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Coach.me discovered that a checkmark needs company
The habit app began with points and became a marketplace for human encouragement. Its wager: a small daily action gets easier when someone notices.
ExecOnline puts business school to work
A prestigious lecture is a pleasant afternoon. ExecOnline wants the assignment that follows to solve a problem on your desk - and give your employer a reason to pay for the next one.
The Speechwriters Who Gave the Company to Their Colleagues
West Wing Writers built a business by putting powerful words in other people’s mouths. Then it made a more revealing statement: the founders handed ownership to the people doing the work.
Eight Clients Walked Out the Door With Him
Laurel Strategies started with no staff, no infrastructure and eight CEOs willing to follow its founder. A decade later, that origin still explains the product: judgment, access and attention when the script has stopped working.
Oak Lane and the Four-Letter Test for Strategy
Most strategy firms sell answers. Oak Lane sells the harder thing: a way for leaders, staff, funders, and communities to arrive at the same answer - then do something with it.
Mission Minded Sells the Sentence Before It Sells the Logo
For nonprofits and schools, the expensive problem is rarely an ugly logo. It is the fuzzy sentence underneath it. Mission Minded built a business finding that sentence - then making donors, families, boards, and staff act on it.
Scale Yourself
Scale Yourself is a coaching and content platform for venture-backed startup founders, built by Amy Buechler - a licensed psychotherapist who spent nearly five years as Y Combinator's first in-house founder coach. It combines one-on-one coaching, a vetted network of ex-founder coaches, and a free framework library called The User Manual for Founder Psychology to help founders scale their psychology, relationships, and leadership alongside their companies.
WorkBoard
WorkBoard is a Redwood City-based enterprise SaaS company that builds an AI-native strategy execution and OKR platform. It helps large organizations set objectives and key results, align teams around them, automate business reviews, and track progress in real time so strategy turns into a repeatable 'operating rhythm.' Co-founded in 2014 by CEO Deidre Paknad and Daryoush Paknad, the company serves major enterprises including Boeing, 3M, Cisco, Capital One and Workday, and in 2025 acquired rival Quantive to consolidate the enterprise OKR market.
EdConnective
EdConnective is a Richmond, Virginia edtech company that delivers virtual-first, one-to-one instructional coaching for teachers, coaches, and school leaders. Founded by Will Morris, it records classroom instruction, has expert coaches analyze the footage, and returns bite-sized, actionable video feedback within about 48 hours - turning district priorities into everyday classroom practice. The company reports roughly 35-40% gains in student engagement, rigor, and content mastery, and pairs its coaching with interactive workshops and PLC facilitation for educator teams.
AceUp
AceUp is a Boston-based leadership development company that pairs human coaches with AI-powered people analytics to make executive and team coaching measurable and scalable. Through a network of thousands of ICF-certified coaches and a data platform it calls Ally, AceUp helps enterprises like IBM, L'Oreal and LVMH turn coaching - long treated as a perk for the C-suite - into a quantifiable driver of engagement, alignment and performance.
Torch
Torch is a San Francisco-based people development platform that combines executive coaching, mentoring, and collaborative learning to help enterprises grow leaders at scale. Founded in 2017 by two psychologists, Cameron Yarbrough and Keegan Walden, Torch pairs human coaches with software, data, and (increasingly) AI to make leadership development measurable for companies like Reddit, Zendesk, Twitch, and FICO.