# Honor Education

> Honor Education is a San Francisco-based edtech company building a mobile-first, AI-powered learning platform that turns passive online courses into interactive, social experiences. Founded by Joel Podolny, the founding Dean of Apple University, Honor helps universities, enterprises, and nonprofits encode expert knowledge into credentialed programs that learners actually finish - reporting 85% completion rates against a 15% industry average. The company raised a $38M Series A in 2025 and was named to TIME's Best Inventions of 2024.

- **Founded:** 2021
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founders:** Joel Podolny (Founder & CEO)
- **Team size:** ~40 employees
- **Products:** Honor Platform (Honor OS), Honor Create, Honor Learn, Honor Calibrate, Credentialing & Integrations
- **Notable:** Named to TIME's Best Inventions of 2024 (Special Mention), Raised $38M Series A in July 2025, Delivered 700,000+ learner sessions

## Products & services

- **Honor Platform (Honor OS)** — A mobile-first, AI-powered learning platform that combines personalized guidance, connective AI, real-time analytics, and social interaction to deliver high-engagement, credentialed learning experiences.
- **Honor Create** — AI-assisted authoring tools that let subject-matter experts encode tacit knowledge, judgment, and reasoning into interactive courses, with generative-AI course design and content organization.
- **Honor Learn** — An engagement-centered learning layer built around conversations, cohorts, discussions, polls, reactions, and social annotation to drive peer-to-peer learning and behavior change.
- **Honor Calibrate** — An application layer that translates learned principles into decision-making guidance, helping teams apply organizational judgment at the moment of real work.
- **Credentialing & Integrations** — Full-stack digital credentialing (via Accredible) plus LTI, SSO, and LMS integrations, FERPA/GDPR compliance, content moderation, and adaptive course analytics.

## Achievements

- Named to TIME's Best Inventions of 2024 (Special Mention)
- Raised $38M Series A in July 2025
- Delivered 700,000+ learner sessions
- 85% average course completion rate vs. ~15% industry average
- Learner engagement of 3-5 times per day
- Adopted by Wharton, Netflix, Moderna, Pinterest and other leading institutions

## Latest updates

- **2025-07** — Closed $38M Series A led by Alpha Edison, Wasserstein & Co, Audeo Ventures, Interlock Partners, and New Wave Capital to expand AI capabilities and grow customer success teams.
- **2024-10** — Named to TIME's Best Inventions of 2024.
- **2023-01** — Launched its mobile-first learning platform with credentialed programs co-developed with leading brands and institutions.

## Links

- Website: https://www.honor.education
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/honoreducation

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