The EdTech Fund

pi-top is a fast-growing ed-tech company with a unique vision to increase access to coding, robotics and AI through project-based learning. pi-top’s mission is to inspire a generation of makers by giving young people STEAM-related hard skills (e.g. coding and circuitry) and in-demand soft skills (e.g. communication, critical thinking and problem-solving) that they will need in a rapidly changing world. pi-top’s award-winning hardware and software ecosystem is used around the world thousands of homes, maker spaces and schools, blending physical computing and project-based learning with Computer Science and STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and maths) education. With its latest product ecosystem educators and students get to design, code and make anything they can imagine.

LiquidText is a multi-touch document manipulation system that offers a flexible environment for active reading to improve the way people read, annotate, and research. With LiquidText, users can squeeze a document to compare disparate areas, create comments that reflect relationships between different parts of a document, and many other interactions that target knowledge worker and student reading needs. LiquidText was founded on 2012 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

Through in-hand, knowledge-gathering tools such as BookLeveler, Unbound Concepts seeks to build a corpus of accurately leveled K-12 digital books and content, and to facilitate a powerful, data-backed dialogue between instructors and those who create the content those instructors use to teach students.

TeachBoost is an evaluation and feedback platform designed to engage teachers and administrators in an ongoing, evolving dialogue that fosters the development of effective educators and improved student outcomes. We create opportunities for meaningful interactions among teachers and administrators through our collaborative portal, and we work in partnership with educators to develop a safe space for teachers to collaborate with, and learn from, their peers, encouraging a culture of shared responsibility and collective success. Our goal is to encourage breakthrough professional learning moments that result in successful, sustainable improvements in teaching and learning.

Citelighter is a virtual highlighter that automates the research and paper writing process. It allows the user to find and capture unique facts online, automatically generate citations, and write better quality papers in less time. Citelighter offers functionality to assist in creating project outlines, aggregating personalized content, as well as automates the reference or bibliography process. Additionally, captured facts are indexed and offered to users via Citelighter's fact-recommendation system.