Joanne S. Weiss

Jackson National Life Insurance Co. of New York provides insurance services. It also provides asset management and retail brokerage services. The company is located in Purchase, NY.

Revolution Foods, Inc. offers healthy meals to both schools and stores. Its meals and snacks contain whole grains and fresh fruits and vegetables. The company was founded by Jonathan Klein, Kirsten Saenz Tobey and Kristin Groos Richmand in 2006 and is headquartered in Oakland, CA.

Piczo, Inc. provides online social networking services. It enables its members to share their life stories with friends by designing their sites with multiple pages featuring photos, graphics, videos, music, comment boards, and games. The company was founded by Jim Conning in 2003 and is headquartered in Valencia, CA.

DreamBox Learning, Inc. develops online learning products. It offers a groundbreaking combination of intelligent adaptive learning, rigorous elementary mathematics curriculum, and motivating learning environment. The firm's adaptive learning platform enables classroom teachers, schools, and districts to differentiate instruction for a range of learners by engaging students in independent instruction and practice. It has offices in North Carolina and Washington. The company was founded by Benjamin W. Slivka and Lou Gray in February 2006 and is headquartered in Bellevue, WA.

TransCella, Inc. provides information technology services. It offers automatic software accelerator technology with the ability to exploit new hardware. The company was founded by Robert S. Dreyer in 2008 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

BetterLesson, Inc. engages in the provision of free organizational tool and curriculum services. It offers distance learning, instructional coaching, design workshops, Learning Series, and Learning Walks services. The company was founded by Alex Grodd, Jonathan Hendler and Erin Osborn in 2008 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

PresenceLearning, Inc. is a holding company, which engages in the provision of live online speech and occupational therapy services. It offers school districts with web-based access to a nationwide network of qualified speech language pathologists, counselors and occupational therapists via live video conferencing combined with practices and progress reporting. The company was founded by Jack Lynch and Clay Whitehead in 2009 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

MasteryConnect, Inc. develops educational cloud-based software platform for teachers. It offers mastery tracker, common assessment, resource pins, learning community, and grading tools. The company was founded by Trenton Goble, Michael A. Hewitt, and Douglas Weber in 2009 and is headquartered in Salt Lake City, UT.

Degreed, Inc. operates a learning platform for college students, professionals and organizations. It offers course-by-course scores and validation of education from accredited and non-accredited sources. The firm provides scores that quantifies a person?s lifelong education by credit hours and mastery levels. The company was founded by David A. Wiley, Eric Sharp and David Blake and in 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Gather Technologies, Inc. develops event management software for restaurants and venues. It offers Gather, a cloud based platform to manage, track and store event related information. The company was founded by Nicholas Miller, Alex Lassiter and Tom Merrihew in 2012 and is headquartered in Atlanta, GA.

McKinsey & Co., Inc. provides management consulting services. It specializes in design, marketing and sales, analytics, operations, transformation and restructuring, risk, strategy and corporate finance, and sustainability and resource productivity. The company was founded by James O. McKinsey in 1926 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Harvard University engages in the provision of teaching and research. It has twelve degree-granting Schools in addition to the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, offering a global education. The university was founded in 1636 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Medical Solutions LLC engages in provision of employment placement services for the healthcare industry. It specializes in placing nurses, medical technicians, and occupational therapists in temporary travel assignments. It assists nurses and other allied health professionals in finding contract positions in the healthcare industry. The company was founded by Scott Anderson and Dale Williams in 1997 and is headquartered in Omaha, NE.

Catamount Ventures Management LLC (Catamount Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2000 by Jed Smith. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

NewSchools Venture Fund provides funds to other non-profit organization that improves public education. It provides education through powerful ideas and passionate entrepreneurs so that all children especially those in underserved communities have the opportunity to succeed. It supports education entrepreneurs, a special breed of innovators who create new nonprofit and for-profit organizations that redefine the sense of what is possible in public education. The company was founded by Brook H. Byers, Kim Smith and Louis John Doerr in and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

The Association of Governing Boards of Universities & Colleges is an organization that aims to empower higher education boards to govern with confidence. The AGB is based in Washington. The American company provides resources that give important background for higher education boards. The AGB Principles of Trusteeship outline attitudes and actions board members should embody to become highly effective board members. The organization emphasizes the importance of protecting academic freedom and freedom of speech, which are core values in higher education. The business model of higher education is also discussed, as colleges and universities traditionally charged less than the full cost of educating students because they made up the difference through government support and other revenue streams. Henry Stoever has been the CEO of the non-profit company since 2019.

America's Choice, Inc. provides solutions to the problems educators face in the era of accountability. Its services include instructional systems and coaching programs. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Washington, DC.

The Arizona Community Foundation, Inc. operates as a non profit organization that provides services to the community. It offers charitable giving, philanthropy, donor advised funds, estate planning, charitable bequests, legacy giving, and scholarship services. The company was founded in 1978 and is headquartered in Phoenix, AZ.

