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.
Larry Berger is the co-founder and CEO of Amplify, the Brooklyn-based education company he started in 2000 as Wireless Generation. A Yale-trained English major, Rhodes Scholar, and former White House Fellow at NASA, he built mobile assessment tools that put data in teachers' hands, then steered the company through a $360M News Corp acquisition and a 2015 spinout backed by Laurene Powell Jobs's Emerson Collective. Today Amplify's curricula reach millions of students across all 50 states. Berger is also a published poet and the rare edtech CEO who wrote a public 'confession' questioning the hype around the very personalized-learning future he once championed.
Wayfinder is a K-12 edtech company that builds a PreK-12 platform for purpose-driven learning, combining research-backed social-emotional and life-readiness curriculum, MTSS-ready resources, and real-time insights. Born out of Stanford's d.school K12 Innovation Lab, it helps students develop durable, future-ready skills like purpose, belonging, adaptability and collaboration, and is used across thousands of schools and districts.
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.
Ahsan Rizvi is the CEO and co-founder of Kiddom, a San Francisco-based education technology platform that has become the first all-in-one solution for high-quality digital curricula in K-12 schools. Born and raised in Pakistan, he came to the US after passing a grueling 1-in-1,100 entrance exam at age 12, an experience that shaped his lifelong commitment to the transformative power of education. After earning degrees in Industrial Engineering and Public Policy from the University of Illinois, he co-founded Kiddom in 2015 with his college friend Abbas Manjee. The company has raised $56.5M in total funding, grown to 220 employees, and now has at least one teacher using its platform in 70% of US schools.
Prisms (legally Prisms of Reality) is a San Francisco-based education-technology company building the first spatial learning platform for K-12 math and science. Students don VR headsets and walk through problems - tsunamis, viral outbreaks, exponential growth - before ever picking up a pencil. Founded in 2020 by MIT-trained educator Anurupa Ganguly, the company now reaches hundreds of thousands of students across most US 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.