Education Startups funded by Y Combinator (YC) 2024

DeansList is a new gradebook that helps schools assess critical “soft skills” like perseverance, diligence, leadership, teamwork and grit. With DeansList, schools capture data on classroom behavior and disciplinary interventions, and use that data to define metrics and goals for student improvement. They also benefit from powerful analytics enabling them to see behavior trends emerge and constantly improve school culture.

Meet Sparky, a fun and quirky AI buddy in the avatar of a friendly fox who kids can just speak with to build fluency and confidence with English speaking. Powered by Generative AI, and made magical with child-appropriate experience, features and topics, Sparky brings a whole world of knowledge and a judgement-free environment for kids to become comfortable with speaking English. 142 countries (outside English dominant countries) mandate English learning as part of the national education policy. These kids have exposure to English but feel underconfident and embarrassed to speak. The biggest problem across the classes and books they get, is the lack of real conversational practice. With AI, we're making this affordable accessible and enjoyable for kids across the world. We're a passionate team of educators with over 30 years of combined experience in building education products for kids and have held leadership positions are India's biggest education companies - Byju's and LEAD.

Hapara gives teachers and administrators greater visibility into digital learning experiences Our instructional management suite enables teachers and administrators to provide all learners with safe, personalized and visible digital learning environments. Hapara provides educators with unprecedented access and visibility into learner work across G Suite. Hapara Analytics provides objective data about your digital adoption, allowing school administrators to see and evaluate data about learner engagement, collaboration and device usage, going back to the day G Suite was implemented.

Degrees of Freedom offers a high-quality, low-cost degree, by blending virtual and traditional college models. Our students learn on-campus, and online on-line, and in-VR from diverse Ivy League professors and master teachers-- all at the cost of the Pell Grant

Stepful trains people with a high school education in 4 months and places them into healthcare jobs. Healthcare is the fastest growing industry in the US accounting for 40% of all jobs added including medical assistants, nursing assistants, and phlebotomists.

Darsel is a AI-powered math education chatbot which is designed to supplement K12 education systems in resource-constrained environments. Darsel allows students to practice math questions & do their homework through platforms like SMS, WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger.

Eduvant provides a disruptively inexpensive and powerful way for school systems to create value and innovate with data they’re already collecting. We bring school data into the 21st century with an integrated, open development platform and an initial suite of tools that empower decision-makers with real-time analytics. Additionally, our platform’s open API enables outside developers to build integrated data solutions for schools.

Avocademy was born from a need for more diverse designers. Current design programs are expensive and not accessible. We make it accessible for anyone to break into the field and change careers. Our students are 75% women, 65% BIPOC, & 33% LGBTQ+.

Sense is a company dedicated to revolutionizing the way students receive personalized, high-quality, and actionable feedback on their work using advanced AI technology. Utilizing AI techniques, including large language models, Sense offers a universal system that helps students bridge the gap between their submissions and the correct answers while providing positive reinforcement for their strengths. The platform will accommodate multiple correct answers, ensuring flexibility and adaptability to various learning styles and subjects. Educators are involved to curate and guide the system as needed to provide the best and most effective feedback.

Mentorcam is a marketplace for 1:1 business and career advice.

💡 What is Pandai? Pandai is an app that helps students get better grades in school. Pandai provides gamified quizzes aligned to a specific school curriculum, from which students can learn, practice, get feedback, and diagnose their weaknesses. 🔥 Why do we build this? In Southeast Asia, the education system is competitive and exam-oriented. There is a huge demand for interventions (tutors, workbooks, and extra classes) to help students perform better in school. Pandai fills the demand with a solution that is better than the alternatives. 👨‍🏫 Who We Are The three founders are based in Malaysia and have known each other since high school, 23 years ago. After we graduated (from MIT & other US colleges), we started our first education company in 2007, focusing on coaching school students in STEM subjects. We worked closely with students (many of them from underprivileged backgrounds) and saw firsthand the impact we’ve had on them. We then realized that with technology, we could reach more students and bring more impact. Hence, we released Pandai in 2020. 🚀 Present & Future Currently, we have launched in our home ground Malaysia in 2020. So far, 280,000 students have completed 83 million questions on Pandai, and 92% of users have seen some improvement in their academic performance. We plan to expand to Southeast Asia and other emerging markets, a market of 100M+ school students. Pandai is designed to be scalable, and our content (also available in English) can be mapped to other curricula from other countries.

Novatr (YC S21) offers online cohort-based courses for architects, engineers and designers in the AEC industry to advance their professional growth. We serve learners from 45+ countries including India, MENA, USA, Europe, and SEA. Our courses are delivered by professionals from global firms like Autodesk, BIG, Google, UNStudio, AECOM, and graduates are placed at top-tier architecture firms, construction companies and real estate companies. Project-based learning and peer-to-peer interaction in cohort makes learning enriching and increases the completion rates to 84%. Learners work in groups of 2-6 on live projects and create significant outputs from scratch. The company is led by alumni of SPA Delhi and IIT Madras.

