These are the Top Education and EdTech Companies in Chicago (2021)

Fluent Forever

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Fluent Forever is the language learning app that rewires your brain to learn a language and never forget it

Jellyvision

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Jellyvision helps companies explain their important (but maybe kind of complex) messages in a delightful way. We create virtual salespeople, brokers, guidance counselors, HR reps, and teachers, who have fun, personalized conversations with your customers and employees and help them understand confusing or snooze-inducing topics.

One of those virtual helpers is ALEX, a friendly, funny benefits expert who helps employees understand their benefits options and feel good about their choices. Last year, millions of employees used ALEX to make decisions about more than $27 billion worth of health insurance premiums.

You can learn more about ALEX at meetalex.com, and you can check out our other work at jellyvision.com/work. .

Wyzant

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WyzAnt is an online marketplace where students and parents can find qualified, local in-person and online tutors in more than 250 different subjects. Visitors can browse WyzAnt’s network of 75,000+ available tutors at no cost and compare tutors’ experience, qualifications, personality and teaching style, background checks and more to ensure they find the perfect fit.

With WyzAnt’s 100% Good Fit Guarantee, students can start lessons knowing they will only be charged if they are 100% satisfied with the tutor they have chosen. Tutors on WyzAnt are individually screened and required to pass proficiency exams in the subjects they wish to teach.

Tutors offer personalized instruction to students and professionals of all ages in subjects ranging form academics and test preparation, to language and computer training, to music and art lessons, as well as sports and recreation lessons.. .

QuillBot

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QuillBot is an AI writing collaborator that rewrites full paragraphs and refines content. The company’s mission is to make writing painless.

QuillBot is driven by sophisticated AI paraphrasing technology that uses natural language understanding (NLU) to automatically reconstruct the user’s content to improve the clarity of the intended message. More than a million people around the world use QuillBot to improve their writing and deliver a more compelling message..

RedShelf

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RedShelf is a distributor of digital learning materials. It provides technology to the learning community to accelerate the transition to digital.

In collaboration with strategic partners, publishers, institutions, and campus bookstores, RedShelf offers easily accessible and cost-effective learning materials to students everywhere.. .

Dough

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Dough is the online broker radically challenging the status quo and changing wealth creation. Located in Chicago and backed by tastytrade, Dough is what investing should be: focused on the retail investor, commission-free stock trading, zero account minimums, and iOS and Android apps filled with real-world opportunities for better decision making.

Dough is on a mission to bring understanding to risk, removing it as a barrier and creating a new offering that is equal parts brokerage, education, and everyday insight through its media company. It is fully licensed in 50 states and 3 jurisdictions to provide brokerage services, customers can trade stocks and ETFs listed on a U.S.

exchange.. .

Classkick

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Classkick is the place where students do work, and get helps from teachers and classmates. Teachers make a assignments on Classkick, check detailed individual understanding, give instant help.

Students can raise their hand privately and give peer-to-peer feedback. The technology is hyper-focused on increasing student learning and helping teachers be even more effective..

Curiosity

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Why do people sneeze in sunlight? Why is a black hole called a “singularity”? Why aren’t fish electrocuted when lightning hits the water? Curiosity answers the questions you never knew to ask, and digs into the things you’ve always wondered about. The company spun out of Discovery in 2014 and today reaches an audience of 70 million a month globally through a website, iOS and Android app, weekly podcast, daily email, Chrome extension, and Amazon Alexa skill.

With five new stories on a variety of topics every day (plus thousands more to discover), it helps people have fun learning about everything from the scientific and relatable to the awe-inspiring and downright weird. Count on Curiosity to explain even the densest subjects in a way that’s entertaining, witty, and easy to understand..

BenchPrep

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BenchPrep offers a learner success platform to improve engagement and outcomes for learners around the globe. A recognized expert in learner success, BenchPrep partners with organizations that administer certification, credentialing, test prep, and continuing education programs to deliver customized enterprise SaaS solutions.

Many of the world’s largest assessment companies use BenchPrep’s platform to provide a personalized, omni-channel learning experience to their own users within a single ecosystem. By leveraging the power of technology, data, UX expertise, and innovative instructional design, BenchPrep has helped to make learning more effective, efficient, and enjoyable for more than 3 million learners worldwide..

Elevate K-12

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Elevate K-12 is passionate about creating high-quality teaching and learning opportunities for teachers and students. They are on a mission to make zip code free teaching available to all students, irrespective of where they live.

They take pride in creating value and opportunities for children and women. Get ready for a new way to classroom!.

Packback

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Packback is a Q&A learning platform powered by a proprietary A.I. to quantify and improve critical thinking skills in college students.

AMOpportunities

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AMOpportunities connects international medical students and graduates with U.S. physicians and institutions for clinical experiences.

The company’s platform offers individuals the opportunity to explore and apply for clinical experiences at 200+ clinical sites across 70+ medical specialties and subspecialties. AMO provides exceptional support services such as visa and housing assistance.

It was founded in 2013 and based in Chicago, Illinois.. .

