This article showcases our top picks for the best New York based Education companies. These startups and companies operate a variety of Education solutions. We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands. Regardless, they are all exceptional startups and companies well worth a follow.
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We selected these startups for exceptional performance in one of these categories:
- Innovation
- Innovative ideas
- Innovative route to market
- Innovative product
- Growth
- Exceptional growth
- Exceptional growth strategy
- Management
- Societal impact
What is EdTech?
Educational technology is the combined use of computer hardware, software, and educational theory and practice to facilitate learning. When referred to with its abbreviation, EdTech, it is often referring to the industry of companies that create educational technology. (Source)
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Top New York Education Companies
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Skillshare is an online learning community with thousands of inspiring classes for creative and curious people, on topics including illustration, design, photography, video, freelancing, and more. The company’s community offers classes on any type of skill, from baking cupcakes to raising startup capital to varying fields in design, business, and technology, enabling members to harness their creative power and learn skills in an enhanced way.
The company was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in New York.. .
ExecOnline
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ExecOnline is a provider of school-certified online executive education programs used to transform how companies deliver professional development to their executives. The company partners with elite business schools to enable executives at the world’s largest companies to master and apply critical insights and practical solutions.
ExecOnline breaks the compromise between cost and quality through a dynamic and interactive online learning environment that scales across the enterprise and fosters collaborative skill-building. ExecOnline provides school partners with everything they need to successfully develop online executive education programs including a customizable learning management system, online instructional design, and full sales and marketing capabilities..
General Assembly
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General Assembly provides education and career transformation, specializing in today’s most in-demand skills. The leading source for training, staffing, and career transitions, we foster a flourishing community of professionals pursuing careers they love.
It was founded in 2011 and headquartered in New York, United States.. .
Kaltura
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Kaltura’s mission is to power any video experience, for any organization. Kaltura provides live, real-time and on-demand video SaaS solutions to thousands of organizations around the world, engaging hundreds of millions of viewers at home, at work, and at school.
Its off-the-shelf SaaS products are known for their unparalleled flexibility, modularity, extendibility, and ease of integration. They are all built on top of hundreds of open APIs for video ingestion, transcoding, metadata management, distribution, publishing, engagement, monetization, and analytics.
Enterprises use Kaltura in a wide array of video solutions that are changing the way companies approach training, collaboration, communication, marketing, and sales. Educational Institutions transforming their classroom experience and education services with video solutions for teaching and learning, in the lecture hall and beyond.
Media, Pay-TV Providers, and Telecom Companies provide a robust Cloud TV Platform to launch and operate a next-generation Cloud TV service. Telecommunication companies launch a robust Cloud TV Platform and operate a next-generation Cloud TV service.
Developers and Technology Companies – leverage Kaltura’s Video Platform-as-a-Service, enabling organizations to create any video solution and workflow, whether standalone or tightly integrated When Kaltura was founded in 2006, it believed video was going to be a more powerful and engaging data type than text. It then executed upon this vision to provide organizations with tools and methodologies to leverage video as a way to revolutionize the way they communicate, collaborate, work, learn, and entertain by making video a seamless and accessible part of every application and workflow..
Codecademy
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Codecademy helps millions of learners around the world obtain the skills they need to succeed in today’s digital world — all in a way that’s fun, free, and accessible anywhere. Codecademy is different from any other learning experience; it’s designed to complement the way people want to learn in the twenty-first century.
Through Codecademy’s web- and mobile-based platforms, learners discover concepts such as HTML/CSS, Javascript/jQuery, Python, Ruby, PHP, and APIs by actually building things and getting constant feedback from peers. Codecademy is an entirely new, networked approach to learning in which you interact with students across the globe, build amazing projects, and – most importantly – apply your skills to improve your life..
Neverware
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Neverware develops desktop operating systems designed to optimize security and manageability. Neverware is a Google-funded company, is the developer of the CloudReady operating system, which enables schools and enterprise organizations to cost-effectively transform their existing computers into simple, secure, and fast machines that can be managed right alongside Chromebooks in the Google Admin console.
It was founded in 2011 and headquartered in New York, United States.. .
Newsela
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Newsela is an Instructional Content Platform that combines engaging, leveled content with integrated formative assessments and insights to supercharge engagement and learning in every subject. Students and teachers use Newsela to find digital content from hundreds of the best sources—from National Geographic to NASA, Biography.com to Encyclopedia Britannica, the Washington Post to the Wichita Eagle.
Content is instructionalized to meet students where they are, with interactive tools and analytics to take them where they want to go. Newsela has become an essential solution for schools and districts, with a presence in over 90% of U.S.
K-12 schools. Newsela is the content platform for the connected classroom..
Teachable
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Teachable (formerly Fedora) is changing education by making it easy to teach or sell courses online. Teacher entrepreneurs use Teachable to run their own courses work with almost half a million students online.
In a matter of minutes, Teachable allows you to create a beautiful and powerful, payment-ready course from your own website without any technical knowledge. While many use Teachable for asynchronous video-based classes teachers have used it to sell books, services, offline-online classes, group coaching, tutoring and webinars..
WayUp
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WayUp connects students with jobs during and after college — from summer internships to part-time gigs to full-time jobs after graduation. Businesses post a job to a targeted audience of students at any US college, and students can browse through jobs and apply for free.
