All Ventures
Education Elements
Entrepreneur: Anthony Kim
For-profit | Founded: 2011 | Visit the Site
Funds supported Education Elements’ work to help schools design and implement the right blended learning solutions for their school.
Education for Change
Entrepreneur: Kevin Woolridge
Nonprofit | Visit the Site
Education for Change is a charter management organization serving more than 1,200 students in Oakland’s most underserved communities.
Education Leaders of Color (EdLoC)
Entrepreneur: Layla Avila
Nonprofit | Founded: 2015 | Visit the Site
Education Leaders of Color (EdLoC) is a membership organization dedicated to elevating the leadership, voices and influence of people of color in education, and to leading more inclusive efforts to improve education.
Education Pioneers: Visiting Fellowship
Entrepreneur: Scott Morgan
Nonprofit | Founded: 2003 | Visit the Site
Education Pioneers (EP) recruits, develops, and connects professionals from diverse backgrounds to solve problems from outside the classroom so students and teachers succeed inside the classroom. The Visiting Fellowship identifies, supports, and retains diverse rising leaders who are already working in education full-time.
Education Reform Now
Entrepreneur: Shavar Jeffries
Nonprofit | Founded: 2007 | Visit the Site
Education Reform Now (ERN) builds networks of progressive champions, allies, and supporters across the political & policymaking arenas to expand what works and change what is broken in the public education system. The Leaders of Color Initiative seeks to alleviate the barriers to entry for elected leaders of color. ERN supports participants through the candidate lifecycle–from candidate identification to training to support when in office.
Educreations
Entrepreneur: Wade Roberts, Chris Streeter
For-profit | Founded: 2011 | Visit the Site
Funds supported Educreations’ app to transform the iPad into a recordable, interactive whiteboard that captures voice and handwriting to produce short video lessons.
EduMotion
Entrepreneur: Margot McGraw Toppen, Trevor Toppen
For-profit | Founded: 2008 | Visit the Site
Edumotion was part of the Expanded Definition of Student Success Ed Tech Challenge. Funds supported Edumotion’s movement-based social and emotional learning program.
Edward W. Brooke Charter School
Entrepreneur: Jon Clark, Kimberly Steadman
Nonprofit | Founded: 2002 | Visit the Site
The Edward W. Brooke Charter School is a public charter school in Roslindale, MA that serves students in grades K-8. Brooke was founded in 2002 under the guiding belief that great teaching is the solution to the achievement gap.
Ellevation
Entrepreneur: Jordan Meranus, Teddy Rice
For-profit | Visit the Site
Funds supported ELLevation’s mission-driven software exclusively focused on the needs of English language learners and the professionals that serve them.
Embracing Equity
Entrepreneur: Daisy Han
Nonprofit | Founded: 2018 | Visit the Site
Embracing Equity offers workshops, learning spaces online and in-person, resources, ABAR curriculum, and tools to support current and future educators in doing anti-racist and anti-biased worth with students and colleagues.
Emerging Leaders in Technology and Engineering (ELiTE)
Entrepreneur: Chelsey Roebuck
Nonprofit | Visit the Site
ELiTE increases equity, opportunity, and readiness for STEM-related postsecondary pathways for students attending public schools serving majority low-income Black and Latino populations. As a burgeoning model provider, ELiTE partners with high schools over two to three years to provide college and career advising along with STEM course electives to better prepare students of color for their transition to college. Through a site-based coordinator, ELiTE offers schools three components: STEM curricula, instructional and leadership support, and college/career advising.
Engrade
Entrepreneur: Bri Holt, Zach Posner
For-profit | Founded: 2003 | Visit the Site
Funds supported Engrade’s web-based tools for educators allowing them to manage their classes online while providing parents and students with 24/7 real-time online access.
Enuma
Entrepreneur: Sooinn Lee
For-profit | Founded: 2012 | Visit the Site
Enuma was part of the Special Education Ed Tech Challenge. Funds supported Enuma’s solutions that empower all children, including children with special needs and children without access to schools, to become independent learners.
Envision Education: Teacher Residency Program
Entrepreneur: Gia Truong
Nonprofit | Founded: 2019 | Visit the Site
The Teacher Residency Program (TRP), a partnership between Envision, Lighthouse Community Public Schools, and the Alder Graduate School of Education, recruits, trains, certifies and supports high-quality, diverse teachers, with a focus on diversity, equity and inclusion.
Equity Institute: EduLead Fellowship
Entrepreneur: Karla Vigil
Nonprofit | Founded: 2019 | Visit the Site
The Equity Institute is an education based nonprofit helping to ensure young people have access to educational experiences that allow them to build the knowledge and skills they need to thrive in the world. Through its premier educator retention and talent development program, the EduLead Fellowship, the organization leverages a diverse community of educators to promote diversity and equity in their school communities and beyond.
eSpark Learning
Entrepreneur: David Vinca
For-profit | Founded: 2011 | Visit the Site
eSpark Learning was part of the English Language Learning Ed Tech Challenge and the Middle & High School Math Ed Tech Challenge. Funds supported eSpark Learning’s differentiated products for PreK-8, designed to captivate unique interests, challenge learners at all levels, and inspire creative application.
ExceptionALLY
Entrepreneur: Rayford Davis
For-profit | Visit the Site
ExceptionALLY was part of the Special Education Ed Tech Challenge. Funds supported ExceptionALLY’s solution to provide parents with an individualized strategy for engaging in their child’s IEP.
