peerTransfer

International Payments Made Easy
peerTransfer. Translating International Payments into the Language of Common Sense Our payment system has already enabled thousands of international students to save time and money. We offer them better currency exchange rates, a truly simple online experience, ...

Tufts University

A premier research university

Socrative

Measuring and visualizing student understanding in real time
Socrative helps teachers engage and assess their students with educational activities on tablets, smartphones and laptops. Through the use of real time questioning, auto-correction, instant result aggregation and visualization, teachers can accurately gauge the ...

Kaymbu

Instagram for Educators
Kaymbu enables teachers to document and share anything from the classroom. Teachers effortlessly (and enjoyably) use pictures, videos and contextual notes to capture the essence of student development and strengthen relationships between home and school. These ...

Plexx

Training the world on a mobile device.
Plexx is allowing young people without college degrees to enter the workforce via a mobile training platform. This app allows them to train skills, show skills acquired, and apply to jobs, all from their smartphones.

Gradeable

Analytics and personalization for K-12 classrooms
Gradeable is a new assessment tool that helps teachers give smarter, faster feedback to students. It helps reduce the time teachers spend on grading, while giving them powerful analysis and simple, visually appealing reports. Teachers spend up to a third of their ...

AppBrick

We put e-book on steroids
AppBrick helps publishers and authors to create an interactive, enhanced eBook apps using our easy to use, non programming app development platform. Our pre-packaged, market ready solution helps publishers and authors to quickly create interactive, enhanced ebook ...

Lionsharp Voiceboard

Voiceboard: the tool to present your ideas using gesture and voice control
Lionsharp is building Voiceboard, a new solution for more engaging, flexible and exciting presentations. Experience more freedom and control with new and never before seen features such as the ability to embed amazing interactive media and a choice of controller, ...

Studifi

Student collaboration platform
Studifi is an online collaboration platform. It allows students to find teammates within each of their classes. Teams are provided with scheduling features, file sharing with version control and messaging. They can even get free text message reminders for meetings.

Change Collective

Mobile course platform for behavior change, powered by the advice of world-class experts.
At Change Collective, we're transforming the way people change. We've created a mobile course platform that delivers the inspiration from an expert in a way that makes it easy for people to follow through. Each course features high-quality videos and articles ...

Flashnotes

The #1 crowd-sourced educational marketplace
Flashnotes is the world's first peer-to-peer marketplace of high-quality academic content. We enable students the ability to gain access to course specific knowledge in real time by utilizing collaborative commerce and the latest technologies. Flashnotes student ...

Boston University

CoachUp

The Athlete Private Coaching Company
CoachUp is a service that connects athletes with private coaches. We believe that private coaching is the secret to reaching the next level in sports + life. As the nation's leading sports private coaching company, CoachUp has over 13,000 coaches in every sport, ...

Firecracker

Digital Tutor
Firecracker is rapidly growing ed-tech company that is building the learning platform of the future. We are led by entrepreneurs and engineers with a track record of building revolutionary companies. The first application of our platform serves medical students ...

SimpleTuition

Making Higher Education Affordable Again
At SimpleTuition, our goal is to make it easier for students and their families to afford a higher education. We offer tips, advice, interactive tools, and deals to ensure students plan better for the cost of college, pay less for college-related expenses, and ...

Panorama Education

Helping schools improve through data analytics
Panorama Education is a Boston-based Y Combinator (S13) company devoted to helping K-12 teachers and schools improve. We work with over 6500 schools across some of the largest public school districts and charter networks in the country (including Teach for America ...

Allclasses

Search Engine for Online and Local Classes
Allclasses is the world’s only search engine that connects people everywhere to millions of local online and offline classes and experiences. From the workplace to the life-place, it helps people discover and design the best version of themselves. Founded in 2013 ...

EverTrue

Reinventing education fundraising
EverTrue is a mobile & tablet education fundraising platform that connects traditional donor databases to the social graph.

BetterLesson

Facebook for Teachers
BetterLesson connects educators and helps them share lessons, best practices, and ideas. We've built a social curriculum-sharing platform that captures and scales the highest-quality teacher-generated content.

