Zanichelli Venture
Zanichelli Venture is looking for nascent companies who are tilling daring ideas about education and technology and searching for pre-seed or seed funding to grow these ideas into products to empower anyone – from children and parents to adult, professional lifelong learners and their mentors and coaches – to learn and teach better. We will support and finance ideas with the potential to have a positive impact on our future through education at every stage of our life. We will respectfully, discreetly stand by the entrepreneurs believing in these ideas, from the beginnings and at least since that impact leaves its first dent. We care about each startup in our portfolio getting the full value a hundred years old education company like Zanichelli can offer, wherever our expertise can be a lodestar because of our history, our mission, our network, our resources; and we believe in getting out of the founders’ way otherwise, if we don’t add value. We care about financial returns and self-sustainability and about bringing collaboration opportunities, insights, innovative thinking and entrepreneurial energy back to our company digital products designers, editorial staff and IT, searching for mutual advantages. Only in the long term, as we and the founders build trust through intense collaboration and shared stakes, and after a startup fully spreads out its potential as a maturing company, we believe in searching together for possible paths to a deeper partnership. We co-invest globally, following trusted, local lead investors.
It's hard to achieve both impact AND scale in learning. Solve for scale, and you’re left with click-click content or big video calls that suffer from low engagement. Solve for impact, and you need high-touch group workshops or coaching that are costly to scale. At Sparkwise, we’re building AI-enabled group learning to inspire impact at scale. We build to inspire, with active group learning that sparks practice and insight. We build for impact, with decades of expertise in how adults learn best. And we build for scale, with innovations that make quality learning accessible for all.
NewCampus is an online business school for frontier markets. We serve growing organisations such as ApeCoin, One Championship and Carousell with change management, upskilling and education technology solutions.
Alpe Audio is an audio education program that allows you to explore and learn. Their application offers academic courses, storytelling, recaps and summaries, pedagogical techniques, personal TA, and a chatbox.
Foundry College provides a practical, relevant, and accessible education that prepares working adults for success in today’s and tomorrow’s jobs.Our mission is to provide students with an education that aligns skills and knowledge with the jobs of today and tomorrow.Our vision is a skilled, informed and engaged society that grows and adapts as the world changes.
Mindstone automatically identifies the skills trained in your everyday reading, podcast listening and video consumption and turns them it into valuable, quantifiable evidence that employers recognise. As an individual, Mindstone is your personal AI learning coach, guiding you to develop productive habits, while actively demonstrating your progress. For managers, Mindstone enables you to set learning objectives, track team advancement, and ensure growth without forcing people through a traditional one-size-fits-all learning management system. All this learning culminates in a universal skills profile, a dynamic visualisation of your learning journey that lets you see and measure your progress over time, while at the same time serving as credible evidence of your learning to current or future employers.
101 builds mobile-first teaching and assessment tools specifically for college STEM courses. Its first app, Chem101, replaces the clicker and provides tools for chemistry professors to engage their students in the classroom. Chem101 features a module that allows students to intuitively draw and visualize Lewis structures on their mobile devices. Its mobile platform enables instructors to engage students in the classroom, assign homework, and provide on-the-go reinforcement. 101 Edu was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in New York, New York.
Kaizen Languages uses AI-powered tutors to revolutionize language learning. Its artificial intelligence platform teaches students through conversations. Users can use it to structure sentences, conjugate verbs, and learn new words. All of this is part of its dynamic exercises that are intended to be useful in the real world.
Kide Science develops 3-8-year-old children’s problem solving skills through story-based hands-on experiments that solve real science problems. The platform provides caregivers like teachers and parents with lesson plans and optional training to lead playful and engaging early childhood education in a classroom or remotely. A proven pedagogical method predicts better learning outcomes in school and is based on years of rigorous academic research conducted by the founder in the University of Helsinki. Kide Science started its commercial business in Finland from December 2017. Kide Science’s research-led pedagogy has helped them to win paying customers in 30 countries with 1000+ preschools. For the new teacher platform (launched in October 2021) there has been registered free trial users from over 100 countries and reaches over 1 million children. Kide Science team has also produced book series with Sanoma and a TV show on YLE, Finland’s national public service broadcaster. In 2022, Kide Science has partnered with DreamWorks Animation and its hit Netflix series Gabby’s Dollhouse to give young scientists cat-tastic themed lesson plans to encourage playful, engaging and inquiry-based learning.
101 builds mobile-first teaching and assessment tools specifically for college STEM courses. Its first app, Chem101, replaces the clicker and provides tools for chemistry professors to engage their students in the classroom. Chem101 features a module that allows students to intuitively draw and visualize Lewis structures on their mobile devices. Its mobile platform enables instructors to engage students in the classroom, assign homework, and provide on-the-go reinforcement. 101 Edu was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in New York, New York.
Kide Science develops 3-8-year-old children’s problem solving skills through story-based hands-on experiments that solve real science problems. The platform provides caregivers like teachers and parents with lesson plans and optional training to lead playful and engaging early childhood education in a classroom or remotely. A proven pedagogical method predicts better learning outcomes in school and is based on years of rigorous academic research conducted by the founder in the University of Helsinki. Kide Science started its commercial business in Finland from December 2017. Kide Science’s research-led pedagogy has helped them to win paying customers in 30 countries with 1000+ preschools. For the new teacher platform (launched in October 2021) there has been registered free trial users from over 100 countries and reaches over 1 million children. Kide Science team has also produced book series with Sanoma and a TV show on YLE, Finland’s national public service broadcaster. In 2022, Kide Science has partnered with DreamWorks Animation and its hit Netflix series Gabby’s Dollhouse to give young scientists cat-tastic themed lesson plans to encourage playful, engaging and inquiry-based learning.
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