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The Quiz App That Ate 90% of American Schools Just Changed Its Name
Two Indian engineers built a math game nobody could keep fed with content. So they handed the tools to teachers instead - and accidentally built one of the most-used classroom platforms on Earth.
Biometric Signature ID
Biometric Signature ID (BSI) is a Texas-based cybersecurity company that turns a short, hand-drawn password into a behavioral biometric. Its flagship BioSig-ID software verifies people by how they draw four characters with a finger or mouse - measuring speed, direction, angle, length and pressure - so no fingerprint reader, phone or extra hardware is needed. Used across higher education, financial services, healthcare, e-commerce and government, the technology fights account fraud, credential sharing and online-exam cheating while staying compliant with biometric-privacy laws.
Classera
Classera is an edtech company that runs a cloud-based Learning Super Platform used across K-12 schools, universities, and corporate and government training programs. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco with deep roots in the MENA region, it pairs a core learning management system with gamification, AI-driven personalization, virtual-reality content, an educational marketplace (Edumalls), and embedded payments (C-Pay). The platform serves more than 12 million users in over 40 countries and, in October 2022, raised a $40M Series A led by Sanabil Investments - reportedly the largest edtech funding round in MENA and most of Africa.
Southern New Hampshire University
Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU) is a private, nonprofit, regionally accredited university based in Manchester/Hooksett, New Hampshire. Founded in 1932 as a small accounting school, it reinvented itself under president Paul LeBlanc into the largest nonprofit provider of online higher education in the United States, serving more than 200,000 learners through over 200 degree and certificate programs while keeping a roughly 3,000-student traditional campus.
Strayer University
Strayer University is an accredited, primarily online institution founded in 1892 to prepare working adults for careers in business and the professions. Owned by Nasdaq-listed Strategic Education, Inc. (STRA), Strayer offers undergraduate and graduate degrees, certificates, and the Jack Welch Management Institute online EMBA, serving tens of thousands of students across roughly 35 campuses and a large online program.
Study.com
Study.com is a Mountain View-based online learning platform that breaks subjects into short, animated video lessons and college-credit-eligible courses. Founded in 2002 by Adrian Ridner and Ben Wilson, it now serves more than 30 million learners, teachers and working adults each month, with one of the largest catalogs of ACE-approved courses of any provider. Its mission is to make education accessible and affordable - especially for the underserved students its founder once was.