1776 traveled the world—from Africa to China to our own backyard—and found the most promising startups revolutionizing education at all levels. Now, join us as these 16 entrepreneurs face off for two $50,000 prizes and a spot to join the rest of the “Elite Eight” for the Global Finals on Saturday, May 16. Consider this your glimpse into the future of education and an opportunity to meet the people behind the biggest ideas with global impact.
Meet the 16 competing startups below!
Schedule:
4:00 – 6:00 pm: Startup pitches — Each startup will get 2 minutes to pitch their business, followed by another 2 minutes of questioning by the investor & industry expert judges. Startups will be judged based on how big their potential market is, how much traction they’ve gotten so far, and other factors that evaluate whether the entrepreneur has the idea and the team to scale globally.
6:00 – 6:45 pm: Reception, opportunity to meet startups, and judging
6:45 pm: Two Semifinalists Announced
Dress code: Startup friendly
There will be casual food and drink provided.
Location: Lansburgh Theatre – 450 7th Street NW, Washington, DC, 20005
Cross Streets: E Street NW & 7th Street NW
Parking: Garage Entrance on 8th Street between D and E Streets NW, Cost: $12/day
Metro: Gallery Place/Chinatown (Red Line) at 7th and G Streets, 2 blocks from the Theatre.
There will be bus transportation from the Lansburgh Theater to the Education Gala.
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Competitors
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SheFighter
SheFighter is the first women-only self-defense studio, designed to empower women both physically and physiologically through self-defense training and educational workshops.
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PenPal Schools
PenPal Schools connects over 50 thousand students from 50+ countries to discover other cultures, learn about global issues, and practice foreign languages through 1-1 online exchanges. Their apps for desktop and mobile devices make connections easy, and our 6-week standards-aligned courses include videos, texts, and discussion questions.
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BPI Educational Institution
B-Genius Learning Systems aims to make any kind of learning fast and amazingly accurate. The company has developed provisionally patented learning technology that organizes information in the human brain, thus making learning 120 times faster and assuring 96 percent accuracy on average for up to 1.5 years.
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Fiberead
Fiberead seeks to help authors self-publish translated version of their books overseas.
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Uberchord Engineering
Uberchord is a mobile app with a break-through audio recognition technology that enables real-time listening and feedback just like a personal guitar teacher. The patent-pending algorithm took 20 months of development and enables a new guitar teaching method.
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AdmitHub
AdmitHub offers free, expert college admissions advising online. Ask anything about admissions, and the company’s team of former and current admissions deans, directors, and officers from institutions like Harvard and Brown, answer your question for free.
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Packback
Packback allows college students to “pay per use” for their digital textbooks by renting for $3 to $5 per day, while enabling publishers to recoup revenue lost to the secondary used book market.
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Edbacker
EdBacker Website Member Spotlight
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EmpowerTheUser
EmpowerTheUser (ETU) is a provider of SkillSims Platform, fully Software as a Service (SaaS) that empowers organisations to build at scale complex branching simulations for training and assessment. ETU works with educational organisations, large international companies, including Fortune 500s, and multinational training vendors.
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3Restart
3Restart is a predictive and adaptive learning solutions company that focuses on improving learning methodologies. Our software is designed in a way so as to successfully predict what a student is most likely to forget at a specific time and works mainly on enhancing knowledge retention amongst kids.
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Leaducate
We offer a free platform to students that helps them find the best option for their education enabling direct contact with institutions; thereby providing leads to them through a performance service.
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eKitabu
eKitabu is East Africa’s first and premier ebook store. The startup sells ebooks, interactive content and a learning management platform that are all key stepping stones to the advancement of e-learning in Kenya and Africa.
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Handsfree Learning
Handsfree helps students, teachers & institutions in learn-by-doing disciplines by supporting instruction, practice, assessment & feedback. By applying a range of hardware and software solutions to the process of technical skills acquisition, the Handsfree platform expands possibilities in subjects like dentistry, medicine, culinary arts, fine arts, cosmetology, and lab sciences.
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Milaana
Milaana connects university students with project-based internships and opportunities from local organizations that increase both job preparedness and community engagement.
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Total Boox Ltd.
A platform for ebook distribution, Total Boox only charges users for what they read. Users download books for free and then pay as they go.
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Permission Click
Permission Click provides digital permission slips, data and payment collection for K-12 schools that parents can approve anywhere, anytime, on any platform.
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LearningList
Learning List is the industry-leading instructional materials review service for schools and districts. Like Consumer Reports, Learning List is a subscription-based service that provides detailed, independent reviews to help educators choose and use instructional materials more effectively. Subscribers include schools and districts serving over 1 million students.
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Teachley
Teachley helps schools use app data to drive instruction with their Apple Design Award-winning app. Teachley’s Learning Analytics Platform extracts and analyzes students’ data, helping K-8 teachers monitor performance on important benchmarks and Common Core standards, differentiate classroom instruction, and target their intervention efforts.
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VChain Solutions
VChain Solutions is a simulation training provider, helping students and businesses alike get the skills they need to succeed in the supply-chain industry. VChain Proactive, our innovative supply chain simulation training software, allows students to interact and to react to various supply chain scenarios in a safe simulation environment where they…
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LearnLux
LearnLux creates online learning tools to teach people personal finance when they need it most. The company allows companies to empower their employees to become financially autonomous by giving them the skills and knowledge they need to make the best financial decisions.