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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.