KickUp partners with K-12 organizations to coordinate professional learning efforts, improve decision-making and ensure that great ideas translate into demonstrable outcomes in the classroom. “The great thing about KickUp is they brought credibility to the professional development work we are doing. It’s challenging to be a ‘prophet in our own land’, but having KickUp’s professional reports presented in clear and compelling ways instantly became a communication tool between our entire curriculum department, the district cabinet, and the school board. I was able to use the resources KickUp created for a board report and now the district is interested in seeing how all of the other departments can benefit from their services. We are in need of someone who can take that step back and see the big picture of what we are trying to accomplish with professional development, effective student learning, and assessment and tie it all together for us in ways that make sense. KickUp has become the connector between departments, helping to lead us all in our common goal, to improve learning for our students.

Students use Kaizena to request feedback on their work from teachers and other students. From hearing yourself play a wrong note on the piano to a baseball coach guiding your swing, feedback is everyone’s fundamental learning process: try, compare, try again. We extend everyone's natural approach to learning into the classroom.

Pahamify is an online learning platform for K-12 students in Indonesia. We provide high quality educational videos which can be used to learn various concepts ranging from math, science, social sciences, and language based on the local curriculum. We also provide thousands of practice questions and modules which can be used for college entry test preparation.

NoRedInk builds stronger writers through interest-based curriculum, adaptive exercises, and actionable data. We're in over 10,000 schools, and students have answered over 2 billion questions on our platform. Based in San Francisco, NoRedInk was founded in 2012 and is backed by top-tier investors, including: True Ventures, Google Ventures, Learn Capital, Kapor Capital, Social Capital and ImagineK12. We are a team of ~50 people with a deep commitment to unlocking every writer’s potential. We have a strong remote culture; many of our jobs are remote-friendly. Check out our current openings at: https://www.noredink.com/jobs

Platzi cracked online education. It teaches courses on design, marketing and programming with a 70% completion rate, to over one million students worldwide. The classes include real-time collaboration among students and industry leaders as teachers. It aims to be the professional home for lifelong learning of advanced skills.

Plickers lets you poll your class for free, without the need for student devices. Just give each student a card (a "paper clicker"), and use your smartphone to scan them to do instant checks-for-understanding, exit tickets, and impromptu polls. Best of all, your data is automatically saved, student-by-student, at plickers.com.

An up-skilling platform that empowers teams with continuous learning tracks to equip them with the right skills at the right time. Our up-skilling programs are customised to business objectives of organisations across sales, customer success, general management, technology & product functions & promote employee development by enhancing their existing competencies and developing newer ones. AntWalk is powered by 3000+ Experts from 500+ Global Brands across 40+ Countries to power these courses and 1:1 Interactions.

The Cambly app gives English learners instant 1-on-1 access to friendly native speakers over video chat 24/7. Students get an affordable and convenient way to practice their English and gain confidence. Tutors get to make money helping people from around the world practice English.

Outtalent helps top engineers from emerging markets get jobs abroad at companies like Google. We started Outtalent because we believe that talent is equally distributed, but opportunity is not and emerging markets have an exceptional number of great but undervalued engineers. We believe getting a job at one of the world’s best companies sets people on a great path to realize their full potential. Outtalent is funded by YCombinator, world-class venture capital funds, executives from Google and Facebook, and other angel investors who are passionate about our mission. We have already helped software engineers from Russia, Ukraine and Central Asia get jobs at Google, Amazon, Microsoft and many other companies in the US, Canada, and Europe.

Careerist is an ed-fintech platform that trains job seekers for tech careers (in QA, Sales, Support & more), finances them and automates their job hunting. Our B2B2C platform aggregates job seekers, tutors and employers – streamlining training and placement. Techcrunch: "Edtech meets SaaS in Careerist’s job placement learning platform. The startup trains job seekers through live and self-paced training taught by third-party tutors. The adaptive learning software is meant to help candidates prep for tech interviews. Once a candidate is well equipped, Careerist uses automation to help them apply for jobs."

We believe in applying technology to take away the pain of K-12 operations. This means more time and focus available for students and families. Failing to fill a substitute teacher opening causes teachers, school leaders, and administrators to shuffle around to cover gaps. There's also the time spent on the tedious logistical issues of finding, recruiting, screening, scheduling and paying contract substitute teachers. That's why they introduced SwingSubs: so schools don't have to worry about any of those things and can focus on the important stuff.

