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EveryDay Labs believes that making family-school communication more effective can change student outcomes and they’ve proven that it can. EveryDay Intervention is proven to reduce chronic absenteeism by 10–15% districtwide through proactive, personalized outreach paired with inbound support for families in their home language. Our unique approach requires no change in school-level practices.

Anthill combines a SMS-based communication channel with talent mapping software to help organizations understand and retain their employees. Talent mapping is a way to take all of the workforce insights an organization needs and put them into one cohesive, easy-to-understand visual. Anthill has a vision to give the deskless 80% of the global workforce the dignity and support that they need to be successful in their careers.

ChargerHelp! sits at the intersection of workforce development, adult learning, and clean technology. The company is obsessed with leveraging technology to remove barriers and enable economic mobility within all communities. ChargerHelp! collaborates with local Workforce Centers and creates partnerships with organizations to train and hire from their local communities. The company is working to close the skills gap by recruiting quality, underutilized professionals and providing them both training and job access.

Mentor Spaces is a community-driven mentorship platform designed to make it easier for companies to attract and retain underrepresented talent. As the largest mentorship community for underrepresented professionals, the platform facilitates conversations with experts aligned to one’s professional interests and goals. Mentor Spaces allows companies to cultivate relationships with underrepresented talent ahead of formal recruiting events. Companies use Mentor Spaces to build a diverse talent pipeline, improve retention and enhance corporate culture.

Market: Nashville, Tennessee

Units: 482

Land Area: 20 acres

Building Space: 850,000 gsf

Rethink Nashville is a Rethink Community project in conjunction with Land Investment Partners of Nashville, TN to form a partnership for the execution of horizontal development and sale of land parcels to individual developers at 1410 Dickerson Pike. This property represents a unique opportunity to develop one of the larger tracts of land in the Nashville downtown area. The location on Dickerson Pike allows direct connection to the downtown core, just 2 miles south, as well as close access to the major Nashville Interstates. Rethink Community, in working with local partners, has developed an initial plan that seeks to capitalize on the unique elevation and city vistas with a planned community for working and market rate residents.

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Realm is the audio entertainment company that creates original fiction podcasts and audiobook series, including official continuations of popular franchises. Based in New York, LA and beyond, Realm collaborates with bestselling and award-winning writers, directors, artists, and actors from film/tv, animation, publishing, and gaming to create expansive, diverse, and immersive shows.

Realm was co-founded by former Penguin Random House executive Molly Barton and former Obama Administration Dept of Justice lawyer Julian Yap. Realm shows are available as podcasts everywhere, and on their own app, awarded “Best of the Year” by Apple.

Previously known as Serial Box.

Motif FoodWorks is reinventing the way science is applied to help make plant-based foods better tasting, more nutritious and more sustainable. Unlike other food and ingredient companies, Motif integrates and applies cutting-edge technology focused on closing the biggest gaps and working to solve the food innovation challenges of today and tomorrow. They are a lean, nimble organization with seasoned professionals who have lived and led food businesses, along with science and technology specialists who have renovated, innovated and designed leading edge solutions.

Meaningful Gigs is on a mission to empower people, using data to guide them toward their full potential. Specifically, they vet and upskill designers in Africa and help US enterprises hire them for remote work. Making hiring easy for companies and giving access to the next generation of design talent.

Headquartered in Peru, Prendea offers synchronous online enrichment courses for Spanish-speaking students ages 3-17. The expanding interactive course catalog includes topics across categories including artistic, life skills, wellness, science and environment, technology, culture, and languages.

Territory Foods is a chef-crafted, nutritionist designed meal delivery platform tailored to personalized dietary preferences. Using a data and software driven system, Territory brings responsibly sourced, nutritionally valuable ingredients from a network of fantastic local chefs to your table.

Edge Pathways is an innovative pathway program that brings together high schools, universities, and employers to offer a transformative educational experience — one that connects promising students from diverse backgrounds to highly supported training and professional opportunities in the field of engineering. The Edge Fellowship is a for-credit, freshman-year program built in collaboration with universities to help aspiring engineers navigate entrance into the confusing, and often intimidating, field of science, technology and education.