Sunrise Group

Transforming the way people learn and search Chinese characters (kanji) via games
We help learners of Chinese characters (native / non-native) acquire character knowledge quicker than existing methods by leveraging existing partial knowledge using spatial composition, meaning, sound relationships to arrive at desired character. Very useful ...

Boundless

Save Money. Learn Faster.
Boundless is making education more accessible and affordable. Boundless is building an innovative learning platform by curating the world’s best open educational content in 20+ subjects and delivering interactive learning tools to college students. Students at ...

Sonation

Music that listens to you
Our apps make music more fun and interactive. We serve students, professionals and amateurs playing music who face a problem that hasn’t been solved for centuries. Imagine playing basketball alone your whole life and never playing on a team. That’s the reality ...

Launch Academy

10-Week Ruby on Rails Academy
A 10-Week immersive on-location training program teaching people how to code with a focus on Ruby on Rails. We're disrupting the education system by letting go of the ceremony and wastefulness of our typical systems of education. The program culminates in a hiring ...

BrainGenie

Re-thinking E-learning
Braingenie is the world's most expansive K-12 math and science enrichment curriculum. We aim to provide a resource that parents know provides the best home enrichment for their kids. Kids learn by watching videos and solving problems, earning badges and achievements ...

Startup Institute

Immersive Education for the Innovation Economy
Startup Institute helps people transform their careers -- and we help our growing partner companies find the talent they need to scale their business. We are best known for our phenomenal 8-week bootcamp that gives students the technical skills, cultural skills ...

Acceptional

Marketplace for successful college application essays
Our first service, launched a year ago, offers high school students the opportunity to review sample essays from admitted students at top tier colleges. The model is simple: a college student at a top tier college uploads the essay that got him accepted and every ...

myEdGPS

TurboTax for Special Ed Navigation
myEdGPS is the first-of-its-kind online education navigation for parents of 19.3 MM children with Autism, ADHD, Learning Disabilities and other special or exceptional needs. Acting as both a virtual guide and assistant, myEdGPS makes education planning easier than ...

Testive

Adaptive Test Prep that Works
Testive believes that everyone deserves access to personalized education and builds the technology that makes that possible. Testive is a combination of software developed at MIT to increase learning speed and one-on-one coaches to keep students on track. With ...

Shearwater International (Techstars ‘15)

Student-centered orientation
Schools partner with Shearwater to deliver online orientation programs that support the social-cultural acclimation of international students and introduce alumni mentorship platforms to K-12 and Higher Ed. communities. Our programs reduce student attrition, improve ...

Intelligent.ly

Great managers aren't born. They're made.
Great managers aren't born. They're made. Intelligent.ly Exchange brings together high-potential new managers from rapidly scaling startups to learn foundational skills. Through a blend of expert facilitation, peer collaboration and practical application, managers ...

Pragya Systems

Cloud-based Content Management and Search for Colleges
Pragya is a cloud-based app that brings web-based "enterprise-class" search and content management to colleges. Pragya connects seamlessly to existing ed-tech systems (Learning Management Systems, Student Info Systems etc.) in minutes as easily as configuring drop-box ...

Martin Trust Center

for MIT Entrepreneurship
The Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship provides the expertise, support, and connections needed for MIT students to become effective entrepreneurs.

HSTRY

Interactive & collaborative timelines
HSTRY is a digital learning tool that enables teachers, students and historians to create and explore interactive timelines. Using a platform designed to mimic social media, HSTRY presents content in a format that is easily understood, engaging, and familiar to ...

Physical Apps

Wii-like experiences using mobile
Today's society is sedentary and addicted to virtual worlds. Epidemic levels of health related complications include obesity, diabetes and reduced lifespans. In addition, face-to-face relationships are becoming a thing of the past. At Physical Apps we take Real-world ...

Campseekers

Hotels.com for the $15B Summer Camp Industry
CampSeekers delivers an on-line clearinghouse for the camp industry through an interactive directory in which excess inventory is sold at discounted rates.