We are a financial technology company that is revolutionizing the state of pre-tertiary education in Africa. By paying school fees for parents upfront with a flexible monthly repayment plan, building fees savings culture among parents, This way, schools get up to 80% of all their expected fees 2weeks into resumption and also enabling schools to access to loan facility and availability of various vendors and service providers at discounted rates.

At Studdy, our mission is to unlock the full potential of the next generation by providing a personalized AI tutor for every student. Studdy Buddy is a multilingual tutor that uses AI, as well as advanced speech, text, and image recognition technology to supercharge students' ability to learn new subjects. We believe that making self-learning as easy as possible for as many students as possible (no matter their cultural, social, or educational background) is the key to unlocking the full potential of students around the world. We're a passionate team of AI experts, educators, and builders - if you also have a passion for transforming education we'd love to hear from you. Shoot us a message at team@studdy.ai!

Unschool provides real-world professional education that colleges in India do not provide. We are a marketplace where college students in India can learn about technology, management and arts from high-quality courses created by experts from around the world.

Kunduz is making test prep resources 10x faster and cheaper for students who prepare for university entrance tests. With its first mobile platform, Kunduz provides instant answers to students’ test prep questions through its 35,000 tutors. Kunduz currently serves students in Turkey and India.

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RocketLit gives all students better access to learning and educators access to the data they need to be most impactful. Our first product, RocketLit, is an adaptive and personalized learning platform that serves reading to students at their independent level. Students read the same content at different levels of complexity and fluidly move up reading levels as they improve. InnerOrbit is our new Science Assessment platform, giving students, teachers and administrators the practice and data they need to be successful on science tests. We serve the highest quality content and feature the most detailed reporting on the market. We’re a small and focused team working to change the world through science education. Our company has served over 650k students and we’re on track to more than double that number in the next year. We’re looking for folks who’ll grow into a leadership role within the organization.

Edoome turns the classroom into an online community, so teachers, students and parents can communicate and collaborate in an easy and secure way. Edoome is a free service where teachers, students and parents can create or join a course to start collaborating, posting assignments, generating online quizzes and sharing files.

we’re the largest place where you give your idea a shot. and, we mean any idea — a hip-hop album, short film, a novel, some indie software, a youtube channel — whatever. no idea is too big or too small. it all starts with nights & weekends. it's six-weeks where you can start any idea from zero on your nights and weekends, and by the end you'll have your first fans, revenue, downloads, whatever. in 2023: - 12M+ ppl saw our content across Instagram and Twitter. - more than 30,000 people joined nights & weekends to work on their own ideas. - 1,000 people flew to meet us and others like them for 3-days. and, we had 1,000 people come out to one of our physical, 3-day events. to get a sense of what this all looks like in practice, see our video for season four [here](https://twitter.com/FarzaTV/status/1719091708775059754). we even built a [physical campus](https://twitter.com/FarzaTV/status/1678561092308705281) for people who want to go full-time on their idea and need place to figure it out -- again, we don't care how big or small the idea is. overall, it's been a journey. so, now what? in 2023, we built up massive distribution. it was all about creating really high-quality content + experiences. but, it was all very one-off. in 2024, we're fully focused on taking all our learnings and building a world class product. a product that can help millions pursue their passions and build their ideas. and, we're looking for talented engineers and designers to help us figure it out.

Scrimba is a coding course platform with over 120K monthly active students. It's based on a new video format that makes the screencasts fully interactive for students, and easier to create for teachers. Our vision is to create a coding school that has the quality of Stanford but the price of a gym membership.

Univerbal is a conversational language learning tool that helps people learn a language simply by talking. In unscripted and dynamic conversation users can say whatever they like into the microphone and the AI responds and carries on the conversation. Just like with a real tutor, you get corrections and explanations for any potential mistakes you might make. Try it: chat.quazel.com

Flint is an AI platform for K-12. With Flint, schools can use AI to provide personalized learning for every student.

Educreations is a community where anyone can teach what they know and learn what they don't. Our software turns any iPad or web browser into a recordable, interactive whiteboard, making it easy for teachers and experts to create engaging video lessons and share them on the web. Students can replay these lessons any time, any place, on any connected device. We're on a mission to dramatically improve student achievement by extending the reach of great teaching.

Toko helps English learners in East Asia achieve speaking fluency. Through our mobile app, learners engage in short, realistic conversations with an AI and receive feedback on their grammar. With over 150 topics, learners can practice real-world scenarios ranging from small talk to workplace discussions. Toko offers a low-pressure environment to help learners build up their confidence. We make language fluency accessible to everyone - not just those with the means to meet 1:1 with a tutor. In Taiwan (our first market), Toko is ranked #3 in the App Store for Education!

ReadWorks offers free, research-based, classroom-proven lessons and online training to help K-6 teachers explicitly teach the component skills and strategies of reading comprehension, while also supporting the much needed development of background knowledge and vocabulary.

