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Parchment turned the transcript into a ticket out
A school record can travel in seconds and still leave its owner going nowhere. Parchment by Instructure is building a business around the distance between delivering proof and making it count.
Two years in Tunis. The next chapter abroad.
Université Européenne de Tunis has built its pitch around a practical proposition: start locally, then continue through an international partner. Behind the globe-spanning brochure sits a campus with a mock courtroom, a trading lab and a hotel classroom that behaves like a hotel.
Studyportals
Studyportals is a Netherlands-based education platform that helps students discover and compare study programs anywhere in the world. Through nine portals - including Mastersportal, Bachelorsportal, PhDportal and Scholarshipportal - it lists more than 240,000 English-taught programs from over 3,500 institutions across 110+ countries, drawing roughly 50 million student visitors a year. For universities, it turns that global demand data into recruitment, analytics and consulting services, and in 2024 it launched an AI Student Advisor named Sophia, built with AWS, to guide applicants in more than 20 languages.
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.