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Guidance Gurus - education college recruiting technology k 12 education

Guidance Gurus

Web-based platform that connects prospective students to colleges via live, virtual events
Guidance Gurus is a web-based platform that connects students, parents, and guidance counselors to colleges via live, virtual events. Designed to educate users on the college admissions and financial aid processes, the platform also resolves many of the logistical ...

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Bewyz

Angieslist for the tutoring industry
Bewyz allows clients to find tutors with whom they have friends in common. Our system simulates the word of mouth process of finding a tutor. Clients do not have to hire strangers anymore.

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Project Pals

Project Pals is a web solution. Students create projects in collaboration with others.
We focus on “How to solve the problem.” Project Pals is the premier student-directed, knowledge-building environment for the modern classroom project. Project Pals is transforming the traditional research paper from a process of searching information for ...

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Formative

Real-Time Formative Assessment Platform
Formative (goformative.com) is the platform for real-time formative assessments. We allow teachers to see student work as it happens and intervene immediately, when it matters most. Studies show that speeding up the feedback cycle between teachers and students ...

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Team(You), Inc.

The digital tool that increases school attendance.
Team(You) is the digital tool that increases school attendance. We can add $48B back to school coffers.

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Math Game Time

Educational games for kids
Math Game Time creates educational websites and apps for kids, parents and teachers. Math Game Time's websites include MathGameTime.com and WordGameTime.com. These sites feature free homework help, educational games, worksheets and videos. The company has also ...

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Chess America Project

Chess information Age Cultural Evolution
A cultural algorithm for evolving the best chess programs for encouraging and motivating students to become good players

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Edlio

Content Management System for K-12 Schools
Edlio CMS allows schools and school districts to run their own websites without any technical knowledge. Using Edlio, schools and districts increase parental engagement. It is as easy as Gmail.

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SmartestK12

Real-Time Classroom Analytics
SmartestK12 allows teachers to better understand each student's academic needs in the classroom using a new form of synchronous classwork, homework or assessment. Teachers either build, upload or share Smarter Assignments which provide analytics on student growth ...

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Ari

High-Quality Childare Center
To build a high quality child-care center to provide each child with the opportunity to discover, dream, experiment, ask questions, problem solve, create, explore, care for friends, role play, build, get messy, run, climb, sing, dance, develop language and enjoy ...

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SynapZap

Edu-gaming program for 21st century skills!
Synapzap is launching an edu-gaming program (tablet based) called 'EmotoWorld' focused on developing 21st century skills in the K-5 market; incorporating the latest principles in cognitive development, neuroscience, and game-based learning; having worked with world ...

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Omni Nano

Producing educational material for nanotechnology courses
Omni Nano develops and produces high-quality, innovative, and interactive Nanotechnology educational materials for high school students and college undergraduates — both in-classroom and online — at an affordable price. Omni Nano believes that by providing low-cost, ...

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afterschool.me

Marketplace for kids activities.
Afterschool.me inspires kids beyond the classroom in sports, arts and technology. When the school day ends, we want parents to visit Afterschool.me so a kid’s dream can become reality.

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Glean

Education on demand
Hundreds of amazing teachers post educational videos online every day. At Glean, we’ve structured and organized these videos, tagged them by educational standard, and wrapped them in interactive tools (like Q&A and practice exercises). We’ve also built technology ...

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Global Multimedia Systems

To create free & self-sustaining education infrastructurend for poverty students
Using application software, which includes SMS and/or emails as basic communication tools, local stores can upload ad info such as product name, description, price or price ranges, image, and location. Immediately after uploading, teachers, parents, and students ...

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HugeIQ

Rewards-based online math learning
HugeIQ is a fun, incentive based online math learning program for students grades 1 through 6. We believe that hard work needs to be rewarded, which is why we stock our gift store with the latest and hottest toys and games. Students earn points by doing daily math ...

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SchoolBinder

iPad application for classroom learning - replaces the traditional notebook school binder
iPad application for classroom learning - replaces the traditional notebook school binder

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Rebilder / RebilderU

Mentorships & Accelerated Learning
Rebilder is comprised of two separate platforms: ReBilderU.com is an accelerated learning platform that allows anyone to master the foundations of virtually any subject or skill in a matter of hours (91%+ reduced formal learning/study duration). Rebilder.com ...

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Edlio

SAAS CMS for K-12 Schools
Edlio powers over 2200 school and district websites in the US. Edlio lets users of all abilities create and publish their own content to the school website. A teachers times is precious so we took the guessing out of how to post to the web!

