Overgrad

Overgrad is a web platform that empowers high schools to create their own trackable college culture. In a matter of minutes, high schools are able to receive realtime data on their students academic merits, postsecondary aspirations, and college matriculation statistics.&nbsp;<br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px;"><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px;">Overgrad also gives students and high schools a platform to be discovered by universities eager to connect with them. Utilizing realtime data and analytics, Overgrad gives universities insights into where their future graduates reside and who they are.

Dabble

Founded in 2011, Dabble is building technology to power the world's largest in-person skill sharing collective. We foster social experiences that fulfill people's desires to learn new things without over-committing themselves. Dabble makes it easy for event partners of all types to list events and provides a market of curious lifelong learners.

Dyslexic Technology

An application company that helps dyslexic people read with their phones. Our first iOS app, Dyslexie Note Beta, allows users to covert articles and&nbsp;draft emails in a font specifically designed to help dyslexics read. Download it in the Apple App Store: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dyslexienote/id954929700?mt=8

Blaze Global

Blaze is a scalable and adaptable solution providing social, emotional and life-skill development to students, teachers and parents. We believe the only way to transform a child is to also transform the adults that lead, support and love them.

School Town

<p>School Town is an award-winning eLearning platform that makes it easy and affordable to build and use dynamic professional learning communities for teachers and flexible digital classrooms for students.</p>

DataCamp

Our mission is to democratize data science education by building the best platform to learn and teach data skills and make data fluency accessible to millions of people and businesses around the world.

Skilljar

Skilljar helps go-to-market organizations leverage the power of Customer Education to boost product adoption. Skilljar’s external LMS makes it easy for your customers to join your academy to onboard, get certified, and upskill, leading to higher customer retention rates and lower support costs. Skilljar enables Customer Education teams to launch and scale beautiful academies to make every customer a product expert. We're building a future where your customers use and love your products because they’ve been trained in a way that works for them, freeing up your go-to-market teams to focus on strategic customer conversations. For 10+ years, Skilljar has helped companies turn Customer Education into a business driver, with tangible results showing that a trained customer is a retained customer.

Startup Institute Chicago

Startup Institute helps people find careers they love in startups, while connecting innovative companies with the talent they need to thrive. Our eight-week, full-time program will help you to build the technical skills, culture skills, and network that will launch you into the growing startup community in the areas of web development, web design, technical marketing, or sales and account management. Leverage your passions and get the skills you need to be hired by an early-stage or high-growth company, and join the innovation economy. Uniquely positioned at the center of the Chicago tech ecosystem, our program will open new doors for you. In addition to expert training in the most in-demand skills, we offer personalized career mentorship and connections to the people and companies that will advance your career.

Koolgurus

<P><STRONG>About:</STRONG> We are dedicated to make learning easy and at the same fun for kids. Our educational apps are interactive, easy to use and promotes developmental learning.</P> <P><STRONG>Mission:</STRONG> Promote developmental learning through play.</P> <P><STRONG>What do we do? </STRONG>We build innovative and interactive apps for kids.</P> <P><STRONG>What problem do we solve?</STRONG></P> <P>Are you a teacher or a parent who always look for innovative ideas to stimulate learning among kids?<BR>Do you struggle everyday to come up with minimum 15 minutes of work for your kids?<BR>Do you scramble online once in a while for fun activities and worksheets?<BR>Do you wish your kids should accept new challenges, take ownership and show interest to learn everyday without too much of monitoring and pressure?<BR>Do you feel guilty of printing those worksheets for your younger ones to be trashed?<BR>Do you wish for some innovative, interactive and fun method of learning?<BR>If yes then keep on reading…<BR>KoolBook series of apps for iPad are designed to answer all the above questions. The app has been designed and developed by parents and teachers like you facing the same dilemma.<BR>&nbsp;</P>

digedu

<p style="margin-left:-4.5pt;">We partner with schools to meaningfully integrate technology in the classroom. digedu enables teachers to design and deliver personalized, interactive, and measurable learning experiences on any device, any time, anywhere. We offer an end-to-end ecosystem that makes teaching with technology effortless and effective, while reducing costs and enabling data-driven instruction. School leaders can choose specific components or an all-in-one technology program, including intelligent software, the latest mobile devices, implementation and support services, and a state-of-the-art WiFi infrastructure, the Classroom Cloud™. Our Learning Engine software organizes this ecosystem and provides access to more than 3,500 fully customizable, Common Core-aligned lessons, which were created by a collaborative network of award-winning teachers.&nbsp;</p>

