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LiftEd is a continuous monitoring, intervention, and instructional support platform. It empowers teachers, related service (speech/occupational therapists, behaviorists, psychologists, etc.) and other Special Education professionals to rigorously track progress data, intelligently refine instruction/intervention strategies, and accelerate outcomes for learners with disAbilities or differences ages 3-22.

ReadWorks offers free, research-based, classroom-proven lessons and online training to help K-6 teachers explicitly teach the component skills and strategies of reading comprehension, while also supporting the much needed development of background knowledge and vocabulary.

Cognitive ToyBox, Inc. develops evidence-based early learning games and applications to assess kindergarten readiness in children. It develops games to build and assess number foundation. Additionally, the company develops assessment applications and games for teachers and schools. It develops solutions for android and iOS mobile phones. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Brooklyn, New York.

TECA is a non-profit organization dedicated to the support of educators of color in Tennessee. Diarese George, a former classroom teacher in the Clarksville-Montgomery County School System, founded the Tennessee Educators of Color Alliance in the fall of 2016 to provide a platform to amplify the voice and presence of educators of color.

VocaliD's award-winning technology generates high-quality, natural sounding voices within hours rather than months using cutting-edge machine learning techniques, proprietary voice blending algorithms, and a crowdsourced Voicebank.

Academy for Urban School Leadership is a NPO that offers educational assist services for lower performing schools. The organization focuses on creating schools by developing skilled teachers and transforming educational outcomes for students in the lowest performing schools. It also assists its students in improving academic achievements and increasing student engagement in educational activities. Academy for Urban School Leadership was founded in 2001 and is based in Chicago, Illinois.

Centervention offers game-based online programs and supplemental lessons that improve social and emotional skills for students in elementary and middle school. These games are fun for students, automatically gather data so educators can monitor progress, and include supplemental lessons to reinforce learning. With Centervention, educators can meet students where they are, address their unique needs, and do so in a fun, effective way.

EduMotion offers transformative school programs, including SEL Journeys, a digital platform that connects students all over the world to cultural dance lessons and Social-Emotional Learning activities.

TSS is an organization in northwest Wyoming and Idaho comprised of seven program areas sharing a common vision of education.

iTherapy offers multi-sensory, universal technology to students with autism and other special needs. The company's technology is used to create educational equipment that improves communication skills by combining science, technology, and play, allowing for better teaching methods for those with learning disabilities. iTherapy was founded by Matthew Guggemos and Lois Jean Brady.

The MIND Research Institute enables elementary and primary students to reach their full academic and career potential through developing and deploying math instructional software and systems - working closely with community leaders, school administrators and educators, and civic leaders and donors. As non-profit organization, MIND also conducts basic neuro-scientific, mathematics, and education research to improve math education and advance scientific understanding.

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.

Waterford Holdings, LLC provides reading, math, and science curriculum through a mix of software and services for students in pre-K through 2nd grade. It offers Waterford UPSTART, a kindergarten readiness project serving 4-year-old children and their families delivering computer-adaptive instruction at home alongside personalized support from Family Education Liaisons, who monitor progress and empower parents as their child’s first teachers. The company was incorporated in 2007 and is headquartered in Sandy, Utah.

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ExceptionALLY delivers a customized solution to help parents navigate the IEP process. The company aims to help parents understand, organize and communicate all the info they need to make sure their child is getting the help they require.

NexusEdge Education Inc. designs and develops an artificial intelligence based career navigation platform to help students discover their career paths and assist employers in building a pipeline of candidates that meet their specific expectations. It offers video face to face mentoring, micro-credentialing, LinkedIn learning, and adaptive job board services. The company provides its services to high schools, community colleges, universities, and alumni. NexusEdge Education Inc. was founded in 2016 and is based in Los Angeles, California.

Kinems, a movement-based educational platform with progress monitoring, empowering special education students to reach their full potential. It brings teaching, learning, and therapy for students with disabilities. Students use therapeutic body movements to play computer-based learning games based on state standards; therapists and teachers easily control the settings to tune the activities and gameplay to the specific and precise learning and developmental needs of each child. The system monitors progress and thoroughly documents all interventions. And because Kinems integrates math and literacy content, PT/OT sessions are no longer time away from academic learning but instead reinforce it. In 2013, Michael Boloudakis and Simos Retalis formed the company in New York, New York.

