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Arey Jones and the work before the first bell
A school can buy a thousand laptops and still be nowhere near ready for Monday. Arey Jones has built its K-12 business around the work that turns a shipment into a classroom tool.
The $25,000 Parenting App That Learned to Stop Pitching Numbers and Start Telling a Story
BabySparks reached millions of parents on a shoestring, then discovered its data-heavy fundraising pitch was the thing holding it back. The fix was not another chart - it was a better story.
The Rubik's Cube Grew a Brain. Then Particula Came for Chess.
How a Netanya startup turned toy-box classics into sensor-packed 'phygital' machines - and made $4 million in one Kickstarter selling a chessboard that moves its own pieces.
E-Line Media
E-Line Media is a Phoenix-based video game developer and publisher that builds commercial games with meaningful themes and authentic voices. Founded in 2007 by veterans of Activision and the education world, the studio pairs great artistry with real-world subject matter across three pillars - Voice, Planet, and Society - producing award-winning titles like the Iñupiat-rooted Never Alone and the ocean-exploration game Beyond Blue. Its work spans entertainment, education, and social impact, backed by partnerships with the Smithsonian, BBC, OceanX, and the Cook Inlet Tribal Council.
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.
wikiHow
wikiHow is a collaborative, wiki-based platform on a mission to teach anyone how to do anything. Founded by Jack Herrick in 2005 and run as a self-funded 'hybrid' company that pairs a profit-making ad model with a nonprofit-style public mission, it hosts hundreds of thousands of community-written, expert-reviewed how-to articles in 19 languages and has reached tens of millions of monthly readers worldwide.