Steve Shapiro

Red Bear Angels is an Angel Group that invests in companies built by Cornell alumni, students and faculty. Having deployed over 16 Million across 30+ companies including Lyft, Trumid, and the New York Code & Design Academy, Red Bear Angels is the *only* investment firm to successfully give 850+ people unprecedented access to the innovations spinning out of Cornell Tech, Weil Cornell, and all of Cornell Universitys programs. For more information, please visit rbangels.com or email emily@rbangels.com Red Bear Angels is not endorsed by Cornell University. It was created by a group of Board of Trustee Emeriti and seasoned alumni venture capitalists.

The New York Code + Design Academy offers hands-on, intensive workshops in web and mobile app development and UI/UX design. Whether you’re a complete beginner or an experienced developer, our suite of part time and full time workshops will help you build your digital skill set. Our course offering includes beginner focused workshops in HTML, CSS, Javascript, Ruby/Sinatra/Rails and UX/UI Design, and more advanced workshops in mobile app development (iOS and Android) and advanced web technologies, like AngularJS. Learn to Code or Level Up @ The New York Code + Design Academy.

Treville Capital Group is an alternative asset manager that provides financing solutions to high-growth, credit worthy, and technology-enabled companies with a focus on asset-based credit, capital solutions, and venture capital.

LearnBIG provides customized and engaging e-learning programs for employee development that will motivate and empower your teams to develop better business results. Our adaptive and responsive online training transforms the learning experience and enhances the knowledge retention of your workforce well beyond the passive watch and listen instruction that typifies traditional e-learning. We deliver instructional design that is platform and content neutral which provides you online coaching tailored to your specific business goals, culture and brand.

LearnSpeed is a web-based education center and tutor management system that provides companies with the real-time data needed to efficiently and effectively manage their business. Instructors can log individual and group sessions, enter timesheets, and communicate with their students via LearnSpeed's unique task management system. Students and parents receive emailed copies of the sessions in an easy and fast approval process, keeping them fully informed about the progress with minimal effort and maximum efficiency.

LearnLaunch Institute, is a non-profit organization, located in Boston, serving the education ecosystem in the New England region. We believe in high-quality, equitable teaching and learning for all students. We help unleash the power of innovation by empowering school & district leaders to embrace & manage change. We engage education practitioners and policy leaders in workshops and conferences. We convene local, state, and national thought leaders to solve the toughest problems facing education. We lead communities to muster the power of innovation. Learn more at learnlaunch.org and follow LearnLaunch on Twitter at @learnlaunch. Learn more about the LearnLaunch Accelerator at learnlaunch.com.

Launchpad Venture Group is a Boston-area angel investing group focused on locally based, early stage companies, primarily in high tech and life sciences. Launchpad is the most active Seed funder in the region having backed over 150 start ups. Launchpad specializes in leading priced equity raises. Launchpad invests approximately $10 million per year and actively syndicates with other Angel Groups and Venture Capitalists. You can learn more at www.launchpadventuregroup.com.

Finetune is leading the way in AI-Human hybrid solutions for learning and assessment. Our practice-proven tools include an assessment platform that delivers formative assessment to millions of students (built in partnership with The College Board); an AI-assisted system that streamlines scoring assignments, videos, and projects; an innovative solution to the problem of inter-rater reliability in qualitative assessment for teachers across 400 schools (built in partnership with Gradient Learning); test authoring support that more than doubles authoring speed and efficiency while improving item quality; and, an AI content tagging tool that dramatically improves the speed and quality of content classification, crosswalks, and item bank realignments. Finetune’s tools deliver new dimensions of efficiency, value, and dependability for our clients through cutting-edge Artificial Intelligence. Our amazing team hails from all over the world and we pride ourselves on our supportive and warm culture. Our clients represent some of the largest and most exacting educational and assessment organizations in the world. Our commitment to sound pedagogy and assessment, elegant user interface design and experience, and sophisticated data analytics allows our clients in K-12, Higher Ed, and professional and vocational testing new ways to serve their stakeholders and to achieve strategic goals that were previously out of reach.

Red Bear Angels is an Angel Group that invests in companies built by Cornell alumni, students and faculty. Having deployed over 16 Million across 30+ companies including Lyft, Trumid, and the New York Code & Design Academy, Red Bear Angels is the *only* investment firm to successfully give 850+ people unprecedented access to the innovations spinning out of Cornell Tech, Weil Cornell, and all of Cornell Universitys programs. For more information, please visit rbangels.com or email emily@rbangels.com Red Bear Angels is not endorsed by Cornell University. It was created by a group of Board of Trustee Emeriti and seasoned alumni venture capitalists.

The New York Code + Design Academy offers hands-on, intensive workshops in web and mobile app development and UI/UX design. Whether you’re a complete beginner or an experienced developer, our suite of part time and full time workshops will help you build your digital skill set. Our course offering includes beginner focused workshops in HTML, CSS, Javascript, Ruby/Sinatra/Rails and UX/UI Design, and more advanced workshops in mobile app development (iOS and Android) and advanced web technologies, like AngularJS. Learn to Code or Level Up @ The New York Code + Design Academy.