ThinkCERCA

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ThinkCERCA’s personalized literacy platform helps educators teach critical thinking skills through argumentative writing. With students and teachers using its platform in all 50 states and 130 countries, the company has partnered with prominent leaders in education, including Follett Corporation, and has been featured by The Atlantic and EdSurge.

A 2016 SIAA CODiE Awards finalist in the Best Learning Capacity-Building Solution and Best Reading/English/Language Arts Instructional Solution categories, ThinkCERCA has also been named one of the best tools in ed tech by Common Sense’s Graphite. In July 2013, ThinkCERCA was the recipient of a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Literacy Courseware Challenge grant, and in December 2012, graduated from the inaugural class of Impact Engine’s social impact accelerator.

To learn more, please visit ThinkCERCA.com. .

eSpark

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Differentiate reading and math with activities kids love

Codeverse

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Codeverse is the world’s first interactive coding studio & edtech platform,, founded on the mission to teach a billion kids to code.

Edovo

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Edovo utilizes secure tablet technology to deliver free access to educational programming and low-cost communication services. Edovo operates as an all-in-one communication and education consultancy, providing key services and creating custom solutions for jails and prisons nationwide.

Since launching in 2014, Edovo has been building technology solutions to provide fair and honest communication services, educational and vocational programming, and re-entry preparation for justice-involved people and their loved ones.. .

Rapunzl – Invest. Share. Win.

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Tired of feeling lost with the stock market? Join our FREE investing community today! Rapunzl is an award-winning app that allows you to earn while you learn how to invest. Simulate a real-time stock portfolio in fantasy stock competitions for prizes! “We need more innovative solutions like Rapunzl that makes investing and financial education engaging & accessible for everyone.” – Arne Duncan, Former US Secretary of Education Tap into your hidden investor potential! Manage a real-time stock portfolio without ever risking a dollar! Follow your friends’ & family’s investments, add companies to your personalized watchlist, trade stocks for free, and mimic the trades of Rapunzl’s top investors.

Stop feeling overwhelmed when you think about saving & investing: Imagine yourself as Wall Street royalty and take charge of your financial independence by learning the art of investing. Absolutely FREE, you can: – Buy, Sell and Short from 8,000+ stocks – Access real-time market data & market-moving alerts – Learn to invest with integrated Trade Academy Video Library – Discover top performing investors & unlock rewards – Finish in the TOP THIRD to win CASH PRIZES! Rapunzl’s state-of-the-art platform allows individual investors to build stock-picking skills through a social & collaborative investor community with zero risk.

Access analyst ratings, earnings calendars and market news to gain an edge on the competition. Finance has been trapped in an ivory tower for too long.

With Rapunzl, everyone can trade for free with huge upside and zero-risk while they learn from a growing community of investors. Think YOU have what it takes? Enter a FREE competition today.

If you have questions or already downloaded Rapunzl & need some help, email us at support@rapunzl.org Or, check out our website: http://www.rapunzlinvestments.com ——————————————————————– Our founders built Rapunzl to help youth understand the stock market & develop financial literacy skills. We hosted our first stock competition in April, 2018 for over 2,000 Chicago high school students with $20,000 in scholarships.

To date, we’ve given away nearly $100,000 in prizes & that’s taught us the importance of including the following disclosures: If you are under the age of 12 you cannot use Rapunzl. If you are between the ages of 13-17, you may not make in-app purchases nor redeem cash prizes or other rewards unless specifically stated.

CompTIA

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CompTIA is the leading association representing the international technology community. Its goal is to provide a unified voice, global advocacy and leadership, and to advance industry growth through standards, professional competence, education and business solutions.

In order to most efficiently serve the industry and its members, CompTIA has developed specialized initiatives and programs dedicated to major areas within the IT industry. They include, convergence technology, e-commerce, IT training, software services, certification, public policy and workforce development..

Parker Dewey

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Parker Dewey (www.ParkerDewey.com) helps companies utilize college students and recent grads for immediate support on short-term, professional assignments that may otherwise be neglected or completed by employees whose time is better spent elsewhere. These take under 5 minutes to post, and have zero obligation.

In addition to the immediate benefits, companies can identify and evaluate job candidates, including those from diverse and underrepresented backgrounds, and authentically assess job skills, cultural fit, and non-cognitive traits (e.g. grit, communication, teamwork, etc.).

For college students and recent grads, Parker Dewey provides the opportunity to demonstrate their skills and grit, explore careers, develop their networks, and generate income as they seek internships and full-time roles. Furthermore, these authentic, experiential learning opportunities complement in-class instruction, thereby improving academic performance and driving completion.

As a result, career launchers graduate more job-ready, and have the perspective and experience to find a full-time role with the right skill and cultural fit. Using data from these projects, Parker Dewey also provides insights to college and university faculty so that they can better align curriculum with job skills demanded by companies.

In addition, these academic institutions can more effectively engage alumni and professors as mentors, counsel students on career options, and support existing and / or prospective corporate recruiters. Parker Dewey made it really easy for everyone to use the platform.

It takes under five minutes to post a project (including setting the price and due date), career launchers apply only to those assignments that interest them, and companies select who they think is the best fit. And since we are not a staffing or recruiting firm, there are no administrative burdens associated with these “micro-internships” or fees if a company wants to directly hire someone..

