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Ask HN: Education-focused start-ups?

17 pointsabbasmehdi15 comments

Who are they and what are they doing? Especially those focused on K-12.

Thank you!

There are a lot of interesting companies in the space now. A couple that come to mind are http://www.betterlesson.org/, in Boston, who are building a way for teachers to share lesson plans and other resources; and http://www.learnboost.com, in SF, which is building an online gradebook and other tools for classroom management.

LearnBoost is nutty! (good nutty)

I'm working on http://www.sophia.org/. We went out of private beta in March.

Very nice!

Teacher collaboration is one of the next 'big things' in schools. Our freshly-launched application enables teachers to partner with one another, wherever they are in the world. It's carefully designed for teachers: simple, no-nonsense; and no management approval is necessary.

http://muuua.com

I'm working on http://membean.com and our K-12 focus is at http://membean.com/educator (We'll be in a few schools starting September)

I'm a teacher working on http://edplans.com, support for K12 teachers. Two private beta users (education orgs) now...instant sign-on for teachers later this summer.

There are a couple of YC like programs that focus specifically on education startups, Imagine K12 which has the backing of YC and Startl in New York.

Imagine K12 has 10 companies in the current cohort: http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/16/education-incubator-imagine...

Not quite a traditional education startup (focuses on online education): http://remilon.com.

http://www.khanacademy.org is delivering an education to anyone anywhere.

KhanAcademy recently won the Google Project 10^100 which got them $10 million. I expect to see great things from this site in the coming months.

The Khan Academy is truly an amazing startup. However, I think it is important to note that it is actually a 501(c)3 nonprofit. I'm sure Sal Khan has been approached by many VC's, but thankfully he has not gone for turning the concept into a for profit company. The technology, especially the "coach" dashboard, is very impressive and is already being used by teachers in classrooms around the classroom and country.

I like http://www.playmoolah.com/ quite a fair bit.

I've been hearing about http://www.coursekit.com

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