Tuva Labs provides data literacy solutions for K-12 schools, businesses, and organizations working in sustainable development. It offers Tuva, a data literacy platform that enables teachers to use interactive, visual graphing tools and curated datasets to teach problem solving, modeling, evidence-based thinking and other essential skills. The company's Tuva provides a library of modules and lessons that enables participants to learn foundational concepts in data, statistics, and analytics in various languages, such as English, Spanish, and Arabic. Tuva Labs was founded in 2012 and is based in New York.

Move This World is the leading provider of social-emotional learning (SEL) multimedia resources for PreK-12 students, educators, and families. Each piece of educational content is delivered through short interactive lessons and is grounded in the goal of empowering students to navigate the rapidly-changing realities of their world - both in the classroom and throughout their lives. Designed for implementation that is both impactful and simple, the MTW platform allows educators and families to incorporate SEL into their students’ schedules every day, without planning or prep. The extensive multimedia library provides a robust and engaging daily curriculum- experiences designed to empower students by strengthening the skills that foster wellbeing and establishing a common language among students, educators, and families. These multimedia experiences are rooted in creative expression and participatory movement. Move This World has already impacted the lives of over one and a half million students across 38 states. Learn more: movethisworld.com.

Kaymbu Inc. develops a cloud-based documentation and media management solution for early education centers to keep teachers, families, and administrators connected with the children. The company offers an iPad-based application that enables teachers to capture classroom activities for internal documentation and secure communication with families. Its application also allows teachers and administrators to access the content via Web or mobile devices, as well as add contextual notes and map to any assessment framework or accreditation criteria. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

GiveThx is a digital program that strengthens student wellbeing and social-emotional skills using gratitude science. Students and staff use digital thank you notes to recognize and reinforce positive behaviors that nurture relationships and build self-esteem. GiveThx is a powerful social-emotional learning system that schools can use on a daily basis, leveraging technology to create safe and inclusive communities. GiveThx is a nonprofit based in Oakland, CA with a mission to increase belonging and emotional wellbeing for all students.

Purpose Project helps both children and adults in developing skills such as self-awareness, self-direction, and community impact. The company is a non-profit organization based in San Francisco that is supported by Plussed and IDEO.

Mytonomy, Inc. provides microlearning software and specialized content solutions for patient education. The company delivers SaaS solutions to catalyze self-efficacy in patients helping them reach their health potential; and enables hospitals to deliver health care using systematic patient and caregiver instruction. It serves hospitals, patients, and caregivers. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Bethesda, Maryland.

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.

Education Modified LLC provides EdMod App, a tool for everyone who influences the education of a student with diverse needs. Its tool features include easy-to-implement strategies, built-in professional development, and Learning Biography, as well as curriculum, program, or standards enhancement. The company also provides ADHD professional development, co-teaching professional development, and Dyslexia professional development. Education Modified LLC was founded in 2011 and is based in New York, New York.

PhET provides fun, free, interactive, research-based science and mathematics simulations. They extensively test and evaluate each simulation to ensure educational effectiveness. These tests include student interviews and observation of simulation use in classrooms. The simulations are written in Java, Flash or HTML5, and can be run online or downloaded to your computer. All simulations are open source. Multiple sponsors support the PhET project, enabling these resources to be free to all students and teachers.

CLASSWALLET.COM, Inc. provides a funds management and tracking platform for school systems. It offers ClassWallet, a tracking platform for education funds that streamlines the tracking of education funds by minimizing paperwork and administrative overhead. The company's ClassWallet helps customers for their needs in tracking classroom stipends and purchases, unappropriated funds, Title I tracking, student activity funds, grants management, and donations. CLASSWALLET.COM, Inc. is based in Hollywood, Florida.

Sparkler serves education organizations and other employers that work with the parents of young children. Sparkler offers organizations serving young families a mobile app and related services that help parents, grandparents, and other caregivers harness the science of early child and brain development to make the most of the early years. Sparkler’s enterprise tools promote healthy child development. The company works with education, healthcare, and social service organizations that serve young families to help them give families tools that prepare children for learning and life.

Learning Genie provides the most powerful and flexible portfolio and assessment rating tools for child development observation, documentation, and assessment rating. It is ideal for state or federally funded programs to meet the documentation and assessment reporting requirements set by the Department of Education. In addition, Learning Genie’s innovative and interactive daily reporting feature makes Learning Genie the leader for family engagement. It is not a simple photo sharing or daily routine reporting tool. Rather, it is aimed to truly involve parents in children’s early learning to achieve the best home to school connection. By enabling the teacher to share learning contents such as ebooks, songs, interactive learning media as well as parenting tips, it enables a better bonding between parents and children through interactive learning together. They believe these will ultimately improve the quality of the program as well as children’s early learning outcomes.