Juni is a membership-driven learning platform designed to help each student discover and pursue their passions with joy. The company offers award-winning curriculums in Computer Science, Math, and English for students 7-18 taught by near-peer instructors from top universities and access to a global community. Through project-centered courses, best-in-class technology, and the power of community, Juni’s varied learning experiences prepare students for their best future. Juni is backed by Forerunner Ventures, Index Ventures, Y Combinator Co-founder Jessica Livingston, Arielle Zuckerberg, and more. The company is headquartered in San Francisco and was recently featured in Forbes, Fortune, WSJ, Fast Company and TechCrunch.

AppX empowers creators to launch their personal apps and websites to monetise their audience via courses and premium exclusive content.

Skill-Lync provides job leading engineering education online. We started with a special focus in Mechanical, Electrical, Electronics, Civil & Computer Science engineering and have become one of the world's leading & highest rated platforms in teaching high-end technical skills that help students get a job.

We train software developers & data scientists for free and help them find a job remotely in exchange of a share of their future income.

SuperKalam is a superpower for students, giving access to knowledge and personalised mentorship in a disciplined ecosystem, starting with UPSC Exam. At SuperKalam, we aim to solve the problems of affordability, accessibility, and availability of great personal teacher in India.

Imagine doing personalised workouts with a fitness coach, but for school subjects. Students log into their session that has been scheduled with their coach, they can see their learning workout for the day. Their workout typically consists of watching an interactive video, writing explanations, giving feedback to other students, making an explainer video etc. They get constant feedback and encouragement from the coach and progress only after they have understood the pre-requisites.

At Goalbook, we empower teachers to transform instruction so that ALL students succeed. We partner with over 1000 districts across 46 states, working closely with school and district leaders to scale and sustain improved instructional practice. Founded by former teachers and administrators, Goalbook was part of YC Edtech's inaugural class and the first company funded through New Schools'​ Seed Fund, now Reach Capital.

Every day, teachers struggle to answer all of their students’ questions. Even worse, they’re often unaware of who needs help because some students are too shy to raise hands. Classkick is a free app that eliminates those roadblocks, showing teachers exactly what their students are doing and who has pressed “I need help” on a specific part of their assignment. Rather than reinvent how students learn or how teachers teach, Classkick facilitates current classroom learning. In Classkick, every student's’ handwriting, whether it’s a 2nd grader drawing a picture or an 11th grader doing physics, appears live to the teacher in a mosaic of working students. The teacher can zoom into any student’s sheet to help them and ask a probing question to redirect their thinking. By the time the student has read and thought through the feedback, the teacher has already swept off and helped 5 others. We are hyper focused on one goal: increase student learning. To achieve this, we listen to educators to truly understand how technology can assist in the learning process.

Turing College is an online AI college for busy professionals. As a constituent college affiliated with Woolf, a higher education institution in the European Union, we bring world-class programs driven by Google-level engineers to Cambridge University PhDs.

UPchieve is an edtech nonprofit that provides free, 24/7 online tutoring to low-income HS students. Using our app, students can request and get paired with a live volunteer in under 5 minutes. We’ve matched 100,000+ requests so far. Right now in the US, there are 8 million low-income HS students who don’t have anyone in their home who can help them with schoolwork. UPchieve is working to change that. Our vision is simple: we want to democratize access to academic support, so that every student has an equal opportunity to attend college and achieve upward mobility.

MathDash is an online live math-competition platform that gets students addicted to learning. Our target audience already spends thousands of hours doing math questions competitively, and we've *already* gotten the best of the best to switch to doing problems on our site - an average of 65 minutes a day among our 200 most active users, and a total of over 150,000 arithmetic questions solved in just the last week! Why? Because it is more thrilling and exciting to compete live, see yourself on a leaderboard, and improve your 'ELO' rating. We are USA Math Olympians, and have been the top power users on every single product marketed towards competitive math learners. What's missing is the math game that allows anyone at any level to play with math on demand and compete live at their level, whether it's in the back of an Uber or while training for a math competition.

Remind is a communication platform that helps every student succeed. Founded in 2011, Remind allows school and district administrators to reach and engage with their communities and connects educators and families with the tools that help them teach and learn.

When we began our first experiments with using Mobile devices a few years ago we were very excited by the possibility of learning in nontraditional manner. The beauty of effectiveness of the iPhone first and the iPad platforms gave shape to our vision of building beautiful apps, designed to build learning for your iPhone, iPod touch and iPad Devices. Each of our apps are extremely easy to use, focus on just one area of learning using interactivity and add an element to fun while learning.

