The LearnLaunch Fund + Accelerator has a track record of investing in diverse change-makers who build innovative products to improve equity and access in education across K-12, higher education, and workforce upskilling.
Here is some recent news from us and our community!
55 Court Street
Boston, MA 02210
UpBrainery provides immersive career exploration for K-12 students, specializing in Career and Technical Education(CTE). Utilizing AI and machine learning, they create personalized learning paths complete with badges and micro-credentials.
Founded in 2020
Accelerated in 2023
K-12
The Woodlands, Texas
Lingco is an adaptive language learning platform for K-12 and higher education that offers skill assessment, actionable insights, and engaging content. It helps instructors enhance course structure and student proficiency.
Founded in 2018
Accelerated in 2023
K-12
Lansing, Michigan
Kiddie Kredit teaches children about the credit system and financial responsibility through chore completion using in-app tools, laying a strong foundation for credit knowledge.
Founded in 2018
Accelerated in 2023
K-12
Miami, Florida
Ann expedites education publishing’s digital transformation by converting static documents to interactive materials using AI and machine learning.
Founded in 2018
Accelerated in 2023
K-12
Tel Aviv, Israel
Alchemy Vision brings workforce upskilling and training to the complex world of surgical eye care. Its platform contributes to a boost in staff efficiency, practice growth, and patient satisfaction.
Founded in 2021
Accelerated in 2023
Workforce Training
Los Angeles, California
Robo Wunderkind prepares students for 21st-century careers by sparking curiosity for STEAM within students while being incredibly easy to use for teachers. It works out of the box and across the curriculum in different subject areas.
Founded in 2017
Accelerated in 2022
K-12
Austria
Empathetics provides SaaS-based, clinically proven, empathy and interpersonal skills training. The training leads to a tremendous impact on both the healthcare professionals and the patients they serve.
Founded in 2011
Accelerated in 2022
Workforce Training
Boston, Massachusetts
Automation Workz provides personalized tech certification reskilling to prepare front-liners to fill the millions of tech enabled jobs in cyber security and e-vehicle networking. Learners complete training at 3x higher rate than industry average due to proprietary tech-enabled goal-setting methods.
Founded in 2019
Accelerated in 2022
Workforce Training
Detroit, Michigan
CareerDash creates better pathways to client facing careers. CareerDash programs can help you launch a meaningful career affordably through personalized training and support.
Founded in 2021
Accelerated in 2022
Workforce Training
Austin, Texas
Julius is on a mission to address the talent needs of the energy transition by providing inclusive solutions – powered by AI and data – to start and grow green careers.
Founded in 2020
Accelerated in 2022
Workforce Training
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Peerceptiv allows college students to demonstrate knowledge of a subject through peer assessment, while building desirable soft skills such as critical thinking and teamwork.
Solfeg.io makes it easy to practice instruments and understand how music works by playing well-known songs in school and at home.
Immersed Games is harnessing the engaging power of video games to create a next-generation STEM learning modules.
Jobspeaker is a comprehensive career and workforce solution empowering lifelong learning, especially focusing on local community college communities. Helping to deliver better outcomes through an AI skills-based platform.
Thimble helps high schools build STEM programs that teach students advanced engineering, coding, and technology skills, preparing them for the workforce
Jacqueline Robillard
Kristina Tzetzos
Gagandeep Singh
MindPrint uses objective cognitive data to identify student strengths and provide strategies personalized to students’ learning needs in order to to empower teachers to improve academic outcomes for every student.
BOLDLY is a marketplace for qualified professional coaches and a mentor management tool. BOLDLY enables hyper-personalised staff development, impacting performance and wellness for all career stages.
Speak Agent is a classroom instructional (research-based) technology tailored directly to a school’s curriculum which helps students learn the academic language necessary to master key STEM, reading, and other concepts.
InScribe is an intelligent Q&A platform that leverages the power of community and artificial intelligence to connect learners to the answers, resources, and individuals they need to succeed in school and beyond
Founded 2017
Accelerated 2019
Higher Ed
Denver, Colorado
Indigo Education Company empowers learners succeed through self-awareness, especially those discovering career pathways. These assessments are user-friendly and customizable, designed to help individuals of all ages and backgrounds discover their unique personal skills, traits and motivators.
CognaLearn is the creator of InteDashboard, a software platform for physical and online team-based learning classrooms. It helps educators and trainers save time and improve outcomes with real-time student data.
Skillist is a skill-based job application platform that makes it possible for companies to hire the best people based on what they can do, instead of where they come from.
