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HiPower grew to 18. Then it made the room smaller.
A community for women and nonbinary leaders found a limit to getting bigger. Its answer: small circles, candid feedback, and a public identity that survives a change of job.
JRNY takes the meeting out of the boardroom
The Cairo company brings founders, bankers and regulators together on retreat. Its real test comes after everyone goes home.
UN Global Compact Network USA puts the sustainability pledge to work
The U.S. network turns a CEO’s signature into emissions inventories, human-rights due diligence and peer learning. Its real test comes after the welcome letter.
LakeHub is building a tech career that starts in Kisumu
It began with Saturday meetups and discounted tea. Now LakeHub connects young Kenyans to software training, employers and a new set of problems out on the farm.
At EEB, the Boss Goes Back to School
At Québec’s École d’Entrepreneurship de Beauce, business owners check in for lessons from people who have signed the payroll. Its wager: time away from the company can make the person running it more useful.
Vision Club Has a Door Policy for Dubai’s Business Circle
The Russian-speaking entrepreneurs’ club turns introductions into a managed service. Its real proposition is a room where established business owners can stop performing and start comparing notes.
Peer-Tree Bet the Best Training Course Is Actually a Room Full of Peers
Most workplace learning platforms organize content. Peer-Tree organizes people around it - a useful bet for teams whose best lessons are trapped in colleagues' heads.
The Business Where the Product Is a Room Full of People Who Cannot Talk Elsewhere
World 50 built a business around a C-suite paradox: the higher an executive rises, the fewer people they can speak to freely. Its answer is a paid, invitation-only network where candor - carefully curated and kept off the record - is the product.
MySivi
MySivi is a Bengaluru-based, AI-powered English-speaking practice app (Y Combinator W22) that helps Indian and global learners build spoken fluency through conversation with an AI teacher named Arya, real-time feedback on grammar and pronunciation, gamified lessons, and a peer-learning community. Originally launched as Speakify AI, it operates on a freemium model and has grown to millions of Android downloads.
Knack
Knack is a student success technology company that helps colleges and universities run and scale peer-tutoring programs. Its platform recruits, trains, and pays high-achieving students to tutor their classmates through web and mobile apps and a real-time online classroom, giving institutions a measurable way to improve retention and graduation while creating paid campus jobs. Founded in 2015 and now serving hundreds of campuses including the University of Florida, Georgia Tech, Northeastern, Fordham, and Auburn, Knack raised a Series B in October 2025 and appointed higher-ed veteran Megan Dusenbery as CEO.
Megan Dusenbery
Megan Dusenbery is the Chief Executive Officer of Knack, a student success platform that helps colleges run paid peer tutoring programs. Appointed in October 2025 alongside the company's Series B led by New Markets Venture Partners, she succeeded founder Samyr Qureshi, who moved to executive chairman. She spent nearly two decades building higher-ed partnerships at Kaplan (rising to Senior Vice President of Higher Education) and at ACUE, where she was Chief Partnerships Officer before taking the Knack job.