Educreations, Inc. provides a tool for iPad that enables students and teachers to share ideas, collaborate, and learn new things worldwide. It offers Educreations that enables teachers to record voice and iPad screen to create dynamic video tutorials for students and colleagues; import documents and pictures from photo library, dropbox, and Google Drive; and share video lessons with students. The company’s Educreations also enables teachers to engage students inside and outside the classroom; keep parents in the loop; capture ideas; and use their content. Educreations, Inc. was founded in 2010 and is based in Palo Alto, California.

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

AppleTree is an entrepreneurial enterprise consisting of AppleTree Institute for Education Innovation and AppleTree Early Learning Public Charter School, with seven public charter preschool campuses serving as models for effective teaching and learning. Our innovative program has four core components: a focus on instructional quality, standards-based curriculum, quality classrooms, and a commitment to using data.

Motion Math Inc. develops movement-based mobile math game suite. The company’s product helps learners perceive and estimate various representations for fractions, such as numerator over denominator, percents, decimals, and pie charts. Its product connects each type of representation with its distance on the number line that enables learners to develop a perception of fractions. The company is based in San Francisco, California. As of November 8, 2017, Motion Math Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Curriculum Associates LLC.

A bit of history: back in late 2009, a group of passionate, dedicated Philadelphia area educators – most of whom who had never met in person, but were connected by social media – somehow found themselves together at an unconference called Barcamp Philly. Despite the name, there was no alcohol and no camping (“Occupy” style or otherwise). There was, however, intense excitement as the event began, the day’s conference schedule was created before our eyes, and sessions got underway. By the end of the day, we’d all attended many workshops, led a few of our own, and collectively reached a powerful conclusion:

TEACHLEY, LLC develops educational applications driven by cognitive science research. The company focuses on developing research driven math applications. It offers Addimal Adventure for the iPad that teaches single-digit addition for grades K-2; and Mt. Multiplis, an iPad application, which teaches complex multiplication strategies to students in third-fifth grades. The company also provides Teachley Analytics that enables schools to view which CC standards and benchmarks students have met; identify students at-risk and target intervention; and differentiate classroom instruction. TEACHLEY, LLC is based in New York, New York.

EdSurge, Inc. owns and operates a community which provides news and information on innovation in education technology. Its product browser enables the members to filter information by subject, audience, product characteristics, standards alignment, and technology platform. The company caters to educators, entrepreneurs, and investors. It also publishes a weekly newsletter and reports. EdSurge, Inc. was founded in 2011 and is based in Burlingame, California.

Ellevation is an information technology company that features a web-based software platform specifically designed for ELL educators and English learners. Ellevation specializes in the fields of education, e-learning, and language learning. It was founded in 2008 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Education Reform Now, a non-partisan 501.c3 organization, is committed to ensuring that all children can access a high-quality

CueThink Inc. offers a peer-to-peer platform that enables math problem solving for students in 4-12 grades. Its platform enables students to develop systematic problem-solving skills, improve math language, develop meta-cognitive skills, and build repository of visual assessments; teachers to obtain growth measures for students, meet math common core standards, engage expert and novice learners, and access database of best practices; and parents to view portfolio of student strategies, see feedback from peers and teachers, and obtain data on strengths and weaknesses. The company also offers Quantum, a peer-to-peer iPad application for 4-8 grades. CueThink Inc. was founded in 2012 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

Roxbury Preparatory Charter School is a community where students feel loved and nurtured so they can be their best each and every day.

Tales2Go Inc. provides an audio book subscription solution that gives educators, parents, and students with on-demand access to books from publishers and storytellers to mobile devices and desktops in the classroom and beyond. The company was incorporated in 2009 and is based in Bethesda, Maryland.

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.

Enuma creates game-based self-directed learning applications for children to help them acquire foundational math and language skills. The company's mission is to empower all the world’s children, including those with special needs or without access to resources to become independent learners.