It was created in 2014 and is headquartered in New York, United States.. .
Noodle Markets
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EDUCATORS, we know you’re tired of dodging sales calls. We appreciate that Google searches and tradeshow floors don’t always show the best options, and that bid management is backbreaking.
Our team knows these things because we have worked in K-12 districts, so we get it. Finding and buying excellent products is simply too hard.
VENDORS, we know that it’s tremendously difficult to get traction in K-12, even for superb products. We’ve toiled on RFP responses, and we know how few sales calls get returned.
Our team has worked for education vendors, large and small – so we feel your pain, too. At Noodle Markets, we believe that 21st-century tools can revolutionize K-12 purchasing.
So, we’ve brought together savvy education leaders to build the marketplace that we wanted when we were in your shoes. It’s essential work, and we have lofty goals: Increased transparency for educators.
A level playing field for vendors. Efficient procurement processes.
Schoology
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Schoology, a CODiE-award-winning learning management solution, provides a rich, collaborative learning environment that engages digital natives with the technology they enjoy using. This versatile solution is designed to meet the learning and administrative needs of K-12, higher ed, and corporate settings.
Schoology allows for individual subscriptions and school or district-wide enterprise packages. Individual subscriptions allow schools to try the system in a limited number of classrooms before deciding to implement it on a larger scale.
Teachers and professors can sign up on their own to start using the system independently.. .
DataCamp
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DataCamp is an interactive learning platform for data science. Learn R, Python, SQL & Spark from the comfort of your browser with over 100 courses featuring high-quality video, in-browser coding, and gamification.
Courses are taught by experts and range from importing data, data visualization, machine learning, deep learning & more. Looking to train your employees with crucial data science skills? DataCamp for Business is the most scalable, cost effective way for managers to train and educate their analytics and data science teams.
Hundreds of companies leverage DataCamp for training new hires, transitioning from commercial to open source software, and for continuing education including clients such as eBay, BCI, Harvard, and GfK.. .
Teachers Pay Teachers
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Teachers Pay Teachers (or TpT, as they call it) is a community of over 4 million educators who come together to share their work, insights, and inspiration with each other. TpT is the world’s first and largest open marketplace where teachers share, sell, and buy original educational resources.
There are more than 2 million available resources for every aspect of PreK-12 education. In the last year alone, two in three U.S.
teachers downloaded a teaching resource from TpT. They’re looking for engineers, designers, product managers, community and customer support specialists with a deep sense of mission to support educators around the world..
HOMER
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HOMER is a developer of an educational application used to offer a learn-to-read program for kids. The company offers personalized, fun, and proven to learn products for kids ages 2-8 to help build confidence, mastery, and a love of learning.
Its learning experts have crafted the HOMER Method to support parents in delivering knowledge, personal development, and motivation, a recipe for growing, enthusiastic, lifelong learners. HOMER combines a child’s passions and current reading level to create a personalized learn-to-read plan on their Android phone or tablet.
It includes thousands of lessons and games on the alphabet, phonics, sight words, and more. HOMER was founded in 2013 and is based in New York, NY, USA..
Atom Finance
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Atom is the modern financial knowledge platform. Our mission is to democratize access to high-quality investment research resources.
KÜDZOO
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KÜDZOO is a free mobile application that rewards students with deals, giveaways, scholarship opportunities, concert tickets.
Frank
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Frank’s online platform streamlines and simplifies the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA®) application process. Its mission is to help students reach their greatest potential by getting the most value from their education.
Frank aims to assist each student and help them get their maximum financial aid.. .
Knewton
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Knewton’s mission is to personalize learning for the world. Teachers, schools, and education companies around the world use Knewton to power digital course materials that dynamically adapt to each student’s unique needs.
Knewton provides students with tailored recommendations for exactly what to study, teachers with analytics to better support each student, and publishers with content insights to develop more effective digital products. Knewton was founded in 2008 and has offices in New York City, London, Tokyo, Singapore, and Dubai.
Knewton has been recognized globally as a “Technology Pioneer” (World Economic Forum in Davos) and several times as one of the top 10 most innovative companies in education (Fast Company).. .
360Learning
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360Learning empowers Learning and Development teams to drive culture and growth through Collaborative Learning. Our learning platform combines collaborative tools with the power of an LMS, enabling high-growth companies to unlock learning based on collective expertise instead of top-down knowledge.
360Learning is the easiest way to onboard new employees, train customer-facing teams, and develop professional skills–all from one place. 360Learning powers the future of work at 1,200 organizations, including Toyota, Criteo, and Airbus.
Founded in 2012, 360Learning has raised $41 million with 180 team members across New York, Paris, and London.. .
Noodle
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Noodle is a U.S.-based organization that helps students make decisions about education. Through unbiased data and real-world advice, Noodle connects students with schools, programs, resources, experts, and more.
Noodle Education was founded in 2010 by John Katzman, the founder of The Princeton Review and 2U.. .
BEGiN
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BEGiN is the award-winning education technology company that creates engaging and effective learning products to bring the highest quality education to young children everywhere. Their library of interactive stories helps their child fall in love with reading while building critical skills.
