OneRange is a New York-based HR-tech company building a skills-first talent growth platform. It connects employees' career goals to in-demand skills, then uses AI to match them with the right learning resource from a marketplace of 22,000+ options - courses, books, conferences, certifications - while giving employers usage-based pricing, automated approvals, virtual payment cards, and real-time skill and spend analytics. The pitch: pay only for the learning people actually use, and put employees in the driver's seat of their own development.
Anagram Security (legal name Enigma Analytics, Inc.) is a New York-based cybersecurity startup building a human-driven security platform that replaces the dreaded once-a-year compliance video with bite-sized, gamified microlearning and adaptive phishing simulations. Founded by Harley Sugarman and formerly known as Cipher, the company takes design cues from TikTok, Duolingo, and Khan Academy to make employees the strongest link in security rather than the weakest. It raised a $10M Series A led by Madrona in February 2025, serves Fortune 500 customers including Disney, Pfizer, Thomson Reuters, and MassMutual, and supports over 500,000 users worldwide.
Ethena is a New York-based compliance and workplace-culture training platform that turns the most-dreaded items on the corporate calendar - harassment prevention, code of conduct, cybersecurity, DEI - into short, well-written, mobile-friendly lessons people actually finish. Founded in 2019 by Roxanne Bras Petraeus and Anne Solmssen, it pairs legally vetted content with microlearning, Slack/email nudges, an ethics hotline, case management and AI-built courses, serving customers like Netflix, Zendesk, Carta and Figma.
Imprint is a New York based education company behind a visual microlearning app that turns dense subjects - psychology, philosophy, history, finance, science - into illustrated, bite-sized lessons you can finish in under 10 minutes a day. Built by mobile entertainment veteran Daniel Terry and developed under the legal entity Polywise, Inc., the app pairs original animation with daily quizzes and visual guides to bestselling nonfiction books. It became one of the highest grossing and most decorated learning apps, winning Google Play's Best App of 2023 and earning Apple Editors' Choice recognition.
Harley Sugarman is the founder and CEO of Anagram, a New York security company rebuilding employee security training around behavior instead of boredom. A Stanford computer scientist and former Bloomberg Beta investor, he scrapped his original product and rebuilt it into a TikTok- and Duolingo-inspired microlearning platform that cut client phishing failure rates from 20% to 6% and won over Disney, Thomson Reuters, and MassMutual. Anagram raised a $10M Series A in 2025 led by Madrona.
Jeff Feldman is the CEO of Imprint, the New York visual-learning app that turns dense nonfiction into illustrated, bite-sized lessons. He joined in 2019 as Imprint's Founding Head of Product, became Chief Product Officer, and stepped into the CEO seat in 2024 as founder Daniel Terry moved to Executive Chairman. Before Imprint he built product at Resy and Pronoun, and studied at Harvard. Under his watch Imprint became a Google Best App of the Year and an Apple Editor's Choice.
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.
Nellie Wartoft is a Swedish technology entrepreneur and the CEO and founder of Tigerhall, a Change Activation Platform that helps Fortune 500 companies drive organizational transformation at scale using AI and social learning. She moved from a small Swedish village to Singapore at 18 with a one-way ticket, spent 4.5 years as a top billing recruiter at Michael Page, then built Tigerhall from scratch into a platform operating across 32 countries, backed by Sequoia Capital and Monk's Hill Ventures with over $10 million in venture capital. Before her tech career she was a Swedish national champion in skeet shooting and air rifle.
Tigerhall is an AI-powered Change Activation Platform that helps Fortune 1000 transformation leaders communicate, train and measure organizational change at speed. Founded by Nellie Wartoft in 2018, it serves enterprise customers in 32+ countries.
Emtrain is a San Francisco-based workplace CultureTech company that pairs video-based microlearning with a behavioral analytics engine. Founded by employment lawyer Janine Yancey, it sells respect, inclusion, and ethics training to more than 800 organizations - including Netflix, Yelp, Dolby, and Live Nation - while quietly mining every learner click for early signals of cultural risk.
Janine Yancey is the Founder and CEO of Emtrain, a San Francisco-based AI-powered compliance training and workplace culture analytics platform she founded in 2006. A former employment lawyer and first-generation college graduate, she built Emtrain to replace lecture-style compliance check-boxes with cinematic, skills-based learning backed by behavioral data. The platform serves 800+ enterprise clients including Netflix, Yelp, and Chevron, has raised $18M in funding, and is known for its proprietary Workplace Color Spectrum and culture benchmarking engine drawing on 25 million employee sentiment data points. Yancey famously predicted the #MeToo movement in a 2016 Medium article - months before it went global.