CodeHS, Inc. operates a Website that provides training in programming and computer sciences. Its Website enables high schools to teach computer science in the areas of programming, Javascript and graphics, animation and games, data structures, functions and parameters, HTML/CSS, grading, and game design components. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Revolution Foods, Inc. produces food for schools and families across the United States. It offers unitized meals, family style meals, and food service products for breakfast, lunch, snacks, and supper The company also provides ready-to-eat meals for lunch, after school snacks, on-the-go boosting products, and sports refreshments. It serves early childhood education, school districts, charter networks, and community and after school youth programs. The company sells its products through grocery stores. Revolution Foods, Inc. was founded in 2006 and is based in Oakland, California.

The World Is an Interesting Place. Math Class Should Be, Too. At Mathalicious, they think the world is an interesting place full of interesting questions. Do people with small feet pay too much for shoes? Do taller Olympic sprinters have an unfair advantage? How have video game consoles changed over time…and are they building the Matrix? They also think math class is the perfect place for students and teachers to explore questions like these, and that it can be the most interesting part of the day.

Carnegie Learning is a leading publisher of innovative, research-based math curricula for middle school, high school, and post-secondary students. Providing differentiated instruction to schools across the United States, Carnegie Learning is helping students to succeed in math, creating a gateway to graduation and preparing them for the 21st century.

Business intelligence company currently focused on education. Proprietary software converts data into natural language for "everyday users," either as narrative text-based reports or as personalized videos. Early traction includes paid partnerships with some of the most significant players in education, including ETS, the College Board and NWEA, as well as major school systems, including Oakland Unified School District, Long Beach Unified and Green Dot Public Schools.

Securly is the first web filter that has been designed from the ground up for schools. It is completely cloud based, takes five minutes to set up per district and costs a fraction of the enterprise solutions that schools are forced to pay for today. We solve the problem of "over blocking" in schools by allowing educators to safely use 21st century instructional tools such as Google, YouTube and Wikipedia in the classroom.

Engrade was founded in 2003 by a high school student who wanted a better way to connect with teachers on homework, assessments, and messages. Over the years, user feedback and innovative ideas have shaped Engrade into a robust learning management system. Today, Engrade is a division of digital learning-focused CTB/McGraw-Hill and helps educators, parents, and students through all stages of the learning cycle from curriculum planning to assessments.

Reasoning Mind is a nonprofit organization with the mission of providing a first-rate math education for every child. To achieve this, the organization develops blended learning mathematics programs for elementary and middle school and works with schools to implement these programs in classrooms.

We started Mystery.org to create better explanations for every question children have about the world. We began with the 150 most common science questions that children ask teachers. We call this collection Mystery Science. This year, 1 out of every 5 children in the U.S. has used Mystery Science, spread across 50% of elementary schools. We’re now moving on to all the other questions children have that they’ll never learn in school. In the last 18 months we received over 500,000 questions from children eager for better explanations of the world. Now we’re creating video explanations for every question. You can think of this like a visual Wikipedia for kids. Our goal is to create a generation of better thinkers. We think this is the most important problem to solve in the world today.

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.

PowerMyLearning is a national non-profit that leverages technology to strengthen the learning relationships among students, teachers, and families so that all students can succeed. Our work fosters growth in teachers as instructional leaders; in families as support partners; and in students as learners who can meet the challenge of high academic standards.

Weird Enough Productions is a multimedia production company that specializes in original content creation and media literacy education. The company uses creativity, collaboration, and new media to create original content that illuminates the complexities of the human condition from perspectives that are often overlooked by mainstream media.

TCSC is a movement dedicated to effective policy, excellent schools, competent operators, and well-informed communities. The Tennessee Charter School Association and Tennessee Charter School Incubator merged in 2013 to form TCSC, which has a long history of providing comprehensive support to Tennessee's growing charter sector since 1998 and is critical to its continued growth.

Strive for College connects aspiring college students with free, one-on-one, online mentoring through the entire college admissions and financial aid application process. Strive for College recruits and trains volunteer mentors throughout the country. Mentors work with high school students interested in attending college and provide one-on-one virtual mentoring to help them access and pay for college. From the spring semester of junior year until application deadlines are complete, Strive mentors and mentees meet for about one hour each week online. Mentoring pairs work through the year-long Strive for College curriculum, developed with college deans and admissions administrators, to cover every aspect of researching, applying to and paying for a student’s best-fit, four-year college.

Educators for Excellence is a non-profit dedicated to giving teachers a voice in policies that affect their students and profession. The company was founded in 2012 by Sydney Morris and Evan Stone.

