Wayra UK provides access to networks and capital, turning start-ups into scale-ups. Wayra scales start-ups by giving them access to investments and to business development opportunities with some of the world’s largest companies.

Wayra UK

Angel Academe is a fast-growing and award-winning angel investor network. The network helps female founders and co-founders who can already demonstrate some early success with their tech startup to access a unique pool of engaged, mainly female investors. Their investors are successful entrepreneurs, operators and senior leaders and they've collectively invested in over 45 startups and scaleups since 2014 through 70+ funding rounds, helping them raise over £100m from angels, VCs and family offices to continue to grow their med tech, clean tech, fin tech and enterprise software businesses.

Angel Academe

DMG is built on reciprocity. In the startup community we all give back and help each other out.

Dot Matrix Group

Pitch@Palace gives Entrepreneurs the opportunity to meet the people who can help make their business dreams become a reality. Pitch@Palace guides, helps and connects Entrepreneurs and early-stage businesses with potential supporters, including CEOs, Influencers, Angels, Mentors and Business Partners. Pitch@Palace provides a platform for Entrepreneurs, creating introductions to Mentors and Advisors, access to Distribution Systems and Supply Chains and Connections and Investment.

Pitch@Palace

Solve is an initiative of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) that advances lasting solutions from tech entrepreneurs to address the world's most pressing problems. Each year, Solve issues four Global Challenges to find the most promising solver teams who will drive transformational change. It then builds and convenes a community of leaders and changemakers to form partnerships these solver teams need to scale their impact. Solve was born out of MIT in 2016, a natural offshoot of MIT’s commitment to open technological innovation, and its long commitment to actionable thought leadership in the public sphere.

MIT Solve

Aken Capital manages large assets: capital market, income, and alternative incomes focused on high potential opportunities

Aken Capital

CENTURY Tech

CENTURY is the award-winning artificial intelligence teaching and learning platform for schools, colleges and universities. Founded in 2015, CENTURY uses AI (ML & deep learning), neuroscience and learning science to provide each student with an education that dynamically adapts to their individual needs, while empowering teachers to perform even better as educators.

<div>Founded by Priya Lakhani in 2013, London-based CENTURY Tech is an AI platform that uses learning science, neuroscience, and data to personalize learning in schools and universities. CENTURY’s platform breaks school content down into micro-lessons after which students take a quick knowledge assessment. The system uses this information to deliver lessons on areas that need to be reinforced and areas of weakness. The platform is aimed at freeing up teachers’ time spent on routine tasks. As of March 2019, CENTURY was reportedly used in hundreds of schools. It was reported that the platform use surged by more than 400% between 2020 - 2021.</div>

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 Founded by Priya Lakhani in 2013, London-based CENTURY Tech is an AI platform that uses learning science, neuroscience, and data to personalize learning in schools and universities. CENTURY’s platform breaks school content down into micro-lessons after which students take a quick knowledge assessment. The system uses this information to deliver lessons on areas that need to be reinforced and areas of weakness. The platform is aimed at freeing up teachers’ time spent on routine tasks. As of March 2019, CENTURY was reportedly used in hundreds of schools. It was reported that the platform use surged by more than 400% between 2020 - 2021.
 
 
 In May 2020, CENTURY won a grant awarded by Nesta (an innovation foundation) and the Department for Education to develop AI-powered personalized learning tools to upskill adults.
 
 
 In June 2021, the company raised GBP 4.7 million (USD 6.5 million) in funding to deploy CENTURY’s technology to more schools internationally and expand its backend AI technologies to include more publishers and content providers globally.
 
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Founded in 2016, BookNook is an online literacy platform designed for learners in grades 1-5. Partnering with school districts and non-profit organizations, the company focuses on human-to-human learning and works with children one-on-one or in small groups, enabling it to gather rich, observational data. As of June 2021, the company partnered with hundreds of schools, school districts, and non-profits across 35 states.BookNook differs from other digital literacy tools by not requiring students to take formative assessments to check for their understanding. Rather, the platform lets teachers record qualitative data on oral fluency, such as whether a student pauses at punctuation marks as they read aloud, or reads in set phrases. Students can also record self-reflections on the platform.In June 2021, the company partnered with MIND Research Institute, a neuroscience and education social impact organization and creator of the PreK-8 visual instructional program ST Math, to deliver a High Dosage Tutoring program (HDT) for math to K-8 students to address unfinished learning. BookNook tutors will deliver tutoring sessions using the ST Math program over BookNook’s synchronous learning platform. The company launched a new teacher application portal at booknooktutor.com in October 2021, giving experienced teachers the opportunity to apply to become BookNook virtual tutors on its platform. BookNook intends to engage 10,000 virtual teachers to support 80,000 students by the end of the 2021-2022 school year.