Unifyed

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Unifyed is a cloud-based, next generation student information system provider serving over seven million students in seven countries. Unifyed is a beautiful and easy-to-use solution designed with an analytics-first approach to increasing student enrollment and engagement.

Developed in partnership with the higher education community, our solution is both affordable and flexible to meet the needs of small and large institutions alike.. .

QualSights

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QualSights is visual insights platform that provides brands, agencies and consulting firms a dramatically faster and more affordable way.

Dabble

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Founded in 2011, Dabble is a marketplace for affordable, in-person classes. A social experience that fulfills people’s desires to learn new things without over-committing themselves.

Through an online portal, Dabble makes it easy for people to list classes by facilitating the transaction and providing a market of curious learners. Class topics range from arts and culinary to business and technical, and users are encouraged to stretch their imagination in regards to the limitless possibilities for dabbling.

Teachers include passionate experts and businesses, and for them, Dabble serves as a lead generation vehicle, additional income stream, and creative outlet. Dabble also offers local businesses the opportunity to host classes that are relevant to them, increasing exposure and driving incremental business.

The process for submitting a class occurs online, and anyone is invited to teach.. .

All Campus

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All Campus focus on the true pain point of the university: acquiring quality students for individual degree programs. They deliver the research, marketing, and enrollment expertise necessary to create a successful national campaign using proven strategies, enhancing the profile of qualified applicants for our partner schools.

Their creative concepts and research recommendations are always customized and tailored to the program’s unique needs. They have nearly 30 years of experience developing approaches that highlight the specific strengths and distinguishing features of the online degree programs, implementing relevant solutions to the specific challenges of helping distance learning programs reach a national audience.

They’ve built an extensive professional network of partner universities and workforce alliances, which allows them to facilitate unique promotional opportunities and inspire prospective students to pursue further education with their school.. .

Pi

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Pi is a platform for class communication: easy to setup, engage with your students in seconds from any device.

Overgrad

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Overgrad is an online platform that enables high school students to set long-term college and career goals. It provides guidance on how to achieve its users’ post high school goals and connects each student with employers, universities, trade schools, and military organizations that pay Overgrad for its data-driven sourcing channel.

Overgrad was founded in 2013 by Kevin Hoffman and Ryan Hoch. It is based in Chicago, Illinois..

The Graide Network

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The Graide Network is an internet company that offers an online platform that connects teachers with qualified teaching assistants to grade and provide thorough feedback on student assignments. The company is driven by its mission is to reimagine how middle and high school teachers spend their time.

The Graide Network was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.. .

Modern Teacher

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Modern Teacher is an educational technology company designed to provide a research-based methodology for digital convergence in education.

GetSet

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GetSet helps students explore, define, and achieve their goals together. As students create plans, set reminders, and ask questions, we instantly connect them with other students who share their goals or can answer their questions.

As our students overcome shared obstacles, they form supportive communities that promote a mindset of success.. .

Learnmetrics

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Learnmetrics are a team of Educators, Academics, Technologists, and Designers who are committed to improving educational outcomes.

Special Learning

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We educate educators and parents on how to successfully teach kids with Autism

Health As We Age, Inc.

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HAWA offers a pure software solutions for companies looking to upgrade into a cloud-based secure Telehealth platform. -Their market segments for their software solution include health screening companies, laboratories, ACO’s, pharmaceutical trials, insurance carriers, TPA’s, dietitians, physicians wanting patient engagement, or physicians wanting to engage patients in tele-health consultations.

HAWA also offers a cost effective service solution. -Their well-being service solution market segments include Employers, Consumer Direct, Hospital Systems, Physician Practices, ACO’s, Payer Partners, Pharmaceutical, Fitness Centers, and finally the Medicare/Medicaid market.

-The HAWA Virtual Healthcare System allows clients to manage their healthcare spend and outcomes, by placing their population in control of their own virtual health and wellness experience. Their team will engage even your reluctant members.

They connect and motivate populations to an engaging and customized suite of tools and resources that support their goals for living a healthier life. They provide immediate access to a variety of healthcare experts, medical testing, pharmacy discounts and personal health data all in one System.

-The scalable and cost effective System integrates multiple vendor touch points into one streamlined solution, reducing administrative strain on organizations and eligible populations. The System supports Members of all ages from Pediatric to Senior Populations..

Americademy

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Americademy is a suite of products and services that provide children with elite curriculum in a technology enabled world.

NextTier Education

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NextTier Education is reimagining the college application process to ease the complexities and frustration of applying to college in a way that is so engaging that students feel pulled through the experience instead of forced, allowing them to focus on fulfilling their dreams rather than the process to get there. It provides mobile and web applications that streamline and takes the guesswork out of applying to college.

Its mobile-based postsecondary readiness platform delivers critical information on every two- and four-year college in the U.S. It was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois..

Verboso

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Verboso develops an open-source database of impaired speech sounds for children.

The University of Illinois at Chicago’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

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UIC offers study options across the natural sciences, social sciences, humanities, and interdisciplinary areas.