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.

Oncue is an online booking platform designed to assist companies of all sizes to control and move their entire business. Their platform streamlines everything from initial contact to post-move follow-up and all steps in between and manages operations regardless of where they are, whether that be a truck, an office, a warehouse, or the beach, enabling clients to earn more by managing all their business in one place. Oncue provides the most comprehensive, tech-enabled, end-to-end solution for moving companies in the market, whether they are starting up or scaling, to efficiently provide the customer service experience that modern consumers expect.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Vivvi provides employer-sponsored, on and near site childcare for companies of all sizes, including full-time and back-up care.  By working with employers (and by leveraging robust government subsidies that reduce employers’ costs by 75%), we’re able to provide a world class program at a fraction of the cost with no long term commitments or capex.  Childcare is the single biggest pain point for working parents, responsible for more absenteeism, loss of productivity and headcount turnover than any other factor, while providing it is also the single most effective recruiting retention and productivity tool that exists, while saving individual parents upwards of $100,000 per child.

Vivvi’s world-class inquiry-based child care and preschool programs accommodate children ages 6 weeks to 5 years old, and are designed for today’s families with robust parent engagement, seamless work-life integration and a standard 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. schedule that runs 250 days a year.

Gro Intelligence pulls global agricultural data from thousands of datasets and then uses artificial intelligence to create forecasts for supply, demand, and pricing. The platform crunches data points and transforms it into a common language of searchable information, visualizations and powerful analytics, allowing users from every level of the food market to make better and faster decisions by quickly understanding and predicting the factors that affect agricultural markets.

Full Harvest‘s platform connects organic and conventional growers with food and beverage companies to address food waste at the source. Food and beverage companies purchase on Full Harvest’s marketplace to save money, while farms receive additional revenue.

Juntos builds a mobile communication platform that drives user engagement and communication and deep consumer insights for emerging market financial institutions working with the “newly banked.”

CareAcademy provides high-quality online mobile training and credentialing for home care assistants and family members that care for older people. CareAcademy training covers topics ranging from transporting older adults to communicating with older adults and understanding clients’ rights. CareAcademy not only educates caregivers but also helps them earn recognition for their skills and stand out in the job market.

Icon Savings Plan provides an alternative retirement saving solution for all workers (full-time, part-time, and contractors). Icon is offering its solution at a fraction of the average cost of a traditional 401K plan with more control and portability.

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.

Binti streamlines the foster care application process for both families and foster care agencies, cutting down the cost and time that it typically takes to match a child with the right home. The Company’s multi-sided platform enables families to navigate the foster care application process through an online portal (like TurboTax for foster care) and agencies to more effectively manage their family approval and child placement workflow through an online dashboard.

Stellic’s mission is to empower students to get the most value out of their college journey and prepare them for success in their careers

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.

FutureFuel.io is a fintech platform that enables employers to offer student loan repayment and refinancing as a benefit to their employees, in an effort to provide ROI through employee retention, increased workforce diversity, and increased productivity from employees. The Company’s SaaS platform empowers employers and partners to “turn on” this net new category of benefit — enterprise-wide or for special employee populations.

CareMonkey 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.

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. 

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.

Localized unlocks educated talent for global companies. Companies are expanding into growth markets like India, MENA and Latin America in record numbers. As they do, they need to hire quality talent, quickly. Localized is a talent tech platform that connects employers and industry experts to the 100M students and recent graduates in emerging markets whose schools don’t have robust alumni networks or career services infrastructure.

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. 

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.

Cinematic Health Education seeks to help allied healthcare professionals to acquire the skills needed to be successful in their careers and gain understanding of the emotional and social aspects involved in their jobs through a unique cinematic storytelling methodology. ReadyCNA is the first product offered by CHE. It is a 60-hour, cloud-based training curriculum for certified nursing assistants, adaptable to certification requirements in all 50 states. ReadyCNA revolves around a three-hour, Hollywood-quality movie, broken into short episodes, that depict the life of a newly hired CNA. The training is complemented with animated simulations, informative video interviews with real-life medical personnel, engaging content videos, quizzes, and practice tests. CHE’s storytelling approach to training strives to ensure learner engagement and knowledge retention, while readying individuals for the emotional and interpersonal issues often encountered on the job.

