“Zipcar’s first investor, Jean Hammond, is Boston’s indispensable angel. Her hands-on approach has been pivotal to the success of her startup and several others. She co-founded the leading accelerator for educational technology startups, LearnLaunch. The interview was great fun and hugely instructive to me. Don’t miss it!”
CareerDash creates better pathways to client facing careers.
Founded in 2021
Accelerated in 2022
Workforce Training
Austin, Texas
Meet Robo Wunderkind: The one-stop destination to successfully teach STEAM in your classroom.
Founded in 2017
Accelerated in 2022
K-12
Austria
Empathetics is an empathy education that helps healthcare organizations suffering from resignations, burnout and low patient experience scores, all of which affect financial sustainability, with scalable, evidence-based eLearning and training workshops that achieve higher levels of care for patients, clinicians and healthcare systems.
Founded in 2011
Accelerated in 2022
Workforce Training
Boston, Massachusetts
Automation Workz can reskill your employees to seize the $9 trillion dollar Diversity Markets through scalable, customized services designed exclusively for your organization.
Founded in 2019
Accelerated in 2022
Workforce Training
Detroit, Michigan
Julius is leading the green transition by solving its talent gap. Our digital platform demystifies green jobs & careers, provides employer-aligned skills training, and gets job seekers hired.
Founded in 2020
Accelerated in 2022
Workforce Training
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Helping teams collaborate more effectively by surfacing insights on individual behaviors though AI-enabled tools. In December 2021, Riff Analytics was acquired by Esme Learning.
Founded in 2017
Accelerated in 2020
Acquired by ESME Learning in 2021
Higher Ed, Workforce Training
Newton, Massachusetts
Leaders in Peer Learning. Scalable active learning through research-validated peer assessment.
Founded 2012
Accelerated 2020
Higher Ed
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Solfeg.io makes it easy to practice instruments and understand how music works by playing well-known songs in school and at home.
Founded 2017
Accelerated 2020
K-12
Riga, Latvia
Immersed Games is harnessing the engaging power of video games to create a next-generation STEM learning platform.
Founded 2014
Accelerated 2020
K-12
Buffalo, New York
AI-based skills platform addressing a range of career and workforce development needs for community colleges.
Founded 2009
Accelerated 2020
Higher Ed
San Francisco, California
Spinndle is a social hub for student-led projects. While other project management platforms bottleneck progress at the teacher, a social hub like Spinndle allows students to operate much the way adults are expected to in the modern workplace: actioning on feedback from peers, collaborating, sharing ideas, and tracking their own progress. Teachers have everything they need to support students, whether remote, in-person or hybrid learning environments.
Founded 2019
Accelerated 2019
Jacqueline Robillard
Kristina Tzetzos
Gagandeep Singh
K-12
Vancouver, Canada
BOLDLY is a career management platform enabling companies to engage and retain their talent by mapping career pathways and delivering better development experiences for a digital native workforce.
Founded 2016
Accelerated 2019
Workforce
San Francisco, California
Mindprint Learning’s executive functions and cognitive assessment platform identifies students’ core learning traits and provides standards-aligned options to empower teachers to improve academic outcomes for every student.
Founded 2014
Accelerated 2019
K-12
Princeton, New Jersey
Thimble designs standards-aligned, blended STEM curriculum for middle and high schools to teach students advanced engineering, coding, and technology skills. Using a mix of online curriculum and modular hardware, students solve problems and demonstrate knowledge.
Founded 2017
Accelerated 2019
K-12
Buffalo, New York
Beetools is reinventing the way people learn a language by creating a new learning method and a new type of classroom, using VR, AI, Adaptive Learning, and Gamification.
Founded 2017
Accelerated 2019
Workforce Edtech
Brazil
Language Zen is a web app that supports language learning and uses proprietary machine learning to improve the effectiveness of language attainment.
Founded 2014
Accelerated 2019
Workforce Edtech
New York
Speak Agent is a classroom instructional technology tailored directly to a school’s curriculum which helps students learn the academic language necessary to master key STEM, reading, and other concepts.