Founded 2017
Accelerated 2019
Workforce Education
Greater Boston Area
Authess is an MIT-originated startup that uniquely leverages technology to measure an individual’s ability to solve complex, real-world problems. The Authess platform supports authoring, delivery, analysis, and reporting of authentic, performance-based assessment.
Founded 2015
Accelerated 2015
Higher Education
Boston, Massachusetts
BlocksCAD creates tools that help students of all ages pursue their love of STEAM. Their signature product, BlocksCAD, is a cloud-based 3D modeling tool that encourages users to learn math, computational thinking and coding concepts through visualization and designing models that can be 3D printed.
Cram Fighter helps students become more successful through digital tools that help with scheduling, time management, and procrastination.
Founded 2012
Accelerated 2016
Higher Education
Boston, Massachusetts
Cue Career consolidates industry association resources for streamlined career exploration. Students access video interviews with early-career professionals and opportunities like internships, apprenticeships, mentorships, and badges offered by associations.
Capti is a platform for evidence-based reading assessments and curricula. Capti now delivers ETS’s advanced diagnostic reading assessments, which is often used to research various types of reading interventions.
CueThink is an innovative peer-to-peer learning application for improving students’ critical thinking skills, math language, product to enhance collaborative mathematical discourse and problem-solving with EF scaffolds.
CourseStorm is a powerful, all-in-one cloud-based class registration and marketing solution for programs offering classes in person or online. It helps educational organizations save time and enroll more students.
Chalk Talk’s CollegeReady is an adaptive ELA & Math curriculum that prepares high school students for standards & State Exams. It minimizes the generosity burnout of educators by mitigating all the prep work that goes into preparing for the class. The course schedule, lesson plans, teaching materials, in-class activities, and homework assignments are all adaptively generated, leading to better learning outcomes in less time.
CareAcademy provides online professional development courses for professional and family care givers by making content more accessible and effective for learners, empowering agencies with training, providing technology that helps streamline operations, and revealing new insight into education’s quantifiable impact on health outcomes
Hihilulu is a Chinese language learning product for children. Designed for early learners, including the children of Chinese expatriates.
Proprep provides video tutorials and study guides customized to the college’s STEM courses. The value proposition of Proprep is centered on the quality of the content as well as the volume of its content library.
Founded 2015
Accelerated 2018
Higher Education
Tel Aviv, Israel
Majorwise is a workforce-focused opportunity network that connects high school students with relevant job placements, internships, and volunteering opportunities.
Founded 2015
Accelerated 2018
K-12, Workforce Edtech
Boston, Massachusetts
Curio provides a space for teachers to discover new ideas, curate them, and collaborate. Curio was founded by an award winning teacher as the CEO and a serial entrepreneur as the CTO.
Founded 2016
Accelerated 2018
Ashley Lamb-Sinclair
Tarik Nally
K-12
Louisville, Kentucky
JustLearn empowers learners and educators, to understand global sustainability through immersive, hands-on STEM and Environmental Science education using living environments and knowledge sharing platforms, such as the PlanetBox.
Orbit-Ed drives positive change within enterprises through AI-powered solutions. Teams are empowered to excel through immersive tools coupled with behavioral assessments that deliver data driven insights.
EduMetrics helps schools prepare their students for long-term success by improving the way they gather, report, and make use of both social and emotional data and helps them to understand their schools and take actions to improve outcomes.
Founded 2011
Accelerated 2016
Acquired 2017
Dan Kindlon
K-12
Boston, Massachusetts
EducationModified is the research-driven way to improve outcomes for students with special needs. It supports schools & districts to go beyond compliance to implement IEPs in the classroom, directly within teachers’ workflow.
uConnect’s virtual career center combines career content management and modern student communication to improve visibility, accessibility, and utilization of high-impact career services for students, faculty, and the campus community.
Entri is India’s leading learning app for job seekers, delivered in local languages that help users either crack exams for government jobs or up-skill for private jobs. Over 13M learners have used this app.
Empow promotes STEM education and enrichment through hands-on, project-based programs like summer camps, classes, and after-school programs that teach coding, robotics, animation, 3D modeling, and more.
Learning Games Studios evidence-based learning games excite and engage learners, and deliver measurable learning outcomes, by bringing together compelling game-based experiences with strong instructional design and research-backed implementations of the learning sciences.
Founded 2015
Accelerated 2015
Workforce Edtech
Washington DC
PlayPosit is an online learning environment that allows its users to create and share interactive video lessons.
