Tag: EdTech

Serhii Tkachenko, CEO of Unicheck, likes to think of the plagiarism prevention software as the ideal “topping” for any learning management system’s basic “pizza.” He sat down to tell us more.

Ben Hall, founder of developer edtech startup Katacoda, shares how the interactive learning platform offers software developers access to educational content that will further their understanding of cloud-related technology.

Julie Brasset, CEO of micro-learning app Marmelade, chats about the origins of the startup, what she’s learned about herself as it scaled, and what’s next in 2019. 

Stonly, a Paris and Krakow-based startup, allows users to customize how-to guides and learning modules for their web pages. Alex Fogel, Co-founder and CEO of Stonly, talks about the inspirations behind Stonly, the challenges the company hopes to solve, and how AWS has helped it scale.

Wakatoon Founder & CEO Pierrick Chabi talks about the animation startup’s origins and how his team is creating a new kind of storytelling.

Janine Teo, CEO of Solve Education!, talks to us about what inspired her startup, how they use technology, who their customers are, and their roadmap for 2019.

Whether you’re adventuring through an unfamiliar  country or closing an overseas business deal, there’s no question that in our increasingly globalized world, conversation is key. And while functional multilingual AI transactions are likely on the technological horizon, when it comes to forging meaningful connections across cultures, true personal communication is essential. As Nehal Shah, director of engineering at Babbel, puts it, AI is “growing rapidly, evolving at a tremendous pace, but there’s still no replacement for human interaction or that human element.” Especially when it comes to picking up a new language, humans simply need to connect.

Founded in 2014, Azoomee’s mission is to make screen time positive for kids ages 5-10.

Imagine you’re sitting in your classroom for a biology lesson on the respiratory system and instead of conventional books, we place a breathing human being right in front of you. You can remove its skin and are allowed to step inside the organs and see how the nose, larynx, heart, and lungs work together to help us breathe. Imagine how clear your understanding would be after learning this way. That’s what Orbit does.

Aza Steel might be a bit of a prodigy, but he never set out to be a technological savior for teachers and parents. In fact, when he first developed the Chrome browser extension that would become the seed of his company in the early aughts, he was just a UCLA sociology major trying to find a way to track his laptop’s location in case it was stolen.