Socrative
Originally posted By Colleen Huck on October 2, 2016 Venture: Socrative Socrative is an online polling software designed to make classrooms more interactive and engaging. Socrative allows educators to instantly connect with students as learning happens. “Through the use of real time questioning, auto-correction, instant result aggregation and visualization, teachers can accurately gauge the whole class’ current […]
Joanna Smith – Founder and CEO of AllHere
About AllHere AllHere’s mission is to strengthen student outcomes, attendance and boost effectiveness by offering easy-to-use, technology-powered, evidence-based education support services. AllHere supports families and students on the path to and through school by connecting them to education support services. Through the use of their propriety solution and Chatbot engine, the AllHere Virtual Advisor (AVA) […]
India’s Newest Billionaire – Former 37-year-old school teacher creates app that ‘Disney-fy’s’ learning
By manize nayani on February 2, 2020 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 […]
A1 – Analyst Report: Discord
Discord is an instant messaging platform where individuals can enter and contribute to communities of their choice. This is my analyst report
Gina Bianchini – CEO & Founder of Mighty Networks
What is Mighty Networks? Mighty Networks is a Saas (software as a service), an online platform & app that allows business owners to create online communities. It allows them to create memberships that grant access to uploaded courses, videos, events, and more. This has a different focus than an LMS as it is community-focused first, […]
John Baker – Founder and CEO of Desire2Learn (D2L)
John founded D2L in 1999, at the age of twenty-two, while attending the University of Waterloo. D2L is a global software company that believes learning is the foundation upon which all progress and achievement rests. D2L’s core product is Brightspace, one of the leading Learning Management Systems (LMS) in Canada. John’s first client, Virtual High […]
Lisa Wang – Founder & CEO of Almost Fun
Founder: Lisa Wang, CEO & Founder Venture name: Almost Fun Link to official website: https://www.almostfun.org/ Description of the venture: Almost Fun is an education tech non-profit dedicated to providing culturally relevant and accessible educational resources to low-income students and students of color. The venture initially started with SAT prep because the founder believed that SAT […]