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CL Global Academy
CL Global Academy is an independent international education company that runs academically rigorous, project-based short courses in the heart of Cambridge, UK. Founded in 2009 by Allen Hao and Katrina, it hosts residential programmes inside historic Cambridge colleges - taught by University of Cambridge-affiliated lecturers - covering fields from AI and data science to innovation and entrepreneurship. The Academy welcomes over 1,500 students a year and counts more than 24,000 alumni across 16 years, having grown into a multi-million-dollar business without institutional venture funding.
Edorer
Edorer is a San Francisco- and Bengaluru-based edtech company building an AI-powered learning, assessment and proctoring platform alongside a global university network. Its software lets universities, enterprises and governments run online courses, AI-proctored exams and talent assessments, while its SPICE network and blockchain-based CredX credits exchange aim to let students pick courses across institutions worldwide and carry verifiable, stackable credits between them. The company's stated mission is to internationalize universities and make affordable international education and exposure available to every higher-education student.
PalmDrive, Inc.
PalmDrive (棕榈大道) is an education-technology company that connects students - mostly Chinese students aiming for top overseas universities - with a network of thousands of mentors who have themselves attended those schools. Founded by Stanford, Berkeley, and Harvard alumni in 2013, PalmDrive pairs one-on-one mentorship in admissions, cultural integration, and career planning with an online platform that has drawn a community of more than a million students. The company operates across China and Silicon Valley and has raised over US$10 million in venture funding.