Bringing together seasoned gaming veterans from Rovio and Digital Chocolate responsible for 50 published titles, 3 billion downloads, 5 billion YouTube views, and revenues of nearly $1 billion, Lightneer is a learning game studio focused on creating and developing next-generation “invisible learning” games.

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.

Motimatic is an automatic motivation system for educational institutions seeking to improve student retention and completion. The company blends the latest advances in advertising technology and behavioral science to deliver motivating messages to students in place of commercial messages that they’d typically encounter on social media networks like Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, as well as SMS and email.

Nearpod empowers teachers to create learning experiences that engage and inspire students. The company is positioned at the intersection of technology-enabled classrooms and BYOD (Bring Your Own Device), formative assessment, and VR / AR in the classroom. By combining access to digital lessons, interactive features (e.g., Virtual Field Trips and 3D objects), and real-time assessments, the Nearpod platform has become a leader (and teacher favorite!) in teaching and learning with technology.

NoRedInk is a web-based learning platform that helps students improve their grammar and writing skills. The platform incorporates each person's favorite celebrities, personal interests, and Facebook networks to generate grammar questions and enable teachers to give quizzes, assignments, and practice exercises to help students work through misconceptions.

PeopleGrove is a SaaS platform for companies and schools to foster professional networks in their communities, enhance career outcomes and create a culture of giving back.  Schools such as Stanford and USC work with PeopleGrove to match students with alumni mentors. Meanwhile, companies like Intuit license PeopleGrove software to drive powerful connections and mentorship to catalyze collaboration and inclusion in their organizations, particularly among Millennial hires.

RaiseMe is reinventing educational pathways and changing the way students access billions of dollars each year in financial aid for college. Rather than waiting until the end of high school to award financial aid, Raise.me enables students to automatically earn "Micro-Scholarships" throughout high school based on their individual achievements in and outside of the classroom. With over $1 billion in Micro-Scholarships that have already been made available by colleges, universities, and other sponsors across the US, Raise.me’s platform is bringing together experienced educators & technology professionals to reinvent financial aid and help close the achievement gap. Raise.me now has over 18,000 high schools with students on the platform and 260+ college partners including ASU, Penn State, Oberlin, Michigan State, NYU, and Carnegie Mellon.

Remind is a real-time school messaging platform that helps teachers, students, and parents communicate quickly and efficiently, because “school communication shouldn’t be so hard”. The Remind mobile messaging platform is rapidly emerging as a vital service that enables communication and collaboration across all K-12 stakeholders who share the company’s vision to give every student an opportunity to succeed. A true “Weapon of Mass Instruction”, Remind’s platform has fostered an incredible community of K-12 constituents who actively engage with the platform to support student outcomes. Built for growth, Remind has 27+ million users in over 70% of US public schools and 90% of US school districts, with more than 3.6 billion messages (and counting!) delivered through the platform to date.

TARA.ai is an intelligent product builder platform to help manage outsourced, on-demand programming projects. True to its name TARA —which stands for Talent Acquisition and Recruiting Automation— has developed a platform that is built for growth and that delivers clear ROI to SMB and enterprise customers. TARA’s pre-screening algorithm integrates with GitHub to hire and assign contractors, and the platform stages a development environment, facilitates workflow, and manages contractors through machine learning, including inline QA/QC methods. Over 50,000 contractors are already on TARA’s network with backgrounds from Y-Combinator, Amazon, MIT, Pixar, Facebook, and Microsoft, to name a few.

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.