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.

NextSeed is an online fundraising and investment platform where any businesses can raise financing from any investors (including non-accredited investors).

Sempre Health is bringing behavior-based, dynamic pricing to healthcare.  Sempre allows patients to share in cost savings by reducing their out-of-pocket costs whenever a patient takes healthy actions, like filling their prescriptions on time.

Spring Health is a mental health services platform serving employees at self-insured companies and the broader healthcare services market. The platform is powered by data collected through comprehensive and proprietary intakes which allows Spring to personalize each mental health journey and match each person to the right pathway for them. It uses clinically validated technology, licensed care navigators, and top tier mental health professionals.

Toot was founded with the mission of empowering a community that connects knowledge with curiosity. The company’s flagship mobile application connects students with quality tutors for face-to-face, in-person tutoring. With the tap of a button, students in need of help are instantly connected to the nearest available tutors on demand.

Pathstream is a web-based platform for teaching in-demand software skills. Pathstream allows students to immediately access pre-configured, project-based instruction, realistic workplace simulations, and on-demand coaching. The company also facilitates the integration of this software-based instruction into relevant higher education curriculum, ensuring students graduate with the right combination of foundational theory and practical skills, dully certified by the university and the software platform.

Wonda VR is a professional authoring solution for VR and 360 video learning experiences. Wonda allows users to easily create and share interactive experiences on websites and VR devices. Educators use Wonda to create role play games, interactive field trips and other experiential lessons that leverage VR to engage students and help improve understanding.

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.

Student Opportunity Center is preparing students for career and life after graduation through experiential and high-impact learning opportunities.

Second Accent is empowering English learners through “accent tuning” for great understanding, confidence, and communication.

Helping hospitals educate, engage and monitor patients in varying stages of care using automated text messaging.

KiraKira is providing a 3D modeling platform where girls can learn engineering through online videos taught by other girls around the world.

Invibed is teaching financial literacy to young adults through a personalized financial planning tool and one-on-one coaching with a financial planner.

Plianced is helping companies reduce compliance risks through on-demand expert-led professional learning.

Cognitive ToyBox is developing an early childhood platform for kindergarten readiness.

Winnie is a marketplace for child care built on powerful data systems and backed by a trusted community of parents and providers. Parents use Winnie to discover high-quality local daycares and preschools and learn all about their programs including detailed descriptions, photos, tuition information, licensing status, availability data and more. Child care providers use Winnie to fill their open spaces, build their wait lists, and get support and resources to run their business efficiently.

Edmit‘s mission is to make the current college enrollment process cheaper (for students) and more cost effective ( for colleges) by engaging students and schools in price-discovery conversations. Edmit wants to help the school and the student to make a better informed decision about each other and in doing so, convert wasted marketing dollars to benefit students by lowering tuition, which will in turn increase the enrollment and yield.

AdmitHub is strengthening the connection between students and educations with its unique communications platform.With the benefit of AdmitHub-powered conversations, students receive on-demand support while educators are freed to focus on the situations and challenges that most need their expert attention.

Guild Education is a lifelong learning platform that provides access to post-secondary institutions through employee benefit plans.

Evidation measures health in everyday life and enables anyone to participate in ground-breaking research and health programs. Built upon a foundation of user privacy and control over permissioned health data, Evidation’s Achievement platform is trusted by millions of individuals—generating data with unprecedented speed, scale, and rigor. Evidation partners with leading healthcare companies to understand health and disease outside the clinic walls. Evidation is working to bring people individualized, proactive, and accessible healthcare—faster.

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.

Formative enables teachers to build live formative assessments through its online platform and monitor in real-time as students respond from their own devices. The user interface automatically displays student work as it happens, providing teachers with rapid feedback which can be used to tailor lessons and make interventions where needed. Additionally, Formative enables school administrators to see all standards-based student performance at any moment in time.

