Rachel Carlson – Co-Founder and CEO of Guild
Founder:Rachel Carlson, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer Venture:Guild https://www.guildeducation.com/ Meet Rachel and Guild here: Venture Description:Guild is a “Career Opportunity Platform” that provides a space for employers to design and deliver meaningful, mutually beneficial educational opportunities for their employees. Guild is a one-stop shop for enabling access to personal and professional learning programs for teams […]
Advait Shinde – Co-Founder and CEO of GoGuardian
Advait Shinde – Co-Founder and CEO of GoGuardian About Advait Shinde Advait has a degree from the University of California in Computer Science and began his career by creating CourseRail in 2010. He started a job with Google in 2012 as a Software Engineer and worked on core android features such as the Google Wallet […]
Matt Candler: CEO Of School 4.0
While we all recognize that entrepreneurs are disrupters (Amazon being a good example) but also risk takers. What if educational entrepreneurs had a way to test their ideas and were able to find a medium that could lend credibility to their work even before they introduce those ideas to managers, leaders and the public. Well, […]
Heather Maio-Smith: Co-Founder, President, and Chief Visionary Officer at StoryFile
Co-Founder, President, and Chief Visionary Officer at StoryFile venture name Conversa is ‘conversational Video AI’: interactive 3d displays of real people which could robustly answer questions. The process is intensive: Interviewees are flow to California The are interviewed in ‘the bubble’: a dome with 6000 LED lights and more than 20 cameras. Interviewees had to […]
Derek Haoyang Li – Founder & CEO of Squirrel AI
For the founder’s parade, (and doubling up as Pitch Pool material) I chose the CEO of a company I have been following closely for the last few years: Squirrel AI, based in China. The CEO and founder is Derek Haoyang Li. According to Analytics India magazine, “Squirrel AI Learning is the first pure-play AI-powered adaptive […]
Sebastian Thrun: founder and executive chairman of Udacity
Photo: https://medium.com/self-driving-cars/steve-forbes-and-sebastian-thrun-b307c6c47e87 Udacity is an online learning platform which mainly aims at preparing users to excel in their career paths through digital upskilling. It partners up with companies and universities to offer nanodegrees (specialized education courses for computer science that come with hands-on projects, technical support from mentors, and valuable career development resources). Udacity follows […]
Melanie Perkins – Co-Founder & CEO of CANVA
NOTE: I made a Canva presentation to share on the blog (as a nod to Melanie Perkins), but apparently Canva embedding options are not supported by WordPress. I have a few thoughts about WordPress, but I’ll spare you those. Therefore, I had to embed my Canva design into a Genial.ly, which I embedded here, and […]
Courtney Williams – TORSH
Courtney Williams is the founder and CEO of TORSH. This technological resource provides users with the opportunity to observe and learn through video posts. Teachers use this platform in order to improve their teacher skills and to receive real time feedback from peers and other teachers in the TORSH community. “Courtney Williams is a seasoned executive […]
Greg Porter, Founder of PowerSchool, By Scott Lillis
Greg Porter, Founder of PowerSchool By Scott Lillis on June 1, 2019 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 […]
Jeremy Keeshin – Co-Founder and CEO of CodeHS
Venture Description: CodeHS is a web-based application that simplifies teaching programming to middle school and high school students. CodeHS’s value proposition is “to empower all students to meaningfully impact the future”. They are doing this by “providing great curriculum, tools, and resources to teachers, students, and schools to implement high quality computer science programs”. Similar […]