CodeHS

Teaching computer science to beginners.
CodeHS is a program for helping to teach computer science to beginners with a focus on working with high schools. What we provide to schools is a "class in a box," which gives them everything they need to start teaching a computer science class. We provide a web-based ...

TalkToChef

Skype + Uber for cooking advice
You are on the middle of cooking something good and got a question about the recipe? You can search answers online and burn your dish, call your family or friends who are busy, or post on a cooking forum or blog and get your answer… mb tomorrow! Here comes TalkToChef! It ...

ClassDojo

Building understanding between teachers, parents, and students
ClassDojo is a feedback platform used by over 40 million teachers, students & parents in more than 150 countries to help students develop the character skills and behaviors they need for success in life - things like persistence, resilience and curiosity. ClassDojo ...

Bloc

Bloc provides online, mentor-led bootcamps in web, mobile, and design.
Bloc provides online bootcamps in web development, mobile development, and design. Bloc courses are taught by experienced mentors who guide students through our project-oriented curriculum. Mentors help students build a portfolio of work with real developer and ...

Coursmos

Open online education platform.
Coursmos is an open online education platform and was ranked #1 in the world for course offerings. It offers approximately 140,000 lessons within approximately 30,000 courses. Launched in 2014, it has been attributed as the world's first platform that supports ...

LearnUp

Reinventing job training
LearnUp is on a mission to solve the skills gap by empowering entry-level jobseekers to learn the skills needed to get hired. We develop online training in partnership with employers that enables job seekers to practice real life situations of a particular job. ...

Colingo

Airbnb for English-teaching
Colingo lets the world learn to speak real English - from real people. Our live, social school blends live group classes, great American teachers, a structured curriculum, and collaborative learning with students from all over the world. Our vision is to innovate ...

StudyHall

★★★ On-Demand Education Experts, TechCrunch Finalist ★★★
StudyHall is where you can find on-demand experts, interns and tutors in the education space. We have a proprietary search engine that provides us with pre-screened and trained experts ready to help in both B2B and B2C spaces.

Brit + Co

An online platform for creativity. Get inspired, learn and shop all under one roof.
Brit + Co is an online media and e-commerce platform that provides tools to teach, inspire, and enable creativity among women and girls. From traditional crafts to high-tech manufacturing, Brit + Co connects millions of users with makers, designers, chefs, and ...

Elevate

Game-based cognitive training
Elevate is a new type of cognitive training tool designed to build communication and analytical skills. Members are provided with a personalized game-based training program that adjusts over time based on performance. Elevate has been selected by Apple as the ...

Minerva Project

Top tier university for the 21st century
The Minerva Project is launching an Ivy-caliber university built to accelerate the life trajectories of the brightest and most motivated students. Minerva will draw on the best traditions of elite university education while leveraging cutting edge technologies ...

Udemy

The world's largest destination for online courses.
We believe that in 5 years, the best education in the world will be available online. Udemy is a platform that enables any expert to create an online course - it's fast, easy and free. Just as blogging opened up online publishing to millions of writers, or YouTube ...

Hack Reactor

The CS Degree for the 21st Century.
Learn the skills needed to become a Software Engineer in an intensive course that runs 12 hours a day, 6 days per week, for 3 months. The course is based in JavaScript, with an emphasis on modern tools and frameworks like Angular.js, Backbone.js, Node.js, jQuery, ...

Designlab

Learn design by doing.
Designlab is the best way to learn creative skills online — through hands-on, mentor-driven courses. Great design is growing increasingly crucial to the development of products, services, and businesses — but there’s not nearly enough strong creative talent in ...

InstaEDU

The largest marketplace for online tutors
InstaEDU makes it incredibly simple for any student to work with a great tutor at any time. We've recruited some of the best tutors from the U.S. and around the world and made them accessible on-demand 24/7.

Omada Health

Pioneering Digital Health
1 in 3 Americans has prediabetes. Without intervention, up to 70% will progress to type 2 diabetes. Our flagship program, called Prevent, intervenes at the right moment and in the right way to help people avoid doing so. Based on the landmark NIH-sponsored Diabetes ...

Front Row Education

Adaptive Math Program for K-8
Front Row is an adaptive math program for students in Kindergarten through Eighth grade. Through the program, students can practice common core aligned math at their own pace, and their teachers can tailor instruction for each student. Since launching in the ...

