John Burke

Always Prepped is a web-based education data company. Our platform is designed to save teachers and administrators time by simplifying the reporting and analysis of student achievement data in one tool. We have worked with school leaders across the country to develop an API technology that connects student and teacher data from any source and visualizes the information into beautiful graphs and charts. Our dashboard allows schools to more quickly and easily use data to drive classroom instruction. We are committed to integrating the most popular education apps used by teachers to help create a holistic view of student performance which includes: Attendance, Behavioral, Demographic, Test Score and Standard Based Assessment data. Current system integrations: -Pearson Powerschool -NWEA -Socrative -Khan Academy -Engrade

Socrative is a team of educators and engineers passionate about improving education. Having been in the classroom, we understand the real challenges facing educators in today’s classrooms. In case you’re curious, our platform was designed with pedagogical underpinnings based on the Teaching for Understanding framework, Bloom’s Taxonomy, the Socratic method and John Seely Brown’s philosophy of play, questioning and imagination. We also believe that tech tools should be super simple in order to enhance classroom engagement, assessment and personalization. Our goal is to aid in the facilitation of rich educational experiences without a large learning curve on the components of the platform. We want to ensure teachers and students can remain focused on their own reflection and pathways toward better understanding. More at www.socrative.com

Neon helps digital economy companies deliver a better customer experience and increase revenue through increased customer engagement online. Founded on over 10 years of neuroscience research at Brown University, Carnegie Mellon, and Harvard Medical School, only Neon combines the science of perception, deep learning, and the world’s largest and most comprehensive dataset of emotional response to images, to automatically identify images & thumbnails to increase viewer engagement. Neon has served more than 6.2 billion images, and increased engagement an average of 24% for our customers. The company has also been recognized for its innovation, winning The World Economic Forum's Technology Pioneers award, The Edison Award for Innovation, funded by The National Science Foundation, and featured by The White House, Forbes, Fast Company, and The Wall Street Journal.

At Spree Commerce, our mission is to empower the world's sellers. Spree began in 2008 as an open source e-commerce platform based on the Ruby on Rails framework. Spree technology now powers almost 50,000 stores around the world. Our vibrant, international community has been an important factor in our success. We have received contributions from almost 500 developers worldwide, and we are now one of the top 50 open source projects globally (out of more than 3 million). The Spree Commerce hub was launched in October 2012. It automates backend logistics for stores. Since its launch it has processed millions of dollars in revenue for storefronts around the world.

EdgeConneX® is your global data center provider, operating highly proximate, high-powered, purpose-built solutions for customers at any scale – Edge, Far Edge, Hyperscale, and Edge Cable Landing Stations – anywhere in the world.

410 Labs, makers of Mailstrom, is a lean product studio founded in 2010 by Dave Troy and Matthew Koll. Our mission is to help people communicate and access information in new and better ways. About Mailstrom: Unlike "artificial intelligence"​ algorithms that try to guess what you think is important, Mailstrom is a power tool that amplifies your human intelligence. Mailstrom identifies bundles of related mail, and makes it easy for you to act on them as a group. Mailstrom works with your existing email service and lets you keep using your favorite mail tools. Mailstrom works with Gmail, Google Apps Email, Outlook, Apple, Aol, Exchange IMAP and any other email service that supports IMAP.

B-Stock offers the world’s leading auction platform for returned, excess, and other liquidation inventory. We believe there is tremendous value in and demand for returned, excess, and other liquidation inventory - no matter the category, condition, or location. By connecting this inventory directly to the right business buyers through a transparent sales platform we enable controlled transactions, fair market prices, less carbon footprint, and a faster sales cycle. To become a part of the world’s largest network of liquidation marketplaces, please visit: www.bstock.com and sourcing.bstock.com.

Who we are MindBites is your place on the web to find, publish and sell valuable video instructional content. A full publishing and commerce platform, MindBites enables everyone from individuals to content sites and publishing companies to publish, sell and distribute video tutorials and how-to lessons in the MindBites marketplace, on their own site, and across the web. The resulting on-demand knowledge library (which covers everything from Calculus lessons to Photoshop tutorials to Baby Sign Language instruction) simply can't be found anywhere else and offers individuals and organizations a unique monetization platform for their instructional video content. MindBites promises to revolutionize the way the world publishes and shares knowledge. MindBites – What do you know?

Turnsmith (formerly Datacraft Solutions) optimizes and automates material replenishment for lean manufacturers. Easy-to-use web-based software, sophisticated sizing algorithms and seamless integration with any ERP/MRP system reduces the risk, cost and complexity of pull-replenishment and inventory optimization efforts. Our unique incremental deployment allows plant materials teams to set-up and activate live Kanban signals to suppliers in minutes.

Formerly Riverbend Capital, Okeanos is a venture capital firm consisting of 100+ members nationwide that invests in early and growth stage technology and tech enabled companies. To date we have closed more than 100 investments across various stages, sectors and geographies.

PROOF stands for the Pro Rata Opportunity Fund. We invest strategic capital alongside select early stage VC firms, to maximize upside in their best performing companies. Venture capital firms investing in early stage companies typically negotiate ‘pro-rata investment rights,’ allowing them to maintain ownership in subsequent rounds of funding as they grow. Since early stage VCs invest across a broad swath of portfolio companies, over time, they inevitably run out of capital to maintain their pro-rata ownership in their best performing companies. When pro-rata is surrendered, board seats and the right to invest in future rounds are at stake. Through our investments, we allow our network partner VCs to maintain their influence on the board, preserve their position in the cap table and optimize returns in companies experiencing meteoric growth.

Always Prepped is a web-based education data company. Our platform is designed to save teachers and administrators time by simplifying the reporting and analysis of student achievement data in one tool. We have worked with school leaders across the country to develop an API technology that connects student and teacher data from any source and visualizes the information into beautiful graphs and charts. Our dashboard allows schools to more quickly and easily use data to drive classroom instruction. We are committed to integrating the most popular education apps used by teachers to help create a holistic view of student performance which includes: Attendance, Behavioral, Demographic, Test Score and Standard Based Assessment data. Current system integrations: -Pearson Powerschool -NWEA -Socrative -Khan Academy -Engrade

Socrative is a team of educators and engineers passionate about improving education. Having been in the classroom, we understand the real challenges facing educators in today’s classrooms. In case you’re curious, our platform was designed with pedagogical underpinnings based on the Teaching for Understanding framework, Bloom’s Taxonomy, the Socratic method and John Seely Brown’s philosophy of play, questioning and imagination. We also believe that tech tools should be super simple in order to enhance classroom engagement, assessment and personalization. Our goal is to aid in the facilitation of rich educational experiences without a large learning curve on the components of the platform. We want to ensure teachers and students can remain focused on their own reflection and pathways toward better understanding. More at www.socrative.com

Neon helps digital economy companies deliver a better customer experience and increase revenue through increased customer engagement online. Founded on over 10 years of neuroscience research at Brown University, Carnegie Mellon, and Harvard Medical School, only Neon combines the science of perception, deep learning, and the world’s largest and most comprehensive dataset of emotional response to images, to automatically identify images & thumbnails to increase viewer engagement. Neon has served more than 6.2 billion images, and increased engagement an average of 24% for our customers. The company has also been recognized for its innovation, winning The World Economic Forum's Technology Pioneers award, The Edison Award for Innovation, funded by The National Science Foundation, and featured by The White House, Forbes, Fast Company, and The Wall Street Journal.