Christopher Cerf

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Co. is a learning company, which engages in instructional curriculum, assessment, technology, and professional learning. The company was founded in 1832 by William Ticknor and James Fields and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Endeca Technologies, Inc. provides search and information access software solutions. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Redwood Shores, CA.

Revolution Foods, Inc. offers healthy meals to both schools and stores. Its meals and snacks contain whole grains and fresh fruits and vegetables. The company was founded by Jonathan Klein, Kirsten Saenz Tobey and Kristin Groos Richmand in 2006 and is headquartered in Oakland, CA.

Piczo, Inc. provides online social networking services. It enables its members to share their life stories with friends by designing their sites with multiple pages featuring photos, graphics, videos, music, comment boards, and games. The company was founded by Jim Conning in 2003 and is headquartered in Valencia, CA.

DreamBox Learning, Inc. develops online learning products. It offers a groundbreaking combination of intelligent adaptive learning, rigorous elementary mathematics curriculum, and motivating learning environment. The firm's adaptive learning platform enables classroom teachers, schools, and districts to differentiate instruction for a range of learners by engaging students in independent instruction and practice. It has offices in North Carolina and Washington. The company was founded by Benjamin W. Slivka and Lou Gray in February 2006 and is headquartered in Bellevue, WA.

TransCella, Inc. provides information technology services. It offers automatic software accelerator technology with the ability to exploit new hardware. The company was founded by Robert S. Dreyer in 2008 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

PresenceLearning, Inc. is a holding company, which engages in the provision of live online speech and occupational therapy services. It offers school districts with web-based access to a nationwide network of qualified speech language pathologists, counselors and occupational therapists via live video conferencing combined with practices and progress reporting. The company was founded by Jack Lynch and Clay Whitehead in 2009 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

MasteryConnect, Inc. develops educational cloud-based software platform for teachers. It offers mastery tracker, common assessment, resource pins, learning community, and grading tools. The company was founded by Trenton Goble, Michael A. Hewitt, and Douglas Weber in 2009 and is headquartered in Salt Lake City, UT.

LearnZillion, Inc. engages in the development of a web-based education tool and video library of math and literacy lessons. LearnZillion was founded by Eric Westendorf and Alix Guerrier in 2011 and is headquartered in Washington, DC.

Degreed, Inc. operates a learning platform for college students, professionals and organizations. It offers course-by-course scores and validation of education from accredited and non-accredited sources. The firm provides scores that quantifies a person?s lifelong education by credit hours and mastery levels. The company was founded by David A. Wiley, Eric Sharp and David Blake and in 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Nepris, Inc. operates as a cloud-based technology platform, which connects teachers with experts and working professionals for online live interactions with students. It offers teachers the ability to see archived sessions for free, to sign-up for a license to request sessions of their own, or to participate in industry offered sessions at Nepris.com. The company was founded by Sabari Raja and Binu Thayamkery in 2013 and is headquartered in Plano, TX.

Kayak Software Corp. operates as an online travel agency. It offers fare information from airlines and hotels. The firm also develops and operates websites and mobile applications that provide destination information, travel tips, member discounts, and hotel descriptions. The company was founded by Daniel Stephen Hafner, Gregory E. Slyngstad, Douglas Feirstein, Terrell B. Jones, and Paul M. English in 2004 and is headquartered in Stamford, CT.

Catamount Ventures Management LLC (Catamount Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2000 by Jed Smith. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

The MathWorks, Inc. develops and supplies technical computing software for model-based design. Its people conduct research at technology companies, government research labs, financial institutions and universities. The company was founded by John N. Little and Cleve Moler in 1984 and is headquartered in Natick, MA.

Flinn Scientific, Inc. supplies chemistry and biological equipment for schools. It designs, manufacturers and sources SKUs, including packaged chemicals and solutions, safety products, glassware, laboratory equipment and supplies and ready-to-use laboratory activity kits for use in chemistry, biology, physical science, earth science and physics classrooms. The company was founded by Margaret Flinn, Lawrence Flinn Jr. and Alum Larry Flinn, III in 1977 and is headquartered in Batavia, IL.