BEGiN’s investors and partners include some of the most recognized and well-loved children’s brands including Sesame Workshop, LEGO Ventures, Gymboree Play and Music, and Fisher-Price. BEGiN was co-founded by Neal Shenoy, Noelle Millholt, and Stephanie Dua and is one of Crain’s 100 Best Places to Work in New York City..
PresenceLearning
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PresenceLearning makes live, online special education related services available to K-12 students around the United States. As the leader in the delivery of clinical services via the web, PresenceLearning has provided over 2.5 million teletherapy sessions.
Services include speech-language therapy, occupational therapy, behavioral interventions and mental health services, assessments, and early childhood services.. .
Goalsetter
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Goalsetter is a goal-based savings and gifting platform, made just for kids and powered by those who love them. Goalsetter combines the best of goal-based savings platforms like Digit and Acorns with the best of gift-registries like Zola and Honeyfund, and in so doing, targets the millennial mom with a platform that enables families to contribute to kids’ future goals instead of buying them more consumer goods.
In turn, Goalsetter becomes the first savings vehicle for kids, turning first-time savers into all-the-time savers and giving kids healthy financial habits that will last a lifetime.. .
IVY
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IVY is poised to be the global 21st century version of a top University, with a decentralized lifelong member-base across 50 hub cities. We will disrupt the $4 trillion global education market as the leading platform mobilizing passionate individuals towards entrepreneurship, arts, social impact, policy, and wellness.
The average IVY member is an influential high income millennial who is 31 years old. Our vision is to establish a lifelong membership spanning from adolescence to late adulthood.
IVY has more than 20,000 members across 7 US cities and is hosting 1,000+ gatherings with foremost thought-leaders, cultural institutions, venues, and brands in 2017. It is the number one community that mobilizes the next generation towards entrepreneurship, art, philanthropy, policy and wellness.
Founded by Harvard Business School classmates Beri Meric and Philipp Triebel, IVY is currently based across New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Washington D.C., Boston, Chicago and Miami, with upcoming international expansions scheduled for London, Hong Kong, and Dubai.. .
Noodle Partners
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Noodle Partners creates innovative online and hybrid programs while improving traditional classroom models.
Thinkful
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Thinkful provides 1-on-1 learning through its network of industry experts, hiring partners, and online platform to deliver a structured and flexible education. It offers programs in web development and data science, with in-person communities in up-and-coming tech hubs around the U.S.
Thinkful is founded in 2012.. .
Paragon One
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Paragon One turns company work projects into scalable, online learning experiences called Remote Externships. Remote externships give students a flexible way to get their first taste of what it is like to work in different industries, no matter where they live or study.
For companies, remote externships serve as scalable, early talent identification and training programs that can reach more diverse, overlooked and underserved student populations.. .
Credly
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Credly is helping the world speak a common language about people’s knowledge, skills, and abilities. Thousands of employers, training organizations, associations, certification programs, and workforce development initiatives use Credly to help individuals translate their learning experiences into professional opportunities using trusted, portable, digital credentials.
Credly empowers organizations to attract, engage, develop, and retain talent with enterprise-class tools that generate data-driven insights to address skills gaps and highlight opportunities through an unmatched global network of credential issuers. Unleash the workforce..
Grovo
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Grovo is the world’s leading MicrolearningⓇ solution, combining an adaptive and customizable Microlearning library with a modern, flexible learning experience platform. With Grovo, it’s simple to discover, design, and deliver world-class Microlearning experiences—anywhere, anytime, on any device.
Grovo’s proprietary, award-winning Microlearning method is media-rich, science-backed, and created by experts to match the way we learn today. Grovo helps develop happy, skilled employees at hundreds of forward-thinking companies like PepsiCo, Gap Inc., Magellan Health, and the National Basketball Association.
Established in 2010 with offices in NYC and SF, Grovo is backed by some of the world’s best investors, including Accel Partners and Costanoa Ventures. Learn more at www.grovo.com..
Voxy
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Voxy provides truly personalized English language instruction to corporations, educational institutions, and governments across the globe. Based on more than 30 years of academic research, Voxy’s solution meets the needs of each user by combining patented technology that adapts lessons in real-time with personalized live instruction all delivered in a fully mobile experience.
Launched in 2010, it has been used by millions of learners and hundreds of institutions in over 50 different countries. Voxy’s innovative approach has been recognized by major media outlets including The New York Times, Forbes, and CNN.
Backed by leading investors in education technology, Voxy is headquartered in New York City and has an office in São Paulo.. .
Matific
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Matific takes a unique approach to teaching K to 6 math using hands-on and interactive mini-games, called episodes. These immersive bite-sized apps for tablets and personal computers are based on a modular and progressive spiral learning system.The Matific approach was designed to provide optimal support for educators to convey math concepts in as effective and engaging manner as possible.
Matific episodes enable a blended learning approach.Having selected the relevant episodes, teachers can seamlessly integrate hands-on math explorations into their own class learning format.. .
Podia
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Podia is an operator of an online storefront for online courses and digital products. It provides customized and easy-to-use content for free providing tutors with a website, course builder, and online tools to help them grow their businesses and reach more students.
Podia was established in 2014 and is headquartered in New York.. .
Goodwall
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Goodwall is a social development platform for young people to connect over shared interests and discover opportunities.