At Informed K12, we’re on a mission to help school district administrators operate efficiently and gain insight into their most critical school business processes. Still today, most school districts have hundreds of mission critical processes that run on paper, making visibility and improvement near impossible. We transform paperwork from a daily stumbling block to a strategic tool. This makes it possible to hire the right teachers faster, manage bus routes for students without permanent housing, ensure teachers get reimbursed and paid on time, and a lot more. We are powering the future of school district operations by helping district administrators drive the systemic change needed to improve productivity, accountability and equity.

The platform for real-time formative assessments + a free student response system for digital classrooms. Our web-based software found at goformative.com allows live data analytics on any homework, classwork or assessment in order to help teachers, parents and schools guarantee student growth in the moments when it matters most.

A web app that offers live online courses in programming, design, data, online marketing and more. Our courses are nearly as affordable as online Moocs (~$40 a month) and as effective as Bootcamps. We achieve this by running 100 person live classes with one expert professor and one mentor per 15 students. Every class, students need to turn in assignments that are corrected by their mentors and at the end of the course they need to turn in and approve a final project. We also help our selected students with careers services such as mockup interviews, Linkedin enhancement, and more. All of this creates a level of accountability that allows us to achieve really low churn levels (<9%). Our career tracks last between 9-11 months and we give our selected students their money back in case they don't get a job 6 months after they are done with the course.

Next Tech is an infrastructure and analytics solutions provider dedicated to connecting the dots between the many divisions of the software industry. Our mission is to make it easier than ever to get a highly skilled job in tech, create better software, and build bigger software companies. We provide a variety of products built atop our secure, lightning fast custom computing environments. Hundreds of thousands of people have used hands-on learning experiences, SaaS customer acquisition tools, and raw on-demand computing resources powered by our infrastructure.

ClassDojo's mission is to give every kid an education they love. Our flagship communication app has become the world’s largest network serving kids, reaching over 51 million kids, families and teachers in 180 countries every month, entirely through word of mouth. They use it to share the best moments in a kid's day through pictures, videos, messages, and more. ClassDojo has recognized by Forbes, LinkedIn, Inc and Fast Company, and it is a top 100 Y Combinator company.

Sivi is an AI-powered English learning app. Learn English Speaking The Fastest Way (AI + Human) 😀 Practicing with AI English Tutor and Human is the fastest way to learn to speak. Try now to feel the change within a week.

Prenda makes it easy to open a K-8 microschool in your home, studio or office. We start with an adult guide who cares about kids and believes in the power of learning. Often this is the mom of one of the students. She recruits a class of up to 10 students, and we provide everything she needs to run a microschool - training, support, software, curriculum, and funding so she gets paid. In

Tickle Inc. was one of the first user-generated content companies and one of the first viral media companies, pioneering A/B testing and other growth techniques now followed by much of the industry. It provided quizzes, psychological tests developed by PhD's, social networking, matchmaking, photo sharing, and an ad network called Grapevine. Tickle registered over 150 million people before 2005. Tickle survived the dot-com bubble burst of 2000, raised just one round of $9M, became profitable in early 2002, was acquired by Monster Worldwide in May 2004 for $110M including earnout, and became part of the overall Monster network for 4 years before being shut down by Monster on December 31, 2008.

DigitWhiz is all about making sure that kids master foundational math skills in a fun and effective way. Our online program evaluates current abilities, prescribes games and guides kids to master basic and pre-algebra skills. It’s easy for teachers to setup their class, get started right away and track student progress. Parents use DigitWhiz too! Check out our iPad version here. DigitWhiz is teacher created and kid approved!

Litnerd is an online reading program that brings K-5 books to life by streaming live actors in the classroom. We blend the creator economy to traditional education, complete with ebooks and lesson plans. Litnerd will teach the 37 Million elementary school students in America how to read. Today schools spend approx. $20 Billion on reading and supplemental education programs. Yet 42% of their students still cannot read by 4th grade. Litnerd is a contracted vendor with the largest education district in America, New York City Department of Education. Our program is currently implemented as designated classroom reading time across public schools. We have been growing aggressively at 60% MoM, used by over 14,000 paying students and hit $110K in ARR in less than 5 months.

