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Bilingual Children's Enterprises
United States of America
Bilingual Children's Enterprises is a mobile learning and entertainment platform helping preschoolers learn English Spanish and other languages. Through Tipi Tom a multicultural and character driven property their platform features short form animated videos apps and interactive books to accelerate learning. The MVP app is available for download on iOS and Android now.
| Education |
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Bright Bot
United States of America
Bright Bot builds classroom friendly apps that enable young minds to learn by creating art movies books and more with simple classroom friendly apps.
| Education |
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Calolo
United States of America
Calolo is a smart virtual college coach that helps students families and high schools easily navigate the college admissions and financial aid process.
| Education |
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Crescerance
United States of America
Crescerance is a technology company that provides engagement solutions for Education. Our mission is to streamline communications so teachers schools associations can connect parents can engage and students can learn via our products embr and MAD learn. Simply put we help the community Connect. Learn. Engage.embr is a portfolio of branded and customized digital engagement products for the education industry unifying website and applications. Our solution simplifies processes increasing engagement and reduces the noise and clutter. embrSD Digital engagement suite for schools and districts streamlining communications with parents students and their communities. And we know how important those team colors and mascots are so we build them into your app so you can show your School Spirit. embrASSOC Digital engagement suite for associations to streamline communications document processing and increase engagement of communities and constituents. Ultimately generating an impact on what is important student learning. MAD learn (Mobile Application Development) is a curriculum program for students who are interested in learning about the fundamentals of mobile app design and development. The goal of MAD learn is to inspire student creativity and entrepreneurship by creating a movement that encourages Student Designed Apps without the intimation of learning how to code.
| Education |
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edConnective
United States of America
EdConnective will allow each teacher to choose a coach online who matches their specific needs subject area and grade level. A camera is then sent to teachers classrooms and recorded instruction will be sent through the internet to the offsite coach. The coach views the video and provides performance feedback and assistance over the phone or video chat platform.
| Education |
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Enriched Schools
United States of America
Enriched is a community talent hub and school support service that works to maximize student success by connecting dynamic local educators artists and leaders to schools who need them.
| Education |
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Gooru
United States of America
Gooru s mission is to honor the human right to education. Gooru is dedicated to engaging a community of teachers developers and supporters to unleash personalized learning with technology to educate all the students of the world.
| Education |
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Homework Unlocked
United States of America
Homework Unlocked is a free website for parents to help them help their kids with homework. They provide video audio and visual versions of their lessons to help refresh parents memories as well as teach them the new methods their children are using in school today. Besides their lessons Homework Unlocked features a Homework Headaches section where parents can send us problems they are having trouble answering Pop Quiz where users compete to answer questions and Homework Spaces a gallery submitted by their users showcasing where their kids work.
| Education |
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IF You Can
United States of America
Based in San Mateo CA If You Can Company is developing an educational adventure game for children. Founded by Trip Hawkins (founder of Electronic Arts) Stewart Bonn (18th employee at EA) and Ben Geliher (formerly of Mind Candy creators of Moshi Monsters) the company s development studio is located in Tech City in London.
| Education |
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Learning Games Network
United States of America
Learning Games Network spun out from research labs at MIT and the University of Wisconsin Madison is a non profit learning game studio dedicated to closing the gap between research and practice. Learning Games Network make games as well as the assessment models collaborative tools and organized events to support a new generation of learning.
| Education |
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Literator
United States of America
Literator started in a classroom to solve the needs of a real teacher. Michelle taught 2nd grade in Oakland and knew that there had to be a better way to meet the needs of her students. Jing an Apple designer and Jeff a successful startup veteran joined forces to try to help schools solve this problem. We worked for two years to relentlessly refine learnings from teachers and school districts to learn from the best practices research and frameworks researched tested and developed alongside classroom teachers and principals.We re taking the best of technology user experience design and literacy expertise and giving teachers what they need to help students succeed in the classroom. Our focus is on advancing equity in education. By reducing barriers to access we ensure that every student is supported to be successful.
| Education |
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M-Lesson
Kenya
M Lesson aims to improve educational opportunities for primary school pupils in Kenya through a low cost mobile assessment platform that measures and shares real time academic performance.Parents subscribe to receive daily assessment questions that are uniquely designed to improve the learning outcomes of their children and at the same time aide parents to understand the academic performance of their children hence making better educational decisions.