ClassTag
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The free ClassTag service transforms the way teachers connect with parents, allowing them to save time and focus on classroom education and activities rather than preparing and distributing parent notes and communications. With ClassTag, teachers can reach parents in over 50 languages through any channel including online, via email or text message, and even paper printouts.
The cloud-based ClassTag platform inspires and rewards parent engagement with ClassTag Rewards, full of classroom supplies and learning products for the classrooms.. .
CareDox
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CareDox delivers free health technology for K-12 public schools to help school nurses deliver care and keep students safe. It is a digital health platform for the largest and most consistent health delivery system in the country.
Their mission is to work with partners to provide a unified health record for every family. CareDox leverages pediatric health data and this country’s most successful public health organization, the K-12 school system, to improve outcomes and learn about clinical health data outside of the provider’s office.
Traditional care coordination stops short of sending essential care instructions to School Nurses and thus increases the risk of stopped or inconsistent post-discharge care delivery. By closing the link in the pediatric care continuum, children stay healthy and get better faster..
Memorial Sloan – Kettering Cancer Center
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Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center — the world’s oldest and largest private cancer center — has devoted more than 130 years to exceptional patient care, innovative research, and outstanding educational programs. Today, they are one of 41 National Cancer Institute–designated Comprehensive Cancer Centers, with state-of-the-art science flourishing side by side with clinical studies and treatment.
The close collaboration between their physicians and scientists is one of their unique strengths, enabling us to provide patients with the best care available as they work to discover more-effective strategies to prevent, control, and ultimately cure cancer in the future. Their education programs train future physicians and scientists, and the knowledge and experience they gain at Memorial Sloan Kettering has an impact on cancer treatment and biomedical research around the world..
KidPass
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KidPass is the new way for parents to discover and book amazing kids activities.
BarnesandNoble.com
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Barnes & Noble is a multi-channel distribution platform that provides access to trade books, textbooks, magazines, newspapers, and other content. It operates as a content, commerce, and technology company.
Barnes & Noble’s main business is the sale of trade books, mass-market paperbacks, children’s books, bargain books, magazines, gift, cafe products and services, music, and movies direct to customers. As of January 2009, the company operated 778 bookstores and a website.
Barnes & Noble was founded in 1917 by [Leonard Riggio](http://www.crunchbase.com/person/leonard-riggio). It is headquartered in New York, N.Y..
Toymail
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Toymail is a connected platform that entertains, educates, and connects children with those they love. It enables kids to send voice messages to their family members, relatives, friends, and other approved contacts.
Toymail was launched in 2013 in New York, United States.. .
Lore
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Lore (formerly Coursekit) is reshaping education for the Internet age. Lore is a community of curious people, spanning every discipline, campus, country, and age.
It’s a platform for learning: a new venue for education that allows you to explore.. .
CoVenture
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CoVenture invests in technology through multiple strategies. Their unique capital base allows them to invest in early-stage companies, in special situations, and in emerging assets.
They provide and manage alternative direct credit opportunities and invest in early-stage technology companies.. .
Move This World
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Move This World cultivates the development of social and emotional learning (SEL) skills to empower students to navigate the complex and rapidly-changing realities of our world. An SEL program that has impacted the lives of over one million students across 35 states, Move This World provides educators and students with a robust, daily curriculum designed to strengthen social and emotional wellbeing in order to create and maintain healthy environments where effective teaching and learning can thrive.
Move This World’s extensive online library of PreK-12 videos and resources are rooted in creative expression and designed to help students develop a common language to improve communication, build trust, and create stronger communities. For more information: www.movethisworld.com..
American Prison Data Systems
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American Prison Data Systems is a provider of education technology services intended to provide inmates in jails and prisons to safely and securely consume permitted digital content. The content and services focus on educational and rehabilitative programming sold to correctional facilities as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS).
The APDS service helps correctional administrators and correctional educators bring cutting edge educational and rehabilitative programming to inmates. Immediately, it leads to a reduction in violence.
Over time, it leads to a reduction in recidivism. The company was established in 2012 and is headquartered in New York..
Assembled Brands
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Assembled Brands is a financial services company that specializes in providing expertise and business development to companies. It focuses on the fields of finance accounting, capital, underwriting, content, marketing, sales, and B2B Software.
It was founded in 2012 and headquartered in New York, United States.. .
Jumprope
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Jumprope is a platform where users can create, discover, and share how-to videos and tutorials. The application creates horizontal, vertical, square, and other videos that you can share to Instagram, YouTube, Pinterest, and more.
Its app makes it easy for anyone without any video editing experience to create a how-to with just their phone. The company was founded in 2017 with a mission to empower people to discover how to do anything.
It empowers anyone to create in their kitchens, bathrooms, basements, and garages to share their passions with their friends and communities.. .
Stack Exchange
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Stack Overflow is an online community for developers to learn, share their knowledge, and build their careers.
Virtually
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Virtually is an online school that helps in bridging live conferencing, payment-processing and student management in one place.
Socratic
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Socratic is an app for taking photos of homework questions and it helps with more than just math. It also supports science, history, English, and economics.
The app says it uses artificial intelligence to help users find answers and detailed explanations. With a focus on the high school curriculum, Socratic is equipped with graphs and explainers.