Yolobe

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Yolobe stands for ‘Your life only better.” Our mission is to dramatically improve the lives of teenagers, young adults and working age people with disabilities everywhere by connecting them to career and employment related opportunities like jobs, internships, education, events, supportive services and much more. We intend to be the market leading job and opportunity platform for entry level positions.

Our customers are the companies, organizations and entities serving the career interests of this population such as schools, community organizations, cities and municipalities, workforce agencies, and much more. We’ve built software that allows our customers to dramatically improve their ability to connect users to the opportunities they need to succeed..

Language Stars

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Language Stars is an education management company specializing in foreign language classes. The company teaches Spanish, Mandarin, French, German, Italian, and Arabic language.

Language Stars was founded in 1998 and is based in Chicago, Illinois, United States.. .

GoNanny

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GoNanny, founded by Patrice Darby, is merging childcare with technology in order to create a world where parents do not have to choose between building a strong family and building a strong career. We identify, train, equip, pair, and share childcare providers who desire to operate as a support system for busy families.

Through our digital platform, families are paired with a consistent GoNanny and backups, can book out their GoNanny to provide care rides and childcare in 15 minute intervals, and with technology parents are kept in the know providing peace of mind at all times.. .

Future Founders

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Future Founders is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization that believes every youth can become an entrepreneur. We immerse youth in experiences that inspire and empower them to create their own opportunity.

We believe this leads to a generation more determined, hopeful and equipped as they engage the future. Since 2005, our programs have served over 30,000 youth.

Join us as we empower the next generation of business leaders and entrepreneurs.. .

Upkey

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Welcome to world’s only student incubator. Sign up for free and Get a great resume, perfect your pitch, and polish your professional image.

UpKey was founded in 2016 by Amir Badr.. .

Eazl

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Eazl provides affordable, tech-enabled business education for the modern world to more than 150,000 students worldwide. We create cinematic, high-quality learning experiences with student support from real human beings.

Our mission is to provide meaningful and affordable digital educational experiences to as many people on the planet as possible.. .

College Engine

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College Engine provides student applicants and academic institutions with a transparent online marketplace. It enables students to access a more efficient process for application while enabling academic institutions to contact and enroll students who may not have otherwise applied to their school.

College Engine was founded in 2018 and headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.. .

Northwestern University Clinical &Translational Sciences Institute (NUCATS)

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Northwestern University Clinical &Translational Sciences Institute (NUCATS) is a non profit organisation.

Otus

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Otus is an awesome Chicago-based company that is making serious waves in the EdTech industry. The Otus Student Performance Platform is the teaching and learning platform that all school stakeholders use to track and visualize student interests, academic performance, social-emotional well-being, and growth over time.

For more information visit: otus.com. .

DMDII

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The Digital Manufacturing and Design Innovation Institute (DMDII) is where innovative manufacturers go to forge their futures.

American Medical Association

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To promote the art and science of medicine and the betterment of public health.

LinkiBag Inc.

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LinkiBag is the best place to keep your links on the web. Our platform is changing the way web users manage their links by providing an all-in-one platform where they can save, organize, and easily share their links across different web browsers and devices.

A standard free LinkiBag account gives users the ability to save all their favorite links in a central location, organize the links into categories for easy reference, and share their links and comments with anyone via email or through LinkiBag Instant Share ID. For sharing multiple links, LinkiBag allows users to create LinkiBooks – or link collections – that they can add their own notes to and share across the web.

LinkiBag is great for sharing links with friends and for collaborative efforts for work, education, training and research. LinkiBag is an online-based service that doesn’t require any additional software other than the standard web browser..

LearnCore

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LearnCore is a cloud-based learning platform, focused on “mission critical” skills development and the creation of more top performers for your organization. Its collaborative technology saves time and allows participants to quickly practice a skill/response and learn from top performers.

Managers & Executives get intelligence knowing where their team stands and where the gaps lie. See why employees love to use LearnCore, contact us for a demo: http://learncore.com/request-demo/.

New Futuro

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We provide a high-touch, high-tech bilingual educational community to help families get their students into college and beyond. We offer free tools, resources and ongoing guidance to help Latinos achieve their educational and career goals.

| Brindamos una comunidad educativa bilingüe de alto contacto comunitario y tecnológico para ayudar a las familias a que sus estudiantes lleguen a la universidad y más allá. Ofrecemos herramientas, recursos y orientación continua para ayudar a los latinos a alcanzar sus metas educativas y profesionales..

TopstepTrader

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TopstepTrader is a financial organization that enables resource traders to develop and learn in the trading industry without risking personal trading capital. Its product portfolio includes “Trading Combine”, an evaluation program that allows traders to prove their skills, while trading on a real-time simulated account using a preferred platform.

Traders who meet the objective of “Trading Combine” can earn a funded trading account with no personal capital contribution. For those who are not ready for their performance to be evaluated in the “Trading Combine”, TopstepTrader University offers comprehensive trading education services.

It also provides traders with the skills necessary to complete the “Trading Combine” or increase profitability in their personal trading account. Traders enrolled in TopstepTrader University and the “Trading Combine” account also have access to daily radio broadcasts and 24 hour chat rooms.

The radio broadcast provides listeners with up-to-the-minute market updates, professional trader interviews and segments, weekly webinars, and more. Through the chat community, users can interact with other traders, discuss the markets, and ask questions from on-air experts.

