John Azubuike

Search Fund Accelerator (SFA), based in New Orleans and Denver, works with a select group of entrepreneurs to help them find and acquire excellent companies, and manage them successfully as equity-owning CEOs. Our program starts with a comprehensive boot camp during which we help the cohort launch their search using proven search techniques and technologies. Throughout the search, we stress individual mentoring and coaching, to help each searcher focus on the best opportunities and efficiently navigate the process to acquire an attractive business. Our work together during the search process builds a trusting relationship that is highly valuable once an entrepreneur transitions to being CEO of their company. To learn more about SFA and why searchers choose to partner with us, please visit our website.

Emko Capital is family-run investment firm investing in industrial, manufacturing, aerospace, and infrastructure businesses. Featuring over 45 years combined experience, Emko has a passion for providing the strategic value and liquidity owners desire while respectfully keeping their legacy intact. Please contact Info@EmkoCapital.Com or visit emkocapital.com for further information.

Genially is an online tool for creating digital content, which anyone can use to make presentations, infographics, gamifications, images, and other content interactive. Its simple and free. Geniallys aim is clear; we want everyone to be able to communicate effectively and keep their audience on its toes while reaching a whole new level and creating content they didnt know they were capable of making. Our mission is to enable anyone to create content thats astonishing, visual, and interactive. Thats why we want interactive content to be the new standard. Our content formats arent just presentations or infographics; theyre geniallys. Geniallys content works because its interactive and animated. According to our biology, interactivity and animation help us capture the attention of an audience, increase participation and exploration of the information, and offer a memorable experience. We created Genially because nothing like Genially existed In 2015 we asked ourselves: if technology has changed the world, why are we still using the same tools to communicate? And then, Genially was born. We created Genially in Spain with the goal of making communication interactive.

At uLesson, our purpose is to prepare people for opportunity and improve society through education. Our team of talented people are passionate about media, technology, education and the continent. Together, we seek to build a learning experience unprecedented in its richness, scope, interactivity and effectiveness. Our service is built to specifically serve African needs across the board. We seek to engage African students in a manner that is culturally relevant, and responds to the syllabi in their respective countries. We believe learning should be a personally fulfilling and exciting journey for every student. uLesson employs an individualistic approach to learning, applying simplified teaching methods designed to amplify each student’s learning ability with quality lesson plans from the best tutors. We take complex concepts and present them to the learner in a manner that makes learning interactive and engaging.

Our mission is to build better training, careers and lives for our customers and their employees in the HVAC, Plumbing, Electrical, Solar & Facilities Maintenance industries by delivering scalable and highly effective digital learning simulations. Our platform recreates life-like VR scenarios for skilled trades workers, allowing them to learn in a more engaging environment. The result is a workforce that is confident, highly skilled and ready in just a few weeks, not years. Our scalable, Comersive Learning solution compresses time from beginner to mastery – and can efficiently train hundreds of workers to be job-ready at the same time – quickly. Our revolutionary technology speaks for itself. Interplay Learning was named to the 2020 Inc. Best in Business list, won the AI Breakthrough Award for Best Use of Virtual Reality for Enterprise Applications and is an AHR Expo – Innovations Awards 2020 Winner. Welcome to the next generation of the skilled labor workforce.

The first intelligent reading assistant that listens, assesses & coaches, Amira accelerates reading mastery. Proven to DOUBLE the pace of reading mastery, Amira helps K-6 students become motivated, masterful readers. The company recently debuted a new reading game app called Amira and the StoryCraft for kids ages 5 to 10, which uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to deliver personalized reading tutoring from the comfort of home. Visit www.amiralearning.com/reading-game/ to learn more.

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Remind is a communication platform that reaches students and families where they are. We believe that relationships drive success in education, and we’re building a platform that supports learning wherever it happens. Today, the Remind platform is home to one of the largest free services in education, a school communication business that supports millions of students, and an online tutoring solution that provides help outside the classroom. Founded in 2011, Remind is backed by GSV Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Owl Ventures, and Social Capital. For more information, visit Remind.com.

Labster is a fast-moving, award-winning company that focuses on revolutionizing the way science is taught to students all over the world. Virtual labs are simulated learning environments that allow students to complete laboratory experiments online and explore abstract concepts and difficult theories without stepping into a physical science lab. Our labs are based on mathematical algorithms supporting open-ended investigations and are combined with gamification elements such as an immersive 3D universe, storytelling and a scoring system that stimulates students' natural curiosity and highlights the connection between science and real-world issues. Our customers include global leading institutions such as Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Exeter University and ETH Zurich. Article published by Mads Tvillinggaard Bonde, in Nature Biotechnology (July 2014) supports that using traditional teaching (incl. wet-labs) in combination with virtual labs potentially increases learning outcomes by 101%.

Kuali is a leading developer of administrative SaaS solutions for higher education. The company’s thoughtfully designed software, created in partnership with their community of college and university customers and partners, has proven to help institutions manage their business more efficiently. Kuali products are in use by more than 230 colleges and universities across the US and Canada. The company’s solutions include Kuali Build, a no-code forms and workflow automation tool, Kuali Curriculum, Catalog, and Syllabus Management, Kuali Ready, a business continuity planning tool, Kuali Research, a suite of products designed to support the research administration and compliance lifecycle, and Kuali Financials, an enterprise financial management product. Kuali: Software for the Future of Higher Education.