Founded 2015
Accelerated 2019
K-12
Maryland
InScribe is an intelligent Q&A platform that leverages the power of community and artificial intelligence to connect learners to the answers, resources, and individuals they need to succeed in school and beyond
Founded 2017
Accelerated 2019
Higher Ed
Denver, Colorado
Indigo improves engagement, retention, and career readiness for K-12 and Higher Education with an actionable Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) dashboard of personal skills, traits, and motivators for use by teachers, staff, students & parents.
Founded 2013
Accelerated 2019
Sheri Smith
K-12
Niwot, Colorado
CognaLearn aims to transform the delivery of education by replacing lectures with patent-pending Team-Based Learning (“TBL”) methods and technology, developed at Duke-NUS Medical School.
Founded 2015
Accelerated 2019
Higher Education
Singapore
Skillist is a skill-based job application platform that makes it possible for companies to hire the best people based on what they can do, instead of where they come from.
Founded 2017
Accelerated 2019
Workforce Education
Greater Boston Area
Authess is an MIT-originated startup that uniquely leverages technology to measure an individual’s ability to solve complex, real-world problems. The Authess platform supports authoring, delivery, analysis, and reporting of authentic, performance-based assessment.
Founded 2015
Accelerated 2015
Higher Education
Boston, Massachusetts
The BlocksCAD 3D modeling software fills a critical need for teachers in k-12 schools seeking ways to leverage engaging 3D printers, makerspaces and virtual reality environments with teaching math and coding fundamentals. In classrooms and afterschool programs around the country, we have shown that students who engage in activities using BlocksCAD have improved attitudes towards math, engineering, and computational thinking.
Founded 2017
Accelerated 2017
K-12
Boston, Massachusetts
Cram Fighter helps students become more successful through digital tools that help with scheduling, time management, and procrastination.
Founded 2012
Accelerated 2016
Higher Education
Boston, Massachusetts
Cue Career is a career exploration and workforce development platform connecting students to professional and trade associations.
Founded 2016
Accelerated 2018
Workforce Edtech
Los Angeles, California
Charmtech Lab’s Capti Voice literacy support tool enables teachers to personalize learning for students with and without disabilities or language deficiencies. Any content can be placed into a playlist and text to speech technology is augmented by a significant set of highlighting and other tools.
Founded 2010
Accelerated 2018
K-12
New York, New York
Cognii is a leading provider of AI technology to the education industry. It’s awards-winning Virtual Learning Assistant provides automatic assessment to students’ open response answers along with personalized tutoring.
Founded 2013
Accelerated 2013
K-12
Higher Education
Workforce-Ed
Boston, Massachusetts
CueThink is a peer-to-peer application for math problem solving.
Founded 2012
Accelerated 2014
Sheela Sethuraman
K-12
Boston, Massachusetts
CourseStorm is a cloud-based, course registration and marketing system. With customers in every state, CourseStorm is on a path to revolutionize how people find, register and receive credit for informal education.
Founded 2011
Accelerated 2017
Workforce Edtech
Orono, Maine
Chalk Talk’s CollegeReady is an adaptive ELA & Math curriculum that prepares high school students for State Standards & State Exams. It minimizes the generosity burnout of educators by mitigating all the prep work that goes into preparing for the class. The course schedule, lesson plans, teaching materials, in-class activities, and homework assignments are all adaptively generated, leading to better learning outcomes in less time.
Founded 2014
Accelerated 2016
Higher Education
Boston, Massachusetts
Choosito builds artificial intelligence tools for personalized learning. Our mission is to serve the need of every learner by finding for them the right content at the right time. We license our technology to business partners in the industry to improve content delivery, including OER.
Founded 2014
Accelerated 2017
K-12
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
CareAcademy provides online professional development courses for professional and family care givers.
Founded 2013
Accelerated 2017
Workforce Edtech
Boston, Massachusetts
Hihilulu is a Chinese language learning product for children of Chinese expatriates which is estimated to be more than 8 million in the world.