Topstep Trader was founded in 2010 by [Michael Patak](https://www.crunchbase.com/person/michael-patak) and it is based in Chicago, I.L.. .

Albert.io

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Albert.io bridges the gap between learning and mastery with interactive content written by world-class educators.

Primo Center for Women and Children

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Primo Center for Women and Children is a Non-profit organisation.

Next College Student Athlete

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At NCSA Next College Student Athlete, we believe in the transformative power of sports. Since 2000, our team of recruiting experts has helped high school student-athletes, their families, coaches, and athletic directors navigate the complex process of college recruiting.

We are former college coaches, athletes and sports-minded individuals who are dedicated to giving back to our sports by helping new generations play at the next level. We are headquartered in Chicago, with many opportunities for remote or telecommuting professionals..

Encyclopaedia Britannica

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Britannica is a part of the Britannica Group (Encyclopaedia Britannica®, Britannica® Digital Learning, Britannica Knowledge Systems®, Merriam-Webster®, and Melingo®), a global knowledge leader whose flagship products inspire curiosity and the joy of learning on multiple platforms and devices. Encyclopaedia Britannica, founded in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1768, marks its 250th anniversary this year and its 25th anniversary on the Internet.

A pioneer in digital learning since the 1980s, the company today serves the needs of students, lifelong learners, and professionals by providing curriculum products, language-study courses, digital encyclopedias, and professional readiness training through its extensive product portfolio.. .

Spotivity

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spotivity aims to change the way teens live, work, and play. Our overall goal is to help all young people transition successfully to professional life by their mid-twenties.

This goal will position spotivity as an invaluable personal guidance assistant for everyone engaged with the platform – the user’s personal “genie.” spotivity is a dynamic marketplace platform and personal utility app. Using our native app and SaaS web platform, spotivity A) maximizes afterschool time for the targeted 13-17 user and B) helps Providers increase both participant growth and retention rates.

spotivity, thanks to its proprietary algorithm, helps identify impactful programming, removes key logistical barriers, promotes positive networking, all the while providing a platform for corporate marketers to engage with a key demographic market. This self-sustainable platform will become a key lifestyle/social utility and grow in importance as the user ages.

spotivity will be the harbinger of all things afterschool.. .

In-telligent

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In-telligent provides quick delivery, access, and viewing of messages to the right people, in the right places, under the most severe and challenging conditions. Unlike other emergency communications solutions, In-telligent’s innovative technology forces recipients to take notice and read the message the moment it is received.

They do this though a unique methodology that delivers a distinct auditory signal to break through devices, even when placed on ‘silent’ or ‘do not disturb’ modes. Hundreds of businesses, municipalities, special interest groups, and other organizations use In-telligent to get important and life-saving messages to the people connected to them on the app.

HighBeam Research

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HighBeam Research, Inc. operates as an online library and research tool for individuals, students, and small businesses.

The company focuses on newspaper archives, journal articles, magazine back issues, and reference works; book reviews, medical and nursing journals, and psychology journals; business, companies, entertainment, government, health, news, politics, sports, technology, and travel; business and technology; hobby and personal interest publications; and Britannica concise encyclopedia, reference works from Oxford University Press, ColumbiaEncyclopedia, dictionaries, thesauruses, and almanacs. It enables professionals to track industry research, news, and trends in various fields, such as consulting, business, education, finance, health care, journalism and literature, public relations, and research; students and professors to research for assignments and course plans, which include English and literature, history, medicine and health care, nursing, physical therapy, and psychology; individuals and families to search articles for book reviews, childhood development, financial advice, history, and medical research.

The company was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. As of December 15, 2008, HighBeam Research, Inc.

operates as a subsidiary of Gale, Inc. HighBeam Research has created several blogs that offer content directly from their online research tool.

These include: BackStories: http://blog.highbeam.com Arrive Prepared: http://blog.highbeambusiness.com/ Questia: http://blog.questia.com. .

Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation

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The Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the University of Chicago runs two programs that invests in UChicago-affiliated teams: the Edward L. Kaplan, ’71, New Venture Challenge (NVC) program and the Polsky Center Accelerator Program.

For more information and details on how to apply, please visit: http://chicagonvc.com or http://polskycenter.com/accelerator/. .

CASL

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CASL is a non-profit organization that provides social services such as english language classes, job training & child care for immigrants.

TestCred

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TestCred is a mobile application that provides innovative ways for students to prepare for standardized tests and classroom curriculum. Its objective is to address each student’s need individually with its patented adaptive learning algorithm and provide individualized services that help students retain what they have learned.

All its services are provided free of cost or at a nominal cost to the student. TestCred was founded in 2014 by [Nick Gupta](https://www.crunchbase.com/person/nick-gupta) and is based in Chicago, I.L..

Britannica Knowledge Systems

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With over two decades of experience in providing training management systems, Britannica Knowledge Systems is the vendor of choice for leading training providers worldwide. As the industry’s most comprehensive and scalable solution, Fox successfully supports the complex requirements of training programs.

Fox’s unique features boost operational efficiency, optimize resource utilization, significantly improve your customers’ satisfaction, and increases revenues.. .

