“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!”
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
Founded in 2019
Accelerated in 2022
Workforce Training
Detroit, Michigan
Founded in 2020
Accelerated in 2022
Workforce Training
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Founded in 2017
Accelerated in 2020
Acquired by ESME Learning in 2021
Higher Ed, Workforce Training
Newton, Massachusetts
Founded 2012
Accelerated 2020
Higher Ed
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Founded 2017
Accelerated 2020
K-12
Riga, Latvia
Founded 2014
Accelerated 2020
K-12
Buffalo, New York
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
Founded 2016
Accelerated 2019
Workforce
San Francisco, California
Founded 2014
Accelerated 2019
K-12
Princeton, New Jersey
Founded 2017
Accelerated 2019
K-12
Buffalo, New York
Founded 2017
Accelerated 2019
Workforce Edtech
Brazil
Founded 2014
Accelerated 2019
Workforce Edtech
New York
Founded 2015
Accelerated 2019
K-12
Maryland
Founded 2017
Accelerated 2019
Higher Ed
Denver, Colorado
Founded 2013
Accelerated 2019
Sheri Smith
K-12
Niwot, Colorado
Founded 2015
Accelerated 2019
Higher Education
Singapore
Founded 2017
Accelerated 2019
Workforce Education
Greater Boston Area
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
Founded 2012
Accelerated 2016
Higher Education
Boston, Massachusetts
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
Founded 2013
Accelerated 2013
K-12
Higher Education
Workforce-Ed
Boston, Massachusetts
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
Founded 2013
Accelerated 2017
Workforce Edtech
Boston, Massachusetts
Founded 2015
Accelerated 2018
K-12
Paris, France
Founded 2015
Accelerated 2018
Higher Education
Tel Aviv, Israel
Founded 2015
Accelerated 2018
K-12, Workforce Edtech
Boston, Massachusetts
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
Founded 2016
Accelerated 2018
K-12
Pakistan
Founded 2011
Accelerated 2016
Acquired 2017
Dan Kindlon
K-12
Boston, Massachusetts
Founded 2012
Accelerated 2015
Melissa Corto
Elisa Altorfer McBroom
K-12
Special-Ed
Boston, Massachusetts
Founded 2012
Accelerated 2014
Higher Education
Boston, Massachusetts
Founded 2015
Accelerated 2017
Higher Education
India
Founded 2013
Accelerated 2013
K-12
Boston, Massachusetts
Founded 2015
Accelerated 2015
Workforce Edtech
Washington DC
Founded 2013
Accelerated 2013
K-12
Higher-Ed
Workforce-Ed
Washington DC
Founded 2014
Accelerated 2016
Higher Education
Vancouver, Canada
Founded 2016
Accelerated 2016
K-12
Phoenix, Arizona
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
Founded 2014
Accelerated 2015
Workforce Education
Boston, Massachusetts
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
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
Founded 2012
Accelerated 2017
Angel Rich
Courtney Keen
Harjeet Singh
K-12
Washington DC
Founded 2014
Accelerated 2017
David Lipkin
Josie Jordan
K-12
Boston, Massachusetts
Founded 2009
Accelerated 2016
Acquired 2018
K-12
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Founded 2013
Accelerated 2015
K-12
New York, New York
Founded 2011
Accelerated 2017
Acquired 2017
Early Education
Ann Arbor , Michigan
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
Founded 2016
Accelerated 2017
K-12
Phoenix, Arizona
Founded 2011
Accelerated 2014
Higher Education
Boston, Massachusetts