3D Bear’s mission is to help students learn 21st century skills through immersive learning experiences. They do this by providing makerspaces within schools and libraries with contemporary content and game-like software to teach the fundamentals of 3D modelling, 3D printing, and robotics and they use virtual and augmented reality to make this an immersive learning experience.

Univfy is an analytics platform for in vitro fertilization (IVF) success and affordability. Using predictive models, Univfy can provide a personalized prognosis for a patient’s likelihood of success with IVF and use this to create dynamically priced, shared risk financing programs (i.e. refund programs, discounted multi-cycle packages, and loans). The Company’s personalized IVF prognostic reports help improve the customer experience for patients and has enabled IVF clinics to improve transparency and efficiency.

Lessonly, is an enterprise learning software company that helps companies capture and distribute institutional knowledge across an organization. The software helps organizations decrease new resource ramp time, develop core job skills, and drive collaboration utilizing solutions that use practice, repetition and feedback to support learning.

Werk is a job board for experienced job seekers that offers jobs with pre-negotiated types of flexibility.

Woderschool‘s mission is to ensure that every child has access to a home away from home that helps them realize their full potential.

The company works with experienced educators and childcare providers to help them start their own childcares or preschools out of their homes, whether they live in apartments, condos, or homes that they rent or own.

Wonderschool provides assistance with licensing, program setup, marketing and everything in between. The company’s software platform allows teachers to manage their students, parents, and their program from one dashboard. Along with this, Wonderschool has built a marketplace for parents to search Wonderschool programs, schedule visits, enroll their children, and make payments.

Savonix the world’s first clinical, evidence-based, all-mobile digital assessment of cognitive and emotional function.

Seedling believes in the limitless potential of children’s imaginations. The company was born from a desire to create products that help families imagine, create and play together.

Founded in New Zealand in 2007, Seedling began with an initial launch of activity kits that sparked hours of imaginative play. The whimsical, nostalgic Pocket Money collection followed in 2012 and took the international toy world by storm, establishing Seedling as the go-to brand for stylish, quality children’s products.

With toys, gifts, activity kits and party supplies sold in over 20 countries through all consumer channels, Seedling continues to expand globally. 2014 marked the launch of US operations and a merger with family-oriented startup P.S. XO, which brought Seedling founder and CEO Phoebe Hayman together with partners Kara Nortman and Soleil Moon Frye.

Ellevest is an investing and planning platform that redefines personal finance and investing for women with a practical, goals-based approach. Ellevest gives women the tools they need to take financial control: A straightforward, full-picture investment plan that reflects real life.

Angaza is a B2B software and technology business that provides critical business tools and insights and financing alternatives (like “pay as you go”) to distributors of life-changing consumer durables (solar home systems, cookstoves, laptops, refrigerators, etc), increasing the capacity of those businesses to more effectively serve the one billion people in the world living without reliable access to electricity

Kenzie Academy is a tech apprenticeship and coding school in Indianapolis focused on project-based education, mentorship, and job placement. Kenzie offers 6-month to 2-year programs with a paid apprenticeship after 6 months. The company was founded by tech entrepreneurs with years of experience developing and cultivating talent for startups and major tech companies.

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.

AllHere partners with districts and schools to help increase attendance through implementation of a truancy intervention management platform. Specifically, the platform enables effective management of parent engagement interventions (i.e. home visits ) as a way to reduce chronic absenteeism. AllHere enables schools to filter and view chronic absence data at the district, grade, and school levels to identify at-risk students and automates reports to share updates about the intervention program’s progress and effectiveness.

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.

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.

Clark‘s platform provides tutors with all of the functionality needed to efficiently run their business. Clark allows tutors and independent educators to easily schedule sessions, manage payments, and communicate with their clients. Parents can use Clark to track their child’s progress and take an active role in their education outside of the classroom, all while simplifying business management and logistics for tutors.

CareAcademy provides high-quality online mobile training and credentialing for home care assistants and family members that care for older people. CareAcademy training covers topics ranging from transporting older adults to communicating with older adults and understanding clients’ rights. CareAcademy not only educates caregivers but also helps them earn recognition for their skills and stand out in the job market.

