# Engageli

> Engageli is a San Francisco education-technology company that replaces the video-call grid with persistent virtual tables, built-in active-learning tools, playback rooms, engagement analytics and AI-assisted course creation. Founded in 2020 after its founders watched online school flatten into awkward meetings, the company sells a quote-priced SaaS platform and implementation support to universities, school systems and corporate learning teams.

- **Founded:** 2020
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, United States
- **Founders:** Dan Avida (Co-Founder and CEO), Daphne Koller (Co-Founder and Board Member), Serge Plotkin (Co-Founder, CTO and VP of Engineering), Jamie Nacht Farrell (Co-Founder)
- **Products:** Engageli Virtual Classroom, Playback Rooms, Engagement Analytics, AI Classroom Suite, Engageli Studio
- **Notable:** Raised $47.5 million across seed and Series A financing by May 2021., DeVry reported a 94% pass rate among Engageli users versus 88% among non-users in an analysis of roughly 3,000 students and 50 professors; students with at least 60 minutes of use reached 95%., DeVry reported a 1.55 percentage-point improvement in persistence when comparing the same professors and courses before and after Engageli adoption.

## Products & services

- **Engageli Virtual Classroom** — A live, browser and app-based classroom with persistent virtual tables, polls, quizzes, shared content, whiteboards, chat, Q&A, game-based activities and instructor controls.
- **Playback Rooms** — Interactive on-demand rooms in which learners can revisit recordings, respond to polls and use shared materials rather than merely watch a video.
- **Engagement Analytics** — Attendance, participation, feedback and activity data for real-time intervention and longer-term program analysis.
- **AI Classroom Suite** — AI-assisted summaries, tutoring, activity generation and guidance based on classroom content and signals.
- **Engageli Studio** — A course-authoring product that uses AI to turn existing videos and presentations into structured self-paced modules with quizzes, polls, activities and documents.
- **Implementation and Customer Success** — Instructor design sessions, asynchronous onboarding, operational and support playbooks, integration work and drop-in coaching for institutional deployments.

## Achievements

- Raised $47.5 million across seed and Series A financing by May 2021.
- DeVry reported a 94% pass rate among Engageli users versus 88% among non-users in an analysis of roughly 3,000 students and 50 professors; students with at least 60 minutes of use reached 95%.
- DeVry reported a 1.55 percentage-point improvement in persistence when comparing the same professors and courses before and after Engageli adoption.
- University of Nicosia expanded adoption from 90 to 850 students in its first year and reported 90-100% participation for embedded polls in some classes.
- Engageli's own controlled active-learning study reported 13 times more learner talk time, 16 times more nonverbal engagement and 54% higher later test scores for its most active format than for lecture-style sessions.
- The Android learner app has surpassed 50,000 downloads and held a 4.7-star rating from more than 700 reviews in September 2026.

## Latest updates

- **2025-03** — Introduced early access to Engageli Studio, an AI-assisted authoring tool for turning existing video and presentation material into interactive self-paced modules.
- **2025-07** — Published a DeVry University outcomes study covering roughly 3,000 students and 50 professors, reporting higher pass rates and persistence among users.
- **2025-10** — Announced Coventry University's deployment for thousands of students and hundreds of staff.
- **2025-11** — University of Nicosia announced it would move distance-learning lecturers from Webex Meetings to Engageli beginning in spring 2026.
- **2026-05** — Updated the Android learner app, which supports live participation, table changes, chat, polls and reactions.
- **2026-08** — Expanded public guidance and evidence around active-learning design, while promoting free trials that include optional impact reports based on class data.

## Links

- Website: https://www.engageli.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/engageli/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/engageli
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/engageli

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Last updated: 2026-09-28