Securlys mission is to foster safe and focused learning environments through technology while keeping students healthy and engaged. We are a team of parents, educators, and technologists. We recognize the challenges IT administrators and educators face each day. By empowering those who serve students, we can foster safe and focused learning environments while keeping students healthy and engaged. Always connected, always protected.

BenchPrep is an award-winning learning platform purpose-built to help candidates feel more confident and prepared for their credentialing and certification tests by delivering an intuitive, efficient, and engaging study experience. BenchPrep helps organizations drive revenue by making it easy for learners to search, discover, purchase, and enroll in online study courses rich with interactive learning experiences. BenchPrep’s data capabilities also unlock valuable insights so organizations can make better, more data-driven decisions on factors that affect course content, candidate sentiment, and learner behavior. Many of the world’s leading associations, credentialing bodies, and training companies trust BenchPrep to power their online study programs, including ACT, AAMC, ASCM, CFA Institute, CompTIA, GMAC, ISACA, Richardson, McGraw-Hill Education, and many others. More than 8 million learners have used BenchPrep to attain academic and professional success. Learn more at benchprep.com.

Degreed is a technology suite that combines lifelong learning and data-driven development so organizations can accelerate workforce capabilities for greater impact and make skills the heart of all work. Degreed is the only learning platform that makes it easy for companies to deliver daily learning, deep skill-building, education benefits, real-time insights and expert services, while connecting to a robust network of partners and integrations. More than 9 million learners from hundreds of global companies use Degreed to gain the skills to grow in their careers. Degreed, founded in 2012, launched with the mission of “jailbreaking the degree” where all skills are recognized, irrespective of how they are acquired. Degreed is headquartered in Pleasanton, California, with offices in Salt Lake City, New York, London, Amsterdam, and Brisbane. To learn more, head over to degreed.com.

With Lingo Lives customized Skills-Based Coaching program, you can empower your leaders to contribute their unique potential and drive performance through the power of one-on-one coaching. Our expert coaches place learning in a real-world context, empowering emerging leaders at multinational companies such as NBC Universal and Slack to achieve career milestones – from running an agile stand-up meeting to nailing a performance review. We partner with L&D leaders to define program goals and easily deploy at scale, and then work closely with managers and learners to provide ongoing guidance and support. It’s true personalization at scale, and it delivers incredible results, but you don’t have to take our word for it. “Communication skills affect our confidence and credibility. Language can be a barrier for many employees who want to grow into executive roles which require interaction with internal and external stakeholders. Lingo Live removes this block and helps people get to the next step in their careers.” – Heather Ramirez, Director of HR, Roku “We have incredibly talented engineers who work together to build innovative, superior products. Lingo Live is a key partner in unlocking the full potential of our technical talent by helping us remove our only significant barrier to success: communication and leadership gaps.” – Pat Poels, CTO, Eventbrite

Search Fund Accelerator (SFA), based in New Orleans and Denver, works with a select group of entrepreneurs to help them find and acquire excellent companies, and manage them successfully as equity-owning CEOs. Our program starts with a comprehensive boot camp during which we help the cohort launch their search using proven search techniques and technologies. Throughout the search, we stress individual mentoring and coaching, to help each searcher focus on the best opportunities and efficiently navigate the process to acquire an attractive business. Our work together during the search process builds a trusting relationship that is highly valuable once an entrepreneur transitions to being CEO of their company. To learn more about SFA and why searchers choose to partner with us, please visit our website.

Global independent advisory firm providing financial, strategic, and executive advice to startups and established companies in the Technology and Consumer sectors. Securities offered through Finalis Securities LLC Member FINRA / SIPC. Clarke Capital Advisors LLC and Finalis Securities LLC are separate, unaffiliated entities.

Emko Capital is family-run investment firm investing in industrial, manufacturing, aerospace, and infrastructure businesses. Featuring over 45 years combined experience, Emko has a passion for providing the strategic value and liquidity owners desire while respectfully keeping their legacy intact. Please contact Info@EmkoCapital.Com or visit emkocapital.com for further information.

Our investment philosophy is simple: we seek to buy good businesses at low prices. We focus exclusively on companies that are underperforming their historically demonstrated earnings power, performing fundamental, bottom-up research on these companies in an effort to determine whether the problems that caused the earnings shortfall are temporary or permanent. We typically consider companies for inclusion in the portfolio when the following criteria are met: (1) the current valuation is low compared to the company’s normalized earnings power; (2) the current earnings are below historic norms; (3) problems are viewed as temporary; (4) management has a viable strategy to generate earnings recovery; and (5) there is meaningful downside protection in case the earnings recovery does not materialize. We believe a concentrated portfolio exclusively focused on companies with these characteristics should generate meaningful excess returns for long-term investors.

LLR Partners is a lower middle market private equity firm investing in technology and healthcare businesses. We collaborate with our portfolio companies to define high-impact growth initiatives, turn them into action and create long-term value. Founded in 1999 and with more than $7 billion raised across seven funds, LLR is a flexible provider of equity capital for growth, recapitalization and buyouts. LLRs dedicated investment teams focus on the Education, FinTech, Healthcare, Industrial Tech, Security and Software industries. Our Value Creation Team partners with portfolio company management teams to deliver integrated resources and guidance to help them achieve their growth objectives. Inspired by our commitment to creating value, LLR harnesses expertise from our teams and network to codify why growth happens through GrowthBits content and our Collaborate series of events. Meet the LLR team, get to know our companies and learn invaluable growth insights at www.llrpartners.com. More than 11,000 business leaders get their growth insights from LLR GrowthBits. Join them by subscribing at https://www.llrpartners.com/sign-up/.