Mursion is the virtual reality environment where professionals practice and master the complex interpersonal skills necessary to be effective in high-stress professions. Used by a wide range of innovative organizations in healthcare, education, hospitality, finance, and other corporate sectors, Mursion delivers customized virtual reality simulations that recreate the most demanding interpersonal challenges that professionals confront on the job every day.

Aspire Public Schools is a not-for-profit organization that operates 38 public charter schools in California and Tennessee serving over 14,600 students in grades K-12. The organization was founded in 1998 and is based in Oakland, California.

Zyrobotics, LLC is an assistive technology company that was conceived in the summer of 2012 and officially incorporated in 2013 as a Georgia Tech Venturelab spin-off company. They have continued expanding their product line to offer technologies targeted toward accessible Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) education. Their first offerings include OctoPlus and OctoMinus, switch-accessible math apps that create an interactive gaming environment to reinforce common core math skills while enhancing fine motor skills and visual perception. Their STEM apps combine education and therapy to fully help in achieving developmental milestones for children of all abilities.

Concentric Educational Solutions focuses on student culture, special education, mental health, and organizational development in schools. The company was founded in 2010 by David Heiber.

Listen Current makes it easy to bring authentic voices and engaging non-fiction stories to the classroom. We curate the best of public radio to keep teaching connected to the real world and build student listening skills at the same time. Listen Current is a LearnLaunchX graduate.

They wake up every morning to create a bigger smile on the faces of children with special needs. Their team is dedicated to developing games that help children to overcome their disabilities in a playful and interactive way. The Timocco experience provides a safe, educational and empowering gaming environment for children, and a platform that encourages coping with everyday difficulties like physical or cognitive dysfunctions. Their goal is to provide those children in need with a friendly gaming environment, which allows them to become active and engaged in a fun and challenging activity, just like other children surrounding them.

TalkingPoints’ mission is to meaningfully connect teachers, parents, and students across to build relationships, so students can feel better supported in their learning. The company helps parents meaningfully engage in their students’ education, regardless of the backgrounds they have or the languages they speak.

EdCast is an AI-powered knowledge cloud for unified discovery, knowledge management, and personalized learning. EdCast aggregates all learning content including those from LMS, intranet, external providers, subject matter experts, and preferred resources on the web. The company's machine learning curation engine ensures that only the highest quality, most relevant, and contextual content is presented to your team. EdCast’s AI-based targeting engine learns about your team and makes continuous learning recommendations directly to where they are working – including Slack and Salesforce.

SchoolMint provides a cloud-based student enrollment and school choice platform to PreK-12 school systems worldwide. Since its founding in 2013, more than 6,000 schools have chosen SchoolMint to streamline all aspects of student enrollment - student registration management, application, lottery, and school choice management, and digital forms and document uploads. Available online and on mobile devices, SchoolMint integrates with leading student information systems (SIS) and transforms the end-to-end enrollment experience for school staff and parents. Visit http://www.SchoolMint.com to learn more.

BrightBytes provides the first SaaS-based data analytics platform that measures and links technology use in education to learning outcomes. It leverages data to understand and improve learning with technology. Its team is made up of Data Scientists, Educational Researchers, Developers, and Data Visualization Experts. The platform also enables educators to cleanse, integrate, and bi-directionally to manage complex data from multiple systems. It was founded in 2012 and is located in San Francisco, California.

Students use Kaizena to request feedback on their work from teachers and other students. From hearing yourself play a wrong note on the piano to a baseball coach guiding your swing, feedback is everyone’s fundamental learning process: try, compare, try again. We extend everyone's natural approach to learning into the classroom.

Branching Minds solves a large and growing problem for teachers, principals and superintendents: educators have no clear way of figuring out why students are struggling to learn, or what teachers should do to help them get back on track. Our platform helps teachers to identify students’ cognitive learning strengths and challenges, algorithmically matches them with research-backed learning supports, and then tracks and reports data on student progress.

Curriculet provides a digital reading platform. It offers Curriculet that enables teachers to deliver customized learning and digitally create and share their curriculum and lesson materials. The company's Curriculet also allows school districts to purchase ebooks. Curriculet was formerly known as Gobstopper, Inc. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in San Francisco, California. As of December 6, 2016, Curriculet operates as a subsidiary of Waterford Institute Inc.