It also curates web videos from Khan Academy and other educational platforms. It’s free and available for both iPhone and Android..
Explain Everything
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Explain Everything is an interactive whiteboard platform that enables teams to collaborate, share, and learn on an infinite canvas. It combines new and existing media, annotations, and text for an engaging, visual story.
The platform enables users to record and capture everything on the screen, go back and add more context, and share all or part of the experience for continuous development.. .
Cleerly
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Cleerly is a healthcare company whose mission is to create digital care pathways to prevent heart attacks. The company develops a new standard for coronary artery disease by integrating quality clinical science with the latest-generation AI, in order to offer actionable clinical insights to every stakeholder in the heart care pathway.
Through these data-driven solutions, the company aims to provide a comprehensive solution for cardiovascular disease evaluation that offers value to the healthcare system and improves heart health for patients at risk of heart attacks.. .
NextGenVest
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NextGenVest provides an AI-powered human money mentor for students. Its money management platform is dedicated to helping reduce student loans.
NextGenVest was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in New York.. .
Grockit
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Grockit is a pioneering online social learning company. Grockit has proven that people learn more, faster through combining social learning mechanics and multi-media learning content to help people teach and learn from others.
Grockit.com offers Test Prep services for GMAT, IIM CAT, LSAT, GRE, ACT, SAT and AP Calculus and AP History tests. Grockit has built a social learning test prep platform for license and direct-to-consumer products.
Florida Virtual Schools, KIPP Schools, Georgetown University and other schools have deployed Grockit services.. .
Valuation App
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Valuation App serves as a portable tool for finance professionals who would like to perform complex calculations on the go, without resorting to their excel spreadsheets for available models. The app allows you to thoroughly analyze businesses and startups.
Entrepreneurs and startups need no other tool. The valuation techniques used are on par with what’s used in the real world.
Say goodbye to the complex calculations. Valuation App is a tool for entrepreneurs, investment bankers, investors and venture capitalists to perform complex calculations and valuation techniques, from their Android devices.
There is no app on the Android marketplace that does what this app does. The app enables analysis, forecasting and projections of businesses and startups.
Valuation techniques include Discounted Cash Flow (DCF), Comparable Analysis or Relative Valuation, Precedent Transactions. The app is available for free with an in-app upgrade.
The free version provides access to simple calculations, such as Beta, Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM), Weighted Average Cost of Capital, (WACC), Free Cash Flows (FCF) and Time Value of Money (TVM). The full version,available as an in-app upgrade for $0.99, provides access to complex calculations and techniques..
DEVAR
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Devar changes the space around children and adults with the help of augmented reality. We are about emotions, safety, and necessity.
Our goal is to change the life through helpful reality, which will make things around us more useful, more efficient and more convenient. We are building a window from the real world into the world of AR-content that meets the basic needs of the Man.
Devar for kids. Learn.
Share. Discover.
Safe AR-environment for the child. Education, development.
A network of AR characters, historical personalities, interesting people, idols who are friends, teachers, coaches, mentors, assistants of the child on the path of development and knowledge of the world. A person’s personality is formed by the environment.
Citelighter
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Citelighter is a virtual highlighter that automates the research and paper writing process. It allows the user to find and capture unique facts online, automatically generate citations, and write better quality papers in less time.
Citelighter offers functionality to assist in creating project outlines, aggregating personalized content, as well as automates the reference or bibliography process. Additionally, captured facts are indexed and offered to users via Citelighter’s fact-recommendation system..
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers
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IEEE is a professional association of Engineers that is focused on advancing technological innovation and excellence for the benefit of humanity. It is engaged in providing educational and technical advancement of electrical and electronic engineering, telecommunications, computer engineering, and allied disciplines.
It is a non-profit organization that provides publications, conferences, technology standards, and professional and educational activities.. .
CourseHorse
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CourseHorse is a provider of a learning platform used to centralize the learning opportunities. Its platform partners with providers of Spanish lessons, cooking courses, yoga classes, and other classes to create a single destination for people seeking personal interest education that enables people to increase ease and confidence in discovering the path to personal enrichment.
It was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in New York.. .
Lingo Live
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Lingo Live helps employees improve their leadership and communication skills through one-on-one skills-based coaching online.
LightSail Education
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LightSail is the only literacy accelerator that combines all of the best books with in-text embedded assessments and real-time, actionable data to deliver industry-leading literacy gains. LightSail is personalized to each student, ensuring that they are reading high-interest books right at, or above, their individual reading level.
LightSail assesses students as they read, and adapts their libraries as they grow. Students using LightSail’s platform for just 30 minutes a day are seeing average gains of 2x “Ideal Lexile Growth.” LightSail is used in more than 150 elementary, middle, and high schools, including the New York City DOE, Los Angeles Unified School District, Chicago Public Schools, and numerous high-performing charter schools..
One Month | Learn to Code in 30 Days
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At One Month, we teach beginners how to code HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Python. We know the two most difficult things about learning to code are starting and motivation, so we’ve designed our courses for true beginners.
From day one of all our courses, you will build something awesome! Over 60,000 students have used One Month’s computer programming courses to launch their side hustles, level up their careers, and build things they couldn’t even imagine before. Our courses combine video tutorials, human support, and the opportunity to build real-world projects from day one.
