Nesta Impact Investments

BibliU provides colleges and universities with digital content management, automation, and analytics platform. BibliU’s solution puts digital textbooks, courseware, and monographs at the fingertips of all students. Working with thousands of publishers and OER providers to deliver millions of digital resources, BibliU combines academic freedom with innovative affordability and automation.

MEL Science is an educational startup focused to change early science education with a combination of up-to date technologies and hands on experience. Our main products are monthly subscription to chemistry kits and chemistry lessons in VR for schools.

Skin Analytics build a digital history of your skin so that you and your doctor can measure, track and ultimately understand your skin. Meaning you have the tools to take control and ultimately improve your skin health. Their patent-pending algorithms measure how the skin is changing from smartphone images to identify, inform and evaluate treatment options across a range of consumer health and clinical skin conditions. Which means they build digital platforms that personalise skin health so people can control their skin health rather than be controlled by it. They’re focused on delivering a series of skin health products over the next 3 years ranging from consumer to clinical.

Empiribox has identified a number of issues and elements that impact on the quality of science teaching currently offered at primary schools across the UK and internationally.

BibliU provides colleges and universities with digital content management, automation, and analytics platform. BibliU’s solution puts digital textbooks, courseware, and monographs at the fingertips of all students. Working with thousands of publishers and OER providers to deliver millions of digital resources, BibliU combines academic freedom with innovative affordability and automation.

Q doctor is a group of like-minded professionals providing easy to use video consultations with a growing number of NHS surgeries and organisations. Q doctor brings secure video consultations to the NHS in a way that supports it. As a practice, you can use your own clinicians or bring in extra workforce at a low cost.

The world's leading Total Workforce Optimization platform. ProFinda AI aligns the work priorities of the organization with the capabilities and desires of the workforce. Intelligently connecting people, skills and work across the full opportunity marketplace, ProFinda drives both operational efficiency and the employee experience in tandem. The ProFinda platform enables organizations to make intelligent, data-informed decisions, matching the right people, to the right work, at the right cost, at the right time. Deploying ProFinda enables organisations to drive better work quality, workforce productivity and employee experience. ProFinda uses machine intelligence to understand the skills, knowledge and experience of an organization's total talent supply chain (internal and external). ProFinda creates a unique 360 degree holistic talent profile for every person in the talent supply chain from the daily digital footprint that they leave. Organizations finally have line of sight of all the resources they can call upon regardless of their employment type. ProFinda is working with global knowledge intensive organisations including Professional Services firms, Systems integrators, BPO, Civil Engineering, Defense and Governments.

Arbor helps schools tranform the way they work, saving teachers time and improving student outcomes. The company has two products, a Management Information System to automate school workflows, saving teachers time, and benchmarking analytics to identify areas of concern and reduce time to intervention.

Applied is the essential platform for debiased hiring. By anonymizing applications, leveraging a skills-based methodology, and building transparency & analytics into every step of the process, our platform identifies vital talent that would have otherwise been overlooked. When organizations transform the way they hire, they not only discover the very best candidates, they help usher in a world where everyone feels a sense of inclusion, equity, and belonging.

Sumdog is a freemium site which creates fun games that motivate students to learn math, English and reading. It's unique learning engine understands each student individually placing them in an appropriate level based on their ability within the national curriculum. Sumdog gives teachers a platform to teach and assess being able to set challenges, competitions and assessments. Teachers and parents can track student progress using class reports and proficiency charts. Since 2010, Sumdog has been on a mission to make learning fun for all students. Sumdog has offices in Edinburgh and New York.

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Arbor helps schools tranform the way they work, saving teachers time and improving student outcomes. The company has two products, a Management Information System to automate school workflows, saving teachers time, and benchmarking analytics to identify areas of concern and reduce time to intervention.

Oomph Wellness offers inclusive exercise and activity classes that improve physical mobility, social interaction, and mental stimulation. The company is based in London, England.

Genera is the market leader in software for the Perioperative Surgical Home (PSH) and its products are used as a patient assessment and risk evaluation tool in NHS hospital trusts and private clinics. Nesta’s investment will help the business to expand its activities into more hospitals across the UK and in Europe, improving patient health outcomes by helping to reduce cancellations, delays, risk and errors in surgery.

They learn better when learning is personalized to their needs – taking into account their existing knowledge and capabilities. So when training or learning needs to work, you need a personalized approach that makes learning really happen. The CogBooks intelligent adaptive learning platform let’s you create and deliver personalized web-based learning that works. CogBooks brings research-based methods to web-based learning: Their adaptive learning platform uses an intelligent engine to personalise what the learner experiences in real time. This ensures that each individual receives the specific knowledge and performance support they need. CogBooks optimises the learning path - filling in key knowledge gaps, providing job aids or skipping unnecessary basics – so that every learner develops sound knowledge they can use and build on. CogBooks adaptive learning is available as a cloud-based authoring and delivery tool and links directly with any standard LMS, letting you upgrade to an adaptive LMS without software installation or integration. They also offer adaptive courses from select partners in a range of business topics (www.cogbooks.com/courses) . Go to www.cogbooks.com to learn how CogBooks can help you reduce learning times and improve outcomes for critical business and learning needs.

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Oomph Wellness offers inclusive exercise and activity classes that improve physical mobility, social interaction, and mental stimulation. The company is based in London, England.

BrightSpark embraces technology to deliver the benefit of one-to-one numeracy support to classrooms across the UK.

Ffrees provides digital current accounts which help customers save up. It is the leading UK competitor to the normal bank-based current accounts and is differentiated by its operating model which gives it the ability to run a profitable service from the 60% of customers that banks cannot serve profitably or, indeed, fairly. Operating off a unique and purpose-built fintech platform Ffrees is on track to become one of the major disruptors to UK banking sector.

