Research-backed tools, curricula, and digital platforms designed to improve learning outcomes.

Archer Career is a career readiness EdTech platform that uses behavioral science and micro-learning modules to help graduate students, postdocs, and early-career professionals improve job search outcomes and reduce underemployment. It serves university career offices and research institutions with B2B solutions, with clients including Johns Hopkins, Harvard Medical School, Virginia Tech, and DePaul University.
- Education / Academia
- Software
- AI Software
- Future of Work
- Human Resources
- Platform
- 2023 ANVC

Aula Digital is an adaptive learning platform focused on mathematics that helps Latin American high school students prepare for standardized college admissions tests. The platform is sold as a B2B SaaS tool to schools, providing real-time teacher monitoring dashboards and personalized content.
- Education / Academia
- Software
- AI Software
- AI & Machine Learning
- Platform
- 2019 NVC
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Developer of an online learning platform designed to simplify and optimize learning experiences and outcomes. The company's platform offers a comprehensive preparatory course bundle with multiple practice questions, instructional videos on key topics, interactive flashcards, fun games, and full-length practice exams, enabling corporations, schools, and training companies to improve learner engagement and retention and reduce dropout rates.
- Education / Academia
- Software
- Platform
- Future of Work
- 2010 NVC

- 2020 ANVC
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- Education / Academia
- Software
- Platform
- Future of Work
- Automation
- 2025 CNVC
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- Education / Academia
- AI Software
- AI & Machine Learning
- Software
- Consumer
- Direct-to-Consumer
- Mental Health
- 2025 CNVC
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Correlate AI is an AI agent that fully automates the job application process — sourcing relevant openings, customizing resumes per role, and auto-filling and submitting applications across major ATS platforms like Workday, Greenhouse, Lever, and LinkedIn. It targets individual job seekers (especially international students needing H-1B sponsorship filtering) and educational institutions.
- Education / Academia
- AI & Machine Learning
- AI Software
- Automation
- Human Resources
- Software
- Future of Work
- Consumer
- Platform
- 2025 NVC
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DanceFloor is an AI-driven platform that teaches short-form dances to beginners using real-time pose recognition and personalized feedback, with social features for sharing dance videos.
- Education / Academia
- AI & Machine Learning
- AI Software
- Consumer
- Platform
- Software
- 2024 Accelerator Program
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Driving Forward is a non-profit that helps under-resourced undergraduates prepare for a rewarding career offering internships focused on professional development and mentorship.
- Education / Academia
- Human Resources
- Future of Work
- Marketplace
- 2021 GNVC
- 2021 GNVC
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Operator of an education platform intended to provide online language learning services. The company's portal gives language education for a child with the dunno method, which is proven to develop language skills, and allows individuals to claim their identities, enabling children to articulate their needs, activate their potential to make a change and accentuate their leadership.
- Education / Academia
- Software
- Consumer
- Platform
- 2019 ANVC

Himalaya Project is a nonprofit organization founded in 2011, dedicated to providing academic scholarships for students of Tibetan medicine (Sowa Rigpa) in Nepal and India. It funds tuition, room, board, books, and even post-graduation salaries for practitioners who return to serve their home villages. Founders were Mark Sobralske and Chime Lama.
- Education / Academia
- 2015 CNVC
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immersionED builds immersive historical learning video game modules that not only increase engagement with historical content, but also provide students with active learning experiences ideal for the development of key transferable skills such as creative problem solving and critical thinking! If you’d like to learn more, you can visit us at immersionED.org.
- Education / Academia
- AI & Machine Learning
- AI Software
- Automation
- Future of Work
- Platform
- Software
- 2022 Launch Accelerator
InsightEd builds tools for high schools to measure and support student mental health. Its app, Kowala, provides a fun, evidence-backed platform for teens to feel seen and heard, while giving schools real-time data on student wellbeing.
- Education / Academia
- Mental Health
- Digital Health
- Software
- 2024 Accelerator Program
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KindEd provides a non-digital social media and AI literacy curriculum for schools, designed to develop student agency and healthy digital habits. The program includes professional development for educators, well-being analytics, and family resources.
- Education / Academia
- Mental Health
- Future of Work
- Software
- 2024 Accelerator Program

