HEAR YE, HEAR YE: Boston-based edtech accelerator LearnLaunchX today announced its newest cohort. Seven early-stage companies will take part in the accelerator during winter of 2014. Jean Hammond, a LearnLaunchX partner, explains that LearnLaunchX will help companies to get to the point "where they have validated their business models and become attractive prospects for investors.” The chosen companies are:
- Book&Table: a marketplace for people to create, discover, and purchase personalized courses.
- Campuscene: a college search platform that serves both applicants and admissions offices.
- CueThink: creator of Quantum, a game-based peer-to-peer learning platform for math problem-solving.
- Hstry: a digital learning tool that enables teachers, students and historians to construct interactive historical timelines for the digital classroom.
- QuadWrangle: a software platform for alumni engagement.
- Skaffl: creator of Braket, a teaching and learning platform for one-to-one K-12 classrooms.
- uConnect: a campus recruiting platform that suppports colleges and universities in providing career services to their students.
