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PEDRA Technology
PEDRA Technology is a Singapore-based medical device company that built the PEDRA Xauron Perfusion System, the first device to deliver real-time, quantitative measurement of deep-tissue blood perfusion in the foot during vascular procedures. Aimed at physicians treating peripheral arterial disease (PAD) and critical limb threatening ischemia (CLTI), the laser-based, non-invasive system gives interventionalists objective feedback in the angio suite - where they have historically relied on subjective interpretation of X-ray images. The company raised a $4.7M Series A in 2020 and won FDA Breakthrough Device Designation in 2021.
Classkick
Classkick is a Chicago-based education technology company that makes a digital formative-assessment platform where teachers watch students work in real time and give instant feedback. Founded by former Teach for America math teacher and ex-Google/YouTube engineer Andrew Rowland, the tool lets teachers build or import interactive assignments, draw directly on each student's canvas, drop reusable feedback stickers, and auto-grade multiple-choice and fill-in-the-blank answers. Students can raise a virtual hand for help - even anonymously - and ask peers. Used by more than 10 million users across all 50 U.S. states and dozens of countries, Classkick's pitch is simple: more tries for kids every day, and less grading busywork for teachers.
Tenor
Tenor is a San Francisco AI platform that helps managers get better at the human part of the job. Through hyper-realistic voice AI role-play simulations trained on a company's own leadership approach, managers rehearse high-stakes conversations - performance reviews, layoffs, conflict, feedback - in a safe space and get instant, coaching-style feedback. Founded in 2023 by former Workday leaders Charlie Stigler and James Cross, Tenor raised a $5.4M seed round led by Base10 Partners in December 2024.
Andrew Rowland
Andrew Rowland is the founder and CEO of Classkick, a Chicago-based education technology company whose real-time digital notebook lets teachers see every student's work as it happens and respond instantly with notes, audio, or chat. A former Chicago high-school math teacher known to his students as 'Mr. Roro,' Rowland taught through Teach for America and started a school robotics program before retraining in computer science and working at Google and YouTube. He built Classkick to scale the thing he loved most about teaching: the 'aha' moment and the fast feedback loop. The platform now reaches more than half of U.S. schools and students in 180-plus countries, running on Firebase infrastructure.
FeedbackNow
FeedbackNow is a New York-based real-time customer experience company best known for the Smiley Box - the push-button terminals that ask travelers, patients and shoppers how their visit went and route that sentiment to operations teams within minutes. Founded in Switzerland in 2012, acquired by Forrester in 2018, and spun back out as an independent, venture-backed company in 2024, it pairs physical feedback devices and environmental sensors with AI analytics to help airports, hospitals and retailers fix problems before they show up in a survey.
Steve Peltzman
Steve Peltzman is the CEO of FeedbackNow, the company behind the smiley-face feedback buttons in airport bathrooms and security lines. A former U.S. Air Force officer who worked on the B-2 Stealth Bomber, a decade-long CIO of New York's Museum of Modern Art, and Forrester's first Chief Business Technology Officer, he spun FeedbackNow out of Forrester in September 2024 with a $9M Series A. He is turning a network of physical sensors and one-tap buttons into a real-time, AI-driven operating system for hospitals, convenience stores, airports and stadiums across 40 countries.
Cambly Inc.
Cambly is an on-demand English tutoring platform that connects learners in 190+ countries with native English-speaking tutors available 24/7 via live video chat. Founded in 2012 by two former Google engineers, Cambly makes immersive English learning accessible and affordable - bringing the language-learning breakthrough of traveling abroad directly to any phone or laptop. With AI-powered personalization layered over millions of data points from a decade of real lessons, Cambly sits at the intersection of human connection and technology in the $60B+ global English education market.