AccioJob is an ed-tech startup run by IIT Delhi Alumni that provides a comprehensive state-of-the-art learning platform for Full Stack Web Development and Data Analytics. Our industry-relevant curriculum is taught by top tech instructors and mentors, and our students have gone on to work at leading tech companies like Amazon, Salesforce, and Walmart, among others. With job placement opportunities at 300+ top tech partner companies, we have placed 1000+ students in 2022 itself at an average salary of 8.3 LPA

Cloud-based web filtering for K-12 Schools | Parental controls for families | Manage screen time. Any device, anywhere. Not only a pioneer, Securly is also one of fastest-growing EdTech companies in Silicon Valley. Maybe even the world. Our ground-breaking tech allows schools and parents to keep kids safe in what is an increasingly digital world. Our goal is not to censor the Internet, but to mitigate the negative effects it can have on children. To us, a safer world for kids is a goal worth having. Our cloud-based web filter keeps students safe, parents in the loop, and school costs down. On top of this, we are paving the way with an AI that alerts parents and counselors to instances of cyberbullying or even self-harm. Our tech can literally save lives. Pretty cool, right? Not many tech companies can say that. From the coders to the engineers to the interns, everyone at Securly is motivated to make the Internet safer for millions of kids and, as a result, make them better digital citizens. That said, we’re always on the lookout for like-minded people to help us expand our ranks. Securly was founded by two network security veterans with a combined 20+ years of security experience. We proudly serve over 1000 school districts and more than 2M students and staff throughout the world.

Accredible is connecting education with economic value. We want hiring to be about what you can do, your skills and potential and we want education to be better at improving careers. Accredible is the industry-leading digital credentialing platform that securely issues, manages, tracks, and verifies over 80 million career-advancing credentials globally. Accredible integrates with learning software, including Canvas, D2L Brightspace, Kajabi, Kryterion Webassessor, Moodle, Thinkific, and more. Over 2,000 leading universities, associations, and technology companies such as Google, Skillsoft, Slack, Junior Achievement USA, Chartered Banker Institute, University of Cambridge, AMPP, Hootsuite, IEEE, Cengage, MIT, Rutgers, UC Berkeley, AMBA, and The Digital Marketing Institute rely on Accredible to create, deliver, and manage digital certificates and open badges.

Mosa Mack Science is an interactive science curriculum that combines mysteries, labs and engineering challenges. Utilizing a fun, diverse cast of characters, each episode examines a science topic using an inquiry-model and ends with a query the students attempt to solve together using customizable discussion guides. Mosa Mack Science strives to expose all students to the thrill of problem-solving while empowering girls and children of color in science.

Marathon Education provides live interactive tutoring classes to K-12 students in Vietnam, we're the fastest-growing edtech player disrupting the $5bn offline tutoring market by allowing students to learn online with the best teachers in large-class or small-class format. The company is founded by Duc, former education private equity investor at TPG Capital - where Duc invested in K-12 education and edtech businesses in Vietnam & Southeast Asia. Duc co-founded Marathon with Tung - serial tech entrepreneur in Vietnam who grew his last startup - Christina's to 500 employees across 8 cities.

Kodable was founded to fill a gap in education currently affecting over 250 million kids around the world. Our mission is to help prepare kids for success in the 21st century by making programming education accessible to everyone. We make awesome games that not only teach kids about programming, but help develop soft skills like grit, perseverance, and problem solving. Kids journey through the Smeeborgian Universe with a family of furry aliens and learn about programming logic, JavaScript, and game design. Kodable also includes a curriculum for elementary school teachers so they can feel confident teaching along side the game. Kodable is already used in over 50% of US schools, and in over 190 countries. Help us continue our mission and expose millions more kids to the wonderful world of computer science!

Jovian is an online university for software development and data science. We offer practical and industry-focused programs that help professionals learn technical skills, build real-world projects, and advance their careers. Students learn practical skills, build real-world portfolio projects, and undergo job readiness training. Our tutors offer 24x7 guidance & mentorship over Slack & Zoom. Students also get access to jobs with 200+ hiring partners.

CodeHS is a comprehensive teaching platform for helping schools teach computer science. We provide web-based curriculum, teacher tools and resources, and professional development.

Class Central helps learners Find, Plan, and Track their Online Education As the leading aggregator of MOOCs, Class Central presents curated and student-reviewed high quality courses to help learners make informed online learning decisions. With a simple interface and thousands of reviews, we have helped 4 million people decide which online course to take next. According to SimilarWeb, Class Central is the second biggest source of referral traffic to Coursera. We are building an ecosystem to help guide learners towards their educational goals.

We are building live teaching infrastructure that enables handful of top educators (from Google, Facebook, etc) to coach a large number of students. We train college students in a year-long live cohorts and they pay us a portion of their salary as fees once they get a tech job (Income Sharing Agreement)

Panorama is a fast-growing national technology company focused on improving education. More than 2,000 school systems serving 15 million students across 50 states have adopted our platform to understand students’ academic and social-emotional strengths and to identify those in need of additional support. School systems turn to Panorama's suite of tools to ensure that every child gets the support they need, including school climate and social-emotional learning surveys, tiered intervention planning, and professional development.

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.

A technical placement bootcamp in the Income Sharing Model. We train top tech talent with 0 upfront fee and place them across our partner companies. Also our program has a deep social impact. We provide special assistance to women and unemployed youth in India- both economically and socially.

