Andre Bennin

PAIRIN’s mission is to make everyone’s journey personally relevant and, equitable. PAIRIN unifies the essential content and resources provided by regional workforce, government and educational organizations into one integrated platform designed for and around the user. PAIRIN’s science-based technology and personalized approach to client service ensures not only the success of clients’ programs, but also the success of people in their communities who benefit most from skills-based development and career services. PAIRIN’s My Journey platform enables these organizations to more effectively deliver career guidance, skills development and tailored community services through one easy-to-implement and easy-to-use solution. At PAIRIN, we believe every person’s journey is important. We strive everyday to guide our employees, partners and ultimately, all end-users, to reach their potential and contribute to large scale workforce change. Through passion, dedication and innovation, our team and technology unify and modernize regional and national workforce ecosystems. We believe that every person’s journey, when realized, creates a stronger, more equitable workforce.

BELIEVE Circle City is a rigorous college and career preparatory high school designed to develop students identity, cultural competency, leadership and purpose. BELIEVE will foster agency, autonomy, and acceleration to help students realize their full potential.

Beam, formerly Edquity, provides flexible cloud-based technology that increases equitable and fast delivery of critical public benefits, emergency aid, and cash assistance to our most vulnerable populations. Our platform allows governments, nonprofits, colleges/universities, and philanthropic organizations to administer a wide range of financial assistance programs, from rental relief and public utility benefits to emergency cash assistance with software that simplifies applications, aids decisioning and processing, facilitates payments, and streamlines compliance, reporting, and case management into a single system. Beam, formerly Edquity, currently provides digital infrastructure for 53 governments, institutions, and nonprofits in more than 16 states. Since 2020, Beam, formerly Edquity, has administered over $180 million to 300,000 households. To learn more, visit https://www.bybeam.co/.

Upswing provides a solution to reach, relate to, and retain today’s non-traditional learners by scaling student services, supporting 24/7 online tutoring, optimizing engagement and utilizing insightful data to identify and support at-risk students.

BrightHive helps organizations, networks, & communities securely and responsibly link their data to enhance their impact, empower individual and collective decision making, & increase equality of opportunity. Together with our strategic partners, we build and support open source interoperable data infrastructure and provide strong data governance tools necessary for social change organizations to collect, integrate, and share data more effectively and securely to inform interventions and collaborations that directly impact the lives of the individuals that they serve.

BrightHive helps organizations, networks, & communities securely and responsibly link their data to enhance their impact, empower individual and collective decision making, & increase equality of opportunity. Together with our strategic partners, we build and support open source interoperable data infrastructure and provide strong data governance tools necessary for social change organizations to collect, integrate, and share data more effectively and securely to inform interventions and collaborations that directly impact the lives of the individuals that they serve.

Authess equips educators and employers with the tools to engage their candidates authentically, in real-world scenarios — to truly assess if they are able to meet the challenges ahead. Authess’ structure and technology helps educators and employers assess beyond whether their candidates have the needed skills and knowledge, but rather if they have the ability to apply it professionally. Authess is the advanced tool that aligns the assessment needs of educators and employers with a system that works, at the scale they require. Our mission is to broaden opportunity, close skill gaps, and reduce organizational risk using authentic assessment, machine learning, and data analytics.

Cell-Ed offers a complete mobile solution for employers and education providers to reach, train, coach, and upskill their workers worldwide on any device - from smartphones to tablets to computers to even flip phones - with no internet connection or data plan needed. Workers acquire literacy, language and job skills to get and keep the jobs they want.

Roadtrip Nation creates and distributes best-in-class career exploration content, products, and experiences to help individuals pursue fulfilling careers based on what’s important to them. We’re one part media company, one part career education platform, and one hundred percent mission-driven. We believe there’s power in doing work that’s true to who you are. That’s why we’ve dedicated ourselves to helping people explore career possibilities that connect to their interests. We seek out inspiring individuals who’ve built lives around what they love, then share their stories in award-winning documentaries on public television and an online archive featuring thousands of conversations about struggle and success. We also provide a process for how to navigate the career journey, with curriculums, career discovery resources, live events, and our New York Times best-selling career guide, Roadmap. Along the way, we have benefited from world-class partnerships with great brands, foundations, and people who are passionate about making change in the world. We took our first road trip in 2001, driven by the question of how to build a life doing what you love. The answers we found showed us that this was bigger than our journey alone. Since then, we’ve been driven by one mission: to create a movement of people empowered to define their own roads in life.

