Company Category: Exited
Andela
In the next ten years, there will be 1.3M
by Marketing Marketing
- December 9, 2019
In the next ten years, there will be 1.3M software development jobs created and only 400,000 domestic computer science graduates to fill them. Africa, meanwhile, is home to the largest untapped talent pool and seven of the 10 fastest growing internet populations in the world.
Andela is on a mission to give the top 1% of talent in Africa an on-ramp to the digital economy while giving companies all over the globe like Viacom, Mastercard Labs, GitHub and SeatGeek access to untapped, world-class talent. The Andela team identifies high-potential developers throughout the African continent, shapes these fellows into world-class technical leaders via their free training program, and pairs them with companies as full-time, distributed team members.
PluralSight
Pluralsight is the leader in online training
by Marketing Marketing
- December 5, 2019
Pluralsight is the leader in online training for serious software developers, IT specialists, and creative professionals. A true career catalyst, Pluralsight’s learning platform delivers hands-on practical training and skills assessments for the most in-demand and understaffed jobs of the 21st century. The Pluralsight platform makes training content from the world's leading experts accessible to anyone, enabling businesses anywhere to work smarter, keep pace, and take control over their teams’ career development.
Now serving customers in more than 150 countries and providing tech-savvy businesses with training content across the key areas they need to thrive, Pluralsight boasts a cutting-edge content library from an elite, innovative group of tech and creative authors with over 3,000 courses (and new ones added daily).
Ansaro
Artificial intelligence and machine learning
by Marketing Marketing
- May 30, 2018
Artificial intelligence and machine learning reshaping how organizations solve human capital management. Recruiting is one of the toughest issues businesses face today. Finding the right talent is critical to business success.
Ansaro helps organizations improve hiring through data-driven decision-making: finding more top performers, reducing turnover, and improving the candidate experience.
Educents
Educents is a trusted marketplace bringing
by Marketing Marketing
- May 21, 2018
Educents is a trusted marketplace bringing thousands of individual content creators, small businesses, and ed-tech companies together. With an engaged community of educators and parents, the Educents platform enables access to innovative and fun educational products for classroom or home-based education. Specializing in innovative products created by a community of experts, the platform has already distributed over 2.5 million high-quality educational resources throughout the world.
Gradescope
Run by a team of MS and PhD graduates from
by Michael Cohn
- May 18, 2018
Run by a team of MS and PhD graduates from Stanford and UC-Berkeley, Gradescope has created a modern, concept-based assessment platform that leverages machine learning to turn grading into an automated, highly repetitive exercise. Having aggregated a dataset of 300K+ graded STEM questions alongside detailed rubrics and 37M+ graded answers for 300+ universities including UC-Berkeley, Stanford, Harvard, MIT, Duke, Brown, and the University of Michigan , Gradescope is becoming the “GitHub for higher education.”
Handshake
Handshake is the ultimate career network and
by Marketing Marketing
- May 18, 2018
Handshake is the ultimate career network and recruiting platform for college students and young alumni. With over 500 U.S. universities, 8 million students, and 200,000 companies (including 95% of the Fortune 500), Handshake has redesigned the recruiting experience for students, recruiters, and career centers.
HotChalk
HotChalk partners with traditional
by Marketing Marketing
- May 17, 2018
HotChalk partners with traditional universities to provide turnkey solutions that put degree programs online. HotChalk’s technology and services encompass the entire student life-cycle and are aimed at delivering significant and sustained results, producing high-quality degree programs with graduation rates well above national averages. This innovative approach eliminates business risk for the university partners while delivering game-changing enrollment, retention, and tuition growth.
MasteryConnect
MasteryConnect is an innovative assessment
by Marketing Marketing
- May 13, 2018
MasteryConnect is an innovative assessment and curriculum platform that provides innovative tools to over 2.5 million educators and 21 million students worldwide. The cloud-based assessment and data analytics platform enables teachers to track student mastery of skills, target students for intervention, personalize learning, and incorporate data to evaluate their own practices.
TurnItIn
Turnitin is the global leader in evaluating
by Marketing Marketing
- May 3, 2018
Turnitin is the global leader in evaluating and improving student learning. The company’s cloud-based service for originality checking, online grading, and peer review saves instructors time and provides rich feedback to students. Turnitin also offers a plagiarism detection service for commercial markets and a suite of formative tools for writers.
As one of the most widely distributed educational applications in the world, Turnitin is currently used by more than 30 million students across 15,000 institutions in 140 countries to manage the submission, tracking, and evaluation of student papers online. The Turnitin team is passionate, creative, and focused on helping students learn and they’re united by a mission to provide instructors with the right tools to engage and develop students over time.
CampusLogic
CampusLogic transforms the way higher
by Marketing Marketing
- March 28, 2018
CampusLogic transforms the way higher education delivers student financial services with a self-service SaaS platform for students, staff, and schools. CampusLogic's innovative software means more students can access aid—and the education it pays for, make better decisions that reduce borrowing, and easily navigate student finance with less staff burden and cost. Today, 450+ colleges and universities serving 3 million students are on the platform, including ASU, Arizona, Georgia, Colorado State, Western Governors, and Morehouse.