One Month students have gone on to work at top companies including Google, Bloomberg L.P., Facebook, and Salesforce. Our coding curriculum is used and trusted by Stripe, Columbia University, and Y Combinator.
Are you a non-technical founder? Head of sales? Marketing team member? HR professional? We have a course called Programming for Non-Programmers that is just for you! Jump into any of our upcoming online coding bootcamps, and this time next month you’ll have the confidence to say “I know how to code.”. .
Prompt
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Prompt develops a writing feedback service platform that makes people better writers. The company’s writing coaches support thousands of students on tens of thousands of essays per year.
The writing feedback is what great teachers provide when they have more time. Prompt’s goal is to support students with their writing skills.
They work directly with students, educators, and educational institutions as a Virtual Writing Center. They provide coaching and feedback on all types of student writing from college admissions essays to AP essays to college-level writing..
Bakpax
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Bakpax uses AI to read handwriting and grade assignments.
CoFoundersLab
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CoFoundersLab is the largest network of entrepreneurs on the Internet
Fluent City
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Fluent City is a language company that offers online classes in 11 different languages. We’re on a mission to help you achieve your language-learning goals by teaching you how to talk about the things you care about most.
Our team uses AI and natural language processing technology to provide hyper-relevant content and personalized, engaging lesson plans that help you get fluent faster.. .
Betterfly (ACQUIRED)
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Betterfly is the world’s most diverse marketplace for people who want to better themselves and others. We connect talented individuals, known as Betterists, directly with the people who want their skills – making it easy for people to learn, look and feel better.
A better way to find the right people: You won’t see any companies in our search results, just skilled people. Why? We think that knowing the name of a great teacher, trainer or stylist is more important than knowing the name of a great school, salon or spa.
Our exclusive focus on people means users can search efficiently and find exactly who they’re looking for. 1000+ ways to learn, look and feel better: Our Betterists offer fun, challenging, random and every day services in more categories than you can imagine.
Take a class from a Pulitzer Prize winning photographer, try out a new look with a fantastic hairstylist or get that raise with the help of a career coach. You can do almost anything on Betterfly.
Better. Together.: Betterfly is a lively community of people who believe in better.
We come together because we know that better makes people happy. We connect, discuss, share tips, set goals, ask questions, meet up, build thriving businesses and celebrate better in all its forms Join us!.
Robin Hood Foundation
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Robin Hood helps fight poverty in New York City by funding and creating programs and schools that help the city’s poorest neighborhoods.
Brainscape
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Brainscape is an adaptive mobile education platform that is changing the way people study just about any subject. Founded by cognitive neuroscientists, engineers, data junkies, and executives from the education industry, Brainscape is building the foundations of a comprehensive “knowledge graph” that is helping people learn nearly any topic more efficiently.
Brainscape allows professors, thought leaders, and top students to create “smart flashcards” in the Brainscape format and share them within their schools, organizations, and the rest of the world. Brainscape is already installed on several million iOS devices across the K-12, higher ed, corporate training, and lifelong learner markets.
The team has developed a successful freemium SaaS revenue model that allows power users to purchase access to advanced content and features. Brainscape’s ultimate goal is to map the world of knowledge into bite-sized, learnable chunks — an initiative it calls the Knowledge Genome Project..
Clark
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Clark is business software for your tutoring business. Clark works with individual tutors to large scale tutoring agencies, providing services that allow educators to tutor more and spend less time on administration.
Their mission to to scale the rapidly growing mom-and-pop tutoring businesses industry in the U.S., putting more revenue in educators’ pockets and more educational hours into the market.. .
Verifcient Technologies
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At Verificient Technologies, we utilize artificial intelligence, machine learning, computer visioning and biometrics in forming our Trusted Identity-as-a-Service (TIaaS), platform for identity verification and authentication. Over the last 5 years, we’ve become a leader in the industry to deliver continuous identity verification and digital remote monitoring.
Weaving these advanced technologies together with user-centered design and award-winning customer service, our patented automated approach, pairs usability with accurate results and true scalability. Today, we’re serving a variety of markets, including Higher Education, HR and Recruitment, and Remote Labor-Force Management (virtual work at home agents)..
Cerevrum, Inc.
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Cerevrum is a learning system to improve skills using virtual and augmented reality glasses (VR / AR). Our machine learning module is able to completely or partially replace coaches and mentors.
More questions? info@cerevrum.com. .
Slate Science (Matific)
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SlateMath is an iPad app that develops mathematical skills through interactive math games.
SportsRecruits
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SportsRecruits is a college recruiting website that increases exposure in recruiting camps and tournaments. At SportsRecruits, they build sport-specific platforms to help high school student-athletes market themselves to college coaches.
Its tools take an inherently disorganized, stressful, and time-consuming process and streamline it, saving users time while greatly maximizing their efficiency.. .
SchoolHouse
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SchoolHouse helps set up at-home, in-person Learning Pods–groups of similar aged students learning, socializing, and developing together.
DonorsChoose
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DonorsChoose is an online charity that makes it easy for anyone to help students in need. As the most trusted crowdfunding platform for teachers, donors, and district administrators alike, DonorsChoose vets each request, ships the funded resources directly to the classroom, and provides thank yous and reporting to donors and school leaders.