The peer-to-peer platform features the largest searchable database of college and graduate school application files – including essays, extracurriculars, test scores, and advice. The files are all uploaded by college students themselves and displayed in LinkedIn-style profiles. Prospective college students get to read real application examples and connect with the college students behind them. Our revenue-share model offers college students an easy way to make money by passing down their personal application journeys and insights to younger students. For every view their profiles get, they earn a commission. Not only does it bring transparency to the black box of admissions, AdmitSee believes it pays to pay it forward. Our mission is to level the admissions playing field so college is accessible to any student no matter their background. While the platform runs on a subscription service, we offer free access to students who qualify for aid under college readiness programs or those who attend Title I schools. AdmitSee has amassed millions of data points that allow the team to surface admissions insights. Both quantitative and qualitative information can be analyzed to provide big picture admissions trends or personalized recommendations for individual users. The data is applicable not just for students but also for educators and institutional players to better serve applicants. By providing cost-effective, direct access to data-driven peer insights, AdmitSee empowers applicants to improve their application strategies, find trusted peer mentors, and plan for their futures.

Strive is an online coding school for kids (8-16). We help students start and commit to their coding journeys by making coding fun and exciting. We focus, above all else, on making the process of learning joyful. - We’re starting with coding, but we’re building the content and platform to redefine **STEM education globally** by teaching math, science, and other school subjects **through coding.** - We believe we can only make education joyful if we ourselves are joyful, so creating a fun and exciting work environment is one of our core values. We’re a remote-first company with teachers and employees from South Africa, Singapore, India, the USA, and the Philippines. - **We’re a well-funded startup backed by YCombinator and early investors of Spotify and Facebook.**

AnnieCannons (AC) is a 501(c)3 nonprofit dedicated to training survivors of human trafficking and gender-based violence to be programmers, giving them both the economic and technological empowerment to invent solutions to overcome the hardships they have survived, and the capacity to support themselves and their families.

We're replacing masters degrees in Brazil with cohort-based courses for top talent to advance their careers in tech. The programs incorporate hands-on learning with sessions led by experts from high-profile companies like Rappi, Nubank, Apple, Google, and more.

Poliglota is the online language school for Latam, where group classes are led by an instructor. Over 12,000 students have paid us $500 to learn english in order to get a higher income. We offer an online service of personalized language sessions with small groups of people of the same level, guided by expert language coaches that we train in our social methodology.

Nimble uses predictive analytics to give every K-12 student access to excellent teachers. Our smart applicant tracking system (ATS) leverages a predictive model to help school districts identify and hire the best educators for their classrooms.

Kiwify enables anyone to create and sell their online course in Brazil. We provide payment processing, video streaming and student management

Trinket is the easiest way to make your class website interactive. Trinket's powerful open teaching platform lets teachers create, prepare, and teach their courses all in one place. Everything on Trinket is open licensed, so teachers can create the best course materials by finding and sharing their work for lesson plans/curriculum with others teaching the same thing.

Peekapak is an award-winning, social & emotional learning (SEL) program designed for the classroom and the home. Developed by education experts, Peekapak's innovative curriculum combines teaching skills like gratitude, empathy and self-regulation with Common Core reading and writing standards. Peekapak aims to make SEL learning resources more accessible with its freemium website. Teachers can sign up for free at www.peekapak.com. • Featured on Flare, Huffington Post, EdSurge, Edutopia, Entrepreneur Magazine, BetaKit, TechVibes, Yahoo Finance, International Business Times, CBC TV & Radio, Metro News, Adweek, CTV, Toronto Star and CH Morning Live • Backed by Imagine K12 (the Edtech vertical of YCombinator) & JOLT (MaRS) Accelerator programs with investment and is an Unreasonable Institute Fellow • Research partnerships with Denver Public Schools, Elizabeth Public Schools and Mile High Early Learning and 3 research projects with George Brown College's Early Childhood Department from the Canadian Government (NSERC) and the Ontario Centres for Excellence (OCE) • Academics'​ Choice Award Winner • Winners of the MasterCard Women in Entrepreneurship program • Recipient of the Centre For Social Innovation's Ontario Catapult Microloan, SheEO program and Grand Prize Winner of the It's a Start Competition

StudyStream is a video platform & online community that allows students to study with others from around the world 24/7 and in real time. It brings accountability & motivation to the students from over 180 countries who study with us daily. We have helped over 3 million students be more productive & motivated, while also feeling less isolated. Our mission is to create a global community of students who can motivate each other to succeed.

In Edpuzzle, you can make any video your lesson. We combine simple video-editing tools with powerful analytics so that a teacher can take a video and make it personal, engaging and effective. Together we are building a pool of the best video lessons for the classroom. We are working towards a day where every teacher and student will be just a click away from an excellent online education.

