Educelerate Pitches: EdTech Start-Ups and Supporters

Note: Doors open at 6:45 PM.

Hosted by Cross Campus, a coworking and office space in the heart of Silicon Beach, Educelerate this month is featuring some of the great companies and ideas that members of the education start-up community in Los Angeles are working on. Entrepreneurs starting to bring in outside investors and/or finalizing the development of a product will have opportunity to receive advice, critique and questions on their five-minute company presentation.

Our list of presenting companies currently includes:

• ApplyMap: Steve Palley

• Monster Genomics Project: Jeff Lander

• Eddefy: Evonne Heyning

• Yokyco.co: Luz Rivas

• Propagate, Inc.: Frank Freeman

• CodeSpark: Grant Hosford

Feedback will be provided by both audience members as well as a panel of experts, including veterans of the education industry as well as angel/seed investors with interest in education, including:

• Janet Tsai Dargan: senior advisor at boutique digital media and technology investment bank and venture capital firm Siemer & Associates as well as Founder & CEO of media and entertainment firm Pentafoglio Media, LLC.

• Vinit Sukhija: leads Teach For America’s Social Entrepreneurship & Innovation Team including TFA’s Social Innovation Award related programming and coaching several entrepreneurs in the team’s pipeline.

• Craig Jones: founder and CEO of SmartestK12.com, a developer of smarter assignments and assessments that save time, provide real-time feedback and track student growth.

• Dan Dato: co-founder of CrossCampus, where he develops products, builds sales & marketing teams, and serves as an advisor & mentor to start-ups in such fields as publishing, education, internet infrastructure and mobile.

• Matthew Pierce: Vice President of Product Innovation at Originate

• Phil Kim: Chief Operations Officer & Co-Founder at 20MM while also managing the development of the venture capital platform Karlin Asset Management.

Special thank you to our event hosts Cross Campus (www.crosscamp.us), with refreshments sponsored by General Assembly ( http://ga.co/la ) and Originate (www.originate.com), an LA based team of investors, strategists, developers, and product designers. Additional event sponsorship has been provided by DLA Piper (www.dlapiper.com).