Business intelligence company currently focused on education. Proprietary software converts data into natural language for "everyday users," either as narrative text-based reports or as personalized videos. Early traction includes paid partnerships with some of the most significant players in education, including ETS, the College Board and NWEA, as well as major school systems, including Oakland Unified School District, Long Beach Unified and Green Dot Public Schools.

CLASSWALLET.COM, Inc. provides a funds management and tracking platform for school systems. It offers ClassWallet, a tracking platform for education funds that streamlines the tracking of education funds by minimizing paperwork and administrative overhead. The company's ClassWallet helps customers for their needs in tracking classroom stipends and purchases, unappropriated funds, Title I tracking, student activity funds, grants management, and donations. CLASSWALLET.COM, Inc. is based in Hollywood, Florida.

Zaption, Inc. operates an online video interaction platform that offers interactive video tools and ready-to-use video lessons for education applications. Its Web application allows teachers, trainers, and instructional designers to add images, texts, and questions to existing online videos. The company serves K-12 classrooms, higher education institutions, and training. Zaption, Inc. was founded in 2012 and is based in San Francisco, California. As of June 30, 2016, Zaption, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Workday, Inc.

BrightBytes provides the first SaaS-based data analytics platform that measures and links technology use in education to learning outcomes. It leverages data to understand and improve learning with technology. Its team is made up of Data Scientists, Educational Researchers, Developers, and Data Visualization Experts. The platform also enables educators to cleanse, integrate, and bi-directionally to manage complex data from multiple systems. It was founded in 2012 and is located in San Francisco, California.

eSpark, Inc. designs and develops iPad based educational application for school students. It offers Frontier, an active, engaging, and motivational tool to get students to write; and eSpark, provides differentiated instructions for math and ELA on the iPad for elementary school students, as well as learning services. eSpark, Inc. was founded in 2007 and is based in Chicago, Illinois with an additional office in San Francisco, California.

Majorwise’s mission is to revolutionize how students find jobs out of high school. Majorwise was started by Peter Silverman and Max Robbins in December of 2015. Peter and Max were college roommates at the University of Vermont, and both were having trouble finding local jobs for the summer related to their major. Peter ended up getting a digital marketing internship in Boston, and Max was a waiter in Cape Cod. Neither of us could believe there were no local jobs we could find. So, we started investigating where all these jobs are. It turned out, most of the companies in Vermont are small, as in less than 10 employees. These businesses don’t normally hire students for internships because internships are often too big of commitments. They do need help executing marketing strategies, making graphics, and communicating with customers, but they can’t afford that for 30 hours a week. Figuring this out, Peter and Max created a simple job board called BeaconVT to help Vermont students find local jobs, internships, projects, and gigs.

EdSurge, Inc. owns and operates a community which provides news and information on innovation in education technology. Its product browser enables the members to filter information by subject, audience, product characteristics, standards alignment, and technology platform. The company caters to educators, entrepreneurs, and investors. It also publishes a weekly newsletter and reports. EdSurge, Inc. was founded in 2011 and is based in Burlingame, California.

Ellevation is an information technology company that features a web-based software platform specifically designed for ELL educators and English learners. Ellevation specializes in the fields of education, e-learning, and language learning. It was founded in 2008 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Grockit is a pioneering online social learning company. Grockit has proven that people learn more, faster through combining social learning mechanics and multi-media learning content to help people teach and learn from others. Grockit.com offers Test Prep services for GMAT, IIM CAT, LSAT, GRE, ACT, SAT and AP Calculus and AP History tests. Grockit has built a social learning test prep platform for license and direct-to-consumer products. Florida Virtual Schools, KIPP Schools, Georgetown University and other schools have deployed Grockit services.

We started Mystery.org to create better explanations for every question children have about the world. We began with the 150 most common science questions that children ask teachers. We call this collection Mystery Science. This year, 1 out of every 5 children in the U.S. has used Mystery Science, spread across 50% of elementary schools. We’re now moving on to all the other questions children have that they’ll never learn in school. In the last 18 months we received over 500,000 questions from children eager for better explanations of the world. Now we’re creating video explanations for every question. You can think of this like a visual Wikipedia for kids. Our goal is to create a generation of better thinkers. We think this is the most important problem to solve in the world today.

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.

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.

Developed by education experts, Peekapak's award winning learning platform and digital games provides educators with easy-to-use, standards-aligned, research-based tools that make integrating social-emotional skills fun, engaging and effective. Peekapak is backed by Y Combinator's Edtech Vertical, Imagine K12, NewSchools Venture Fund, Uncharted and the DMZ and has been covered in EdSurge, Entrepreneur Magazine, Kidscreen, Flare, International Business Times, Flare, BetaKit, TechVibes, Yahoo Finance, CBC, CTV and Toronto Star.