| Education |
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Mathalicious
United States of America
We create lessons that explore the math behind real world topics from sports to shopping to the odds of finding life on other planets. These lessons put teachers and students in a position to have interesting conversations that foster a classroom culture of curiosity and rigorous mathematical thinking.Teachers who use Mathalicious lessons say they enjoy their jobs more and that their students look forward to coming to class. Imagine that.Every Mathalicious lesson is aligned to the Common Core State Standards. In fact most lessons connect multiple content standards and help build deep conceptual understanding through real world contexts.At the same time we help teachers realize the Standards for Mathematical Practice by promoting higher order thinking and problem solving. Mathalicious lessons challenge students to construct arguments justify their reasoning and use mathematics to think more critically about the world. And live more fully in it.
| Education |
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MPOWER
United States of America
MPOWER s mission is to remove financial barriers to higher education in the U.S. To accomplish this mission MPOWER works with investors and universities to lend to high potential students who are left out by traditional banks. In addition to providing students with access to the financial resources necessary to attend and complete college MPOWER builds students credit histories provides them with personal finance education and offers gateway financial products to prepare them for life after college.
| Financial & Insurance activites |
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Panorama Education
United States of America
Panorama Education helps schools improve teaching increase student and parent engagement attract and retain great teachers and foster a positive campus culture by acting on feedback from students parents teachers and staff.
| Education |
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Pear Deck
United States of America
Pear Deck helps schools optimize their 11 programs through interactive synchronized presentations. A Pear Deck is a presentation displayed on a projector and student devices simultaneously. Teachers build interactive slides as a component of their deck that invite or require responses on individual devices and then display visualizations of aggregate data on the teacher s dashboard or projector in real time. Teachers launch presentations on student screens with a single click watch student answers come in and engage the entire class in group discussions. Pear Deck blurs the line between instruction and assessment to promote active learning and data driven instruction. Not only will Pear Deck improve student engagement (and consequentially educational outcomes) but it will also ignite teachers fire for teaching.
| Education |
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Shift Sight
United States of America
Shift Sight is an impact business with a triple bottom line. Jade is our durable repairable electronic product under development. It is a unique device for learning STEM. It teaches practical skills about sustainability going straight to the heart of the fight on disposable electronics and e waste.
| Information, communication & technology |
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UClass
United States
With UClass districts store access and analyze their entire curriculum catalog in one place and empower educators to collaborate in scaling best practices. Utilizing intelligent analytics administrators capture curriculum metrics across classrooms and schools. Return on investment is maximized as districts use this data to respond directly and actionably to curricular needs ultimately bolstering student achievement.
| Education |
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Unikum - Net AB
Sweden
Unikum.net has the vision Unique learning for unique kids. We make digital tools making it easier for schools to adapt to the learners instead of learners adopting to schools by visualising and aggregating the learer profiles and making it easier to adapt lesson plans to specific groups of learners.Unikum.net represents a new generation of mobile school portal apps for preschools and schools built to combine with collaboration platforms from Google Microsoft and Apple. Unikum.net typically replaces the old generation of all in one Learning Platforms / LMS systems.Focus Unikum a mobile learning portal focused on collaboration in country & curriculum specific core school processes such as 1) Planning for learning projects based on the curriculum 2) Formative and summative assessment and 3) Follow up of learning results on student group school and municipality level and 4) Planning and tracking special needs activities and progress.Traction Unikum was founded in Sweden and today has over 1 000 000 user accounts in over 5000 schools in more than 70 cities. Unikum is growing rapidly and is preparing to enter other markets outside Sweden.Bootstrapped Saas business model Unikum was founded in 2005 is bootstrapped with cash flow positive growth and has already reached 3 MUSD annually recurring revenue ARR.Drivers for growth Important factors behind the growth are 1) Everything works on all devices (mobile tablet portable) 2) Built to complement cloud services from e.g. Google and Microsoft 3) A complete built in curriculum database and 4) A bank of over 300 000 learning projects with Creative Commons licenses shared between teachers across the country.
| Education |