote career mobility by connecting users to project, gigs, and job opportunities. It integrates and curates all the resources people use to learn including learning management systems and millions of courses, videos, articles, books, and podcasts. The company was launched in 2012 and is headquartered in Pleasanton, California.

Fairygodboss, Inc. operates a self-described social network platform for career-minded women. It provides information on pay and bonus, corporate culture, benefits, and work flexibility; company ratings, job listings, discussion boards, and career advice; maternity and paternity leaves; company reviews; and work-life balance. Fairygodboss, Inc. was founded in 2015 and is based in New York, New York.

Ethena, Inc., a software-as-a-service company, develops anti sexual harassment training software for teams. It offers Ethena for personalized short-form bits of personalized, digestible training content to employees throughout the year. The company’s Ethena provides compliance with content that meets the newest regulations; monthly training emails; data and insights; and facilitates discussions. The company was incorporated in 2019 and is based in New York, New York.

Educents Inc. operates as an online marketplace for selling educational products to students, parents, homeschoolers, and educators in the United States. The company offers science kits, curriculum packs, books, art supplies, math and reading books, and others. It also provides digital products, such as downloads and online programs for international customers. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Learn In provides a comprehensive upskilling-as-a-service platform, which enables companies to offer employees sabbaticals, during which time they can acquire the new skills that are essential within an evolving workplace. It delivers companies and their employees online, low-cost training programs, as well as traditional degree options particularly focused on digital skills and hard-to-fill roles such as data science and software engineering.

Motimatic, LLC operates an online advertising platform to deliver targeted messages that drive economically beneficial behavior. Its messages support specific users in achieving their goals, while creating economic value for its client organizations in various markets that range from healthcare to financial services, insurance, and education. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in San Francisco, California.

To be able to address a rapidly changing market we created a market first / market fast approach to game development. Our world-class team takes the best concepts to market in just a handful of weeks from dozens of original ideas. We look for strong marketability and high player engagement from the outset to help determine if games have hit potential.

ThinkCERCA’s personalized literacy platform helps educators teach critical thinking skills through argumentative writing. With students and teachers using its platform in all 50 states and 130 countries, the company has partnered with prominent leaders in education, including Follett Corporation, and has been featured by The Atlantic and EdSurge. A 2016 SIAA CODiE Awards finalist in the Best Learning Capacity-Building Solution and Best Reading/English/Language Arts Instructional Solution categories, ThinkCERCA has also been named one of the best tools in ed tech by Common Sense’s Graphite. In July 2013, ThinkCERCA was the recipient of a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Literacy Courseware Challenge grant, and in December 2012, graduated from the inaugural class of Impact Engine’s social impact accelerator. To learn more, please visit ThinkCERCA.com

Founded in 2015, MasterClass is the platform that makes it possible for anyone to learn from the best. With MasterClass, step into Anna Wintour’s office, Timbaland’s recording studio, and Neil Gaiman’s writing retreat. Improve your serve with Serena Williams, perfect your pitch with Shonda Rhimes, and leave the atmosphere with Chris Hadfield. Hundreds of video lessons from 85+ of today’s most brilliant minds are available anytime, anywhere with the All-Access Pass ($180 per year). Subscribe to greatness with MasterClass.

Pluralsight LLC. provides online development and IT training services for software professionals worldwide. It offers its online training courses for professional developers, IT admins, and creative artists. It serves individuals and businesses, as well as academic and government sectors. Pluralsight LLC. was founded in 2004 and is based in Farmington, Utah. Pluralsight LLC operates as a subsidiary of Pluralsight, Inc.

QuillBot is an AI writing collaborator that rewrites full paragraphs and refines content. The company’s mission is to make writing painless. QuillBot is driven by sophisticated AI paraphrasing technology that uses natural language understanding (NLU) to automatically reconstruct the user’s content to improve the clarity of the intended message. More than a million people around the world use QuillBot to improve their writing and deliver a more compelling message.