Brightwheel is the first all-in-one software platform for preschools, childcare providers, camps, and afterschool programs. Brightwheel helps teachers manage their day and communicate with parents, gives parents deeper insight into what their children are learning, and automates the process of managing operations for administrators. The platform has been shown to save teachers and administrators up to an hour per day while improving parent satisfaction and giving them a closer connection to their child’s learning. It is the fastest growing platform in early education, used across thousands of locations globally.

BetterLesson, Inc. develops and offers a professional development platform for teachers. Its platform connects teachers to their personal coaches for setting professional development challenges and objectives, creating individualized learning plans, and making teaching strategies. It provides a searchable database to users to find lesson plans, classroom materials, and instructional resources from teachers; browse various documents, presentations, lessons, units, and courses; and share curriculum and connect with fellow educators. BetterLesson, Inc. was incorporated in 2008 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

FreshGrade Inc. develops an online education platform for teachers, parents, and students. Its platform enables teachers to capture, communicate, and assess learning moments through videos, pictures, audio, and notes; and provides parents a window into the classroom to know the progress of their child. The company’s platform also enables the evolution of education with the learning collaboration system, and supports personalized learning and parents’ engagement. FreshGrade Inc. was founded in 2011 and is based in Kelowna, Canada.

WriteReader ApS develops a web-based educational tool that allows children learn to read by writing and publish small digital books. It offers WriteReader app that allows children to takes pictures of family, friends, things, situations, and write about them in their actual level of written language; translates the child's text to conventional writing, which allows the child to improve his or her writing and reading capabilities by comparing their own attempt to the edited version. The company’s application also enables the children to share books with friends and family, and publish them on the global online library. WriteReader ApS was founded in 2012 and is based in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Schoolzilla provides a best-in-class dashboard system---Mosaic District Progress Monitoring---that makes it easy for K12 district and school leaders to be data-driven leaders. Mosaic is used to support districts working to reduce chronic absence, improve assessment results, reduce equity gaps, monitor behavior interventions, make sure students are on track to graduate college- and career-ready, and more. Mosaic is a configurable SaaS solution built on the Schoolzilla Data Warehouse that ingests and transforms data from more than 100 commonly used SIS, assessment, and operational software systems.

Mytonomy, Inc. provides microlearning software and specialized content solutions for patient education. The company delivers SaaS solutions to catalyze self-efficacy in patients helping them reach their health potential; and enables hospitals to deliver health care using systematic patient and caregiver instruction. It serves hospitals, patients, and caregivers. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Bethesda, Maryland.

Speak Agent, Inc. is an education company dedicated to closing the academic achievement gap for special populations like ELLs (English Language Learners). The company was born out of the CEO’s frustration as a former teacher with the lack of tools to teach academic English. Its solution is an online platform for teaching vocabulary in all subjects. It has received awards from the Dept. of Education, DARPA, NSF, TEDCO, and NewSchools Venture Fund.

LearnZillion provides educators with curricular products for the new standards in digital and print. Its platform offers access to instructional materials for mathematics and literacy, as well as provides task-implementation guides for teachers that enable students and teachers to get benefited from each other through interactive learning. LearnZillion was founded in 2011 and is based in Washington, District of Columbia.

Nepris Inc. operates a Web-based platform that connects teachers and industry professionals for making curriculum topics that are relevant to students. Its platform automatically matches the skills of an industry professional with that of a teacher’s request based on a curriculum topic or an activity; and enables an industry professional to virtually connect with a classroom for an interactive discussion with the students or to help evaluate projects in the areas of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Austin, Texas.

LearnZillion provides educators with curricular products for the new standards in digital and print. Its platform offers access to instructional materials for mathematics and literacy, as well as provides task-implementation guides for teachers that enable students and teachers to get benefited from each other through interactive learning. LearnZillion was founded in 2011 and is based in Washington, District of Columbia.