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.

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.

Trilogy Education Services creates and manages market-driven, skills-based training programs for the world’s leading universities. Powered by big dreams and small egos, Trilogy is re-imagining how skills-based learning can change the face of education. Trilogy works with experienced instructors, innovative employers, and top universities to create coding boot camps that prepare highly-motivated students for high-growth careers. The Company has successfully graduated hundreds of students to-date.

NoRedInk is a web-based learning platform used for teaching grammar, usage, mechanics and style to students in 4th through 12th grade. Teachers can assign a variety of diagnostic and instructional materials to their students through NoRedInk. Students may also choose to work through the hundreds of activities in NoRedInk’s online independently. The platform adapts to each learner’s strengths and weaknesses, and the portal displays color-coded heat maps to help students and teachers track progress. The majority of NoRedInk’s offerings are free to users, however the company does offer access to upgraded features through a paid subscription to NoRedInk Premium.

Noodle Markets is K-12’s first digital procurement platform and national marketplace. The company has brought together savvy education leaders to build a marketplace that revolutionizes K-12 purchasing. Noodle Markets provides increased transparency for educators, a level playing field for vendors, and efficient procurement processes.  The Noodle Markets solution provides greater opportunities for competitive pricing, while insuring compliance with federal and state regulations.

MissionU‘s one-year program provides students with a deep dive into disciplines in high demand by employers, such as data analytics and business intelligence, while also teaching work skills like collaboration and critical thinking.

Burning Glass enables real-time enhanced decision making for recruiting, staffing, academic planning, and workforce planning agencies by examining career patterns, skills, relevant experiences and supply-demand dynamics across millions of jobs. Today, there is an information gap in the labor markets – there is no common language. Companies and job seekers describe roles differently, even for fundamentally similar jobs – making relevant comparisons is difficult. Burning Glass’s solution is a proprietary technology that scans, tags, and translates millions of job postings and resumes, then creates a common language to better match desired skills with employees in the labor market and develop a cohesive picture of the markets’ needs.

Through a subscription model, Pluralsight provides direct online training for corporations, schools, and business professionals using long-form courses focused on such skills as software development, IT administration, and web security.

McGraw-Hill Education is a global leader in the development of digital content and technology-enabled adaptive learning solutions. The company provides outcome-focused learning solutions through curated content and digital learning tools and platforms to the students in the classrooms of approximately 250,000 higher education instructors, 13,000 pre-kindergarten through 12th grade school districts and a wide variety of academic institutions, professionals and companies. The company distributes products in 140 countries across Asia-Pacific, Europe, India, Latin America and the Middle East.  McGraw-Hill is a private company acquired by Apollo Global Management in 2012.

2U provides bundled technology platforms and technology-enabled services that empower leading colleges and universities to deliver high quality online degree programs and courses, extending their reach and distinguishing their brands. Its proprietary, cloud-based technology stack enables a full range of university functions, including providing a full-service virtual campus that acts as the hub for all student and faculty academic and social interaction. 2U also provides a suite of technology-enabled services that support the complete life cycle of a higher education program or course, from attracting students to assisting academic performance to maintaining alumni relationships.

Through mobile and web-based educational program, Voxy gives English language learners access to content and multimedia relevant to their lives and goals, creating an experience that leverages technology to closely replicate full cultural immersion. Through dynamic content, personalized lesson plans tied to individual goals, task-based activities, and skill assessments, the Voxy platform shepherds learners through a series of customized curricula to help fine-tune their language skills at a pace and in a location that is comfortable for them.

StraighterLine offers affordable, self-paced introductory-level college courses through a web-based delivery platform, allowing its students to shape their education around their schedule. Students pay $99 per month for access to StraighterLine’s platform, and then pay $39 per individual course. The Company offers nearly 40 online courses in the fields of Mathematics, English, Science, Humanities, and Business. Once they have completed and passed courses on StraighterLine, students can then transfer into one of the 100+ partner schools which recognize StraighterLine course credits.

