Ariela Safira

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.

Part of The Walt Disney Co., Disney Consumer Products, Inc. retails merchandise and develops applications and games. The company is based in Glendale, CA.

Excellence & Intelligence Co., Ltd. is an online programming learning platform. The company is based in Zhongshan, China. The Chinese company was founded in 2017 by Zhi Xu and Jian Bin Mo.

ULesson Inc. develops education applications. The CEO of the Nigerian company is Simdul Shagaya.

Gather Technologies, Inc. develops event management software for restaurants and venues. It offers Gather, a cloud based platform to manage, track and store event related information. The company was founded by Nicholas Miller, Alex Lassiter and Tom Merrihew in 2012 and is headquartered in Atlanta, GA.

Labster Group ApS is a Danish company that develops fully interactive virtual training simulations to enhance traditional learning outcomes by stimulating students' natural curiosity and reinforcing the connection between science and the real world. Labster is based in Copenhagen, Denmark, and has subsidiaries in Denmark and Canada. The simulations can be used in a variety of different ways, from a full lab replacement to a supplemental learning activity. The company collaborates with over 1,000 institutions around the world, including ETH in, MIT, and Imperial College, and has over 6 million students in high schools and universities in 100-plus countries who have used Labster to perform realistic experiments, learn key science concepts, and practice their skills in a risk-free learning environment. The company was founded in 2017, and Michael Bodekær Jensen has been the CEO of the company since 2017.

Accelerate Learning, Inc. provides educational services. It offers STEMscopes, a digital science solution for PreK through 12th grade students offering three core curriculum programs: STEMscopes K-12, STEMscopes NGSS, and STEMscopes Early Explorer. The company was founded by Jarrett Reid Whitaker in 2013 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

ViacomCBS Domestic Media Networks provides television broadcasting, information and musical online content services. Its services encompass films, television shows, video streaming and music videos. The company was founded in 1984 is headquartered in New York, NY.

Maker Studios, Inc. operates as a media company that enables artists to create, distribute, and monetize their original content on YouTube. It provides development, production, promotion, distribution, sales, marketing, and merchandise services to partners. The company was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Marina del Rey, CA.

Interscope Records, Inc. records and distributes music videos. The company was founded by Jimmy Iovine in 1989 and is headquartered in Santa Monica, 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.

Calm.com, Inc. operates an online portal which allows busy and information loaded web workers to reduce stress. It also develops the smart phone based application. The company was founded by Alex Tew and Michael Acton Smith in 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Baron App, Inc. a platform where users can request personalized video shoutouts from their favorite influencers, athletes, and celebrities. The company was founded by Steven Galanis, Devon Spinnler and Martin Blencowe and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Girlboss Holdings, Inc. engages in the provision of mentorship through IRL and virtual meetups, newsletters, podcasts, and online networking. The company was founded by Sophia Amoruso in 2017 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

Goop, Inc. provides online shopping and e-commerce services. It offers skincare products, clothing, shoes, handbags, accessories, and beauty products. The company was founded by Gwyneth Paltrow in 2008 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

HLB90067, Inc., also known as HAUS LABS, offers a collection of clean and cruelty-free cheek makeup, as well as eyes, lips, and face color cosmetics infused with skincare benefits. The company is based in Manhattan Beach, CA and has subsidiaries in the United States. The company respects the Consumer Privacy Act and does not directly sell personal information for money. HAUS LABS was founded by Ben Jones and Lady Gaga, with Ben Jones serving as the CEO since incorporation.

Zola, Inc. operates an online wedding registry platform that allows couples and guests to share, buy and ship wedding gifts. It offers home goods such as decors, furniture, bedding, bath products, and electronics. The company was founded by Shan-Lyn Ma, Kevin P. Ryan, and Nobu Nakaguchi on December 13, 2002 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Rothys, Inc. manufactures shoes for women. It offers ballet and pointed toe flats. The company was founded by Stephen P. Hawthornthwaite and Roth W. Martin in 2017 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Multiverse Group Ltd. provides employee placement, technical, vocational secondary educational services. The company was founded by Euan Blair and Sophie Adelman and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Elliot Technologies, Inc. engages in the provision of custom computer programming services. The company was founded by Scott Wu, Hayley Leibson and Vladimir Novakovski in 2017 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Kyron Learning PBC is a startup that was founded with the aim of providing equitable access to great instructors for all learners. The American company provides a platform that uses "interactive video" to deliver learning content, with AI that guides the conversation between the instructor and learner. Kyron is headquartered in the US, with offices in two other locations. The team is comprised of prominent educators and veteran leaders from Google and Amazon. The company believes that great education starts with great teachers and that students succeed most when they have access to high-quality, one-on-one feedback. Kyron Learning is not just another video lesson platform, as it uses conversational AI to provide immediate one-on-one differentiated support. The company was founded by Rajen Sheth, who has been the CEO since incorporation.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

BetterLesson, Inc. engages in the provision of free organizational tool and curriculum services. It offers distance learning, instructional coaching, design workshops, Learning Series, and Learning Walks services. The company was founded by Alex Grodd, Jonathan Hendler and Erin Osborn in 2008 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

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.

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.