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15 education technology startups selected for AWS Education Accelerator program
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has selected 15 innovative education technology startups to participate in its inaugural Education Accelerator program. The program helps these companies apply data, analytics, and AI to transform teaching and learning and address educational challenges to improve student success.
These startups will be selected by a diverse AWS committee based on “strength of idea, technical preparation, and extensive application and interview process,” AWS said on its public sector blog announcing the selection of the cohort. He said he was selected from among 1,000 applicants.
Cohort members work in a variety of learning areas, including K-12, higher education, and workforce education. According to AWS, they are focused on solving problems encountered in “student engagement, financial literacy, student health and well-being, upskilling, and operational inefficiencies.”
The 10-week program will be held at Amazon’s headquarters in Seattle. Each startup will receive up to $100,000 in computing credits, workshops, personalized curriculum, business and technical mentorship, support from Amazon leaders and teams, investor and customer networking opportunities, and ongoing advice and support .
An emerging technology showcase in collaboration with OMNIA partners concludes the program.
“The ultimate goal is for edtech founders to exit the program ready to capture new customer opportunities, expand their partner network, raise capital, and quickly advance their edtech startups. ” said AWS.
The first cohort participants are listed by AWS as follows:
- Augmental Learning, Sussex County, Delaware, provides an AI-powered learning platform that empowers educational content creators by delivering next-generation personalized learning, intelligent content creation, and data-driven analytics. .
- London, UK-based Blackbullion is a financial wellbeing platform and app that equips students with financial skills. The platform houses the UK’s largest hub of support funds, bursaries and grants for students.
- enlightenAI (San Francisco) develops an AI-powered personalized teacher assistant designed to increase educators’ impact while making their work more sustainable, including grading and providing feedback. doing.
- Highlight, New Orleans allows teachers and school staff to post highlights and share the many small victories happening every day across their schools and districts. Highlight helps users capture meaningful moments that are often overlooked, increasing educator satisfaction, happiness, overall teacher effectiveness, and retention.
- Infini‑D Learning, Provo, Utah, creates an immersive platform that transforms classroom learning by combining story-driven narrative and collaborative problem solving to help students tackle real-world challenges. Developed.
- Lessonbee, located in Mount Vernon, New York, promotes students’ equitable access to standards-aligned health education and provides teachers with tools and resources to promote health equity in their schools. Lessonbee’s school-wide wellness solution provides data that helps teachers improve student self-efficacy and well-being.
- San Francisco-based Listening offers a mobile app designed to convert textbooks and research papers into audio for students and researchers. This allows you to take insights and notes on the go, helping to streamline your research process.
- Murrieta, Calif.-based Oblio is an innovation designed to help admissions officers, faculty, staff, and coaches send hyper-personalized emails, streamline communications, and embrace multilingual inclusivity. We are using AI tools to improve the college admissions process.
- New York City’s OneRange helps companies automate personalized learning budget management. Its platform leverages data across all forms of learning, including courses, books, and conferences, to help individuals find and access the right resources.
- Perlego (London, UK) subscribes to over 1 million academic textbooks online. It is designed to partner with publishers to bring more affordable and sustainable textbook solutions to learners around the world by reducing the cost of printing, distribution, and retail markup.
- Praxis AI (Sacramento) is a digital education and research company powered by generative AI. A solution that combines student-teacher interaction with personalized instruction, assessment, and support anytime, anywhere.
- Quizard AI from Dover, Delaware is an academic app designed to help students study for tests and quizzes. Available in multiple languages, Quizard gives students around the world access to personalized learning.
- SchoolBI (San Francisco) is a user-friendly platform that helps you provide data-driven insights. The platform is designed to reduce traditional inefficiencies, time constraints, and bottlenecks, and improve the ability to easily report results across departments.
- Auckland’s Sown To Grow is a support platform that enables schools to improve the social, emotional and academic well-being of their students through an easy and engaging reflection and feedback process. Sown To Grow was designed by a team of former educators for practical impact in the classroom and is funded by the U.S. Department of Education, National Science Foundation, Digital Promise, and New Schools Venture Fund.
- Miami Juice is an interactive learning platform designed to develop students’ reading comprehension, critical thinking, information and media literacy skills, and civics knowledge using fun and engaging original content.
For more information, see this Amazon blog post.
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Kate Lucariello is a former newspaper editor, East Lab high school teacher, and college English teacher.
