India’s Newest Billionaire – Former 37-year-old school teacher creates app that ‘Disney-fy’s’ learning
Byju Raveendran is the CEO and Founder of Think & Learn Pvt. Ltd. has created an app named after the founder himself: BYJU. This online educational services company offers technology-based education services in India. The 37-year-old entrepreneur has collaborated with Walt Disney to create animated games, stories, quizzes and interactive educational content or what some […]
Adriana Gascoigne, Founder of Girls in Tech
Adriana Gascoigne is the founder and CEO of Girls in Tech, a not-for-profit organization that aims to put an end to gender inequality in the technology sector. While Girls in Tech was initially founded in 2007 in San Francisco, it has since grown to include chapters in 33 countries around the world. Through educational events, […]
Mursal Hedayat – Founder and CEO of Chatterbox
Mursal Hedayat – Founder and CEO of Chatterbox Mursal Hedayat is an award-winning entrepreneur with a unique story and motivation for creating her company Chatterbox. Originally from Kabul, Afghanistan, she arrived in the UK as a refugee at the age of 3 with her mom, who was a civil engineer. As she grew up, she […]
Quizizz Co-Founders: Deepak Joy Cheenath and Ankit Gupta
Founders: Deepak Joy Cheenath (left) and Ankit Gupta (right) Venture Name: Quizizz Product Description: Quizizz is an online game-based learning platform that is similar to other game-based learning tools, like Kahoot, but offers some key features that stand out for both teachers and students. In the creation of quizzes, teachers can select […]
Charles Miller, co-Founder and Partner GM of Flipgrid at Microsoft
Charles Miller started Flipgrid when he was an associate professor at the University of Minnesota. Flipgrid is a video discussion tool that is considered by it’s leaders as a “social learning platform.” Originally launched in 2014 for class of 12 graduate students, now one in three teachers in US use Flipgrid in their classrooms (Forbes). […]
Hugo Wernhoff, Co-Founder and CEO of Kognity
Hugo Wernhoff started Lanterna Education with a co-founder. Lanterna is a course provider set up to help students achieve their ambition and to cater for their individual needs so they can really fulfill their potential. When visiting schools around the world, Hugo and his team started thinking about new ways in which they could offer […]
Vishal Punwani M.D. – CEO and Co-Founder of Sophya
Vishal Punwani, M.D. CEO, Co-Founder Sophya https://sophya.ai Sophya Sophya is an online student support platform. It facilitates more effective studying with easy implementation of seemingly complex tools, such as taking time-synchronized study notes with an educational video, the ability to write and draw on top of videos with timestamps, summarize readings and take notes in […]
Eli Luberoff – CEO and Founder of Desmos
Meet Eli Luberoff. Eli is founder and CEO of the ed tech venture Desmos, a free browser-based graphing calculator and math activity builder. I have used Desmos in my classroom for the past year and see enormous value in its use, while knowing that I’ve only scratched the surface of its potential. In addition to […]
Dan Eisenhardt, Founder & CEO, FORM
Who: Dan Eisenhardt, Founder & CEO, FORM About Form: These augmented reality swim goggles allow athletes and coaches to real time (bio)metrics while they swim. This allows for immediate and ongoing learning opportunities for improved performance in the pool. About Eisenhardt: A UBC alumn Dan, co-founded Recon Instruments in 2008, which he and his […]
Jeremy Keeshin – Co-founder and CEO of CodeHS
Jeremy Keeshin – Co-Founder and CEO of CodeHS Jeremy Keeshin is the co-founder and CEO of CodeHS, an online platform that teaches students computer science in an engaging way. The platform allows students to navigate through learning activities depending on their background knowledge and pace. There are many resources available to help them start and […]
Arpit Jain – CEO & Co Founder of Splash Math/Learn
Arpit Jain is the Co-founder and CEO of StudyPad Inc. Which developed the App/learning site Splash Math – Which has recently changed its name to Splash Learn. In 2008, Arpit graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology with a B. Tech in Computer Science and Engineering. He founded Splash Math in 2010. Based out of […]
Duolingo FREE Learning app; Total funding $138.3 mm AND $86+ mm revenue
Duolingo – how a FREE Learning app; can achieve Total funding $138.3 mm AND have a revenue of $86+ mm. Enterprise name: Duolingo Since: 2009 Owner and CTO: Severin Hacker Duolingo is an American platform that includes a language-learning website and mobile app, as well as a digital language-proficiency assessment exam. The company uses the […]
Vu Van and Xavier Anguera-CEO’s and Founders of ELSA
ELSA stands for English Language Speech Assistant and was created by Vu Van and Dr. Xavier Anguera back in 2015 and started to rise in 2016 with over 30,000 downloads. Vu Van, (in the picture) was born and raised in Vietnam. She left and moved to San Francisco where she went on to earn a […]