Innovare – Social Innovation Partners

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Our all-in-one data, strategy and project management app Inno™ empowers education and NGO leaders to impact students and communities.

Magna-Tiles

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Since 1992, Valtech llc offers innovative magnetic building tiles designed to hold a child’s interest and attention, build critical developmental skills and promote imaginative play and creativity. Valtech’s Magna-Tiles® are used in preschools, day cares, kindergartens, classrooms, children’s museums, and homes around the world.

Parents, teachers, and children of all ages love Magna-Tiles!. .

Amerigo Education

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Amerigo supports international students at U.S. high schools with a holistic and supportive approach that emphasizes success and growth.They help international students seeking a preparatory education in the United States thrive both in and out of the American classroom.

Combining a nurturing boarding environment, supplemental academic support, English language development, and an approach oriented around successful college outcomes, Amerigo prepares students with the skills, values, and care required to succeed in high school, at the college level, and beyond.. .

Aidhenscorner

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Aidhen’s Corner provides busy parents with educational and fun activities for their kids.

Veriown Global

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Veriown is bringing internet-connected solar energy to the remotest parts of the planet to electrify the 1.2 billion people around the world

FastModel Sports

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We create software, mobile apps & educational content for #NBA #NCAA and amateur coaches and players. #NBAXsOs #NCAAXsOs #FastDrawTop100

Evolve Security Academy

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Evolve is a Cyber Security Bootcamp that prepares individuals to enter the coveted and fast growing Information Security industry. Students receive hands-on training from highly experienced industry professionals, that provide concrete practical skills that are needed to land or advance a career.

Their primary focus is on creating top-tier cyber security talent and placing them into high-paying jobs.. .

Merrill Edge

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Merrill Edge is a discount brokerage service provided by Merrill Lynch.

GetAFive

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GetAFive is an online AP test prep tool that offers video reviews from expert teachers, customized study plans, practice tests, and more. In addition to AP review close to test time, students can use GetAFive to review for regular tests in AP classes during the school year.

Students who purchase an AP class review from GetAFive begin with a diagnostic test to see what areas they need to work on the most. They then have access to individual video lessons from expert teachers, each of which is followed by a review quiz and includes study notes.

Once the reviews are completed, students can take practice exams and opt to have their free response questions hand-graded by AP teachers. Parents with a GetAFive account can purchase classes on behalf of their students, monitor students’ progress on video lessons, and see quiz and test results.

GetAFive was founded in 2012 by Lindsay Cohen and Danny Levi, and is backed by venture capital firm and startup foundry Sandbox Industries.. .

trainr.com

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Trainr.com is an online marketplace for personal fitness & training that allows consumers to search for and book trainers of all types.

readeo

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Readeo provides a service called BookChat that lets friends and family read stories together no matter how far apart they are. Using digital children’s books and streaming video chat, BookChatting allows users to see, hear, and interact with one another as they would if they were reading in person.

Publisher partners include Simon & Schuster, Candlewick Press, Chronicle Books, and Blue Apple Books.. .

Provide

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Provide helps entrepreneurs build stronger childcare businesses. We do this through a software-based back office that automates child care providers’ government-facing administrative work.

Today, providers face complex regulatory burdens that lead to thousands of dollars of lost income and hundreds of hours spent on administration annually. These problems are more acute for providers who serve low-income families who pay with government subsidies.

Provide helps child care providers increase their incomes and spend less time on administration. It also reduces the risk of accepting government subsidies, enabling providers to serve the families who need them most.

Our service includes three core verticals: (1) assistance claiming public funding; (2) licensing and compliance support; and (3) expense tracking to maximize tax deductions. As we grow, Provide will also connect child care providers to ongoing political work to help them advocate for a streamlined system of fully-funded early childhood education.

Provide is the winner of the 2017 Social New Venture Challenge and a member of the 2017 Polsky Summer Accelerator cohort. Provide was also recognized as one of Chicago Inno’s 2017 50 on Fire..

Altris.AI

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SaaS, Mobile App, ophthalmology deep learning platform for automatic, quantitative analysis and detection retinal diseases.

TradersHighway

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TradersHighway is a Chicago-based online platform that connects traders with educators. It allows traders to find the industry experts they admire and educators to reach new followers who value their ideas and strategies.

TradersHighway launched a public beta site in March 2013. TradersHighway was founded in 2013 by [Elizabeth Mihas](https://www.crunchbase.com/person/elizabeth-mihas), an 18 year veteran and partner from McKinsey & Company, and [Sandeep Dayal](https://www.crunchbase.com/person/sandeep-dayal), a serial entrepreneur and also a former consultant from McKinsey.

It is located in Chicago and is a subsidiary of iKONVERSE.com group of companies.. .

AdaptiBar

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AdaptiBar provides bar exam preparation tools and services to law students and lawyers preparing for bar examinations.

Campus Consortium

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Campus Consortium is a leading education association with more than 37,000 higher education institutions and K-12 school district members.

ASUG

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Now made up of more than 100,000 individuals at 3,800 companies in more than 17 industries across the SAP ecosystem, ASUG is the world’s largest independent SAP users’ group. ASUG’s members are professionals and personalities of varied skills and experience levels.