Battlecard operates as a platform that enables businesses to organize and document their sales playbooks. It simulates customer voices for fast and straightforward training and can also automate the roleplaying process for effective training.

DogVacay is an online community that connects pet parents with over 20,000 pet sitters across North America, ready to care for your dog like a member of their family. It's a safe, convenient and affordable way to make sure your best friend is in a loving home while you're away. All reservations include pet insurance, 24/7 customer support, and daily photo updates of your pooch enjoying a "vacay" of his own. With thousands of 5-star reviews and prices that average half the local kennel, you can finally travel with peace of mind.

Peoplegrove Inc. develops an application to place job seekers with employers through a voting process. It allows users to set up their profiles with the ability to connect with LinkedIn accounts. It enables them to show interest in openings and notifies the company to look at the user’s profile. Peoplegrove Inc. was formerly known as Emjoyment Inc. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in San Francisco, California.

College Pulse Inc. develops a student-centered opinion platform that enables students to poll their community to find out what’s going on around their campus. The company is based in the United States.

MasteryConnect helps educators identify levels of student understanding, target students for intervention, personalize learning, and use data to evaluate their own practice. It specializes in the fields of educational technology, software as a service, education, and professional development. The company was founded in 2009 and headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Today, the Handshake community includes 17 million students and young alumni at over 1,000 colleges and universities — including 120+ minority-serving institutions. They connect up-and-coming talent across all 50 states with nearly 500,000 employers recruiting on Handshake — from every Fortune 500 company to thousands of small businesses, nonprofits, startups, and more. Handshake is democratizing opportunity and ensuring college students have the support they need to find a great job and kick-off a meaningful career regardless of where they go to school, what they choose as a major, and who they know. Handshake’s network gives students access to more career opportunities and insights, provides employers with more comprehensive and efficient access to talent, and gives colleges more tools to drive student engagement and increase student employment Handshake has raised a total of $155 million dollars with $80 million most recently raised in Q4 of 2019. We've had the support from GGV, EQT Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Spark Capital, True Ventures, and Lightspeed Venture Partners. In addition, Handshake has received support from social impact investors, including the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Omidyar Network, Reach Capital, among others. Handshake was launched in 2014 and is headquartered in San Francisco and has offices in Denver and London, England.

iParadigms is a leading provider of cloud-based educational technologies to prevent plagiarism, verify content, and evaluate written work.

Andela is a global talent network that connects companies with engineering talent in emerging markets. Hundreds of leading companies like GitHub, Cloudflare, and ViacomCBS leverage Andela to scale their engineering teams quickly and cost-effectively. A distributed organization spanning four continents, Andela is backed by investors including Generation Investment Management, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Spark Capital, and Google Ventures.

Gradescope, Inc. develops a grading platform for schools and departments. The company's software enables instructors to grade paper-based assignments and exams online, and also provides feedback for students. It also helps instructors to see detailed assignment and question analytics. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Berkeley, California. As of October 3, 2018, Gradescope, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Turnitin, LLC.

Peoplegrove Inc. develops an application to place job seekers with employers through a voting process. It allows users to set up their profiles with the ability to connect with LinkedIn accounts. It enables them to show interest in openings and notifies the company to look at the user’s profile. Peoplegrove Inc. was formerly known as Emjoyment Inc. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Nearpod Inc. provides a cloud-based platform to enhance the learning process in classrooms and distance learning. It offers Nearpod, a solution for the synchronized use of iPads in the classroom that enables instructors to launch interactive multimedia presentations to engage their students and assess their work with the use of iPads. The company also operates a Nearpod certified educator’s community where it shows webinar, lessons, and training materials. It also offers curriculum services, such as Nearpod lesson library, digital citizenship and literacy, college and career exploration, English learners, social emotional learning, historical perspectives and literacy, and learning labs. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Aventura, Florida.

Remind is a communication platform that helps every student succeed. Founded in 2011, Remind allows school and district administrators to reach and engage with their communities and connects educators and families with the tools that help them teach and learn. Investors include First Round Capital, GSV, Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers, and Social Capital.