Charity Navigator and GuideStar have awarded DonorsChoose, a 501(c)3 nonprofit, their highest ratings for transparency and accountability.. .
Pathgather
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Pathgather is the learning experience platform for forward-thinking enterprises.
Vivvi
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Vivvi allows employers of all sizes to provide on and near-site childcare with no long term commitments or capital expenditures. Its mission is to honor the potential of working parents by providing them with an infant and toddler and preschool program designed to equip their children with a lifelong love of learning and simultaneously meet their schedule, financial, and knowledge needs.
It was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in New York, New York.. .
Knowre
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Knowre is an education technology company delivering personalized and engaging learning experiences to students around the globe. Its technology identifies individual student learning gaps and fills those gaps through algorithmically generated curricula and interactive, scaffolded support.
Knowre further enhances learning by providing students with an engaging and fun learning environment, and teachers with actionable and comprehensive data. Knowre partners with schools, private education companies, and other corporations with the goal of helping students reach their full potential.
The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in New York, New York.. .
Learning Machine Technologies
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Learning Machine, architect of the Blockcerts open standard with the MIT Media Lab and co-chair of the W3C Credentials Community Group, is the world leader in blockchain-based digital credentials. As the only records provider in the world with a product in market for multi-chain issuing and self-sovereign identity, our offering is revolutionizing the way organizations in all sectors issue and verify records.
Learning Machine is in its second year of commercial operation with clients around the world. Our Enterprise SaaS product, the Learning Machine Federated Issuing System, allows governments, companies, and educational institutions to issue blockchain records at scale, rooted in any blockchain they choose..
Spitball
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Spitball offers an online platform that enables students to find and share study materials, create online quizzes, and chat with the other users. It offers material for courses, including machine design, anatomy, biochemistry, physics, and mathematics.
Spitball offers an application that enables students to obtain their services. Spitball was founded by Eidan Apelbaum in 2013 and it is based in New York..
Vidcode
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Vidcode is an award-winning software that teaches students computer programming through their favorite hobby: video-making. Project-oriented lessons allow students to create memes, video filters, interactive games, virtual reality and beyond with real programming languages.
Vidcode offers full semester coding courses that prepare students for AP CS. Voted Best Learning Site 2015 by Common Sense Media.
Tiggly
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Tiggly develops physical toys for children 18M-7Y that interact with learning apps on iPads and other tablets. It builds all of its products from the first principles of learning and aims to create the ideal learning environment for early childhood by combining the educational benefits of classic, physical play with the learning potential and fun of modern digital tools.
Tiggly’s debut physical product, Tiggly Shapes, was released in October 2013. Tiggly Shapes and corresponding apps (Tiggly Draw, Tiggly Safari, Tiggly Stamp) have won 8 awards.
Its founding team includes a Ph.D. in early childhood development from Columbia University and two Harvard MBAs..
MegaCampus
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MegaCampus is a global online university that embodies the concept of lifelong learning. By subscribing, anyone can get access to all educational programs, professions, and courses of MegaCampus.
The company was founded in 2017 with locations in Los Angeles, New York, Moscow, Nur Sultan, Dubai, and Abuja.. .
Empowered Education
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Empowered Education is an education platform that trains coaches and practitioners in a new healthcare paradigm.
Firsthand
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Firsthand builds SaaS platforms that connect students and alumni for career advice at over 100 universities, including Harvard, Oxford, and Cambridge. We also run evisors.com as our consumer facing platform.
The problem is that jobs don’t go to the best candidates, they go to the most connected candidates. Referred candidates are ten times more likely to land the job.
Our mission at Firsthand is to democratize great careers. We want to give every applicant the best possible career network and odds for success.
Our platforms connect students and alumni on-on-one for on-demand career conversations, resume critiques, and mock interviews. Alumni give back on their own terms by specifying their areas of expertise and availability.
Students get help they want, when they need it. 80% of students report that the help they got directly contributed to their job offers.
As we grow to connect millions of students and alumni for career success, our vision is to become the world’s greatest job referral platform.. .
Hullabalu
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Hullabalu, a children’s media company, develops interactive storytelling apps for mobile devices.
Bonsai
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Bonsai is on a mission to democratize access to social capital – giving you the advice you need for the career you want.
CommonBond
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CommonBond is a financial technology company that is focused on higher education. It offers to refinance loans to college graduates, new loans to current students, and a suite of student loan repayment benefits to employees through its CommonBond for Business program.
Over 40 million Americans are affected by student loan debt – and CommonBond is helping them meet the challenge head-on with bigger savings, better service, and a fast and easy online application. They’re on a mission to give students and graduates more affordable, transparent, and simple ways to pay for higher education.
CommonBond’s team built a better student loan experience that combines advanced technology with competitive rates, award-winning customer service, and best-in-class borrower protections. CommonBond has funded over $2.5 billion in loans, partnered with over 300 corporate clients, and currently serves over 100,000 members.
CommonBond is also the first and only finance company with a “one-for-one” social mission: for every loan it funds, CommonBond also funds the education of a child in need, through its partnership with Pencils of Promise. It was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in New York..
Kinvolved
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Kinvolved is a developer of a social enterprise platform designed to improve student attendance and reduce chronic absenteeism.
