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Novel Capital’s fintech funding platform breaks down the traditional growth barriers faced by today’s B2B software companies. Their tech-first approach makes it easy for customers to leverage future recurring revenue for immediate access to non-dilutive capital. Paired with online data-driven insights and curated learning resources, the Novel platform empowers entrepreneurs to capitalize on their momentum. Novel Capital aims to support entrepreneurs and growing businesses by offering flexible, non-dilutive capital solutions that help them scale without giving up equity. The company's innovative approach aims to empower entrepreneurs and foster a thriving startup ecosystem.

Edlink provides two-way connections for e-learning and companies and publishers to tackle challenges like single-sign-on (SSO), rostering, content integration, and grade pass-back. The company was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas, United States.

EveryDay Labs unites behavioral science, data science, and family engagement to reduce chronic absenteeism while empowering educators to optimize student supports districtwide.

Rhithm is a wellness check-in tool. The platform selects an ideal 1-2 minute activity video to regulate well-being based on user given data from a simple emoji assessment. This data is available on dashboards to reflect and connect with as desired at the campus, district/network and state levels.

EveryDay Labs unites behavioral science, data science, and family engagement to reduce chronic absenteeism while empowering educators to optimize student supports districtwide.

Paper is a developer of an educational platform designed to make personalized tutoring available to all students. It provides tutoring, after-school enrichment, and college and career resources to support students at every step of their academic journey. The platform connects students with a certified educator who can answer questions and provide contextualized feedback on exactly where the student went wrong in the learning process.

Swing provides substitute teachers to fill hard-to-fill staff absences. On average, U.S. students spend 5% of the typical school year with substitute teachers, which translates to over 6 months of their K-12 school career. Failing to fill a substitute teacher opening not only impacts students, but causes teachers, school leaders, and administrators to shuffle around to cover gaps. There's also the time administrators spend on the logistical issues of finding, recruiting, screening, scheduling, and paying contract substitute teachers. Swing's marketplace helps schools cover hard-to-fill absences by seamlessly providing substitute teachers on-demand.

BookNook is a provider of synchronous learning technology and virtual high dosage tutoring, supporting hundreds of school districts in their efforts to provide scaled programs for k-8 reading and math that are fun, rigorous, and effective. It has quickly spread across schools and after-school programs.

KickUp helps professional development teams differentiate teacher support through analytics. Its SaaS-based analytics platform is designed to offer professional learning services. The analytics platform helps users customize pre-loaded goals to align with their district or region's strategic goals, pull together real-time data from surveys. They partner with K-12 organizations to coordinate professional learning efforts, improve decision-making, and ensure that great ideas translate into demonstrable outcomes in the classroom. Jeremy Rogoff, Victoria Kinzig, and Eric Krupski headquartered KickUp in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 2014.

Schoolrunner is a student data system that allows educators to track academics, attendance, behavior, and standards. It integrates with a school’s existing student information systems (SIS) and provides tools to aid analysis of the collected data through graphs, pivot tables, and dashboards. Educators can also set up logins for students so they can track their own progress. Schoolrunner was launched in 2012.

Pear Deck helps schools optimize their programs through interactive synchronized learning experiences. It is a presentation displayed on a projector and student devices simultaneously. It blurs the line between instruction and assessment to promote active learning and data-driven instruction.

LearnPlatform is the edtech effectiveness system used by school districts, states, higher ed institutions, and their partners to organize, streamline, and rapidly analyze the impact of their technology and teaching practices. Over 150,000 educators across thousands of schools use LearnPlatform's free and paid services to save time, save money, and improve outcomes. The company delivering ground-breaking tools that save money, improve learning, and build the capacity of hundreds of thousands of educators and their organizations.

Founded in 2014, ClassWallet is the leading purchasing and reimbursement platform for public funds. The company’s patented digital wallet technology ensures that public funds reach the right people and are used for the right purpose – at a fraction of the time and cost of existing technology solutions with better compliance safeguards. ClassWallet is used by state government agencies and school districts across 32 states, helping those clients realize the full potential of over $2.7 billion in public funds. Its integrated marketplace of top retailers and service providers includes Amazon, Best Buy, Home Depot, Michaels, Office Depot, Scholastic, Staples, Varsity Tutors, and more. Headquartered in Hollywood, Florida, ClassWallet ranked number 477 on the prestigious Inc. 5000 list of the fastest-growing private companies in the U.S. in 2023 and the 61st fastest-growing software company. It also ranks as the 114th fastest-growing company in North America according to the Deloitte Technology Fast 500.

Story2 is a provider of a platform used to expand speaking, writing, and collaboration through online storytelling. Its platform uses the power of storytelling to expand writing confidence and persistence in college admissions, job search, and on the job by replacing empty words with vibrant, personal stories and writing that enable students to overcome the hurdles of the college admissions process as well as receive scholarships.

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 education leaders, 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

Uvize specializes in offering services ranging from enterprise mentorship programs to entrepreneurship accelerators. It creates meaningful mentor relationships. Uvize online platform facilitates and guides high-impact connections, allowing mentors to give back and protege businesses and organizations to optimize the potential of specific teams.

Netchemia is a prominent provider of cloud-based talent management software tailored for K-12 educational organizations. The company offers an innovative suite known as TalentEd, which includes solutions for applicant tracking and hiring, as well as performance evaluation. By equipping school districts with intuitive tools designed to recruit, hire, develop, and retain quality educators and school leaders, Netchemia aims to enhance student achievement. Its software serves over 1,100 educational organizations nationwide, allowing school leaders to concentrate on their core mission of finding and nurturing the best teaching staff.