Jason Palmer

Nexford University is reimagining what a global American university can be. We exist to open doors. To give people everywhere access to high-quality learning that actually leads to career progress. And to prove that you don’t need debt or privilege to build a better future. We’re built for today’s world: a flexibly paced, fully online university designed around real workplace skills, employer needs, and measurable outcomes. Our programs teach the capabilities that drive careers in business and technology, powered by personalized learning, AI-driven support, and a curriculum shaped by global industry data. We focus on one thing: enabling career success. From first-time college learners to seasoned professionals, we help people gain the skills and credentials to unlock new roles, higher earning potential, and upward mobility. Behind the scenes is a cross-disciplinary team of builders, innovators, and problem solvers. We challenge conventions. We experiment. We use data, technology, and creativity to deliver one of the most efficient academic operations in the world while driving outcomes that outperform traditional universities. Nexford University is based in Washington, DC and accredited by DEAC — serving learners across more than 100 countries. If you believe talent is everywhere but opportunity is not, you’re one of us.

Brains & Motion Education (BAM!) is a tech-enabled company unlocking the potential of students year-round through summer camp, after-school, and structured recess enrichment programs. By empowering the next generation with world-class STEM, Arts, and Sports programs, BAM fosters a lifelong love for learning, shaping well-rounded individuals who are not just ready for tomorrow but thriving in the present. To date, BAM has served 1,150+ schools and 93,000 students with 4,600 programs delivered.

Video is a powerful tool for communication. It can impart knowledge, tell a story, evoke emotion, and drive results. CreatorUp makes it easy to produce high-quality videos for teaching telling and inspiring. Offering more than 400 products for all industries and styles, including live-action, animation, and 360VR, the CreatorUp Marketplace has solutions for marketing, business communications, education, events, social impact, and live streaming. Visit us at CreatorUp.com CreatorUp - We make content easy™

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.

Who we are: Galvanize partners with enterprises and government agencies to build the technical capabilities their people need to thrive in the AI era. We believe that learning only works when it leads to measurable performance and business outcomes. What we do: We design and deliver assessments, onboarding, upskilling and reskilling programs that align with real business problems. Our offerings span AI & Machine Learning, Data Engineering & Analytics, Cloud & Modern Infrastructure, Software Engineering & Development, and Extreme Programming & Agile. Each engagement starts by collaborating to understand your workflows and ends with your teams confidently applying new skills on the job. How we’re different: Traditional training often stops at information transfer. Galvanize goes further, providing hands‑on, scenario‑based learning where learners experiment, iterate and receive coaching in real time. We measure success by behaviour change and business results. Our four‑step model—Collaborate, Translate, Innovate, Validate—ensures that capability building is tied directly to the metrics that matter. Let’s collaborate: If your organization needs to close the gap between vision and execution, we’d love to talk. Visit galvanize.com or use the “Let’s talk” button to start the conversation.

Climb Credit (NMLS# 1240013) is an innovative student lending platform that makes career creation and transformation more accessible, affordable, and accountable than ever before. Driven by a mission to empower individuals to unlock their career potential – no matter what their credit profile – Climb Credit identifies programs and schools with a demonstrated ability to improve the earnings of their graduates. Then they provide learners with financing options that are priced and structured to meet the unique needs of those seeking career elevation and increased earning power. Recognizing the dynamic and diverse nature of an economy in rapid change, Climb Credit partners with schools that teach everything from cybersecurity to pilot training, heavy machine operation to data science, and culinary arts to coding. While some colleges are struggling to meet the real-world needs of their students, Climb Credit and its partner schools are committed to an inspiring practicality that can bring confidence as individuals Own the Next phase of their career goals.

Village Capital is reinventing the system to back the entrepreneurs of the future. Known for its groundbreaking approaches to supporting founders who are building solutions to emergent social, economic, and environmental challenges, VilCap unlocks critical social and financial capital for early-stage companies to maximize business and impact growth. Since 2009, Village Capital has supported over 1,400 startups that have raised over $5 billion in investment capital. It has made more than 150 investments through its various affiliated funds, including Vilcap Investments, which has invested in 110 peer-selected companies. Over 20,000 entrepreneurs have improved their investment readiness through its network of entrepreneur support organizations and its platform, Abaca.

Mursion is the virtual reality environment where professionals practice and master the complex interpersonal skills necessary to be effective in high-stakes professions. Used by a wide range of innovative organizations in healthcare, education, hospitality, finance, and other corporate sectors, Mursion delivers customized virtual reality simulations that recreate the most demanding interpersonal challenges that professionals confront on the job every day. Mursion’s virtual reality platform: - Uses a combination of artificial intelligence and live actors to deliver powerful and personalized simulations. - Provides
 a wide range of immersive and authentic workplace environments in which to simulate challenging interpersonal on-the-job exchanges. - Forces learners to take risks from which they can learn how to improve their day-to-day performance. While the media has focused on virtual reality as a tool for gaming and other forms of entertainment, virtual reality simulations are on the verge of revolutionizing professional training. Simulated virtual reality role plays offer: - An engaging, efficient, and safe way to learn by doing - Practical experiences to integrate new skills into daily routines - A window into the performance abilities of key staff in global organizations - Easy-to-capture analytics that can inform future training plans Whether a professional needs to practice a challenging interpersonal skill, or is ready to demonstrate his or her mastery of that skill in an authentic form of performance assessment, Mursion is the platform to simulate real- world human interactions that can make or break careers. To learn more about Mursion, please visit our website: www.mursion.com

Pathful helps students decide what they want to be, what they need to learn, and the people they need to know to prepare them for life beyond the classroom. Pathful also allows teachers and administrators to consolidate reporting, gain insights on multiple college and career readiness and work-based learning outcomes within one comprehensive platform. The K-16 Workforce Readiness platform bridging the gap between what industry needs and how education works.