Sense Education
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The future of education lies in preserving the learning dynamic of a small class, while accommodating massively more students. Sense lets educators virtually review and analyze every student’s work, regardless of how many students there are.
Courses improve. Outcomes improve.
Everyone wins.. .
The PepTalk Co.
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PepTalk is a live video coaching & speaker platform that lets experience be your coach.
Epihub
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Epihub develops a computer platform designed to automate assessments from students.
Unigo
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Unigo’s consumer site has 1.8 million registered users and receives 14 million unique visitors per year. The site provides personalized matches with 6,500 colleges, 700,000 college reviews, 3.6 million scholarships, 90,000 internships and 3.3 million study materials.
Unigo’s investors include McGraw-Hill Ventures, Dow Jones Ventures / News Corp, and The Gates Foundation. Unigo licenses college data and reviews to many mainstream media brands including The Wall Street Journal, U.S.
News & World Report, USA Today, and ABC News. Unigo also created curriculum and tutoring services with McGraw-Hill Education taught in high schools across the country.
At b2e.unigo.com, Unigo provides enrollment and market research services directly to colleges and universities. Each year, Unigo reaches more than 50% of all college-bound students and provides services to approximately 9 million consumers.
The company has received awards and recognitions from Facebook, the Webby Awards, the White House, the Viacom / Get Schooled Foundation and more.. .
DivorceForce
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DivorceForce, LLC (www.divorceforce.com) is a digital media company focused on the rapidly growing marital divorce industry. DivorceForce.com is a digital community that educates, supports, and connects people affected by divorce.
For consumers, the mobile-friendly platform delivers relevant divorce-related content on a daily basis that provides insight and perspective to the recently, as well as long-term, divorce community. The platform educates members by publishing relevant and current content on all things related to divorce.
The community supports each other on its public forums and through private chats. Lastly, the members make relevant connections with others for friendships, support, and dating – as well as connections with divorce professionals local to the member.
For professionals, DivorceForce is a marketing engine that connects people, products & services. It offers several marketing opportunities to connect with a highly engaged audience of consumers affected by divorce.
The platform’s offering includes lead generation; target messaging; and ProConnect, the robust tool which enables professionals to direct market on the digital platform to find their next client.. .
panOpen
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A platform that enables mainstream institutional adoption of Open Educational Resources as an alternative to commercial textbooks
Tutorspree
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Tutorspree is an online platform that offers web based tuition services for the U.S students on various subjects. It provides tutoring services in the fields of math, social studies, language, science, programming, and English.
Tutorspree solves the discovery, matching, scheduling, and payment inefficiencies in a $7B domestic market by combining its deep and growing roster of over 5000 active tutors with technology that creates ideal unions between students and tutors. Tutorspree was established in 2010 and is based in New York, N.Y..
BoardVitals
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Board Vitals helps physicians prepare for Medical boards, Re-certification exams (MOC), and In-service Exams. The company offers a series of question banks across 16 different specialties.
The content consists primarily of questions, answers, and detailed explanations from Publishers and top Physicians from across the US. The content is continually voted up and down, ensuring that the highest yield content is presented to physicians in an easy to use a format similar to the actual board exams.
The product is sold to teaching hospitals as well as individual physicians. Founded in 2012 by Dan Lambert and Andrea Paul, Board Vitals is headquartered in New York, New York..
Jumo Health
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Jumo Health develops age-appropriate, educational resources for patients and caregivers for use throughout their medical journey. It works with providers, manufacturers, and advocacy groups, to ensure resources are available at the moment of diagnosis, during a treatment regimen, or while participating in a clinical trial.
The company was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in New York, United States.. .
Quantamize
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Quantamize is a financial service company that focuses on developing FinTech solutions for the modern investment management industry.
Branching Minds
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SaaS intervention platform for K12 institutions
Kinems Inc.
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Kinems, a movement-based educational platform with progress monitoring, empowering special education students to reach their full potential. It brings teaching, learning, and therapy for students with disabilities.
Students use therapeutic body movements to play computer-based learning games based on state standards; therapists and teachers easily control the settings to tune the activities and gameplay to the specific and precise learning and developmental needs of each child. The system monitors progress and thoroughly documents all interventions.
And because Kinems integrates math and literacy content, PT/OT sessions are no longer time away from academic learning but instead reinforce it. In 2013, Michael Boloudakis and Simos Retalis formed the company in New York, New York..
NYU Langone Medical Center
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NYU Langone Medical Center, a world-class, patient-centered, integrated, academic medical center, is one of the nation’s premier centers for excellence in clinical care, biomedical research and medical education. Located in the heart of Manhattan, NYU Langone is composed of four hospitals – Tisch Hospital, its flagship acute care facility; Rusk Rehabilitation; the Hospital for Joint Diseases, one of only five hospitals in the nation dedicated to orthopaedics and rheumatology; and Hassenfeld Children’s Hospital, a comprehensive pediatric hospital supporting a full array of children’s health services across the medical center – plus the NYU School of Medicine, which since 1841 has trained thousands of physicians and scientists who have helped to shape the course of medical history.
The medical center’s tri-fold mission to serve, teach and discover is achieved 365 days a year through the seamless integration of a culture devoted to excellence in patient care, education and research.. .
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