Academize

Personalizing education | AngelPad S12
Academize is a collaborative video platform that transforms the way we learn online. We make it easy for institutions and organizations to create and deliver high-end video courses in minutes and for instructors to enhance class-based teaching by using Academize ...

Clever

Online Learning Platform Used in Over 30,000 Schools
Online learning software in K-12 education is one of the fastest growing markets on the planet, and Clever is quickly becoming the infrastructure these apps depend on. Today, many of the biggest and most innovative applications in education are already powered ...

NoRedink

Adaptive learning tool that helps students improve their grammar/writing skills.
NoRedInk.com helps students improve their grammar/writing skills. Our engine generates personalized curriculum from their interests & adapts to their needs with instant feedback, tutorials, & color-coded heat maps. We won NBC's $75K Innovation Challenge and have ...

Verbling

Video chat with language teachers
Verbling’s mission is to empower people all over the world to become fluent in a foreign language. We use online live video technology to help people develop their skills together with teachers and students on a global scale. The core team is based in San Francisco. ...

Motion Math

Delightful games for elementary math's toughest concepts
Motion Math's mission is to help kids find delight in intellectual challenge. Founded by engineers and educators from Stanford School of Education's Learning, Design, Technology program, Motion Math has created a suite of eight mobile learning games and an efficacy ...

Avanoo

Transforming potential into performance.
Avanoo is the leading marketplace for online Programs that help people unlock inner potential in their lives and work. Our 3 minute a day 30-day Programs range from Leadership to Stress Relief, and are built, specifically, to help people develop the mental, emotional, ...

InternMatch

InternMatch helps employers connect with the best college talent
InternMatch is a jobs marketplace with discovery and personalization at its core. The 1st part of our solution is an algorithm that analyzes and learns from our rich data set. The 2nd part is the “Campus Hub” – a profile that empowers employers to differentiate ...

Tradecraft

We train smart people to succeed in traction roles at high growth startups
Tradecraft is a 12-week full-time training program in SF for people who want traction roles in startups. There are 3 tracks: user experience (UX), growth, and sales/bd. Students learn by doing real work for real companies and get feedback from expert instructors ...

Schoola

School fundraising meets Kickstarter
Schoola is a self-service fundraising platform that schools, principals, PTAs and PTOs can use to raise significant funds for schools and other non-profits. Think Kickstarter meets school fundraising. Anyone from the school community can work with local businesses ...

Minted

Minted is a design marketplace that connects you to the world’s best independent artists to create something one-of-a-kind. Minted’s community of independent artists and designers are located in 48 states and 43 countries. Our art, stationery, and textiles products ...

NextLesson

Real World Curriculum
VISION NextLesson makes learning relevant by engaging students in real world problems through topics they care about.  We help teachers answer the famous question "Why do we need to learn this?" RELEVANT Using high-interest topics like Harry Potter, Frozen, Katy ...

LearnSprout

Where data thrives
YOUR STUDENT INFORMATION SYSTEM HOLDS MANY SECRETS... Reveal them with LearnSprout. With a simple 5-minute setup, LearnSprout can help you identify attendance trends, track college readiness and spot at-risk students.

Feast

Become a Cook in 30 Days
Feast has a simple mission: to help people become cooks. Today, people don't need fancy recipes or culinary schools, they're just looking to make cooking a regular part of their life. The Feast Bootcamp goes beyond just teaching people how to cook and helps them ...

CodeLesson

We connect real human instructors with professionals who want to learn to code.
We provide a platform and a marketplace that makes it easy to teach and learn technology online. The fact that our courses are taught by real human experts (instead of canned videos, etc.) is our competitive differentiator. We offer a mix of free and paid courses. ...

StudySoup

The #1 P2P College Learning Marketplace (500 Startups- Batch 10)
StudySoup is the best way for college students learn from one another online. We help top students make money by providing notes, study guides, and tutoring services for their peers. Current academic supplementary services are disjointed, and have failed to transition ...

AltSchool

Education Re-imagined
AltSchool is creating a decentralized network of micro-schools delivering totally personalized education, enabled by technology. We've rethought how schools should be started, run, and networked together from first principles and developed a model that can scale ...