Founded in 2014, APDS is the only Certified B Corporation in Corrections Reform in the USA. Our vision is to break the cycle of incarceration. Our mission is to prepare every justice-involved individual for a living wage career upon their reentry to society. Our charge: Day one access to evidence-based education technology in every jurisdiction and state in the USA to create pathways to living-wage careers.

Orijin is transforming how correctional jurisdictions prepare incarcerated populations for employment. The Orijin platform delivers comprehensive learning and workforce development experiences, supported by motivational tools for learners and actionable insights for correctional staff. Orijin partners with jurisdictions and agencies including Massachusetts Department of Correction, Tennessee Department of Labor, and North Carolina Division of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention to accelerate employability, ensuring that learning investments translate to reentry successes. As a public benefit corporation, Orijin is on a mission to prepare every justice-impacted individual for sustainable employment and change corrections for good. For more information, visit orijin.works.

LearnPlatform is the comprehensive edtech effectiveness system for educators and administrators to organize, streamline and analyze their education technology to save time, save money, and improve outcomes. The SaaS edtech system of record gives education organizations the ability to inventory and select digital learning tools, establish and maintain regulatory compliance, and measure outcomes to gain meaningful, actionable evidence to ensure learning ecosystems are safe and cost-effective. K-12 districts, charter networks and state education agencies use the research-based LearnPlatform to continuously improve standards of practice that drive blended and personalized learning at scale, expand equitable access to education technologies and increase student achievement. LearnPlatform’s B Corp team of educators, researchers and technologists is committed to delivering dynamic solutions through LearnPlatform, IMPACT™ Analyses, expert professional development, and tailored consultation and implementation services to make results matter.

Signal Vine provides an effective, intelligent two-way text messaging platform that is proven to deliver high student engagement. Signal Vine's platform empowers customers to combine text messaging with student data to deliver personalized information, prompt timely action, and ultimately improve outcomes for higher education organizations, nonprofits, and government programs. Signal Vine has been acquired by Modern Campus (https://moderncampus.com/about/newsroom/modern-campus-acquires-signal-vine.html).

Credly helps people connect their verified skills to opportunities, and organizations make better and more equitable human capital decisions. Credly is a Pearson company.

Motimatic is higher ed’s marketing-for-good behavioral science company. We combine science-backed strategies with data-driven digital marketing to enable more students to take action and succeed throughout their educational journeys. We offer higher ed leaders a results-first, no-risk approach to engaging, activating, and motivating the students who need it most. Our expert team delivers rapid, proven support without requiring IT integration, giving higher ed leaders immediate results they can count on.

Bay Bridge Ventures is an Institutional Climate Technology focused venture capital firm, purpose-built from the ground up as a diverse-owned and managed organization investing in scalable, profitable, and impactful companies across technology sectors while providing transparency through its industry-leading impact reporting process. Bay Bridge Ventures was founded on the belief that solutions to the world’s hardest environmental problems will be accelerated by the advancement of foundational technologies, such as AI & Big Data, Advanced Computing, Sensors & IoT, High-Bandwidth Connectivity, Energy Storage, Robotics and Synthetic Biology. Using this core philosophy, Bay Bridge Ventures’ Founding Partners achieved six successful investment exits in Climate Tech through public listing or acquisition. With a world-class team and scalable institutional investment strategy centered around meeting the fiduciary return goals of sophisticated global investors, Bay Bridge Ventures invests in early-stage technology companies addressing Climate Change. For more information, visit www.BayBridgeVC.com.

Stealth AI Startup is a private community for founders, researchers, and engineers building next-generation AI companies before public launch. Founders tag themselves here to: 🔹 Gain credibility while working in stealth 🔹 Connect discreetly with other AI founders 🔹 Receive inbound interest from early-stage VCs 🔹 Join curated founder-only circles & discussions 🔹 Access hiring pipelines for early team building If youre building an AI startup in stealth, add your profile to the community and tag yourself to this page. Your stealth journey deserves visibility — without revealing your idea. Join the world’s largest AI stealth founder network.

Mission: To develop and accelerate intelligent tools that save educators’ time and improve the teaching and learning experience.

American Access Institute works to protect foster and at-risk teens from homelessness, trafficking, and exploitation by providing life-changing technology to catapult them toward a more secure future.

TOGETHER! is a new mission-driven, technology-forward movement to increase youth voter registration and political engagement. TOGETHER! provides a stage for entrepreneurs, cause champions, and aspiring politicians to showcase and fundraise for their organizations, connect with like-minded individuals, and garner support for their endeavors