Emerge sells online job training to the government. For example, Connecticut has allocated $840K to pay Emerge to train 140 incarcerated people to become truck drivers. The US government allocates ~$10 billion in job training funds every year, which is distributed to state and local governments, and eventually paid off to small brick-and-mortar job training programs, with horrible track records. In just three months since launch, we’ve already signed $2.25 million in LOIs with three cities. Our first deal for $82.5K / month starts next week. Each year, more than 600,000 individuals are released from state and federal prisons. Another nine million are released from local jails. Yet, a year after reentry, 60% of formerly incarcerated people remain unemployed. The success of Emerge creates a win-win-win situation: (1) jobs for reentrants, (2) workers for labor-starved industries, and (3) reduction in crime and recidivism.

Founded in 2010, BloomBoard is leading the shift from professional development to career advancement via micro-certification. The company partners with states, districts, and employers to enable a unique online learning experience where individuals improve their actual job-related practices and advance in their careers by earning micro-credentials. BloomBoard aims to help all organizations transition to meaningful, purpose-driven professional learning and advancement based on measurable certification. For more information, visit bloomboard.com.

Quero is an online marketplace for college programs in Brazil. It helps students search, compare and enroll in programs in over 1200 partner colleges, saving money on tuition. Follow Us: facebook.com/queroedu instagram.com/queroedu twitter.com/queroedu quero.education/carreiras

Jumpcut creates captivating online courses. Online education today is fundamentally broken. Less than 10% of people who start an online course today finish it -- a completion rate that is unacceptable to us. Jumpcut courses have a 65% course completion rate. 90% of our users renew their Jumpcut subscription for the next month. Our motto: no lectures allowed. We're based in Hollywood, CA, and our team of 20 employees comes from the entertainment industry, where we've created viral videos totaling over half a billion views. We are a Y Combinator-backed company. (YC S16.) See our courses: https://app.jumpcut.com See the team: https://jumpcut.com/ See our vision: blog.jumpcut.com People love us: https://twitter.com/JumpcutHQ

Outschool is an innovative education platform that offers a variety of engaging, small-group classes online. Unlike traditional classes, Outschool classes give kids the unique opportunity to explore their interests in-depth via interactive, live video by experienced, independent educators. When Outschool was founded in 2015, homeschoolers were the first to discover our classes, but it wasn’t long before kids in conventional schools began supplementing their education with fun and unique, interest-based classes. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Outschool became vital to families who wanted to keep kids learning, social, and pursuing their passions. Today, Outschool offers more than 140,000 live online classes to more than 1,000,000 learners in 183 countries worldwide.

Pathrise is a career accelerator where you don't pay unless you land a job. Job seekers sign up for Pathrise to get weekly career coaching, access the Pathrise network and use our job search automation software.

Shepherd is a Learning assistant for schools to provide to their students. Shepherd seamlessly combines AI-enabled self-study, affordable tutoring, peer collaboration, and analytics for a personalized learning experience that is both efficient and effective.

Poverty, disease, hunger, climate change, war, existential risks, and inequality: The world faces many great and terrifying problems. It is these large problems that our work at Our World in Data focuses on. Our World in Data publishes an open-access publication where users can understand the state of the world today, where we are making progress and where we are falling behind. Through interactive data visualizations we can see how the world has changed; by summarizing the scientific literature we can understand why. We cover everything from global poverty to natural disasters, education and health; we have 3405 charts across 297 topics. Our World in Data is free, open-source and provided as a public good. It has millions of users every month, and is cited in research and media across the world every day. This allows millions of people to understand the large problems the world is facing, and how we can solve them.

Showbie makes it easy for more than 1.5 million teachers and students to organize classroom workflow and improve productivity and communication in one convenient place. Using Showbie, teachers can create, assign and review paperless assignments that students can complete using Showbie’s in-app tools or by getting creative with thousands of compatible iPad and web applications. With additional features such as the built in annotation tools, voice notes and gradebook, Showbie is the complete solution for any 1:1 classroom.

Demand Curve gives founders and marketers what they need to help grow their companies. Through courses, playbooks, conferences, masterclasses, and much more. It also has one of the largest communities and newsletters for founders and growth marketers. Bell Curve, our sister marketing agency, has helped some of the top companies including Pilot, Microsoft, Framer, Stacker, Techcrunch, Ancestry, Invoice2go, and Feedly.

We're a non-profit tech startup with a mission to bring the surge of free learning content available online to communities least likely to access it but with the most to gain. One billion children worldwide lack access to a quality education. A problem this big requires a new way of thinking about things. Rumie innovates with technology to lower the cost of learning resources. We find and organize the best free learning content online on the LearnCloud, and deliver libraries of it to offline communities on low-cost tablets. Our vision is to lead a movement of people working to make education affordable. Join us!