Ellevation is an information technology company that features a web-based software platform specifically designed for ELL educators and English learners. Ellevation specializes in the fields of education, e-learning, and language learning. It was founded in 2008 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

CodeHS, Inc. operates a Website that provides training in programming and computer sciences. Its Website enables high schools to teach computer science in the areas of programming, Javascript and graphics, animation and games, data structures, functions and parameters, HTML/CSS, grading, and game design components. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Newsela, Inc. publishes online news articles daily to help students master the advanced literacy skills. It offers news on war and peace, science, kids, money, law, health, arts, and sports categories. Newsela, Inc. was formerly known as Whipsmart Learning LLC. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in New York, New York.

Kidaptive, Inc. develops interactive educational content for preschoolers. The company's products include Leo's Pad, a series of interactive educational applications for children and Parent's Pad, a built-in assessment tool for parents; Adaptive Learning Platform (ALP) brings together observations from across contexts, which include tiles in mosaic, producing a detailed picture of that learner progress and preferences. Kidaptive, Inc. was founded in 2011 and is based in Redwood City, California.

Mawi Learning was founded by Mawi Asgedom, an Ethiopian refugee who persevered against all odds to successfully graduate from Harvard. Mawi chronicled his family’s journey in his best-selling autobiography Of Beetles and Angels and in speeches to over a million students and teachers worldwide.

Newsela, Inc. publishes online news articles daily to help students master the advanced literacy skills. It offers news on war and peace, science, kids, money, law, health, arts, and sports categories. Newsela, Inc. was formerly known as Whipsmart Learning LLC. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in New York, New York.

Guaranteach is an online math tutor. Powered by thousands of bite-size math videos on hundreds of different math topics, Guaranteach provides students with quick and easy access to a variety of explanations on any given math topic. Guaranteach's business model relies on community sourced videos, which are then screened by educational professionals to ensure that each video tutorial meets certain educational standards. Through this approach, the Guaranteach video library has content which is not only broad - in that it covers many topics, but deep in that each topic is covered many times by different tutors. The proprietary software in the Guaranteach system learns the student's preferences over time and prioritizes video delivery to each student based on matching the video Guaranteach feels will be most effective in assisting the student. Guaranteach was founded in mid-2008 and was seed-funded by Innosight Ventures. The company raised a second round in December 2009 from the same investors. The company was acquired by Sophia Learning in 2011, which was in turn acquired by Capella University in 2012.

codeSpark develops learning games for computer science concepts for kids aged between five to eight years. It offers The Foos, a self–directed game platform that addresses a range of learning styles, programming, and other thinking skills. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Pasadena, California.

Tales2Go Inc. provides an audio book subscription solution that gives educators, parents, and students with on-demand access to books from publishers and storytellers to mobile devices and desktops in the classroom and beyond. The company was incorporated in 2009 and is based in Bethesda, Maryland.

Socrative, Inc. provides an online smart student response system that empowers teachers to engage their classrooms through a series of educational exercises and games via smartphones, laptops, and tablets. The company’s educational software is used by teachers for quick polling, pre-made quizzes, and open response activities. Its applications are available in the Google Play, iTunes, or Windows Store. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. As of July 11, 2018, Socrative, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Showbie Inc.

Family Engagement Lab, LLC develops and provides an online platform to improve student outcomes in low-income communities through family engagement. The company offers FASTalk, a text-based program that helps teachers engage families through curriculum aligned, at-home activities that drive students’ social, emotional, and academic skill development. Its platform also helps families learn strategies to support learning, including building critical academic skills, cultivating learning mindsets and habits, and practicing social and emotional skills. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

CLASSWALLET.COM, Inc. provides a funds management and tracking platform for school systems. It offers ClassWallet, a tracking platform for education funds that streamlines the tracking of education funds by minimizing paperwork and administrative overhead. The company's ClassWallet helps customers for their needs in tracking classroom stipends and purchases, unappropriated funds, Title I tracking, student activity funds, grants management, and donations. CLASSWALLET.COM, Inc. is based in Hollywood, Florida.

With a staff that brings together experience in the classroom, as well as product design and change management expertise, their organization is well-equipped to enable teachers to personalize learning and students to benefit as a result of being able to learn at their own pace, in their own style and with increased attention from their teacher. They work with schools on everything from setting goals, to designing an instructional model, to selecting content, to providing PD and support. Their consultants work side by side with leaders and teachers to embed digital content and data into daily instruction. Combined with our software platform, this makes us a comprehensive, end-to-end solution for anyone who wants to integrate technology and instruction in order to personalize learning. Education Elements works with districts across the country. They are working hundreds of schools, including several RTTD and Next Generation Learning Challenge winners to implement their vision.