Founded 2015
Accelerated 2018
K-12
Paris, France
Proprep provides video tutorials and study guides customized to the college’s STEM courses. The value proposition of Proprep is centered on the quality of the content as well as the volume of its content library.
Founded 2015
Accelerated 2018
Higher Education
Tel Aviv, Israel
Majorwise is a workforce-focused opportunity network that connects high school students with relevant job placements, internships, and volunteering opportunities.
Founded 2015
Accelerated 2018
K-12, Workforce Edtech
Boston, Massachusetts
Curio provides a space for teachers to discover new ideas, curate them, and collaborate. Curio was founded by an award winning teacher as the CEO and a serial entrepreneur as the CTO.
Founded 2016
Accelerated 2018
Ashley Lamb-Sinclair
Tarik Nally
K-12
Louisville, Kentucky
Just Learn combines a compact ecosystem and add-on modules with curriculum as a way to fuse nature and technology into engaging hands-on STEM experiences for K-12. Just Learns’s Malawi is an indoor garden powered by an aquatic ecosystem of fish, bacteria and plants which helps create in-class experiences that bring life to STEM.
Founded 2017
Accelerated 2018
K-12
Mozambique
Orbit uses latest technologies such as augmented reality and 3D visualizations to facilitate learning for K-12 students.
Founded 2016
Accelerated 2018
K-12
Pakistan
EduMetrics helps schools prepare their students for long-term success by improving the way they gather, report, and make use of both social and emotional data and helps them to understand their schools and take actions to improve outcomes.
Founded 2011
Accelerated 2016
Acquired 2017
Dan Kindlon
K-12
Boston, Massachusetts
EducationModified is the research-driven way to improve outcomes for students with special needs. It supports schools & districts to go beyond compliance to implement IEPs in the classroom, directly within teachers’ workflow.
Founded 2012
Accelerated 2015
Melissa Corto
Elisa Altorfer McBroom
K-12
Special-Ed
Boston, Massachusetts
uConnect helps colleges and universities unlock the valuable information and resources that live in the career center to improve enrollment, retention, persistence and outcomes.
Founded 2012
Accelerated 2014
Higher Education
Boston, Massachusetts
Entri is a test prep platform for teachers and students in India.
Founded 2015
Accelerated 2017
Higher Education
India
Empow promotes STEM education and enrichment through hands-on, project-based programs like summer camps, classes, and after-school programs that teach coding, robotics, animation, 3D modeling, and more.
Founded 2013
Accelerated 2013
K-12
Boston, Massachusetts
Learning Games Studios evidence-based learning games excite and engage learners, and deliver measurable learning outcomes, by bringing together compelling game-based experiences with strong instructional design and research-backed implementations of the learning sciences.
Founded 2015
Accelerated 2015
Workforce Edtech
Washington DC
PlayPosit is an online learning environment that allows its users to create and share interactive video lessons.
Founded 2013
Accelerated 2013
K-12
Higher-Ed
Workforce-Ed
Washington DC
Riipen is an experiential learning platform that connects university and college students to organizations (both for-profit and not-for-profit) through customizable online experiential learning that complements traditional co-ops and internships.
Founded 2014
Accelerated 2016
Higher Education
Vancouver, Canada
Skookii is designed specifically for K-12 school Parents and provides a single user account to manage children’s in-school or out-of-school payments from Kindergarten to 12th grade.
Founded 2016
Accelerated 2016
K-12
Phoenix, Arizona
Sutori is a digital learning tool that enables anyone to create and share stories collaboratively
Founded 2013
Accelerated 2014
K-12
Mont-Saint-Guibert, Belgium
Knowledge to Practice delivers practice-changing, healthcare education solutions that help transform patient care, enable continuity of care, and mitigate risks across hospitals and healthcare systems. Knowledge to Practice’s personalized curriculum results in an average of 56 percent improvement of knowledge retention and recall, compared to 3-5 percent of older continuing medical education (CME) models.