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Zoopendous!

educational enrichment made fun for kids of all ages

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Laernn

Education book, videos and learning software.
Laernn is a branded K-12 education media company that redefines literacy and integrates learning software with instructional online video and offline book resources. The first product was a book, Get Your Child to the Top, which redefines literacy to include the ...

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Powerful You - Teen Self Esteem Program

anthony robbins for teenagers
Full day workshops with teens, parents and teachers in high schools around North America to help teens deal with self esteem issues and parents to learn how to best help their teens. You can get schooling for any job except the toughest one, being a parent. We ...

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CrowdSchool

A Udemy for blended, project based lessons in schools
CrowdSchool is creating a web platform for teachers to create, discover, and use project based lessons in K12 classrooms, supported by technology. Our platform begins by empowering any teacher to intuitively create a project based lesson in minutes, use it ...

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Ignite Teaching

Collaborative digital projects with powerful student assessment tools.
Collaborative Learning has established itself as an integral part of various educational standards. To improve learning, teachers need to cultivate digital collaboration in the classroom. Current apps like Powerpoint, Keynote, and Google Slides are not classroom-friendly ...

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Parent Planet

Integrated Scheduling and Communication App for Parents
EdTech Startup in Stealth mode.

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EduTown

Linkedin for K-12 schools
Edutown is an online social networking site and recruiting platform for professionals in K-12 schools. Teachers and other K-12 professionals can create recruiting-oriented profiles, have access to professional development resources, join groups with like-minded ...

Achievement Matters - education k 12 education tutoring

Achievement Matters

Customized approach to tutoring in a 1-on-1 setting
Educational services (tutoring, intervention, and supplemental educational services for grades K-12)

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Digital Print Brands

Licensing Shutterfly like technology to Fundraising Companies
Digital Print Brands uses its technology and manufacturing network to create custom branded websites to third party companies. We specialize in the school fundraising market and will be in over 5000 schools this fall. Our websites offer personalized goods, including ...

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Beyond451

Tablet-based online educational platform
Beyond451's online platform helps teachers & K-8 students master state educational content standards using assessments, pre-approved 3rd party educational apps, & analytics. Our platform: • Brings order to the large number of unorganized, ...

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Finny

A New Standard for Parental Engagement
Is your child spending too much time on mobile devices? Finny is the first ever parental engagement app that leverages unproductive device usage as a method to trigger learning moments. Unlike all other parental control apps, Finny teaches your children how to ...

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YummyYummyTummy

We make video games that level players up.
Our vision is to make video games that level players up! Introducing Nommons: Math Universe, a space voyage that makes learning math a blast. Nommons: Math Universe is coming to iPhone and iPad soon. Find out more at nommons.com.

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ArborBridge

Live, one-on-one, online tutoring: America's finest SAT/ACT prep, available anywhere
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Dimension 5 Media - mobile digital media publishing k 12 education

Dimension 5 Media

Augmented Reality Books & Products
D5M is creating interactive Augmented Reality books and products. When viewed through a smart phone, tablet or web cam, an image from from one of our products will produce a holographic style full motion scene that will stretch your imagination, and encourage a ...

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LitRemix

Plugging in Literature
LitRemix is a digital app that empowers students to access and enjoy literature by making music and art a central part of the English Language Arts and English literature classes. It revolutionizes the way we teach by making books approachable. It connects students ...

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GoGuardian

Device Management for Schools
Right now GoGuardian is very focused on Chromebooks in education. Over 800 school districts (with 800,000+) Chromebooks use GoGuardian to determine what students are doing on Chromebooks, control inappropriate content, and recover them if they get stolen. We launched ...

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ParIntelligence

Involving Parents In Education
ParIntelligence is an interactive social platform that engages, trains, and develops parents on important topics within a school district.

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Siembra

Academic Counseling Applications for the Latino Market
Siembra (from Spanish, meaning “to plant and to harvest”) is an organization whose mission is to build Latino participation in technical professions. While the western region is experiencing a shortage of college graduates with technical skills, Latino youth are ...

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Kite

A scanform solution infused with analytics, adaptive learning, and content curation.
Kite is an analytics and progress tracking solution for educators. Our application is designed to inexpensively capture a wide set of student response data without the use of iPads or laptops in the classroom. Teachers can create (or purchase) assignments to print ...

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