Digital Assess gives you one product made up of a set of dependable tools designed to capture and assess skills from a single location. Our technology lets you make razor-sharp judgements with ease and gives learners the chance to demonstrate every facet of applied knowledge. We work with some of the world’s most trusted education brands to support and improve the whole learning process.

Arbor helps schools tranform the way they work, saving teachers time and improving student outcomes. The company has two products, a Management Information System to automate school workflows, saving teachers time, and benchmarking analytics to identify areas of concern and reduce time to intervention.

They learn better when learning is personalized to their needs – taking into account their existing knowledge and capabilities. So when training or learning needs to work, you need a personalized approach that makes learning really happen. The CogBooks intelligent adaptive learning platform let’s you create and deliver personalized web-based learning that works. CogBooks brings research-based methods to web-based learning: Their adaptive learning platform uses an intelligent engine to personalise what the learner experiences in real time. This ensures that each individual receives the specific knowledge and performance support they need. CogBooks optimises the learning path - filling in key knowledge gaps, providing job aids or skipping unnecessary basics – so that every learner develops sound knowledge they can use and build on. CogBooks adaptive learning is available as a cloud-based authoring and delivery tool and links directly with any standard LMS, letting you upgrade to an adaptive LMS without software installation or integration. They also offer adaptive courses from select partners in a range of business topics (www.cogbooks.com/courses) . Go to www.cogbooks.com to learn how CogBooks can help you reduce learning times and improve outcomes for critical business and learning needs.

Ffrees provides digital current accounts which help customers save up. It is the leading UK competitor to the normal bank-based current accounts and is differentiated by its operating model which gives it the ability to run a profitable service from the 60% of customers that banks cannot serve profitably or, indeed, fairly. Operating off a unique and purpose-built fintech platform Ffrees is on track to become one of the major disruptors to UK banking sector.

Register, create one application and then you will be visible to training providers in your area. They will then match you to an apprenticeship in your preferred career in your local area.

Ffrees provides digital current accounts which help customers save up. It is the leading UK competitor to the normal bank-based current accounts and is differentiated by its operating model which gives it the ability to run a profitable service from the 60% of customers that banks cannot serve profitably or, indeed, fairly. Operating off a unique and purpose-built fintech platform Ffrees is on track to become one of the major disruptors to UK banking sector.

They learn better when learning is personalized to their needs – taking into account their existing knowledge and capabilities. So when training or learning needs to work, you need a personalized approach that makes learning really happen. The CogBooks intelligent adaptive learning platform let’s you create and deliver personalized web-based learning that works. CogBooks brings research-based methods to web-based learning: Their adaptive learning platform uses an intelligent engine to personalise what the learner experiences in real time. This ensures that each individual receives the specific knowledge and performance support they need. CogBooks optimises the learning path - filling in key knowledge gaps, providing job aids or skipping unnecessary basics – so that every learner develops sound knowledge they can use and build on. CogBooks adaptive learning is available as a cloud-based authoring and delivery tool and links directly with any standard LMS, letting you upgrade to an adaptive LMS without software installation or integration. They also offer adaptive courses from select partners in a range of business topics (www.cogbooks.com/courses) . Go to www.cogbooks.com to learn how CogBooks can help you reduce learning times and improve outcomes for critical business and learning needs.

Ai-Media UK offers online captioning, transcription, and audio description services for media, education, and corporate clients to make content accessible for people with disabilities. The company is specialized in providing communication support for deaf and people with hearing disabilities. It offers Ai-Live, an online captioning and transcription service that helps people in participating and interacting by enabling inclusion and access to education and the workplace; and Visible Classroom, a project that provides useful feedback for teachers in real time based on sound educational pedagogy in line with models of best teaching practices. The company also provides on-site services, including British sign language, speech-to-text, electronic note-taker, lip speaker, and on-site captioning services; and web accessibility services such as corporate note-taking, verbatim transcription, subtitle, and foreign language services. In addition, it offers captioning for television broadcasters; live captioning in schools and universities to support learning; and trainings for teachers and educational solutions for schools and universities. Ai-Media UK was incorporated in 2010 and is based in London, United Kingdom with additional offices in Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide, and Melbourne, Australia.

Digital Assess gives you one product made up of a set of dependable tools designed to capture and assess skills from a single location. Our technology lets you make razor-sharp judgements with ease and gives learners the chance to demonstrate every facet of applied knowledge. We work with some of the world’s most trusted education brands to support and improve the whole learning process.

Future Gov is a digital and design company that provides public services. It is based in London, United Kingdom.

Oomph Wellness offers inclusive exercise and activity classes that improve physical mobility, social interaction, and mental stimulation. The company is based in London, England.

Ffrees provides digital current accounts which help customers save up. It is the leading UK competitor to the normal bank-based current accounts and is differentiated by its operating model which gives it the ability to run a profitable service from the 60% of customers that banks cannot serve profitably or, indeed, fairly. Operating off a unique and purpose-built fintech platform Ffrees is on track to become one of the major disruptors to UK banking sector.

Changing the experience of reading and writing stories for teens all over the world. Movellas is a self-publishing platform based around the Japanese concept of mobile short stories. The market in Japan has exceeded 82 million people, meaning it became the fastest growing form of literature amongst Japanese teenagers. Users can create their own stories and publish to the social and interactive community, with fellow readers able to comment, give feedback and assist in developing each story. Anyone can create their own 'movella' and it is accessible via the web or mobile device.

Digital Assess gives you one product made up of a set of dependable tools designed to capture and assess skills from a single location. Our technology lets you make razor-sharp judgements with ease and gives learners the chance to demonstrate every facet of applied knowledge. We work with some of the world’s most trusted education brands to support and improve the whole learning process.