Many of them are technical and business process experts and respected thought leaders in the SAP ecosystem. They represent a wide variety of organizations, from small businesses to global corporations to distinguished universities.

In fact, ASUG’s University Connection members are among the academic leaders committed to educating and empowering the next generation of business and technology leaders. ASUG’s Affiliate members are also particularly valuable.

In addition to providing product expertise and a specialized brand of thought leadership, they offer complimentary or discounted products and services to SAP customers. ASUG relies on the passion, experiences, and commitment of more than 400 volunteer leaders at the Special Interest Group (SIG) and Chapter levels.

These volunteers act on behalf of their companies to help shape the direction of 91 SIGs and 38 Chapter communities.. .

Themis Bar Review

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Themis Bar Review is a professional training company specializing in online education and exam preparation services.

GiveBackBox

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GiveBackBox is an organization that provides an innovative and effortless method of donating goods. It aims to maximize worldwide donations of household items on a scale never previously thought possible.

GiveBackBox was founded on June 20, 2012 and is based in Chicago, Illinois.. .

FastWeb.com

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Fastweb is the premier online resource for paying and preparing for college. For fifteen years, company have excelled in providing students with the resources to realize their educational pursuits, from the time they begin their college search in high school to the day they land their first job after graduation.

Fastweb members are matched to relevant scholarship opportunities completely free of charge. With roughly 1.5 million scholarships worth over $3.4 billion, there are scholarships for every studentâ€:tm:s educational goals, activities and interests.

Additionally, Fastweb members can depend on them for insider financial aid tips and job and internship matches in their. .

DESIGNATION Labs

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DESIGNATION is the Original Design Bootcamp for Aspiring Designers with a 95% Job Placement Rate. Learn UX, UI, and Front-end Development.

Guy Counseling

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For men’s wellness, relationship, grooming, and fashion advice – Guy Counseling Over 700,000 unique readers and 4,000,000+ pages served every month. Cultured, smart, and expertly curated, Guy Counseling is the place men go when seeking answers.

In just a few years, Guy Counseling has has become the place guys go to find out about topics nobody else is talking about. Our contributors span the globe with many who are experts in their respective fields.

Guy Counseling covers a wide range of topics, including mental health, fashion pieces, upcoming brands to watch, grooming and cologne, popular items and technology, lifestyle features, product reviews, cars, travel guides, dating and current events. Research related news important to men.

Guy Counseling has over 10 active contributors.. .

Better Impact

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Better Impact is a provider of a volunteer management software created for volunteer training.

Infiniteach

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Infiniteach is dedicated to autism innovation through technology and training. It is a digital learning platform for one in 68 children diagnosed with autism.

Its first product, Skill Champ, makes it easy for parents and teachers to create customized lessons that are rooted in evidence-based autism interventions. Infiniteach was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois..

Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning

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Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL) is an organization that advances the development of academic, social, and emotional competence for all students. Their mission is to help make evidence-based social and emotional learning (SEL) an integral part of education from preschool through high school.

Through research, practice and policy, CASEL collaborates to ensure all students become knowledgeable, responsible, caring and contributing members of society. Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL) is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois..

Learn It Live

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Learn It Live powers online education for organizations around the world. Using a Learn It Live Learning Center, any organization, brand, or expert can easily launch its own online learning platform with classes customized for its audience.

Whether the classes are taught by your experts or experts from the Learn It Live network, your participants get real-time, personal instruction from a top mind. We believe in the power of online education to spread knowledge, and have created a turnkey platform that allows any organization to easily leverage the power of online learning.

Since 2009, the Learn It Live team has worked passionately on online education. Our entire team is dedicated to the continued practice of spreading knowledge by making top-quality online education available to all..

SchoolBridge

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SchoolBridge is a company that brings all school records to one centralized location.

Questia

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Questia Media operates Questia, an online commercial digital library of books and articles with an academic orientation. Questia includes various scholarly books, articles, academic journals, magazines, and newspapers as well as provides various resources needed to complete college-level and core-curriculum course assignments.

The library covers various topics such as art and architecture, communication, controversial, economics and business, education, history, law, English and literature, music and performing arts, philosophy, politics and government, psychology, religion, science and technology, sociology, and anthropology. It also provides online research tools that enable users to save and organize highlights, notes, and bookmarks in their project folders for quick reference as well as generate professional and professor-approved citations and bibliographies; and develop an understanding of the research process through short and instructive tutorials consisting of videos, PDF examples, and quizzes.

In addition, Questia Media enables instructors to select and assign students readings and research tutorials for writing a research paper to complete for their coursework. Its solutions are also used by students, librarians, college professors, and high school educators.

Questia Media was founded in 1998 and is based in Chicago, Illinois.. .

Promotable

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Ed-tech company closing the data skills gap.

PrepMe

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PrepMe is an adaptive learning company coming out of the University of Chicago’s business incubator. Founded in 2001, the company offers test preparation for the SAT, PSAT, and ACT, using an adaptive algorithm to customize the preparation course for each student.