BRIGHTdriver

Spotify for interactive audio - designed for in-car use
BRIGHTdriver is developing software for hands-free, interactive audio content for people on the go. The smartphone application provides entertainment and educational content to keep people engaged and productive while in transit. Regain lost commuting time and ...

zuku

SMS for organizations
zuku is an easy-to-use, short message utility that enables private communication within a community. zuku turns mobile phones into a valuable input device and communication aid. The utility today provides simple Q & A, polling, automated responses, and broadcast ...

Kanon

Kanon is a website for discovering and discussing academic literature. It allows professors and graduate students to evaluate books and publish informal peer reviews. We like to think that we're supplementing traditional journals by providing an open space for ...

Myndlift

Your Attention Levels. Higher.
Myndlift is an innovative tool for enhancing concentration abilities via wearable and mobile technology without involving medications .

Freelanship

The Elance of Internships.
Freelanship provides students with inexpensive major-related work experiences that don’t require them to commit to a full-semester internship; and provides companies with a fresh perspective, quality services and an expanded audience.

Ellevation Education

Help English Language Learners Achieve Their Highest Aspirations
Ellevation is the only software platform focused exclusively on ELL educators and the English Learners they serve. At a time when English Learners are the fastest growing population of students in the nation, educators have few tools or innovations to meet their ...

Revolution of Hope

This is Juilliard in the hood
Revolution of Hope is a joy-filled intensive, conservatory level music program in the heart of Roxbury’s Dudley Square neighborhood. We launched in February 2013 and meet 5 days a week for 3 hours each day. We transform the lives of inner city youth through the ...

Private School Innovator

K-12 Private School Headquarters
Private School Innovator is a cutting edge online marketplace that matches families with their respective perfect match schools! With our matching algorithm, both families and schools are presented the most meaningful options based on their ideal criteria. We ...

LifeGuides

Education for life events.
We provide free online career guides to millennials. Our guides are authored by top professionals who have been there, done that and provide insights into what a job is like day to day, how to get that job, and where it will take you in 5-10 years. We also provide ...

BrightLoop

Evernote for Teachers
BrightLoop helps teachers track, communicate and act on student needs in real-time. Teachers track student observations via their mobile phone, computer or tablet. BrightLoop then makes it simple to share observations with co-teachers and families, and it makes ...

WomenLEAD

Online "Personal Advisory Board" platform accelerating women's development
WomenLEAD is an innovative online business to business software as a service platform that enables women to build their closed “Personal Advisory Board” based on personal and professional goals. Since 53% of women leave their career mid-career not to start families ...

BE

Rewards Your Smarts
Coin (also bitcoins) as rewards for your smarts via quizzes. Think quora meets a loyalty program including bitcoins. BE is a mobile platform with crowdsourced and partner generated content packaged into a jeopardy like quiz games with deals to redeem instantly. ...

Electroninks Writeables

Learn circuits by drawing instantly on paper
Electroninks Writeables has created the world's first rollerball conductive ink pen that allows you to draw circuits on paper. With over 12k Kickstarter backers and $674k in funding we have changed the way students, teachers and makers work with electronics. We ...

WomenLead,Inc

WomeLEAD is a web and mobile app that develops women as global leaders
WomenLEAD is a web and mobile app. It is a leadership development tool designed to advance women in their careers based on research conducted by Catalyst, the Anita Borg Institute, Deloitte, McKinsey and Harvard Business School. It is designed for companies to ...

Aterium Solutions

Distance Learning Solution for K12
Our product is an end-to-end distance learning solution. We supply the cameras and equipment to produce the recordings, the hosted facility to distribute the content, and a web interface to manage and view the recordings. Recordings happen on a one off basis or ...

MIT Sloan School of Management

The MIT Sloan School of Management is one of the world's leading business schools. Learn more about our innovative degrees, research, and programs.

Young Broadcasters of America

We teach "Generation Text" to talk!
In an era where young people are more comfortable communicating through technology than face to face, YBA communications and the home of Young Broadcasters of America, use TV broadcasters' skills to improve interpersonal oral communication among our youth and business ...

