# Noah Freedman

> Noah Freedman is the co-founder and CEO of Nucleos, a public benefit company that builds secure, tablet-powered learning systems for people inside U.S. jails and prisons. What started as PortableCloud - an offline education project for under-resourced schools in India, Zimbabwe and Kenya - pivoted hard after an incarcerated colleague showed Freedman that the same digital divide existed inside American corrections. Today his Achieve DXP platform handles the roughly 95% of mainstream e-learning that prisons can't otherwise allow for security reasons, tracking courses and credentials so people can walk out with a path to a job. A Princeton public-policy grad who ran global e-learning software at Stanford's Graduate School of Education, Freedman has turned a quiet conviction about second chances into a working business that's free for the facilities that use it.

- **Role:** CEO & Co-Founder at Nucleos
- **Organizations:** Nucleos, PortableCloud, Stanford Graduate School of Education
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** Bachelor's in Public Policy, Princeton University (Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs)
- **Known for:** Co-founded and leads Nucleos, a public benefit company delivering secure e-learning to U.S. correctional facilities, Built Achieve DXP, a digital experience platform that makes roughly 95% of otherwise-blocked e-learning usable inside prisons, Raised approximately $5.1M total funding (including a ~$3M round) from backers like iT1, Western Governors University Labs, ScaleGood Fund and Sanjay Srivastava

## Career timeline

- **2012** — Graduated from Princeton University with a degree in public policy
- **2012-2014** — Worked at Stanford Graduate School of Education running software development for global e-learning and micro-server projects
- **circa 2014-2016** — Co-founded PortableCloud with Camila Vega and Stanford professor David Katzenstein, aggregating offline educational content for under-resourced schools in India, Zimbabwe and Kenya
- **2017** — Nucleos debuts in Santa Cruz, pivoting the technology toward U.S. correctional education
- **2023** — Raised roughly $3M in private investment and grants; reclassified Nucleos as a public benefit corporation; launched Achieve DXP
- **2023** — Spoke at ASU+GSV Summit and the 'Back to School' Summit on the prison-to-college pipeline after Pell Grant reinstatement

## Achievements

- Co-founded and leads Nucleos, a public benefit company delivering secure e-learning to U.S. correctional facilities
- Built Achieve DXP, a digital experience platform that makes roughly 95% of otherwise-blocked e-learning usable inside prisons
- Raised approximately $5.1M total funding (including a ~$3M round) from backers like iT1, Western Governors University Labs, ScaleGood Fund and Sanjay Srivastava
- Ran software development for global e-learning initiatives at Stanford Graduate School of Education
- Founded an early social venture providing affordable computers to schools in India and Zimbabwe

## Latest updates

- **2023-11** — Nucleos profiled by TechCrunch; raised ~$3M and reclassified as a public benefit corporation
- **2023-09** — Freedman spoke on 'Unlocking the Prison-to-College Pipeline' at the 'Back to School' Summit following Pell Grant reinstatement for incarcerated students
- **2023** — Nucleos launched its Achieve DXP education and workforce-development platform

## Links

- Website: https://nucleos.com
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/noah-freedman
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NucleosInc

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Last updated: 2026-06-21