Tony and Bob – VEX Robotics – Part of Innovation First
Founders: Tony Norman and Bob Mimlitch Vex Robotics – Our Story VEX Robotics The mission of VEX is to “create tools that educators and ventures will use to shape the learners of today into the problem-solving leaders of tomorrow.” VEX is striving to meet the need for innovators, thinkers and problem solvers. It embraces all […]
Clorama Dorvilias, Debias VR
Clorama Dorvilias, Founder and CEO, Debias VR Debias VR is a company that creates gamified immersive experiences to combat racial and gender biases. The company was launched after Clorama Dorvilias and Jessica Outlaw won a 2017 Oculus Launch Pad scholarship* for developing the immersive experience now known as Teacher’s Lens. Dorvilias’s personal experience of feeling treated […]
Wesley Lynch – Snapplify
Founder and CEO: Wesley Lynch The Venture: Snapplify is a digital learning EdTech company aiming to enable digital learning for individuals as well as institutions by creating a marketplace for digital education content, services and devices. Focused on the African market, Snapplify provides everything that an institution needs in order to create a secure, collaborative […]
George Burgess – Founder & CEO of Gojimo
George Burgess is the Founder and CEO of Gojimo which is an exam preparation app created for students in the UK. Venture Description Gojimo was founded in 2009 by George Burgess. It describes itself as “The UK’s most popular revision app” and is “used by 1 in 3 GCSE and A Level students” (Gojimo, 2020). Gojimo […]
David Graff – CEO & Co-Founder- Hudl
David Graff – CEO and Co-Founder of Hudl David Graff graduated from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and went on to further his education with an MBA from the Jeffery S. Raikes School in Computer Science and Management. He also serves on the Raikes School Advisory Board, and along with his company, Hudl, lives and manages […]
Shawn Young – Classcraft
Founder: Shawn Young, Founder and CEO Venture: Classcraft Studios Inc (Sherbrooke, PQ) Classcraft is an Engagement Management System for schools, making it easy for schools to inject gamification into many aspects of learning. Classcraft is based on research in Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS). PBIS is an evidence-based three-tiered framework to improve and integrate […]
CEO & Co-Founder of E-Line Media: Michael Angst
Michael Angst is the CEO and Co-Founder of E-Line Media, an education-technology startup founded in 2007 with the intention of developing and publishing engaging and empowering game-based learning products and services. Their projects are designed with stunning visuals and alluring content based on subjects like science (Beyond Blue), math (The Endless Mission) and history/culture/language arts (Never Alone). […]
Martin & Meti Basiri – ApplyBoard
A recent Canadian success story in the tech world! Martin and Meti founded ApplyBoard in 2015. It is a career guidance platform for higher education students. Its main purpose is that it enables users to discover and apply for foreign university programs. ApplyBoard is free for students and charges fees to universities for generating leads. They […]
Co-founder of PearDeck: Riley Eynon-Lynch
Riley Eynon-Lynch is the CEO and Co-founder of PearDeck. PearDeck is a Google app that creates and administers interactive educational slideshows. These slideshow presentations ask questions and can have students answering while they learn! PearDeck is an educational technology company offering a web-based application to K-12 schools and teachers. Pear Deck was founded in 2014 in Iowa City, […]
Nitesh Goel, Founder and CEO of Padlet
Nitesh Goel is the founder and CEO of Padlet. Padlet is an online bulletin board and it can be used to invite participants to create and to collaborate by sharing their ideas, as well as including images, videos, links, and documents in the posts. Padlet is a great interactive online tool for brainstorming ideas and […]
Doug Donovan, Co-Founder and CEO of Interplay Learning
Interplay Learning is a software company that describes its mission as delivering the world’s most scalable and effectives trades training using Virtual Reality (VR). Interplay Learning’s online 3D life-like simulations will drop an HVAC worker into a back yard with a faulty unit or lets an electrical engineer dig into a tangle of wires, allowing […]
Jon Ellis and Kevin Gibson: Cofounder and director of Tutorhub
Although, one in four students have either a private tutor at home or attend a tutoring center, the majority of students either lack the funds or means to obtain tutoring. Tutorhub is an engine that connects the right tutor with the right student. Lessons are carried out through their state of the art online classroom. […]
Hugh McGuire, Founder & CEO of Pressbooks
Hugh McGuire is the founder and CEO of Pressbooks. I recently learned about Pressbooks this year as a potential way to develop open educational resources. Essentially, Pressbooks is a book formatting software. You can use it to format print books, or any kind of multi-media books such as eTextbooks, web books, or books for mobile […]