Remind

Connecting teachers, students and parents
Remind is an education startup connecting teachers with students & parents through our messaging app. One out of every five teachers in the U.S. use Remind. We want to be the place for the best engineers who have a passion for social good.

Brilliant

Finding and developing ambitious people.
Brilliant (brilliant.org) aims to democratize the way smart, driven people are identified and developed. We allow users to publish and discuss interesting problems and concepts in STEM in a vibrant global community of students, educators, and enthusiasts. Brilliant ...

Savvy

Learn from anyone.
What if you could tap into the expertise of anyone in the world?  Savvy is a global platform where learners and teachers connect for live, one on one video learning sessions.  One on one learning is the most effective way to learn anything, from how to manage ...

Floqq

Online Education
Floqq is the biggest marketplace for online video courses in Spain and Latin America. Floqq is a free service that offers the highest number of online video courses in order of you to learn whatever you wish, guided by experts in the field. Speak a different ...

Uguru.me

On-Demand Tutoring Marketplace
uGuru offers on-demand, p2p, course specific tutoring to college students at 1/4 of the market price in minutes. The founders, Samir and Michael, went to Berkeley and later worked at Google together. Now with 500 Startups' help, they aim to promote collaborative ...

Tioki

Finding better educators faster
Tioki is the premiere online professional network exclusively for the education market. Educators create professional profiles that can include video of themselves in the classroom. Currently, hundreds of schools, including Harlem Village Academies (NYC) and Oakland ...

Blended Labs

A small startup team making experimental services for mobile, online and blended education
Blended Labs is a small startup team making experimental services for mobile, online and blended education.

Zaption

Interactive video for learning
Zaption is leading the revolution in video learning, offering best-of-class technology, a growing network of content partnerships, and the research and expertise to transform video into effective learning. The company has 200K users (growing rapidly) and is quickly ...

Edthena

video coaching platform for teachers
Edthena helps teachers get better at teaching by bringing the process of observation and feedback online. Teachers upload video of their classroom instruction, and share it to coaches who provide feedback at specific moments in time. It's like athletes getting ...

iSoccer

The social platform for youth to improve and compete in sports
What is iSoccer? A game kids play to get better. Kids earn points, badges and rewards for effort and improvement. Kids can play on their own or with their coach, teammates, friends and/or parents. Soccer is the first sport to launch. Basketball is next. Our ...

Kibin

Crowdsourced Copy Editing
We're a professional proofreading & editing service that believes in helping you become a better writer & realize the power of words.

Deeno

Pandora for Children's Media
Our personalized discovery engine helps kids and parents find out about great new content, keeping them coming back for more. We start with the industry's best authoring tool for interactive children's books, then add educational activities and parent-curated ...

Padlet

Easiest way to create and collaborate in the world (YC W13)
Padlet is the easiest way to create and collaborate in the world. A padlet is a blank page where you can put any content - text, images, videos, documents - collaboratively with other people. It's like MSPaint for the web. The product is so simple, 3 year olds ...

inClass

Leading the Social Education Revolution!
inClass helps students and professors succeed in and outside the classroom by embracing sharing and collaboration between them. The social education revolution has now begun!

popexpert

Learn life & work skills from experts for a happier, healthier, more productive you.
Learn life and work skills directly from top experts for a happier, healthier, more productive you. From mindfulness to entrepreneurship and all the skills between, popexpert makes it easy to learn what you need to excel. Get access to original classes and personalized ...

Raise.me

We're reinventing financial aid.
The college landscape today is broken for millions of students. Equal access to higher ed has become one of the greatest issues of our time. At Raise.me, we're reinventing educational pathways and changing the way students access billions of dollars each year ...

EdSurge

Edtech insights for decision makers
EdSurge is the leading site for educators, entrepreneurs and investors involved in education technology. We help educators discover the best products for their students; we inspire developers to build what educators and learners need; we help investors understand ...

Coursebook

Pandora for learning. We make it easy to discover, track and share learning resources.
The Coursebook aggregates great learning resources and makes it easy for lifelong-learners to find the best videos, podcasts, and other resources to learn on the web and on the go. Users can easily connect with others to build their learning network and set-up ...