Founded 2013
Accelerated 2013
K-12
Higher-Ed
Workforce-Ed
Washington DC
Riipen is enabling transformative opportunities for companies to collaborate with post-secondary students on real-time, real-world challenges that are embedded directly into coursework.
Skookii is designed specifically for K-12 school Parents and provides a single user account to manage children’s in-school or out-of-school payments from Kindergarten to 12th grade.
Founded 2016
Accelerated 2016
K-12
Phoenix, Arizona
Sutori is a digital learning tool for the classroom that enables educators and students to engage in collaborative instruction and develop interactive presentations.
Knowledge to Practice delivers practice-changing, healthcare education solutions that help transform patient care, enable continuity of care, and mitigate risks across hospitals and healthcare systems. Knowledge to Practice’s personalized curriculum results in an average of 56 percent improvement of knowledge retention and recall, compared to 3-5 percent of older continuing medical education (CME) models.
Founded 2014
Accelerated 2015
Workforce Education
Washington DC
Listenwise is an award-winning listening skills platform that harnesses the power of listening to advance literacy and learning in all students. Our collection of podcasts and public radio keeps teaching connected to the real world. In November 2021, Listenwise was acquired by Boclips
Founded 2012
Accelerated 2013
K-12
Workforce Edtech
Boston, Massachusetts
TeachersConnect builds online communities and tools that combat the annual $2.2bn problem of teacher turnover. Our customers are teacher preparation programs, school districts, and companies that do business in K-12 education.
Founded 2014
Accelerated 2015
Workforce Education
Boston, Massachusetts
Pip Learning’s Trust Platform® identity service connects educators to innovators, protects student privacy, and includes parents.
Founded 2013
Accelerated 2015
Acquired 2017
K-12
Boston, Massachusetts
Kaymbu equips educators with the best assessment, instructional planning, family engagement, and professional development tools to drive positive outcomes for every child. From photo sharing to student portfolios, school newsletters and dynamic photo books, Kaymbu connects early childhood educators with young, digital-native parents.
LearnBolt is a new breed of mobile workforce productivity and training platform. This turnkey solution uniquely empowers business owners, managers, and employees from the moment of knowledge need to the collection, organization, and delivery of that knowledge.
Founded 2015
Accelerated 2017
Workforce Edtech
Boston, Massachusetts
Quality Interactions offers a complete suite of online courses to meet the continuing education needs of the healthcare community. Developed by practicing physicians, their courses build critical communication skills and change attitudes and behavior by tacking complex issues like unconscious bias.
The Wealth Factory, Inc. develops games that help our users with their financial literacy education.
Founded 2012
Accelerated 2017
Angel Rich
Courtney Keen
Harjeet Singh
K-12
Washington DC
SchoolHack’s LiFT® makes implementing project-based learning easier by providing a framework and assessment platform so learners can co-create measurable personal-interest projects.
Zulama worked with faculty at Carnegie Mellon University’s Entertainment Technology Center to develop an unprecedented way to bring game design, programming, art, and screenwriting to middle and high schoolers through game design.
Founded 2009
Accelerated 2016
Acquired 2018
K-12
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Quill.org’s online tools help 3rd-12th grade students become great writers. We use AI to analyze and serve feedback on student writing, enabling students to quickly develop their skills.
Founded 2013
Accelerated 2015
K-12
New York, New York
WriteSteps is a standards-based, K-5, digital writing and grammar curriculum that helps teachers create skilled writers.
Founded 2011
Accelerated 2017
Acquired 2017
Early Education
Ann Arbor , Michigan
Mindsets Learning is an award-winning inquiry & project-based learning platform that brings authentic, real-world experiences into classrooms. Spark creativity & computational thinking through real world Challenges for K12 Math, Science & STEM.
Founded 2013
Accelerated 2015
K-12
Boston Massachusetts
Unruly Studios is empowering students to learn fundamental STEM skills through active, social recess-style play! Unruly Studios creates the only experience in the growing category of STEM products and services to integrate physically active play and coding with Unruly Splats, which are durable, programmable floor buttons that students can control through code.
Schola provides families with the tools they need to find the school and educational programming that best aligns with the needs of their child. They strive to revolutionize the enrollment and retention process, freeing up funds to return them to the classroom where they belong.
QuadWrangle is the first automated engagement platform designed exclusively for education
Founded 2011
Accelerated 2014
Higher Education
Boston, Massachusetts