Sixup focuses on high-achieving, low-income students who gain admission to great four-year colleges, but can’t afford to go.  The company partners with nonprofit and government organizations, and leverages investors and foundations to deliver a comprehensive funding solution focused on college access, college success and creating clear pathways to meaningful jobs and careers.

Pathbrite delivers next-generation solutions that help students, schools, and businesses collect, track, and showcase achievement through e-portfolios, and recommend pathways for continuous success. They do this by documenting, analyzing, and mapping individual achievements against individuals’ and institutions’ goals, and those of their peers, through what is known as Knowledge Graph.

Rethink‘s mission is to place evidence-based treatment solutions in the hands of every educator, clinician or parent working with a child with special needs.  Rethink combines the power of technology and research to deliver innovative, scalable and evidence-based instructional materials and supports for learners with disabilities. The comprehensive suite of tools ensures that every student develops the academic, behavioral and social/emotional skills they need to succeed in school, at work and in life. Rethink’s platform and data-tracking system guides educators, care-givers, and family members as the learner progresses through the curriculum. Rethink’s curriculum is based on the educational intervention of applied behavior analysis.

Purpose is a strategy consultancy, a creative agency and a social movement incubator. Driven by people, enabled by technology: Purpose builds movements and new power models to tackle the world’s biggest problems. It creates and launches its own ventures, collaborates with the world’s leading organizations and develops technology, tools and content that move millions to remake the world. Purpose is a Public Benefit Corporation.

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.

Neurotrack combines science with technology to measure and manage brain health for people who recognize that Alzheimer’s Disease (or cognitive decline, more broadly) is preventable. Neurotrack has developed the only cognitive assessment tool that tracks eye movements to assess memory health and is available to anyone with a computer and webcam. The test is supported by Neurotrack’s Memory Health Program, which provides a personalized approach to slowing or reversing the impact of cognitive decline through simple lifestyle changes.

Knowledge 2 Practice deploys advanced learning techniques using digital technology to help clinical leaders design and deliver a personalized curriculum that measurably improves clinical judgment, critical thinking, and patient care. The company is transforming how expertise is shared and learned among clinicians around the world.

Formerly known as Ace Learning Co., the Intellus Learning platform includes two key components: 1) a powerful AI-based curation engine that that helps find and manage content, and 2) learning analytics software that tracks the efficacy of particular content items.  With this functionality, Intellus Learning helps to identify the right content to enable personalized, affordable learning.  Intellus allows publishers, instructional designers, professors, and students to discover and curate content, integrate that content into courses, and track the learning and engagement of users of that content.

Hapara‘s tools facilitate student-driven, project-based learning.  Hapara is an education management platform layered on top of the education tool suites of Google and Microsoft. Hapara’s tools address critical regulatory and performance mandates confronting schools and districts world-wide. Google’s G Suite for Education is used by tens of millions of students and teachers across the globe. Hapara transforms G Suite into a powerful learning and analytics environment, while simultaneously reclaiming teaching time and cutting software costs.

General Assembly seeks to deliver best-in-class, practical education in technology, business, and design, and functions similar to an a-la-carte, business school 2.0. with an intense focus on skills that are driving today’s mobile, app-based economy. Through its stable of course offerings, General Assembly provides access to opportunities that both train and enhance a prospective employee’s skills and confidence, as well as enhancing an individual’s freedom to explore differentiated career paths. The Company is building a global network of entrepreneurs, practitioners, and participants invested in each others’ success.

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.

EverFi is the leading education technology platform for teaching, assessing, and certifying students in critical social wellness and life skills. EverFi is building an entirely new framework to finance and deliver content, technology, and innovation into schools. The Company boasts an integrated network of thousands of schools across the country that incorporate its learning platform into their curriculum each year. In the K-12 sector, the Company teams with major corporations and foundations to provide the programs at no cost to the school, and is adding over 200 new schools and colleges per month onto the platform. Within higher education, the Company works with schools and associated groups to implement educational programs on topics including managing student debt and preventing sexual violence and substance abuse. EverFi also conducts school climate surveys and helps train staff and faculty in regulatory compliance.