CreativeLive

The world's online classroom.
CreativeLive empowers you to unleash your potential by bringing the world’s greatest experts directly to you, live. Featuring workshops in photography, video, design, business, audio, music, and software training, CreativeLive unlocks previously closed doors by ...

Action Factory

Action Factory is building the solutions to the problems faced by publishers - we are the future of publishing. We do this by building a platform to manage audience development, infrastructure and monetization while operating media brands by matching written content ...

Astrid Francesca Walk

Two troublemakers meet in San Francisco, find love & create a new venture
While she doesn't do much today, Astrid Francesca Walk has a long & happy product roadmap ahead of her. At 21 inches & 8 lbs she's no lean startup! How to describe her feature set? Some say "airbnb for diapers," but we just call her "our daughter" and think she'll ...

PathSource

The End-To-End Mobile Career & Job Exploration Solution
PathSource is where young adults discover their future. We've raced to become the #1 career app on the Apple App Store just a few months after launch. Apple has recognized PathSource as one of the most popular apps in its career and professional section. Our ...

Blendspace by TES

Adaptive lessons platform powering 10,000 schools
Over 10,000 schools are using Blendspace as the easiest way to create and deliver digital lessons that adapt to students needs. Teachers use Blendspace's intuitive drag-and-drop interface and content partnerships to build lessons in 5 minutes. With its built-in ...

Make School

The college replacement for founders and developers
Make School is building a university replacement for computer science. The program spans 2 years, divided by a 6 month internship at a tech startup. Students learn the CS theory covered by traditional universities paired with the practical experience of building ...

CloudAcademy

Learn Cloud Computing. Now.
CloudAcademy.com is a platform to learn cloud computing and test your skills. In the past three years there has been a significant movement towards Cloud based IT services, platforms and deployment strategies. This has caused disruption in the IT sector resulting ...

Dev Bootcamp

19 week training program for software engineers

SchoolMint

Mobile Parent-School Admissions and Communications Platform.
- SchoolMint is an enrollment and communications platform for K-12 public, private and charter Schools enabling all the manual admissions and enrollment processes as well as communications with parents on mobile/online - saving them tens of thousands of dollars. - ...

UClass

Where Over 5,000 Schools Manage Their Curriculum
UClass is a district content management solution that helps administrators and teachers measure the efficacy of their curriculum. It gives teachers and administrators a district-wide resource exchange, access to millions of resources vetted for Common Core alignment, ...

Keepy

The one safe place to save and share kids' artwork, schoolwork and mementos
Keepy is an easy-to-use, multi generational freemium app that helps you curate all of your family’s photos, videos, artwork, schoolwork, mementos and more in one safe place … on all of the devices you use. It helps parents stay organized, saves their family’s memories, ...

RivalMe

Social-Mobile Trivia, Powered by the Social Graph
RivalMe is the world's leader in trivia solutions. Our cross-platform iOS, Android and Facebook apps let you play trivia against your friends anywhere at any time. Powered by our Einstein Engine, we use DEEP Social Graph integration to make sure you get QUESTIONS ...

Funders And Founders Infographics

Explaining startups and entrepreneurship visually.
We are startup evangelists and information designers. Our mission is to inspire everyone from engineers to moms to do a startup. We do a series of infographics about entrepreneurship and Life 3.O startup show. Our latest project is the upcoming infographic book ...

BrightBytes

Google Analytics for learning
Technology has become an indispensable and essential part of learning. With billions being spent on educational technology, government agencies and local stakeholders are demanding increased accountability & measurement. BrightBytes provides the first SaaS-based ...

Versal

Versal is a new way for anyone to easily create interactive online courses.
Versal is a new way for anyone to easily create interactive online courses and share them with the world, no coding required. Versal’s platform is free and open to anyone with knowledge and the desire to share it. We’re currently in beta, and there’s much more ...

Inkling

Enterprise cloud publishing platform
Inkling enables you to create interactive content and share it securely with customers, employees, or partners, across all devices. Learn how.

Totus Power

https://vimeo.com/112650145
Totus Power sells battery-based power packs to schools in the developing world. “Jupiter 6” is a never before done portable, modular & powerful battery based power pack specifically designed to power classroom equipment in the developing world. Reusing ‘used’ Li-Ion ...

