MEET THE CEOS

Meet our newest founders and CEOs who are revolutionizing skill development

Immersive Skilled Trades Training

Interplay Learning provides immersive online and VR simulation-based training for essential skilled trades jobs that is creating better learning and career pathways for middle skills workers in fields such as HVAC, facilities maintenance, electrical, plumbing, solar and others.

Helping the Blind and Visually Impaired Find Rewarding Jobs

Clusiv is the first online job readiness and vocational training platform specifically designed to remove the accessibility and training barriers that have traditionally held back the blind and visually impaired community, empowering them to gain the skills needed to enter the modern workforce.

& CEO

“Skilled workers have been overlooked by EdTech innovation.... Every one of these employers and schools need to recruit people to come in and learn a trade, and if they don't have a digital offering, it’s just not really appealing to this generation. These jobs are in every single community, and they're in need.”

“Nearly 70% of the blind and visually impaired workforce is unemployed, mostly due to the lack of support systems like training and workplace accommodations that will help our community reach economic mobility. The goal is to make people who are blind or visually impaired in the workforce a norm and not the exception.”

Course Sharing to Improve Student Persistence

Acadeum is the creator of the largest course-sharing platform that matches a vast catalog of existing, high-quality courses from regionally accredited institutions with learners who often struggle to access the classes they need to persist and graduate on time.

Accredited Apprenticeship Degree Programs at Scale

Craft is building the critical data layer that assists states, employers and education providers with the measurement, reporting and compliance necessary to run accredited apprenticeship degree programs at scale. Craft's initial market focus is upskilling paraprofessionals to become full-time certified teachers while getting paid.

Dave Daniels CEO

“Today’s learners are older and more likely to be parents or working than at any point in our nation’s history. That new majority of learners are putting pressure on institutions to align course offerings with the realities of their schedules and responsibilities beyond the classroom. We’re building tools to unlock opportunities for these students.”

“Creating affordable pathways to and up through the economy is not only the right thing to do, it is also good business: employers need skilled workers, and the employee of today is much more savvy of their ROI on their training relative to their job.”

Mallory Dwinal- Palisch Founder & CEO