Yermie Cohen is the founder and CEO of Memorang, an AI stack for education that lets organizations build, launch, and scale custom learning and assessment content. A med student who arrived at UCLA from MIT with biology and mechanical-engineering degrees, he was buried in flashcards and frustrated by tools that were either too simple or too expensive, so he built his own. Memorang began as a free spaced-repetition study app in 2013 and has since become a platform pitched at publishers, institutions, and professional organizations who want to turn expertise into AI-driven courses, quizzes, and exams with humans kept in the loop.
Amplify is a New York-based K-12 education company that builds core and supplemental curriculum and assessments in literacy, math, and science, all grounded in the science of reading and used to turn student data into instructional support for teachers. Born as Wireless Generation in 2000 and now backed by Laurene Powell Jobs' Emerson Collective, its programs - including Amplify CKLA, Amplify Science, Amplify Desmos Math, Boost Reading, and mCLASS - reach more than 18 million students and teachers across all 50 states.
Valentin Ruest is the co-founder and US co-CEO of Classtime, a Zurich-born edtech company building a formative and summative assessment platform used by educators and learners in more than 90 countries. A University of St. Gallen and Harvard-trained economist who once ran mortgages at a Swiss fintech, he traded banking for classrooms, splitting his life between Santa Barbara and Zurich while teaching personal finance in public schools and arguing that software should help teachers decide, not decide for them.
Kiddom is a K-12 digital curriculum platform that bundles high-quality instructional materials, assessment, and analytics into one place teachers can actually open on a Monday morning. Founded in 2012 by Ahsan Rizvi and Abbas Manjee, the San Francisco company partners with publishers like Illustrative Mathematics, OpenSciEd, and EL Education to deliver standards-aligned curriculum to districts across the United States.
Mike Derezin is the CEO of Teaching Strategies, LLC, the leading provider of early childhood curriculum, assessment, and professional development solutions serving over 240,000 classrooms in 80+ countries. A serial entrepreneur with a Stanford MBA and UC Berkeley degree, Derezin spent over a decade at LinkedIn scaling both Sales Solutions and Learning Solutions into market leaders, then served as COO of blockchain infrastructure company Chainlink Labs before pivoting back to education - the field where he started as an elementary school computer teacher in Oakland, California and Santiago, Chile, inspired by his parents who were both educators.