Yogome

Learning Games Platform for Kids
Education is going Mobile and Learning can happen anywhere. We are building a Mobile Learning Games Platform so kids can practice Math, Languages, know about Recycling and the Environment, Nutrition, discover Science, Geography and History in a fun way that they ...

Degreed

Jailbreaking the Degree
Degreed 'jailbreaks the degree' by measuring the world's learning--all of it. Degreed helps students and professionals track their academic-, professional-, and lifelong-learning. Degreed helps organizations track everything their employees know. Some people ...

SnapGuide

The easiest way to make and share great looking guides
Snapguide is a free iOS app and web service for those that want to create and share step-by-step "how to guides." The service provides easy to understand instructions for a wide array of topics including cooking, gardening, crafts, repairs, do-it-yourself projects, ...

Notehall (Acquired by Chegg 6/11)

Document Marketplace for College Students
Update: Notehall Acquired by Chegg in June 2011; Notehall is an interactive learning platform for students to buy and sell class notes, study guides and knowledge in specific subjects. This way the most relevant/real-time information can be learned in the most ...

perkmylife

my educational platform
perkmylife is an educational platform to study, network and build a professional edu profile. We let experts and teachers create their own courses and sell them or publish them for free to the community of users engaged by our motivational algorithms. Sign up ...

instaGrok

instaGrok makes internet research simple: our visual concept maps show how ideas connect.
instaGrok is a research tool that helps people learn. It generates a visual interactive map showing key concepts and relationships, helping the user quickly grasp what's important. instaGrok's semantic algorithms and interactive interface makes research much more ...

MasterClass

Online classes from the world's best
MasterClass was founded on the idea that everyone should have access to genius. MasterClass makes it possible for anyone with an Internet connection to learn from the best through immersive online classes from the world's most esteemed authors, actors, performers, ...

Cambly

On-Demand English Tutoring
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 ...

Guidekick

Immersive 3D guides for major sites and historical attractions
Guidekick is the singular mobile guide for every major city site and attraction addressing a $37B market. Our App provides immersive 3D guides for each location and changes the way people plan, visit, and remember their trips. We are replacing massive static guidebooks, ...

NovoEd

The engaging and effective social learning platform
We are developing cutting-edge technology to solve hard problems in education. NovoEd is a student-centered online learning environment that places collaboration and teamwork at the center of the learning experience through the use of techniques in human-computer ...

ClassOwl

It's the app we wish we had in school
ClassOwl helps teachers make sure students know exactly what they need to do in school. In a simple, easy-to-use app, instructors can organize class deadlines and send homework reminders directly to students on their personal devices. Students and teachers share ...

Couplewise

Saving & Strengthening Couple/Partner Relationships: All relationships Can Be Better!
Pioneering the next stage after dating sites: Whereas Match.com helps millions of couples each year get together; CoupleWise aims to be the app platform of choice to  help those millions & millions more STAY together & thrive together. 90% of 203 couples surveyed/interviewed ...

Beneft

An educational platform that builds relationships between teachers, students, and brands.
Beneft builds relationships between teachers, students, and brands. Through our learning content mangement system, companies post real world design problems, and students offer solutions to these problems as part of their curriculum. Our LCMS, unlike existing ...

Answer Underground

Connecting students w/ academic groups for Q&A
An education app connecting students and teachers with academic groups for Q&A.

BraveNewTalent

Enterprise Knowledge Sharing Communities
BraveNewTalent is an enterprise platform for knowledge sharing. BraveNewTalent powered communities enable organizations to use curated knowledge content to engage and develop their stakeholder audiences. The company is creating a ‘Knowledge Graph’ by tracking ...

AfterCollege

Career networking for college students and recent grads
AfterCollege is the largest career network for students & recent grads. Our mission is to help college students and recent grads find the right jobs and internships by connecting them with employers. We’re using machine learning and data analytics to help students ...

TareasPlus

Video course marketplace in spanish
Tareasplus is an educational marketplace for video courses created by the best teachers in the world, built around a knowledge tree designed to guide students through the exact curriculum they need to achieve whatever they desire

Curriculet

Dynamic, interactive ereading platform for schools
Curriculet gives teachers exactly what they need: an amazing tool, deeper student engagement, incredibly useful data, and TIME! Curriculet is a digital reading platform that allows teachers to place questions, quizzes and rich media throughout the texts they teach ...