Thinkersize, LLC

<p><span style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 20.22222328186035px;">Cranium CoRE is a Web 2.0 Community of Reading Engagement using Educational Gaming to build the skills of Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening. Cranium CoRE uses a web based system to thoroughly engage students and give them the skills to really comprehend the content of a book.</span></p>

AllCampus

We started AllCampus with a bold vision: to lower the cost of education in the United States through a more thoughtful, more collaborative and more effective partnership with our partner universities. Today we have hundreds of programs, across dozens of distinct academic disciplines, at leading institutions that will attest that we’ve reached that goal. However, the students we serve now have access to more information and learning options than at any point in history. Our next bold vision is to help universities grow and transform their academic programs so that they can better navigate students’ evolving expectations. At AllCampus, our employees are the heart of our organization. In addition to drawing from their own extensive industry expertise, they collaborate and create with some of the best academic minds in the world. We’re proud of the culture we’ve built, which is reflected in our recognition as an Inclusive Workplace for 2023 by the Best Companies Group and COLOR Magazine. We are also proud to be a certified B Corporation™, a certification that is awarded to companies that meet high standards of social and environmental performance, accountability, and transparency.

Moneythink

<p><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'helvetica neue', arial, helvetica, freesans, 'liberation sans', 'numbus sans l', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">Moneythink (MT) targets urban 11th and 12th graders. These students have dreams, but between age 17 and 20, they face many financial decisions that can make or break their future: getting/keeping a job, using a paycheck, credit cards, paying for college. To prepare students for these decisions, MT provides trained college volunteers who serve as near-peer role models, college mentors, and financial coaches for urban teens, leading them through an in-school 21-week Economic Opportunity course integrating mobile technology, design, behavioral economics, and pop-culture. As one of our students who received scholarships to 21 universities said: “There are three reasons I’m the only kid from my neighborhood going to college: my mom, my sports, and Moneythink.” During the 2012 – 2013 academic year, MT served over 1,600 under-resourced high school students in 17 urban communities. In the 2013 – 2014 academic year, MT aims to reach over 2,000 students across 30 urban communities.</span></p>

Chicago Startup Weekend

<p style="margin: 10px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: 'Alright Sans', Lucida, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.265625px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><a href="http://chicago.startupweekend.org/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 153, 255); text-decoration: none;">Startup Weekend</a>&nbsp;is a global grassroots movement of active and empowered entrepreneurs who are learning the basics of founding startups and launching successful ventures. It is the largest community of passionate entrepreneurs with over 400 past events in 100 countries around the world in 2011.</p><p style="margin: 10px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: 'Alright Sans', Lucida, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.265625px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">The non-profit organization is headquartered in Seattle, Washington but Startup Weekend organizers and facilitators can be found in over 200 cities around the world. From Mongolia to South Africa to London to Brazil, people around the globe are coming together for weekend long workshops to pitch ideas, form teams, and start companies.</p><p style="margin: 10px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: 'Alright Sans', Lucida, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.265625px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">All Startup Weekend events follow the same basic model: anyone is welcome to pitch their startup idea and receive feedback from their peers. Teams organically form around the top ideas (as determined by popular vote) and then it’s a 54 hour frenzy of business model creation, coding, designing, and market validation. The weekends culminate with presentations in front of local entrepreneurial leaders with another opportunity for critical feedback.</p><p style="margin: 10px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: 'Alright Sans', Lucida, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.265625px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Whether entrepreneurs found companies, find a cofounder, meet someone new, or learn a skill far outside their usual 9-to-5, everyone is guaranteed to leave the event better prepared to navigate the chaotic but fun world of startups.&nbsp;</p>