Matt Candler and 4.0 Schools – A Supporting Community
Matt Candler is the founder of education – focused entrepreneur support community 4.0 Schools. 4.0 Schools is a non-profit organization similar to an incubator, but Candler describes it as a community committed to the future of education. 4.0 Schools provides assistance to entrepreneurs in the education arena by matching them with mentors […]
Vikas Gupta: CEO & Founder at Wonder Workshop
After the birth of his first daughter, Vikas gupta felt a deeper calling than his current role as head of Consumer Payments at Google- to make coding and technical skills accessible to young children. His vision was crowdfunded and with his team he developed Dash and Dot, robots that were designed to introduce young children […]
Marcio Souza – Co-Founder and CEO of Clutch Prep
Clutch Prep was founded by four members; Marcio Souza, Johnny Betancourt, Alain Fontaine, and Artem Volos. Marcio Souza is a co-founder and CEO of ClutchPrep, which was founded in 2010. He started learning physics at the age of 11 and continued this passion by becoming a physics tutor to support others. He studied computer engineering […]
Todd Olson: Founder & CEO of Pendo
Pendo is a highly intuitive application that can plug into any software product to guide a learner through using the product through increased engagement and accessibility. This includes guides, surveys and walkthroughs that also integrate into other platforms without any coding experience required. Pendo allows a course developer to create training that is accessible and […]
Greg Porter, Founder of PowerSchool
Greg Porter unofficially started the company as a teenager when he developed record-keeping software at his high school in 1983. Fourteen years later, in 1997, he sold his first version of PowerSchool Student Information System with a simple vision of improving education. Today the company led by CEO Hardeep Gulati, states that they “are proud […]
Sandi Lin: Skilljar
Founder: Sandi Lin, Co-Founder and CEO Venture Name: Skilljar (https://www.skilljar.com) Skilljar, based in Seattle, is an LMS in the corporate world. However, the LMS is focused on customer training (rather than employee training). Skilljar started in 2013 and pivoted a few times in the following years – landing on their current model around 2015. They […]
Reshma Saujani: Founder and CEO of Girls Who Code
Reshma Saujani, as shown above, is a champion for girls and women. Reshma began her career as an attorney and activist, and founded Girls Who Code (GWC) after witnessing first-hand the gender gap in the field of Computer Science while running for US Congress (fun fact: Reshma was the first South Asian woman to run […]
Bobby McDonald – Founder and CEO of Parlay Ideas
Situated in Toronto, Bobby is a young entrepreneur that identified a problem that stemmed from his own experience in both his independent school and post-secondary education. The issue was the perceived disconnectedness of online discussions that were predominantly used in his courses. His product, Parlay Ideas endeavours to enhance online discussions by incorporating round table […]
Jose Ferreira – Bakpax
Jose Ferreira , CEO Bakpax (2017), Knewton (2008) Bakpax was co-founded by Jose Ferreira in 2017. Bakpax is an AI drive software that can read handwriting and offers two core services. First, teachers can take a photo of their handwriting which will then be turned into an interactive text/answer key. Then, the student will take […]
Sugata Mitra | The School in the Cloud
Most recognizable to those in the educational world for his TedTalks on how children can teach themselves, Sugata Mitra now also stands as a Founder/CEO (with the preferred title ‘Principle Investigator’) of The School in the Cloud. Following his passion for child-driven education, Mitra founded this new venture utilizing his TED Prize with a wish […]
Adam Wilson – Co-founder of Sphero
In 2010, with the co-founding of Sphero, Adam Wilson made his childhood dream come true. Adam’s love of robots began while watching the movie, “Short Circuit” as a boy. The movie was about a robot that came to life and became people’s friend. Adam loved this idea and it translated to his real life as he aged. […]
Mǎ HuàTéng——Tencent
Ma HuaTeng aka Pony Ma, is a Chinese technology entrepreneur, engineer, business man and founder of Tencent. Ma’s started with China Motion Telecom Development, a supplier of telecommunications services and products, where he was in charge of developing software for pagers. He later worked at Shenzhen Runxun Communications Co. Ltd. in the research and development […]
Mitchel Resnick – Scratch Game Creator
Mitchel Resnick is known as the godfather of Scratch Game Creator. He is the Lego Papert Professor of Learning Research at MIT, the Director of Okawa Center, and the Director of the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at MIT. With an impressive number of developmental tool creations under his belt, he has supported: The creation […]