Chesscademy

An adaptive learning tool to improve your chess
Chesscademy makes learning chess fun and easy. With a wide range of instructive courses and thousands of tactical puzzles, users of all levels can learn from a personalized curriculum that's tailored to their strengths and weaknesses. Chesscademy has a growing ...

Sureify

Life Insurance made easy
10 million consumers buy life insurance every year, yet most (including us) started and finished the buying process with little education on potential options and left wondering if they made the right decision. Sureify is the only unbiased, third party source ...

App Academy

Dev training school
App Academy is a 3 month immersive web development course taught in San Francisco and New York. We're closing in on training 1,000 students across both locations and bootstrapped and profitable since 2013. Our tuition model is game-changing. Students only pay ...

EduCrate

The web's best educational videos, curated by teachers for teachers.
EduCrate (www.educrate.co) is new media curation tool for teachers to create, share, and explore collections ("crates") of educational videos from multiple sources including YouTube, Vimeo, the Internet Archive and more.

SyncPad

Building tools to improve the way people collaborate and communicate remotely in real-time
Fifth Layer, a startup focused on improving the way companies and individuals collaborate and communicate remotely in real-time. Our first product, SyncPad (http://syncpadapp.com) allows people to share and collaborate in real-time with drawings, images and PDF ...

Quizlet

Great learning tools for every student
Quizlet makes digital study tools that empower students to take control of their own learning. Quizlet has massive scale -- our website reaches more than 30 million uniques a month. Our apps are always among the top five in the free education sections of the iOS ...

Knowledgestreem

Mapping human knowledge spaces.
We're working on something new at the moment. We'll have more to announce soon.

StudyBlue

The world's largest crowd-sourced learning app.
StudyBlue is the leading mobile learning platform designed to help students learn the stuff their teachers teach – improving outcomes in and out of the classroom. StudyBlue provides a Digital Backpack for students to store, study, share, compare and ultimately ...

LearningJar

Professional Learning Network
LearningJar helps you stay up-to-date on skills for the evolving professional lives. Our proprietary algorithm surfaces the hottest skills to learn, crowd sources the best resources and allows people to prove mastery of skills. At the end, you gain credibility ...

TRAIL

Your First Stop on the Internet
TRAIL is an online education company dedicated to bringing people their first experience with the Internet. We partner with libraries, schools, social services offices, workforce development centers and other trusted public institutions to offer our courses and ...

AdmitSee

College advice marketplace
ABOUT AdmitSee is a social networking site and marketplace focused on college admissions and career readiness. We’re known for our database of past application files and resumes. On admitsee.com, applicants browse anonymous, basic profiles for free; they pay to ...

Articulate

Marketshare leader for enterprise e-learning software
Articulate develops e-learning software, content, and community that’s changing the way the world learns. The company’s 40,000+ customers worldwide include 92 percent of Fortune 100 companies and 19 of the 20 top-ranked U.S. universities. By focusing on customers, ...

Plastiq

Make payments for tuition, cars, and more on credit card
We have a simple idea – make payments easier for people by letting them use the credit cards they prefer, to pay for things they want, when they want to.

Citizen Spaces

The first coworking & colearning space
We are building a network of spaces to help people work and learn better. Our new location is a prototype collocated inside a boutique hotel in the financial district of San Francisco. Amenities include business concierge, laundry, gym, kitchen, catering services, ...

Zeal

Data-driven teaching and learning
Zeal tells a teacher what their students know with a large bank of assessment items and simple tools to understand the data.  Zeal is the beginning of a shift to personalized learning.  We are free to teachers and offer tutoring to parents.

Altius Education

BetterUp

Executive coaching for everyone
BetterUP is the first mobile platform that provides personalized coaching designed by scientists to boost your confidence and performance at work. We like to think of it as “executive coaching for everyone.” The app provides 1-on-1 coaching and bite-sized learning ...

OneRoom

Online synchronous video learning
OneRoom is revolutionizing online learning by scaling live discussion, empowering educators to teach online without sacrificing connection and warmth. We’re building the first solution to allow great teaching to transcend location - a live synchronous video classroom ...