Nikhil Gopalani

Accredible is the world’s leading digital credential platform, enabling education and training leaders to increase learner engagement and drive program growth. Over 2,300 organizations, including Google, IAPP, McGraw Hill, MIT, Skillsoft, Slack, and the University of Cambridge, rely on Accredible to manage and measure everything from issuing digital certificates and badges to visualizing learning pathways to spotlighting certified learners. Founded in 2013, Accredible has helped issue and verify over 120 million career-advancing credentials. To learn more, visit accredible.com.

Founded in 2006, VentureBeat is the leading source for transformative tech news and events that provide deep context to help business leaders make smart decisions and stay on top of breaking news. VB is recognized as the leading media authority in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data. It also offers the most incisive coverage of the game industry. Whether you come for the articles, read our newsletters, or attend our events, you will emerge from VentureBeat with new knowledge, perspective, influences, and connections. News: We live, breathe, and cover transformative technology — from AI to gaming, small business to enterprise, AR/VR to 5G, and more. Newsletters: Want to stay on top of the latest without leaving your inbox? We send you all the news and analysis you need — and nothing more — with our daily and weekly newsletters. Events: Whether it’s one of our large flagship events, or an intimate private gathering, our events are always authentic, unique, in-person experiences formed around innovative technology, discussions, and ideas.

Accredible is the world’s leading digital credential platform, enabling education and training leaders to increase learner engagement and drive program growth. Over 2,300 organizations, including Google, IAPP, McGraw Hill, MIT, Skillsoft, Slack, and the University of Cambridge, rely on Accredible to manage and measure everything from issuing digital certificates and badges to visualizing learning pathways to spotlighting certified learners. Founded in 2013, Accredible has helped issue and verify over 120 million career-advancing credentials. To learn more, visit accredible.com.

Ambition.vc is a company that has a mission to identify marketplaces undergoing massive shifts and then to work with founders that are building technologies to help catalyze those shifts. The investment firm is located in Columbus, OH and San Francisco, CA and looks to invest in early stage technology companies.

i/o ventures is an early stage startup program that focuses heavily on mentorship. We work closely with founders from product launch through the next stage of company development, sharing what has proven to work for product scaling, revenue growth and fund raising. Our partners and mentors have started and run some of the top internet companies. We want you to take advantage of our experience leading teams, building great products, raising money, negotiating mergers and acquisitions, and scaling infrastructure; all with the hope that you dramatically improve your execution and time-to-market (and won’t repeat our mistakes!) We take pride in our roles both as founders and operators. Each of us has recently or is currently running a technology company. We understand the most common challenges that all entrepreneurs face. We're based out of a funky space in the Mission and invite both portfolio companies and people looking to start a company to come hang out.