Venture Directory

Amelia

Amelia is building a dedicated and holistic DEI solution to help companies attract and retain top women talent.

Apprentx

Apprentx's B12 application offers customized training and reinforcement programs designed to avoid the forgetting curve and get learners to apply their new knowledge. B12 leverages cognitive science, AI and advanced analytics to enhance memorization and develop skills while providing administrators with a view into employees’ level of confidence and performance.

Augmentr

We are augmenting the future of your remote, hybrid, and distributed work starting with communication. We’ve built a B2B communication tool to have highly contextual and collaborative discussions through screen and video recordings. Our vision is to re-design the entire work experience in a post-pandemic world, starting with how we communicate. With the ability to save questions and discussions, we can derive insights to improve employee training, onboarding programs, roadmap planning, and the performance review process. We are just getting started. We plan to operate with a B2B SaaS model with tiered pricing based on additional feature sets. Our target user is anyone who in a remote, hybrid, or distributed environment who frequently has highly-contextual and collaborative discussions. We'll be testing with 3 potential beachhead markets in North America: consulting engineers, tech workers, and university students in STEM fields. Worldwide, knowledge workers and higher-education students make up 1.3 billion people.

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Next 36, 2022

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Aview International

Aview is an international multimedia language translation company designed to help content creators and entertainers expand their fan base through major social media platforms. Aview focuses on content creators who have developed a loyal fan base in their local market and seeking international expansion. Aview manages posts and generates an additional revenue stream through internationally branded social media accounts. Aview offers their customers two primary services: video dubbing and video translations.

Betterbooks

Betterbooks helps you gamify your reading habit, improve your comprehension, and find the best books.

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Next 36, 2019

Chalk.com

Chalk is a K-12 education software company that utilizes data to help schools. Chalk connects the curriculum, instruction, and assessment process and provides real-time insights for educators to improve academics. From small, independent schools to large, national school networks, Chalk is behind the academic strategies influencing millions of students.

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Compass

Compass is a B2B SaaS company tackling the mental health crisis, starting with higher education. The platform benefits both students and administration at an institution. Compass provides anonymous data insights to institutions to optimize resource allocation, and for students they receive a personalized assessment and are recommended resources based on their unique needs, wants and identity through our assessment tool. With the massive opportunity to scale beyond institutions, we are building a universal wellness ecosystem by harmonizing human and tech enabled treatment to build predictive models so that we can prevent acute, severe and chronic mental health illnesses.

Emaww

Emaww provides touchscreen emotion analytics for apps and websites. Their machine learning algorithms sense users emotions and empower them and researchers with emotional insight.

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FLIK

FLIK is a community hub where young, ambitious women can discover phenomenal females working towards social impact and explore opportunities to help support their own initiatives and ideas.

FutureFit

FutureFit Ai is the ‘GPS’ for work and education pathways – re-imagining the future of workforce transformation, career guidance, skilling, and layoffs for the age of AI.

Kaizena

Kaizena is creating the platform of choice for feedback on digital content, allowing educators to track and identify student abilities beyond final grades and test scores.

Kira Talent

Kira Talent is the world’s only holistic admissions solution designed for higher education. Kira transforms the admissions process by combining on-demand, timed video and timed written assessments with existing admissions requirements. Kira works with over 300 programs worldwide to build applicant-first assessments that identify and select their best-fit students.

Learnify

Learnify is an ed-tech company on a mission to create tailored learning experiences that recreate how students learn and interact in the classroom, thereby improving their performance, organization, and engagement with their course curriculum and peers. By cross-examining a student's course materials with their current comprehension and personal preferences, we use machine learning and natural language processing to create dynamic study content, such as flashcards, practice quizzes, note summaries, and other productivity- and interactive tools to guide a student towards academic mastery. After months of testing and collecting feedback through a private beta, we are gearing up for our public launch in time for the upcoming school year in September. We seek to grow by offering a three-tiered freemium model, selling direct to students - until we have enough traction - at which point we will gradually transition over to a B2B model, partnering with universities, high schools, and other academics institutions.

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Next 36, 2022

MakerKids

MakerKids runs award-winning camps, programs and parties for kids on coding, robotics and Minecraft. They inspire kids to build confidence, social skills, resilience and a positive relationship with technology – and to see their futures as inventors, entrepreneurs, and innovators.

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Paladin AI

Paladin AI creates data-driven tools for optimizing training delivery at aviation centres. They work with flight simulator OEMs, airlines, and training centres to help accelerate training, while reducing costs.

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Penyo Pal

Penyo Pal creates amazing learning experiences by carefully adapting the latest advancements in pedagogy, cognitive science, and user-experience design. Their first series of language learning apps won multiple awards, a 5-star rating and resulted in over 10,000,000 hours of learning from students around the world.

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Next 36, 2012

Robot Playtime

Robot Playtime builds products that empower younger generation to create, and learn computer science and robotics through play. Pixel, their platform, makes learning the basics of programming, logic and robot building fun and easy.

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Next 36, 2017

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Roshi

Roshi is an online tool that lets language educators create lesson material with a single click. Using AI to generate readings, exercises, or assessments, it does instantly what normally takes them hours. Roshi is being used by hundreds of people in schools and government organizations, and we’re growing quickly on our mission to make language education easier and more accessible to people around the world.

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Sesame.io

Sesame helps teachers and students tell the stories that report cards can't.

The Knowledge Society

The Knowledge Society (TKS) is a 10-month accelerator program for curious and ambitious teens. Through project-based learning and real-world skill building, TKS trains young people to solve the world's biggest problems using emerging technologies.

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