Founded 2014
Accelerated 2015
Workforce Education
Washington DC
Listenwise is an award-winning listening skills platform that harnesses the power of listening to advance literacy and learning in all students. Our collection of podcasts and public radio keeps teaching connected to the real world. In November 2021, Listenwise was acquired by Boclips
Founded 2012
Accelerated 2013
K-12
Workforce Edtech
Boston, Massachusetts
TeachersConnect builds online communities and tools that combat the annual $2.2bn problem of teacher turnover. Our customers are teacher preparation programs, school districts, and companies that do business in K-12 education.
Founded 2014
Accelerated 2015
Workforce Education
Boston, Massachusetts
Pip Learning’s Trust Platform® identity service connects educators to innovators, protects student privacy, and includes parents.
Founded 2013
Accelerated 2015
Acquired 2017
K-12
Boston, Massachusetts
Kaymbu is the leading visual messaging and authentic assessment platform for early education. From photo sharing to student portfolios, school newsletters and dynamic photo books, Kaymbu connects early childhood educators with young, digital-native parents. Kaymbu captures the essence of student development and strengthens relationships between home and school.
Founded 2012
Accelerated 2017
Early Education
Boston, Massachusetts
LearnBolt is a new breed of mobile workforce productivity and training platform. This turnkey solution uniquely empowers business owners, managers, and employees from the moment of knowledge need to the collection, organization, and delivery of that knowledge.
Founded 2015
Accelerated 2017
Workforce Edtech
Boston, Massachusetts
Quality Interactions is an e-learning company whose training equips frontline healthcare professionals with cultural competency and communications skills and strategies aimed at improving patient experience and health outcomes and reducing the financial costs associated with excess medical treatment and risks.
Founded 2003
Accelerated 2017
Michele Courton Brown
Joseph Betancourt
Alexander Green
J. Emilio Carrillo
Workforce Edtech
Boston, Massachusetts
The Wealth Factory, Inc. develops games that help our users with their financial literacy education.
Founded 2012
Accelerated 2017
Angel Rich
Courtney Keen
Harjeet Singh
K-12
Washington DC
SchoolHack’s LiFT® makes implementing project-based learning easier by harnessing the intrinsic motivation of learners as they co-create rigorous projects around their personal interests and goals.
Founded 2014
Accelerated 2017
David Lipkin
Josie Jordan
K-12
Boston, Massachusetts
Zulama worked with faculty at Carnegie Mellon University’s Entertainment Technology Center to develop an unprecedented way to bring game design, programming, art, and screenwriting to middle and high schoolers through game design.
Founded 2009
Accelerated 2016
Acquired 2018
K-12
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Quill.org’s online tools help 3rd-12th grade students become great writers. We use AI to analyze and serve feedback on student writing, enabling students to quickly develop their skills.
Founded 2013
Accelerated 2015
K-12
New York, New York
WriteSteps is a standards-based, K-5, digital writing and grammar curriculum that helps teachers create skilled writers.
Founded 2011
Accelerated 2017
Acquired 2017
Early Education
Ann Arbor , Michigan
Mindsets Learning is an award-winning inquiry & project-based learning platform that brings authentic, real-world experiences into classrooms. Spark creativity & computational thinking through real world Challenges for K12 Math, Science & STEM.
Founded 2013
Accelerated 2015
K-12
Boston Massachusetts
Unruly Studios is the first EdTech company to combine physical fitness with STEM education for kids 6 and up! Our all-star team has experience from Scratch, the MIT Media Lab, Babson, Hasbro, Mattel, Nickelodeon, iRobot, and Disney. We recently collected pre-orders for our award-winning product, Unruly Splats, through a successful crowdfunding campaign.
Founded 2015
Accelerated 2017
K-12
Boston, Massachusetts
Schola provides families with the tools they need to find the school and educational programming that best aligns with the needs of their child.
Founded 2016
Accelerated 2017
K-12
Phoenix, Arizona
QuadWrangle is the first automated engagement platform designed exclusively for education
Founded 2011
Accelerated 2014
Higher Education
Boston, Massachusetts