Education is one of the last sectors to be remade by technology.

This is changing.

Adjacent Academies ensures that liberal arts students from backgrounds that are under-represented in tech have the skills, networks and opportunities to shape and lead in a world of rapid technological transformation. We believe that students shouldn’t have to major in computer science to play a role in the tech industry.

Sora Schools is a live, accredited, and financially accessible virtual high school designed to engage students with dynamic, personalized and synchronous learning to help students accelerate.

Vidcode is an award-winning software that teaches students computer programming through their favorite hobby: video-making.  Project-oriented lessons allow students to create memes, video filters, interactive games, virtual reality and beyond with real programming languages.

BrightHive is a data analytics software provider focused on developing scalable data science solutions to social sector problems, with a particular focus on the education and workforce training ecosystem. BrightHive addresses one of the most complex and difficult problems in data management – data interoperability across organizations. BrightHive enables advances in credential transparency, competency-based learning and hiring, comprehensive learner records, affordable credential financing, and greater inclusion in the credentialing system for underrepresented populations.

SV Academy is a 12-week virtual training program combined with one year of mentorship that prepares students for entry-level jobs in business development at fast-growing tech companies. Designed in collaboration with employers, SVAcademy’s training program is geared towards ensuring students graduate job-ready and prepared with the skills needed in an evolving market. Fellows receive a 100% scholarship to attend the virtual training program, expanding access to tech job opportunities to all.

Imbellus builds simulation-based cognitive assessments to evaluate how people think rather than what they know. The company designs immersive simulation-based assessments that evaluate skills which are becoming more critical in the changing world of work — skills like problem-solving, inquiry, analysis, and imagination — through a theoretically grounded and data-driven process. Imbellus’ approach is in contrast to traditional pre-hire assessment companies that primarily assess for content mastery, processing speed and memory rather than how a person thinks and tackles a challenge. Imbellus is based in Los Angeles and has assembled a multi-disciplinary team of Learning Scientists, Game Developers, Data Scientists, and AI Engineers.

Civitas Learning is a student success intelligence platform that uses predictive analytics to help guide educational decision making. Civitas works with partner institutions – and also, more specifically, with the data those partner institutions have gathered about their students – to identify trends about the classes students enroll in, the majors they take on, and other factors that can determine career courses and overall success in their post-collegiate lives. The Company is creating a learning community to bring predictive analytics to Higher Education by leveraging cross-institutional historical data. Civitas delivers actionable insights to drive smarter decisions that help institutions and faculty more effectively deploy scarce resources and students more successfully navigate their complex path to graduation.

Neverware is a developer of lightweight desktop operating systems. Its flagship product, CloudReady, enables schools and enterprise organizations to cost effectively transform their existing hardware into simple, secure, and fast machines that can be managed right alongside Chromebooks.

Acadeum is a network of colleges and universities committed to sharing their best online courses to improve student success. Together, we are unlocking the collective potential of institutions to ensure that every learner has access to the courses they need at the time they need it.

Campuswire, which begun as a communication platform for universities and professors, has transitioned to build a competitor to community colleges that will leverage their software to generate superior student engagement and retention. Campuswire Courses will allow outstanding teaching professors to offer the same courses they already teach, now live, online and to any student anywhere in the world. Their goal is provide more students with access to the world’s domain experts whilst enabling the best teachers to derive more value from their expertise. 

Abl is the first Dynamic School Scheduling platform that makes it easy to design and manage the daily life of a school. Abl is building a new kind of school operations software that helps school leaders better manage their time and resources. Their mission is to transform education by helping schools create flexible, transparent, and collaborative learning environments.

Hickory draws upon cognitive psychology with its proprietary training software that predicts when employees are likely to forget their training. Users upload their specific training content to Hickory, or are assisted by Hickory’s PhD-led Instructional Design team. Employees receive new lessons via email, SMS, or desktop notifications and can complete their training from any browser or device. Hickory predicts what employees are likely to forget, and follows up with personalized retraining to ensure that employees internalize the training material. Hickory’s data platform allows users to measure the impact of its training program on key business metrics and track employee retention.

Operoo is a health and safety system that automatically keeps medical and emergency details up to date for any organization with a duty of care. It makes the details instantly available to authorized caretakers on their mobile devices in an emergency, even when they are offline so they know who to call, what to do, or what to tell an ambulance paramedic. It automates the permission and consent form process and can collect any other custom information.

Empowered Education is a 200+ person company built on a metrics-driven remote workforce platform throughout the US and around the globe, Empowered Education is the parent company of Health Coach Institute and Functional Nutrition Alliance — the leading online schools for health coaches and wellness practitioners.