Student engagement is critical to positive learning outcomes. AugThat was created with over 18 years’ experience within the educational system. In 2013 the company began from a Tutoring Center which infused technology to students as well as provided rigorous differentiated instruction to children throughout Monmouth County, New Jersey. AugThat began creating and developing their own technologies as well as curriculum that enhanced the learning process. Our mission is to provide an engaging, meaningful, and technological experience for learning that will differentiate instruction and drive student success. AugThat has developed an application that infuses Augmented Reality into real world learning. Our app delivers 3D models, 360-degree virtual environments and activity sheets with animated lessons – all presented via smart devices. AugThat created the first of its kind AR platform, which has been implemented in 260 schools across 36 states in the U.S. and other countries. The company possesses the largest library of AR assets for education. Our campaign “Reach 1 Million Students” has helped drive over 30,000 teacher downloads and an implied reach of 1,000,000+ students after 7 months. AugThat has also aligned with strategic partners to bundle our product, including a national assessment company, to enhance the learning environment of their products. We have signed with the Texas Department of Education for the deaf, and were recently highlighted in EdSurge as one of the best AR apps for education. AugThat is recognized as a leader in AR in education, an exciting emerging area that can dramatically enhance student outcomes.

We invest in impactful education technology companies with the mission of helping unlock the full human potential of people who have been historically underserved. We believe that education at every level should combine the joy and playfulness of preschool, the intense collaborative experimentation of a hackathon, and the deep, self-guided exploration of a doctoral program. We invest in technology businesses that cater to diverse learning styles and objectives, introducing new tools, platforms, and school models to deliver joyful education to vulnerable students. Our strategy targets Early-Stage companies grounded in rigorous methodology with sound business models and proven product-market fit. Rethink Education is one of the three venture capital strategies on the Rethink Capital Partners platform, along with Rethink Food and Rethink Impact. Visit rethink-capital.com to learn more.

The Indiana Economic Development Corporation (IEDC) is charged with growing the State economy, driving economic development and helping businesses launch, grow and locate in the state. Led by Secretary of Commerce Brad Chambers and governed by a 15-member board chaired by Governor Eric J. Holcomb, the IEDC manages many initiatives, including performance-based tax credits, workforce training grants, innovation and entrepreneurship resources, public infrastructure assistance and talent attraction and retention efforts. For more information about the IEDC, visit www.iedc.in.gov.

PAIRIN’s mission is to make everyone’s journey personally relevant and, equitable. PAIRIN unifies the essential content and resources provided by regional workforce, government and educational organizations into one integrated platform designed for and around the user. PAIRIN’s science-based technology and personalized approach to client service ensures not only the success of clients’ programs, but also the success of people in their communities who benefit most from skills-based development and career services. PAIRIN’s My Journey platform enables these organizations to more effectively deliver career guidance, skills development and tailored community services through one easy-to-implement and easy-to-use solution. At PAIRIN, we believe every person’s journey is important. We strive everyday to guide our employees, partners and ultimately, all end-users, to reach their potential and contribute to large scale workforce change. Through passion, dedication and innovation, our team and technology unify and modernize regional and national workforce ecosystems. We believe that every person’s journey, when realized, creates a stronger, more equitable workforce.

Juvo Ventures is a double bottom line venture capital firm focused on early stage technology-enabled education companies, across the education-to-work lifecycle, that improve quality, access, and outcomes. Our name, ‘Juvo,’ means to help, to support, to further — an idea that extends not just to our beliefs of how we can help entrepreneurs create value but also to the needs of the learner and how innovation can unlock the potential of every individual.

BELIEVE Circle City is a rigorous college and career preparatory high school designed to develop students identity, cultural competency, leadership and purpose. BELIEVE will foster agency, autonomy, and acceleration to help students realize their full potential.