While many other companies have claimed to “invent” adaptive learning platforms, PrepMe was the first to market in the March 2011 opening of its Coursificationâ„¢ platform. Unlike many other test prep offerings, PrepMe doesn’t calculate the best lesson plan once, but continuously as you work your way through the material.

Their system keeps track of what questions you get right and wrong, working you harder on the types of questions you miss. Additionally, customers can connect electronically, using email or real time chat, with high scoring college students who serve as tutors.

In February 2007 the company announced that in conjunction with a philanthropist, they are making their services available to every high school junior in the state of Maine for three years. In 2008, PrepMe won a Chicago Innovation Award for its revolutionary approach to test prep.

In 2011, the Software Information Industry Association listed PrepMe as one of its top 10 innovators for the company’s Coursification™ platform. In July 2011, the company announced that its online classroom and Coursification™ platform had been acquired by Ascend Learning, backed by Providence Equity.

PrepMe will continue providing test prep and Coursificationâ„¢ services to the K-12 market.. .

Coding Temple

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Coding Temple was founded in 2014 with the fundamental goal of preparing students for the most in-demand development jobs in the industry through an in-depth, accelerated curriculum. Coding Temple provides an intensive, portfolio-based curriculum in order to prime eager applicants with the skills needed to enter the Web Development job market.

Through a mixture of interactive group discussions, hands-on-exercises, and individual projects, participants gain competency in skills such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, C#, T-SQL, AngularJS, Git, ASP.NET MVC, and EntityFramework. All of our courses are delivered by experienced instructors, and we maintain a low student-to-faculty ratio.

These two factors are paramount to effectively communicating our course material in a short amount of time. We also work to develop the “soft skills” of our participants, and assist them in finding and interviewing for potential job opportunities, ensuring them a long and successful career as web developers..

Youtopia

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Youtopia is a student engagement platform that provides instant access to plug-and-play gamification tools.

Women Tech Founders

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Women Tech Founders is on a mission to empower women through technology. They’re a grassroots media and event company that inspires women to reach their dreams through technology.

Their goal is to build diversity in tech. Research shows that diversity helps solve difficult tech and social challenges by bringing unique solutions to problems.

To reach this goal they are creating an educational video library showcasing women tech founders, from every industry, age and race. Because every aspiring tech builder should have an opportunity to learn from a role model that they can relate to..

TCS Education System

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TCS Education System prepares innovative, engaged, purposeful agents of change who serve our global community.

Classroom IQ

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ClassroomIQ is a fast, online grading tool for teachers. Grade hundreds of questions in minutes.

Use your existing assignment formats. Instant analysis for immediate feedback.

Works on any web connected device.. .

The Good Life Organization

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To support the positive development of youth.

L Street Collaborative

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L Street Collaborative is a venture holding company. We buy, build, operate and invest in early-stage technology companies that improve the world, with a long-term perspective in mind.

The company’s active products include a student information system working with higher education institutions, a project portfolio management software and an innovative Lost & Found platform. We are also actively working on projects focused on innovative ways for individuals to find both new careers and new projects.

L Street Collaborative was founded in 2013 and is based in Downers Grove, Illinois.. .

Sage Corps

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Sage Corps is an international experiential learning program that sends top college and university students to work at foreign technology startups. Apart from the experience at a startup, Sage Corps also immerses its representatives in the host country’s entrepreneurial and business ecosystem.

It attends to investor pitches, demo days, and roundtable discussions at venture capital funds, startup incubators, government ministries, and multinational corporations. Sage Corps also helps students pursue their next job opportunities through the Sage Network and its community of corporate partners.

Sage Corps was founded by Matt Meltzer in 2012. It is based in Chicago, Illinois..

TMR Technology

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TMR Technology is a mobile application that tracks school buses for parents and students grades K-12.

Trading Advantage

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Trading Advantage History Founded in 1994, Trading Advantage is a pioneer in the financial education industry. We have taught thousands of students in over 40 countries across the globe to learn to trade Mirroring the growth of the entire industry, Trading Advantage has evolved from its roots to the Trading floor.

Larry Levin, founding partner and president, has deep ties to the trading floor as he began as a runner at the old Chicago Mercantile Exchange in the early 1990s. Larry quickly climbed the ranks from phone clerk to desk manager to eventually trading his own account.

At the height of his trading career, Larry averaged between 2500-3000 S&P contracts per day to become both a profitable and respected trader in the E-mini S&P 500 futures pit. From his years of experience on the trading floor, Larry recognized that successful trading over the long haul requires a sound strategy and a specific plan.

Sensing the inevitable shift away from the open outcry pits to an electronic marketplace, Larry founded Trading Advantage to share the secrets of his success with a larger audience. He partnered with Josh Lewis in 1998 and they are joint owners of the company..

Now a nationally recognized media figure, Larry has been interviewed hundreds of times on virtually every major financial media outlet including CNBC, Bloomberg TV, and Fox Business News. Over recent years, Trading Advantage has grown to a full-fledged investment school with a staff of 40 plus dedicated industry leaders.

We are committed to being both technological and educational innovators as we continue to refine, improve and update our infrastructure and educational materials. We have partnered with industry leaders who are at the technology forefront including Lightspeed VT , ESIgnal and Bluewater Trading Technology.