Rising Green

LinkedIn + Meetup.com for green careers.
Rising Green is creating the next generation green jobs website. We will add a social, viral element to the green career development process while creating a website that is more fun, user-friendly and effective at serving this niche than any of the competition. ...

ConnectEdu

Matchbox

Here at Matchbox, we believe that the university admissions process can be super-charged through amazing software. We believe admissions professionals deserve great software built by admissions professionals – who better to understand the opportunities to improve ...

PrepNow

Online private tutoring.
PrepNow is an 18-month old online tutoring venture that recently spun off from StudyPoint, a national leader in private, in-home tutoring. Our mission is to help kids find success and happiness at school through high quality one-to-one tutoring in a virtual classroom ...

Student Advantage

Recesspreneurs

After-school entrepreneurship programs for disadvantaged youth.
Recesspreneurs is a non-profit organization that empowers young persons of low-income backgrounds by teaching life skills through after-school entrepreneurship programs. We work alongside college students who mentor young participants. Young participants of the ...

Dataquest

Codecademy for data science
Dataquest makes it easier than ever to learn data science. We believe strongly in learning by doing, and have built a platform that teaches everything from data visualization to machine learning to tens of thousands of people every month.

Culture Adapt

Cross-culture education platform

ZENeSYS Learning

Student Sourced Consulting Platform
Our E-learning platform is used to deliver management consulting certification to B-school students and working professionals. One of the key components of this certification program is the actual consulting projects delivered by these participants. Given sheer ...

Stattleship

We harness the world's passion for professional sports to make our kids smarter.
We've Built the First Sports Edutainment Platform Our Sports-focused Educational Entertainment Platform powers sports edutainment initiatives like eBooks, classroom quizzes, and mobile games. We take sports statistics and use Common Core State Standards to generate ...

So-Just Fighters

Educating children to be problem solvers through action figures.
This product is for children whom loves with play with action figures. This product will be in created in different actions figures that fights of social justice problems in this world, such as hunger ect. In hopes of teaching and motivating children that they ...

i30 Media

Educational ebooks in 30-minute chunks
i30 Media and In 30 Minutes® guides help people get up to speed on mildly complex topics. What do you want to learn in 30 minutes?

Móvil México S. de R.L.

SMS, Financial Inclusion, Mexico
SMS Financial Inclusion project in Mexico, public private partnership with the Mexican Government and Development bank BANSEFI to launch an educational campaign via mobile. Key investor was Jerry Kern (Comcast, TCI, Playboy, On Command). Now happy to advise/collaborate ...

Pushtribe

Collaborative mentorship platform
Existing professional social networks define us by our job titles and our past background: the things we have already achieved. These help lay the groundwork for making an initial, one-time personal or professional connection. But they completely miss out on helping ...

EducateUP

Personalized parenting mobile tool
EducateUP is a personalized mobile tool for busy parents to engage their preschool age child in age appropriate learning activities within minutes of being at home. 2012 statistics show that there are 5.64 million working couples in the United States who have ...

Baobab

Netflix for books and toys
Baobab is a one-stop service for rental of educational and entertainment products for children, including books, toys, e-books, movies and games. Subscribers have access to thousands of books and toys as our library-on-wheels visits their neighborhood. Baobab’s ...

Listen Current

USMLE StepPrep

Free USMLE study community
I have thousands of registered users on my United States Medical Licensing exam preparation site. This is a free service with a huge following. Looking for money to improve it so I can offer premium services. The USMLE is the exam doctors must pass to get a ...

EdVenture Source

OTA specific for EduTourism and Training
EdVenture Source is a website platform that allows users to search and create their own educational experiences based on topics of interest, speaker/expert availability and other educational activities available in various regions. There is a unique social media ...