Kyruus, Inc. provides physician network optimization software solutions. Its big data solutions helps hospitals and health systems optimize their patient access, referral management, and care coordination operations. The firm serves hospitals, health systems and accountable care organizations. The company was founded by Graham Gardner, Julie Keunhee Yoo and Vinay Seth Mohta in January 2010 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Remind101, Inc. provides mobile application that offers teachers to instantly text students and parents. It helps students, teachers, and school leaders to connect at place. The company was founded by Brett Kopf and David Kopf in 2011 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Newsela, Inc. publishes news articles online. Its common core-aligned quizzes attached to articles give educators and parents insight to student's reading strengths and weaknesses. The company was founded by Matthew Gross and Dan Cogan-Drew in 2013 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

EdSurge, Inc. operates website for educators, entrepreneurs and investors involved in education technology. The company was founded by Elizabeth Corcoranin, Nick Punt, Bowman Matt and Agustin Vilaseca in 2011 and is headquartered in Burlingame, CA.

Preply, Inc. provides online english tutorial services. It offers other foreign languages such as German, French, Spanish, Italian, and Russian. The company was founded by Kyrylo Bigay, Sergey Lukyanov and Dmytro Voloshyn on August 2, 2012 and is headquartered in Brookline, MA.

Part of Wells Fargo & Co., Wells Fargo Securities, Inc. is a brokerage firm. The company is based in San Francisco, CA.

Manifold, Inc. offers experiential marketing, PR campaigns, social and influencer marketing, and complex live events. Its services are strategy, ideation and execution. The company was founded by Sean Florio, Kelly Delaney Long, Brian Mullin and Mike Weaver in 2010 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Kiddom, Inc. develops education technology platform, which enables to plan, assess and analyze personalized learning for teachers and learners. It specializes in education technology, personalized learning, education management, blended learning, standards-based grading and data-informed instruction. The company was founded by Ahsan Rizvi in 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Morressier GmbH develops software that collects and manages presentations and posters for scientific events. The company was founded by Sami Benchekroun and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.

Bakpax, Inc. engages in the provision of educational services. The company was founded by Jose Ferreira and Will Fleiss and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Hazel Health, Inc. operates as a software company, which provides healthcare services for students in school. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Laerdal Million Lives Fund (Laerdal Million Lives) is a venture capital firm affiliated with the Laerdal Family, founded in 2019. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Real Collaborative, Inc. provides women’s mental healthcare services. The company is headquartered in New York, NY.

Manifold, Inc. provides full-service artificial intelligence consulting company. It offers a complete range of AI engineering services including machine learning, data science, data engineering, devlops, cloud, and edge. The company is headquartered in Vinay Seth Mohta and Sourav Dey and is headquartered in Oakland, CA.

Rebel Girls, Inc. operates as a cultural media engine. The company was founded by Elena Favilli and is headquartered in Cloverdale, CA.

Part of Owl Ventures LLC, Owl Ventures Partnership Holdings III LLC operates as a venture capital firm. The company is based in Menlo Park, CA.

Eco.logic Brands, Inc. produces recycled paper laundry detergent bottles. It also designs and manufactures recyclable packaging solutions for consumer applications. The firm offers ready-to-fill bottles to hold pourable liquid or dry products. The company also offers cardboard bottles through stores in the United States, Canada and the Caribbean. Eco.logic Brands was founded by Julie Corbett on May 2008 and is headquartered in Oakland, CA.

Noodle Partners, Inc. helps students make better decisions about learning. It operates an Internet portal for education and search index website. The company was founded by John S. Katzman and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Owl Ventures LLC (Owl Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2014 by Tory Patterson and Jed Smith. The firm headquartered in San Francisco.