Remind101, Inc. provides mobile application that offers teachers to instantly text students and parents. It helps students, teachers, and school leaders to connect at place. The company was founded by Brett Kopf and David Kopf in 2011 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Newsela, Inc. publishes news articles online. Its common core-aligned quizzes attached to articles give educators and parents insight to student's reading strengths and weaknesses. The company was founded by Matthew Gross and Dan Cogan-Drew in 2013 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

EdSurge, Inc. operates website for educators, entrepreneurs and investors involved in education technology. The company was founded by Elizabeth Corcoranin, Nick Punt, Bowman Matt and Agustin Vilaseca in 2011 and is headquartered in Burlingame, CA.

Preply, Inc. provides online english tutorial services. It offers other foreign languages such as German, French, Spanish, Italian, and Russian. The company was founded by Kyrylo Bigay, Sergey Lukyanov and Dmytro Voloshyn on August 2, 2012 and is headquartered in Brookline, MA.

Part of Wells Fargo & Co., Wells Fargo Securities, Inc. is a brokerage firm. The company is based in San Francisco, CA.

Accelerate Learning, Inc. provides educational services. It offers STEMscopes, a digital science solution for PreK through 12th grade students offering three core curriculum programs: STEMscopes K-12, STEMscopes NGSS, and STEMscopes Early Explorer. The company was founded by Jarrett Reid Whitaker in 2013 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Kiddom, Inc. develops education technology platform, which enables to plan, assess and analyze personalized learning for teachers and learners. It specializes in education technology, personalized learning, education management, blended learning, standards-based grading and data-informed instruction. The company was founded by Ahsan Rizvi in 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Morressier GmbH develops software that collects and manages presentations and posters for scientific events. The company was founded by Sami Benchekroun and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.

Bakpax, Inc. engages in the provision of educational services. The company was founded by Jose Ferreira and Will Fleiss and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Hazel Health, Inc. operates as a software company, which provides healthcare services for students in school. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Excellence & Intelligence Co., Ltd. is an online programming learning platform. The company is based in Zhongshan, China. The Chinese company was founded in 2017 by Zhi Xu and Jian Bin Mo.

Laerdal Million Lives Fund (Laerdal Million Lives) is a venture capital firm affiliated with the Laerdal Family, founded in 2019. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Real Collaborative, Inc. provides women’s mental healthcare services. The company is headquartered in New York, NY.

ULesson Inc. develops education applications. The CEO of the Nigerian company is Simdul Shagaya.

Rebel Girls, Inc. operates as a cultural media engine. The company was founded by Elena Favilli and is headquartered in Cloverdale, CA.

Labster Group ApS is a Danish company that develops fully interactive virtual training simulations to enhance traditional learning outcomes by stimulating students' natural curiosity and reinforcing the connection between science and the real world. Labster is based in Copenhagen, Denmark, and has subsidiaries in Denmark and Canada. The simulations can be used in a variety of different ways, from a full lab replacement to a supplemental learning activity. The company collaborates with over 1,000 institutions around the world, including ETH in, MIT, and Imperial College, and has over 6 million students in high schools and universities in 100-plus countries who have used Labster to perform realistic experiments, learn key science concepts, and practice their skills in a risk-free learning environment. The company was founded in 2017, and Michael Bodekær Jensen has been the CEO of the company since 2017.

Part of Owl Ventures LLC, Owl Ventures Partnership Holdings III LLC operates as a venture capital firm. The company is based in Menlo Park, CA.

Kyron Learning PBC is a startup that was founded with the aim of providing equitable access to great instructors for all learners. The American company provides a platform that uses "interactive video" to deliver learning content, with AI that guides the conversation between the instructor and learner. Kyron is headquartered in the US, with offices in two other locations. The team is comprised of prominent educators and veteran leaders from Google and Amazon. The company believes that great education starts with great teachers and that students succeed most when they have access to high-quality, one-on-one feedback. Kyron Learning is not just another video lesson platform, as it uses conversational AI to provide immediate one-on-one differentiated support. The company was founded by Rajen Sheth, who has been the CEO since incorporation.

Eco.logic Brands, Inc. produces recycled paper laundry detergent bottles. It also designs and manufactures recyclable packaging solutions for consumer applications. The firm offers ready-to-fill bottles to hold pourable liquid or dry products. The company also offers cardboard bottles through stores in the United States, Canada and the Caribbean. Eco.logic Brands was founded by Julie Corbett on May 2008 and is headquartered in Oakland, CA.

Noodle Partners, Inc. helps students make better decisions about learning. It operates an Internet portal for education and search index website. The company was founded by John S. Katzman and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Owl Ventures LLC (Owl Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2014 by Tory Patterson and Jed Smith. The firm headquartered in San Francisco.