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

This is changing.

Mentor Collective (formerly Shearwater) was founded with the mission bringing transformative mentoring experiences to all college students, regardless of background or means. The company partners with a collective of institutions to design, implement, and scale tech-enabled mentorship programs that significantly improve student outcomes.

Flocabulary is a web-based learning program for all grades and subjects that uses educational hip-hop music to engage students and increase achievement. Teachers in more than 50,000 schools have used Flocabulary’s standards-based videos, instructional activities and formative assessments to develop core literacy skills and supplement instruction across the curriculum.

Major League Hacking (MLH) provides a remote professional development program for student technologists. Over 12 weeks, students have the opportunity to work on high impact software, data science, and digital media projects that businesses depend on. Whether or not a company can natively support remote interns, MH provides direct insight and early access to a pipeline of amazing talent that is remote-first and fully managed. MLH is providing the workforce with tools to reimagine the way they think about hiring developers.

Noodle Partners is a ‘fee-for-service’ model for OPMs (online program management) allowing schools to pick and choose which OPM services they outsource and pay for at a lower cost than the traditional models. Noodle Partners acts as a project manager and talent sourcer, advising schools on how to best position and launch programs and bringing a network of trusted vendors.

Course Report is an online guide for the search and discovery of web development boot camps. The site provides a host of data points and student reviews to help a prospective coder find the best school for their needs and desired outcomes. Course Report is also a leading research consultant on the growing trends across the coding educational landscape.

Bridge International Academies is building a chain of ultra low cost private schools that deliver primary education to the world’s poorest, most academically underserved populations. Bridge uses a data-driven Academy-in-a-Box™ model to scale its reach with efficiency. From preliminary market research on real estate acquisition and construction, to the recruitment and training of local staff and communities, to the creation, distribution, and analysis of curriculum and pedagogy, to payment management and site monitoring, Bridge operates a vertically-oriented deployment of its academies and maintains central ownership of the entire process.  Initial markets include Kenya, Nigeria, Uganda, and India.  Bridge also works with governments such as Liberia to operate a charter model at the country level.

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.

Amira helps children learn to read. Amira listens to developing readers, assesses mastery, and delivers interactive tutoring, using the latest reading science techniques. Amira saves teachers time and generates actionable insights for educators and parents. Independent research conducted in classrooms around the world found that the software matched or exceeded the benefit of giving every student a certified human tutor.

GetSetup has created a platform that is enabling seniors to serve as the surprising superheroes of today’s economy, tapping a huge, growing population of top-quality retired educators to help teach essential life-changing tech skills to other seniors.

Correlation One is a technology company whose mission is to make data science for all.  The company believes that data literacy is the most important skill for the future of work.  It promotes data literacy through global data science competitions, rigorous data skills assessments, and enterprise-focused data science education.  Correlation One’s solutions are used by some of the  most elite employers all around the world in finance, technology, healthcare, insurance,consulting and governmental agencies.  Correlation One is committed to promoting a more inclusive global AI ecosystem, including programs for more women in data science.

Hone is a synchronous leadership development platform for modern, distributed teams. Managerial training (often focused on soft skills such as communication, teamwork, and problem-solving) is still largely conducted face-to-face in a classroom setting. As this delivery mode is increasingly inefficient for the distributed and global corporate workforces common in today’s economy, Hone seeks to provide a more engaging and flexible alternative for modern managers. 

Crehana is a project-based learning community where Spanish-speaking freelancers in creative, design, and digital industries refine real-world skills through short online courses designed by global industry experts. Crehana offers more than 500 courses that teach over 75,000 techniques across different software platforms. Each course requires participants to build a personal project that helps them to expand their professional portfolio of work.

Allovue is a software company that works with K-12 administration to refine spending behavior, by providing principals and other decision makers with insight into market trends and budgetary planning. The Allovue platform, Balance, streamlines budgets, vendor transactions, general ledger balances, and other disparate accounting data into a single dashboard. Users can quickly review balances and transactions, analyze trends, forecast spending, and create reports. Allovue has developed an importer that extracts and configures data from any custom chart of accounts.

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.

Upswing offers a suite of services, from online tutoring and academic advising to student mentorship, that is designed to reduce attrition and improve student success. Upswing’s AdviseUp solution connects university advisors with students to schedule and complete virtual advising sessions. TutorUp helps students excel academically by connecting them with campus tutors or Upswing’s network of coaches. AskUp brings students and tutors online in the Virtual Learning Center, allowing for asynchronous tutoring. Upswing’s administrator data dashboard provides real-time data and analysis to track student outcomes and program success.