KinderMate is a mobile app that engages children in AI-powered conversations with "Milo Frog," a GPT-based child-friendly companion that fosters cognitive, linguistic, and social-emotional development. The app includes curated video content, parental controls, and activity logging, and is COPPA-compliant and ad-free.
- Education / Academia
- AI & Machine Learning
- AI Software
- Consumer
- Digital Health
- Software
- Mental Health
- 2017 GNVC
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Provider of financial education and peer mentorship services intended to increase college graduation rates and reduce student loan debt. The company's services focus on customized curricular and college volunteers to mentor teens and provide financial coaching regarding education loans, enabling students to take financial decisions and also plan their careers.
- Education / Academia
- Consumer
- Digital Health
- Mental Health
- Future of Work
- Marketplace
- Platform
- Software
- 2012 SNVC

Owler AI is a web platform that uses machine learning to compare student writing submissions against an educator's grading rubric, providing targeted feedback that helps teachers review work faster and helps students improve.
- Education / Academia
- AI & Machine Learning
- AI Software
- Software
- Automation
- 2024 NVC
- 2023 PF3

Operator of an educational platform intended to prepare students for the scholastic aptitude test and American college testing exams. The company's platform is based on content, strategies, and practice questions, enabling students to get digital handbooks and lesson-planning suggestions to crack exams.
- Education / Academia
- Consumer
- Direct-to-Consumer
- Software
- Platform
- Marketplace
- 2019 Accelerator Program


Puzzicle uses agentic voice and video AI to deliver immersive roleplay-based training for high-stakes conversations (layoffs, performance reviews, etc.) and converts educational videos into interactive, gamified learning experiences.
- Education / Academia
- AI & Machine Learning
- AI Software
- Automation
- Future of Work
- Human Resources
- Platform
- Software
- 2023 ANVC
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Developer of a digital library intended to empower families from all economic and cultural backgrounds to engage very young children in joyful reading and conversations that build on their natural curiosity and validate their perceptions. The company's platform comprises a beautifully illustrated digital libraries for children, 6 months to 4 years, to foster school readiness and close achievement and opportunity gaps by putting a critical mass of content-rich literature into the hands of families in their homes, coaching caregivers in how to develop young children's capacity for learning through the tried-and-true method of reading with them and responding to their ideas, all built in a mobile application, enabling parents to avail proper guidance for their wards to lay a strong foundation for reading & love of learning.
- Education / Academia
- Software
- Consumer
- Direct-to-Consumer
- Digital Health
- Platform
- 2016 I-Corps Spring
- 2016 SNVC
- Education / Academia
- AI & Machine Learning
- AI Software
- Software
- Platform
- Future of Work
- Automation
- 2025 Accelerator Program

SpeakFluent is “The Grammarly for spoken English”, a SaaS company led by non-native English speakers. Our mission is to increase non-native English speaking college students’ confidence in their verbal communication skills. Our app allows users to record themselves and receive real-time AI-generated feedback on their speech cadence, pronunciation and more.
- Education / Academia
- AI & Machine Learning
- AI Software
- Software
- Consumer
- Direct-to-Consumer
- 2024 GNVC
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Developer of a public speaking application designed to create a personalized training program in speech-making. The company's application improves speaking skills, with the help of speech analytics and personalized feedback driven by artificial intelligence, enabling users to do business communication and grow corporate confidence.
- Education / Academia
- AI Software
- AI & Machine Learning
- Software
- Consumer
- Direct-to-Consumer
- 2020 ANVC

StandOut Search is a free database of internships, research opportunities, and summer programs for high school students. Its StandOut Connect program matches approximately 1,000 students annually with internships at startups and innovative companies, providing 1:1 mentorship on resume-building and early-career readiness.
- Education / Academia
- Marketplace
- Human Resources
- Future of Work
- Platform
- 2022 CNVC
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Student Life Skills offers bite-sized, no-prep SEL lessons for parents and teachers, delivered via an online platform covering emotional regulation, resilience, school success, and happiness. The program bridges learning between school and home using a low-duration, high-frequency approach for children in grades K–6.
- Education / Academia
- Software
- Mental Health
- Consumer
- Platform
- 2023 ANVC
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