James Kenigsberg

Combining the art of technology, ai, and the immersive art of Hollywood-style storytelling to make humans...more human. Find out more at www.experiencegeniusacademy.com

Green Flower provides best-in-industry digital cannabis curriculum to help educate and destigmatize the plant for individuals and businesses around the world. As cannabis continues its path toward global legalization, we train the next generation of industry professionals and create a safe supply chain for all. Green Flower provides learning pathways for individuals to study on their own time, enterprise training for operations across the vertical, and continuing education programs for prestigious universities across the country.

Epic Staffing Group is a diversified national provider of staffing services to the Life Sciences and Healthcare industries. Our staffing verticals include Life Sciences Contract and Permanent Placement, Travel Nursing, Interim Executive Placement, Travel Allied, Government Staffing and International Staffing. Life Sciences Staffing: PharmaLogics Recruiting Orbis Clinical Healthcare Staffing: Epic Travel Staffing Epic Special Education Staffing Epic Specialty Staffing Epic Government Epic International Staffing

Pearl’s all-in-one, sustainable tutoring ecosystem consists of its patent-pending, configurable tech platform and its community of partners, bringing together the largest, most progressive, and respected education organizations. Features of the ecosystem and platform include scheduling, smart-matching, document sharing, integrated 1:1 and small group virtual classrooms, post-session reporting, research, content, assessment and training. Enter Pearl. Our all-in-one platform provides technical scaffolding for tutor operations at any scale, while consistently collecting data across in-person and online instruction, allowing high-impact tutoring organizations to prove efficacy and ensure sustainability. Pearl is the central hub that allows you to streamline your tutoring business. Our digital campus experience, white-labled with your organization’s branding, features unique logins for admins, students, instructors and parents, ensuring all stakeholders have the access they need. Managing large rosters of student and tutor data is a nightmare no longer. Our availability management tool makes scheduling a breeze. Send reminders via text and email to drive attendance. Tutors will love using our purpose-built online classrooms with multiple whiteboards. Whether tutoring in-person or online, our robust pulse-check system and post-session surveys allow you to track critical metrics. Data collection includes attendance, behavioral, SEL insights, and academic sentiment. All the aggregated data enables you to demonstrate your programs effectiveness for stakeholders and grant requirements. Tutoring works. When you pair a student with a good tutor, outcomes improve. At Pearl, we want to be your partner in removing the barriers to making relationship-based high-impact tutoring a standard pillar of all education.

Combining the art of technology, ai, and the immersive art of Hollywood-style storytelling to make humans...more human. Find out more at www.experiencegeniusacademy.com

Green Flower provides best-in-industry digital cannabis curriculum to help educate and destigmatize the plant for individuals and businesses around the world. As cannabis continues its path toward global legalization, we train the next generation of industry professionals and create a safe supply chain for all. Green Flower provides learning pathways for individuals to study on their own time, enterprise training for operations across the vertical, and continuing education programs for prestigious universities across the country.

PeakSpan Capital is a growth equity firm based in New York City and Silicon Valley. Having partnered with over 57 scale-ups and with $2.5B+ in assets under management (AUM), PeakSpan’s mission is to be the partner of choice for growth-stage entrepreneurial teams building category-defining software for business buyers of all sizes. PeakSpan combines deep domain expertise across a select set of sectors with multiple homegrown, proprietary, and patented technology platforms that provide visibility into company and market performance, helping disruptive entrepreneurs drive resilient, risk-adjusted value creation. To learn more about PeakSpan Capital and its portfolio, please visit: www.peakspancapital.com.

Epic Staffing Group is a diversified national provider of staffing services to the Life Sciences and Healthcare industries. Our staffing verticals include Life Sciences Contract and Permanent Placement, Travel Nursing, Interim Executive Placement, Travel Allied, Government Staffing and International Staffing. Life Sciences Staffing: PharmaLogics Recruiting Orbis Clinical Healthcare Staffing: Epic Travel Staffing Epic Special Education Staffing Epic Specialty Staffing Epic Government Epic International Staffing

Emerge - The first check for founders defining the future of work and learning Emerge is a global pre-seed fund backed by 100+ of the world’s best future of work and learning operators. Our vision is to democratise access to opportunity – by being a catalytic partner for early-stage founders, providing first-cheque financial support, ongoing expertise and access to a community who have ‘been there and built it’ with unrivalled market-specific know-how. Founded in 2014 as Europe’s only edtech specialist fund, Emerge now invests in B2B and B2C startups across all categories enabling people to grow and fulfil their potential, from early childhood, K12 and higher education through to lifelong learning, workforce development, career navigation and the future of work. Emerge has invested in over 80 companies, now valued at over $2b and impacting more than 31M people worldwide, including Yoto, Causaly, Colossyan, Edurino, Mattilda, Unibuddy, MyEdSpace and Solvely. Emerge invests anywhere between $250k and $2.5M at pre-seed and seed. The team welcomes direct applications - apply through our website. Read more about Emerge’s investment thesis and the startup ideas we’re excited by in our Fund II manifesto linked below.