BookNook

Story2 uses its proprietary Moments Method writing system, its StoryBuilder software, and live online group coaching to help high school students and professionals improve their writing, speaking, storytelling, and collaboration skills.The company aims to help different segments with their specific needs: students with college admission and scholarship essays, professionals preparing for interviews and creating cover letters, and business teams to improve sales, recruiting and company messaging through effective storytelling.Since 2013, Story2 has worked with more than 200,000 individuals in 21 countries with college admission essays, interview preparation, and pitching ideas. The company is expanding into China and India in 2020 and plans to focus on helping science and technology students improve their communication and leadership skills.

Story2

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 Vooks offers a subscription-based, ad-free curated library of children's books converted to video with narration and some slow-paced animation, allowing children to read along while watching. Aimed at young children aged 6 months to 8 years, Vooks promotes reading aloud to develop fluency and comprehension. The company was founded by siblings Marshall Bex and Shannon Bex, and Russell Hirtzel, and is reportedly the first-ever streaming service for books with illustrations, read-along text and animations.
 
 
 In February 2020, Vooks raised USD 12 million in Series A funding; however, the investors and purpose of the funding were not disclosed. In November 2020, the company raised USD 21.9 million in equity investments from more than 30 investors.
 
 
 In November 2020, Vooks partnered with United Way of Metropolitan Dallas (UWMD), a community-based, nonprofit social change organization, and Atmos Energy, a natural gas distributor, to provide around 78,000 one-year Vooks subscriptions for children aged 3 to 6 and early education teachers in the Greater Dallas area. The program is funded by a USD 1 million contribution from Atmos Energy, and contributes to UWMD’s Aspire United 2030 education goal of increasing the number of North Texas students reading at grade level by third grade by 50%. Similarly, in March 2021, the company partnered with Reach Out and Read Of Greater New York (ROR GNY), a nonprofit organization of healthcare providers who promote early literacy. The partnership aims to provide more than 75,000 preschool children with one-year Vooks subscriptions starting in March 2021.
 
 
 In July 2021, it was reported that Vooks is offering its service to authors and producers as a way of quickly testing ideas with audiences through simple animated shorts. Thereby, Vooks expands its library of original content while authors and producers get real-time performance data.
 
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Vooks

Xeropan offers an AI-powered, game-based approach to learning English through 14 of the most widely-spoken languages. As of October 2020, the app had more than one million players.

Xeropan

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 GoGuardian is a provider of student security software solutions to help educators identify learning patterns, protect students from harmful and distracting content, and support students at risk of self-harm and suicide. As of August 2021, the company had partnered with more than 10,000 schools in the US, covering more than 22 million students.  
 
 
 In November 2020, GoGuardian announced a 
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 to deepen the support provided to students and teachers and improve their in-class experience. Founded in 2014, Pear Deck is a student engagement platform that allows teachers to create, edit, and launch multimedia content and formative assessments on students' devices to increase student engagement. At the time of the merger, Pear Deck was used by 8 million educators and students in more than 17,000 schools worldwide. Pear Deck co-founder and Chief Educator, Michal Eynon-Lynch, will join the GoGuardian Board of Directors. In May 2022, the company acquired 
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 Zovio’s tutoring services business, for USD 55 million in cash to strengthen its product offering. 
 
 
 Funding and financials
 
 
 In August 2021, GoGuardian secured a USD 200 million investment from Tiger Global Management. The funds will be allocated for product innovation, talent acquisition, and business development. 
 
 
 
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GoGuardian

Businesses providing education delivery solutions such as learning management systems (LMS), and tech solutions for data analytics, administration, and other services to educational institutions.

Businesses delivering curriculum-based learning, particularly relating to science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education to educational institutions and individual students.

Mostly for-profit corporations running state-funded, tuition-free schools as an alternative to traditional public schools.

Businesses providing extra-curricular education relating to the arts, hobbies, and life skills, and entities providing college and career guidance.

Businesses delivering English language arts (ELA) education, and language learning and literacy support to educational institutions and individual students.

Platforms providing students with after-school tutoring support on an individual or group basis.

Businesses delivering early childhood education, special education, and social-emotional learning (SEL) programs to educational institutions and individual students.

Entities providing professional development resources and tools for teachers, and those providing testing and assessment solutions to educational institutions and educators.

Platforms providing student-parent-teacher-school communication and networking solutions, and those providing search, reference, and marketplace solutions.

Companies that use GenAI as a core part of their product offering for EdTech: K12 solutions

Adaptive learning platforms, personalized learning plans, and AI-powered analytics provide insight into student performance

Learning platforms that promote an inclusive and equitable educational culture for underserved communities

Uses AI/ML to create personalized learning plans, adaptive learning platforms, and intelligent tutoring systems

CENTURY Tech

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