All Ventures
Academy for Urban School Leadership
Entrepreneur: Martin J Koldyke
Nonprofit | Founded: 2001 | Visit the Site
Academy for Urban School Leadership is a school management organization that serves more than 14,000 students in 25 schools in Chicago, IL. AUSL is committed to improving student achievement in Chicago’s high-poverty, chronically failing schools through its disciplined transformation process, built on a foundation of specially trained teachers.
Achievement First
Entrepreneur: Doug McCurry
Nonprofit | Founded: 1998 | Visit the Site
Achievement First is a charter management organization that was founded in 1998 to serve students in grades K-12 in Connecticut and New York. AF strives to close the achievement gap by ensuring that urban students have access to a great public education.
Achievement Network
Entrepreneur: John Maycock
Nonprofit | Founded: 2005 | Visit the Site
ANet is a nonprofit dedicated to the premise that every child deserves an excellent education and the opportunities it provides. They are committed to a vision of educational equity in America by helping schools boost student learning with great teaching that’s grounded in standards, informed by data, and built on the successful practices of educators around the country.
Achievement Preparatory Academy
Entrepreneur: Shantelle Wright
Nonprofit | Founded: 2008 | Visit the Site
Achievement Preparatory Academy is a public charter school serving more than 200 students in grades 4-8 in Washington, DC.
Alliance for College-Ready Public Schools
Entrepreneur: Judy Burton
Nonprofit | Founded: 2004 | Visit the Site
Alliance for College-Ready Public Schools is a charter management organization serving more than 9,500 students in 21 schools in Los Angeles, CA.
Alma Fuerte Public School
Entrepreneur: Anne Lee, Sean Markin
Nonprofit | Founded: 2016 | Visit the Site
Alma Fuerte Public School is a public charter school in Pasadena, CA that will eventually serve 400 students in grades K-8. Alma Fuerte’s model is project-based, individualized instruction that leverages students’ passions and strengths toward mastery of 21st century skills, with a focus on entrepreneurship. By graduation, each student will have launched a company of their design and will have faced the challenges of building a meaningful organization from start to finish.
Altura Preparatory School
Entrepreneur: Meaghan Stern, Lissa Hines
Nonprofit | Founded: 2017 | Visit the Site
Altura Preparatory School is a public charter school in Albuquerque, NM that will eventually serve over 300 students in grades K-5. The mission of Altura Preparatory School is to provide every student with access to an inclusive, equitable, and comprehensive, and exceptional college preparatory education. Altura Preparatory School will implement an elementary blended-learning model in ELA and math and experiential and project-based learning curricula in science and social studies.
Amira Learning
Entrepreneur: Mark Angel, Pete Jungwirth
For-profit | Founded: 2018 | Visit the Site
Amira Learning was part of the Expanded Definition of Student Success Ed Tech Challenge. Funds supported Amira Learning’s Intelligent Reading Assistant that listens, assesses, and coaches students to accelerate reading mastery.
Another Lens Staffing & HR Consulting Firm
Entrepreneur: Doreen Cunningham
For-profit | Founded: 2021 | Visit the Site
Another Lens seeks to build organizational cultures that are equitable, inclusive and supportive of teachers of color. Another Lens works to remove the barriers to hiring, onboarding, retention and promotion of teachers of color by auditing human resource policies and practices for districts, independent and charter schools. Another Lens strategizes with stakeholders to provide comprehensive solutions for successful recruiting, hiring, and retention of diverse educators and staff. As a result of their work, students and families of color can experience the benefit of having multiple educators, teachers and leaders, throughout their pre-K-12 education, who identify as BIPOC.
AppleTree Early Learning Public Charter School: AppleTree Early Learning Teacher Residency
Entrepreneur: Jack McCarthy
Nonprofit | Founded: 2017 | Visit the Site
The AppleTree Early Learning Teacher Residency (AELTR) is an innovative approach designed to prepare novice teachers for a career in teaching through hands-on experiences in the classroom while receiving targeted instruction and coaching.
Appletree Institute for Education Innovation
Entrepreneur: Jack McCarthy
Nonprofit | Founded: 2004 | Visit the Site
The AppleTree Institute for Education Innovation was part of the Early Learning Ed Tech Challenge. Funds supported AppleTree’s Every Child Ready solution and their mission to close the achievement gap before children get to kindergarten by providing the social, emotional, and cognitive foundations that enable them to thrive in school.
Aspire Public Schools
Entrepreneur: Don Shalvey, Gloria Lee, Elise Darwish
Nonprofit | Founded: 1999 | Visit the Site
Aspire Public Schools is a network of 30 schools serving 10,000 low-income students across California. As Aspire’s first institutional donor, NewSchools put up early capital to help the organization get off the ground when no one else would.
Atlanta Public Schools
Entrepreneur: Wardell Hunter
Founded: 2021 | Visit the Site
Atlanta Public Schools is one of the largest districts in Georgia, serving more than 52,000 students throughout Atlanta. Our Mission: Through a caring culture of equity, trust, and collaboration, every student will graduate ready for college, career, and life.
Our idea is to completely disrupt our leadership pipeline
program. For the first time ever, we will deeply explore root causes for this challenge and fundamentally revise our process to ensure Black and Latinx males, in particular, are able to advance into instructional leadership roles.Battelle Education
Entrepreneur: David Burns
Nonprofit | Visit the Site
Battelle Education, which centers around STEM education, operates two schools in Columbus, Ohio. The Battelle Education Model serves grade 6-12 and includes advisory, personalization in both time and content, mastery-based grading, and postsecondary offerings. The model has enabled the start-up and successful implementation of over 50 schools in Ohio and 20 schools in Tennessee.
Because Learning
Entrepreneur: Sunny Washington
For-profit | Visit the Site
Because Learning (formerly Ardusat) was part of the Science Learning Ed Tech Challenge. Funds supported Because Learning’s efforts to bring space exploration to the classroom by making it possible for students to run code on satellites orbiting earth to explore and understand the world around them.
BeeLine Reader
Entrepreneur: Nick Lum
For-profit | Visit the Site
BeeLine Reader was part of the Special Education Ed Tech Challenge. Funds support BeeLine Reader’s solution to make reading on-screen easier, faster, and more accessible.
Beloved Community: Equity in Schools
Entrepreneur: Rhonda Broussard
Nonprofit | Founded: 2017 | Visit the Site
Beloved Community advocates for and provides capacity-building supports that help communities operationalize and sustain diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) commitments. Key programs include a free, online equity audit, Equity in Schools and Equity at Work cohorts, and deep-dive single institution planning and implementation programming. Beloved Community builds diverse voice in local leadership so that the commitment to regional solutions remains long after any individual charismatic leader, local legislation, or funding stream has gone.
BetterLesson
Entrepreneur: Alex Grodd
For-profit | Founded: 2008 | Visit the Site
Funds supported BetterLesson’s file sharing and social networking application, helping teachers connect and share lessons, best practices, and ideas within communities of practice.
BirdBrain Technologies
Entrepreneur: Brendan Finch
For-profit | Visit the Site
BirdBrain Technologies was part of the Science Learning Ed Tech Challenge. Funds supported BirdBrain’s adaptive science platform that ensures every student in a classroom can read, grow, and learn independently.