Learning Games Network

Sightlines

Empowering curators. Captivating visitors.
We live in a world of constant stimulation, from buzzing smartphones in our pockets to the stream of unending media we consume on ubiquitous monitors both personal and public. This high degree of fast paced media saturation has conditioned our minds, altering the ...

theEditorial

Platform for visionaries, change agents and disruptors
theEditorial.com is becoming the definitive platform where thought leaders and experts get personal. We bring voices worth hearing to the forefront with exclusive and singular interviews in one intellectual depot. Interviews with visionaries, change agents and ...

eXlogue

Teaching exchange network
By connecting foreign language learners around the world through Internet, eXlogue provides a platform for language teaching exchange. You can teach your native language to earn credits, and then use the credits to buy other language courses. (if you don't want ...

LeanGap

lean://gap — Powering high school student startups
LeanGap is an intensive summer program that empowers high school students to build their own startups. With resources from business leaders and top institutions, LeanGap helps students develop their ideas from concept to successful launch. The LeanGap curriculum ...

Cuaround

A linkedin for college students
A social messaging app essential for college students that automatically links current students and alumni. Cuaround encourages students to better interact with their classmates by sharing videos, pictures, class notes, cross-connection with different schools, ...

Sponsr.Us

Social Fundraising + Mentorship for Students
Sponsr.Us is an online crowdfundraising platform and mentorship network for high school and college student initiatives. We're a student-run 501(c)(3) non-profit dedicated to catalyzing student-run initiatives.

Tuatara Corp. - Creators of GilaPad

Higher Ed Digital Learning Platform
GilaPad is a uniquely integrated, cloud-based, interactive content hub, which allows users to access and integrate content from etextbooks, popular web content via our proprietary plugin technology as well as user's PDF uploads, and combine it with self-authored ...

Angel Ed

Crowd-funding money, mentorship, and data for higher-ed
Angel Ed connects students of all ages and majors with crowd-funded scholarships, mentors in their specified industry, and online/offline workshops on fiscal literacy/career readiness/college readiness to ensure higher-ed is as debt-free and employable as possible, ...

Babson Entrepreneurship Club

Action trumps everything
The flagship club of the #1 school for entrepreneurship, the Babson Entrepreneurship Club encourages action, allows students safe opportunities to fail, incubates fresh ideas, and gives old ideas new perspective, all while leveraging the wisdom of a vast, supportive ...

CareAcademy.co

Khan Academy for Childcare and Caregiving
We are creating the first platfrom to affordably teach and validate caregiving skills in childcare workers and caregivers, and make sure those you love receive excellent care.

The Violet Society

A startup sisterhood for undergraduate women
The Violet Society is a startup sisterhood for future founders. We are focused on undergraduate women in Greater Boston and Silicon Valley. (Potentially will expand to NYC) The Violet Society is named after Violet Baudelaire from A Series of Unfortunate Events. ...

CON-necta.com

A platform that helps students and alumni connect directly
Networking is hard, but it should be easy! Companies are hiring but most jobs (70%) aren't even posted or advertised! Conventional wisdom says you have to know someone, but it is not easy to make genuine connections. We have experienced this for ourselves, and ...

Tryumph Foundation

Scholarships for Students
Tryumph Foundation is a non-profit organization that provides scholarships to high school students who give back to others.

Be Striking.

Motivational platform for students.
Be Striking. is an inspirational and motivational platform that connects likeminded students. Students do remarkable things during their time in school and, because of this, they have the power to change the world. We want to invite these students to share their ...

Nature Education

Educational division of Nature Publishing Group innovating science education publishing.
Principles of Biology, Higher Education Digital Interactive Biology Textbook www.nature.com/principles Scitable, open science online learning space www.nature.com/scitable

uConnect

Career Services Students Love
uConnect works with college and university career centers to effectively impact student career preparation and post-graduate outcomes. We are changing the way colleges and universities – from private institutions to public universities – engage students in professional ...

Proper Channel

Eliminating the pain of bureaucracy, everywhere.
Proper Channel's mission is to eliminate the pain of bureaucracy. We developed a social flowcharting tool that describes every step, in the right order, to complete a bureaucratic task. Whether applying for a visa to China, registering a new car, or applying ...

TutorialTab

Edagog

Teach Anything. Learn Anything. Free!
Edagog is an online education platform that is currently in private alpha and plans to launch into private beta in January 2015.