Engrade (now part of McGraw-Hill Education) offers a web-based suite of learning and student management applications. Engrade connects school administrators, teachers, students, and parents through online classroom tools that fall into four general categories: content management, gradebook, communication, and classroom management.  McGraw Hill Education now uses the Engrade platform as the primary vehicle for the delivery of its digital content for both K-12 and higher education.

Ellevation is a software company dedicated to serving English Language Learners (“ELLs”) and the educators and administrators who work with them. The Company seeks to become the leading platform that school districts use to manage ESL programs, support ESL educators, and close the achievement gap for ELLs, the fastest-growing (and generally regarded as most deeply under served) group of students in the US K-12 school system. The current platform, ESL Reps, is an administrative and data management software tool that helps ELL coordinators and teachers capture an array of data specifically related to English Language Learners. Along with housing a range of student information, ESL Reps enables the convenient generation of reports that enhance communication among ELL and classroom teachers, automatically captures information in the format that satisfies state and federal officials, and more.

Education Elements works with districts to build and support dynamic school systems that meet the needs of every learner, today and tomorrow. Through providing consulting services around personalized learning, competency-based learning, curriculum adoption, OER and strategic planning, Ed Elements supports districts in solving their biggest challenges. They take the time to understand the unique issues district leaders face, and then customize the Education Elements approach for each district.  For each project, Ed Elements employs Touchpoint, a customized online tool that provides one single source of all the information, resources and timelines districts need to manage the many moving parts of big system-wide change. Ed Elements has worked with hundreds of districts across the country and brings deep expertise, design thinking, expert facilitation and the spirit of collaboration, along with their extensive toolkit of resources and technology, to deliver sustainable results.

Degreed‘s lifelong learning platform aggregates the best available content, maps learning to the evolving needs of the employee and company, and measures all forms of formal and informal training. Degreed provides corporations with hosting, distribution, tracking, and payment of formal and informal learning activities. Degreed provides employees with an online, updateable repository for tracking all of their learning.  The company has now more directly entered the credentialing space by offering skills verification.

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.

Classy is a technology company that helps organizations mobilize their community to solve social problems more effectively and efficiently. Since launching in 2011, Classy has helped more than 2,500 social enterprises including Oxfam, The World Food Programme and National Geographic to raise hundreds of millions of dollars. Classy also hosts the Collaborative and Classy Awards to recognize excellence in social innovation.

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.

Change.org believes that no one is powerless and making change can be a part of everyday life. It is an open platform with room for a wide range of perspectives so people everywhere can take action on the issues they care about.

Every campaign seen on the platform is started by the users. People and organizations around the world use Change.org to start campaigns, mobilize supporters, and work with decision makers to drive solutions.

Catchafire is a community of individuals striving to push the social good sector forward by focusing on efficient and effective ways to give back. One way we do this is by matching professionals with nonprofits based on their skills, cause interest and time availability.

BrightBytes combines evidence-based research frameworks with data analysis to give schools and districts the tools to understand and quickly improve student learning outcomes. BrightBytes’ solutions are designed to address the unique needs of educational leaders. The Company’s platform, Clarity for Schools, sits underneath a suite of proprietary modules that are offered based on a customer’s specific needs. The first module, CASE, measures the impact of technology use on student learning outcomes by identifying strengths and gaps, writing detailed planning documents, and delivering the tools needed to take action.  BrightBytes also offers modules for dropout prevention and data integration.

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.

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.

Aclima’s Environmental Intelligence™ (Ei) platform combines leading-edge sensor technology, cloud computing, and machine learning to make sense of the invisible world around us. This provides transformative opportunities to understand and improve buildings, cities, and industry, at a fraction of the cost of traditional methods.

American Prison Data Systems is a Public-benefit Corporation (PBC) and Certified B Corp, providing digital content and services to inmates in correctional facilities across the United States. APDS aims to improve the quality of life and productivity for inmates and reduce the likelihood of recidivism upon release. The Company securely intermediates between prisoners and the outside world by providing a proprietary hardware and customized software and data-management solution for screening and delivering educational and rehabilitative content and programming to prison inmates.