Suzanne Klein – WriteSteps
Founder and CEO of WriteSteps – Suzanne Klein is an experienced elementary teacher and education coach. Since 1994, Suzanne career has lead to build tools to support K-5 teachers as they prepare students for the standardized assessment Her company, WriteSmart does not focus on one method of teaching, but is flexible in meeting the needs of […]
NovoEd Co-founders
(Co) Founder Name/Title/Photograph Amin Saberi, co-founder and Chairman of NovoEd Farnaz Ronaghi, co-founder and CTO of NovoEd Venture Name – NovoEd (https://novoed.com/), an online corporate training platform that uses peer learning, action driven, portfolio-based teaching approach, for profit. Venture Description Original value proposition – NovoEd started as VentureLab. Professor Chuck Eesley was looking for a suitable […]
Repost – Common Sense Media
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Classcraft – Shawn Young
Shawn Young Classcraft: Founder and Chief Executive Officer Classcraft is an online platform that allows teachers to transform their classroom into a role-playing game (RGP). Students are divided into three character teams with different powers who interact in a rich, illustrative environment modelled on the imagery of games such as World of Warcraft. It uses […]
Haiku Learning – Bryan Falcon
Haiku Learning – Bryan Falcon, Founder & CEO, Tucson, AZ Haiku Learning is a digital learning platform that allows educators to create cloud-based content and sharing. Teachers are able to create interactive pages with embedded web-based content in a user-friendly learning management system. The platform includes assessment features that allow teachers to be able to […]
LearnUp—Alexis Ringwald
Alexis Ringwald Co-founder and CEO LearnUp LearnUp is a startup that focuses on upskilling employees to be ready to fill entry level positions. After completing a six-month research project, the LearnUp team determined that many job seekers do not have the skills that are needed by employers. LearnUp has been developed to bridge that gap. […]
Stephen Wolfram – the founder of Wolfram Alpha
The founder : Stephen Wolfram – CEO Venture Name : Wolfram Alpha Wolfram Alpha is a computational knowledge based search engine which generates output in text, images, charts, tables, maps and graphs by performing computations with its own internal knowledge base. Wolfram Alpha has an intuitive UI, which allows users to search for their queries […]
Duolingo – Luis van Ahn
As an investor I believe many of the startups using free and freemium models aren’t finding the success they thought they’d find so I wanted to explore Duolingo’s model. Luis van Ahn is Co-Founder and CEO as well as a professor at Carnegie Melon Company – DuoLingo Duolingo is a dual language learning and text translation […]
Codecademy – Zach Sims and Ryan Bubinski
Codecademy is an online educational platform that allows its users to take free programming classes in HTML & CSS, jQuery, Javascript, PHP, Python and Ruby through the use of interactive coding exercises, web projects and APIs. In addition, the site also allows for users to become content creators and create programming courses on their own. […]
Panorama Education (Learning Analytics) – Aaron Feuer
Founder & CEO : Aaron Feuer Venture name : Panorama Education (Learning Analytics) Venture Description : Panorama Education is a company providing data analysis solutions for K-12 to more than 4000 schools. By analyzing the feedback from various stakeholders, it helps schools in improving teaching, increasing student and parent engagement, attracting and retaining great teachers, […]