Ghostwrite

Bringing equality to the hiring process
Ghostwrite.io helps users write better business-oriented message (i.e. cover letters, thank you notes, networking emails, etc.) faster and to greater effect - helping eliminate discrimination in the hiring process. Through the use of forms and stored data, the ...

ReusablEd

Platform and protocol for enabling easier creation and distribution of learning objects.
ReusablEd is an open education platform that will make it easier to create and distribute learning objects. Learning objects are reusable learning units (small chunks of education). In simple terms, you take the traditional 2-hour-long course, and split it up into ...

掌上考霸 gSuccess

gSucess. Conquer the standardized exams in one app
We are aiming to develop a series of mobile applications (apps) for the national standardized exams in the greater China. Nearly 10 million students participate in the China College Admission Test each year. We have developed a special computer algorithm to determine ...

Fotoaudio

FotoAudio brings Life to your photos by audio tagging
FotoAudio enhances online photo viewing experience by providing an audio commentary about the people or subjects in the Photo. Viewers will see a custom cursor moving over parts of the photo as well as hear audio in the background describing the photo. To start ...

NuVu Studios

THE PROCESS

Web-based sports media
THE PROCESS will be directly involved in sports media and technology, globally. We are launching a revolutionary recruiting service for high school athletes that will transform the way that players find, evaluate, and receive college scholarships. It will also ...

4vision

Software to manage your digital lifestyle...media, wellness, fitness anytime, anywhere.
We have developed a SaaS based Digital Lifestyle Management Platform that seamlessly integrates digital lifestyle services that include multimedia, social, wireless sensors (body, environment) remote data monitoring, collaboration as well as health and wellness ...

Screencastable

Create a screencasting site in minutes.
You focus on creating awesome screencasts. We'll provide a configurable site with user registration, billing management, and analytics. We'll host your videos in the cloud and make sure your content is searchable, commentable, rateable... screencastable.

Live Lingua

Live teachers. Live staff. Live Lingua.
Live Lingua is a traditional language school... online.  These days everybody is trying to create the next breakthrough software to teach us a language.  They want to discover the one trick that nobody else has figured out that will help everybody learn foreign ...

Upward Mobility

azna

Blackboard in the Cloud
azna is targeted towards Elementary School, Secondary Schools and Colleges. Easy to use (targeting new markets who still use paper+email or offline software for finance, timetable, campus news). azna is hosted in the cloud and brings disruptive pricing to traditional ...

MITx Global Entrepreneurship Bootcamp

The mission of MIT is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century. The Institute is committed to generating, disseminating, and preserving knowledge, ...

cognii

FeedVenue

the real-time social feedback platform
Feedvenue is a real-time social feedback platform. It allows event organizers to quickly set up events and empower the participants to submit their questions via web, mobile, phone, twitter or email, in a completely anonymous (or not - it's up to you) way! Peers ...

Universally

Collaboration & Discovery Platform for College Professors
Universally is a platform for college professors to collaborate with their colleagues over shared research as well as explore and discover what research is going on outside of their discipline or school.

Cram Fighter

Personalized study plans for students preparing for standardized exams -- in minutes!
Students studying for standardized exams have a daunting task: organizing hundreds or thousands of pages of reading, questions, and flashcards over several months. We give students the tools to create a personalized study plan using their favorite resources in ...

CommonCloud

Providing on-demand seats for novice teachers in the classrooms of exceptional educators.
CommonCloud is an online platform for early career teachers to access goal-based, personalized learning maps based on high-quality, pre-curated content. We partner with a community of exceptional master teachers and instructional coaches to deliver a learning experience ...

Teaching Garage

Curriculum for Elementary STEM Teachers
Teaching Garage is the creator of Design SySTEM, the first and only digital STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) curriculum for elementary school teachers. The curriculum covers ten fields of engineering that are aligned with state science, Common ...

Liaison International

Liaison offers integrated software, service and data solutions that remove costly administrative burden and enable our client partners to make more informed decisions. Our CAS is unique in addressing the needs of all participants in the admissions process: professional ...