Doug Dohring is the founder, CEO, and Executive Chairman of Age of Learning, Inc., the edtech company that created and runs ABCmouse.com Early Learning Academy, ReadingIQ, Adventure Academy, and My Math Academy and My Reading Academy for schools and districts. He is also the Chairman of the philanthropic Age of Learning Foundation, a member of the UNESCO Global Education Coalition. Prior to Age of Learning, Dohring founded and served as CEO of Neopets, Inc.
TokBox was a PaaS company that provided hosted infrastructure, APIs and tools required to deliver enterprise-grade WebRTC capabilities. It did so primarily through its proprietary OpenTok video platform for commercial application.
Vinny Lingham is a South African-born American Internet entrepreneur who is the co-founder & CEO of Civic – an identity protection and management startup based in California. He was also previously the founder and CEO of Gyft & Yola, Inc. He is also the co-founder of SiliconCape, an NGO based in South Africa that aims to turn Cape Town into a technology hub.
The Cape Silicon Initiative or Silicon Cape is a regional ICT business networking NPO and community in the Western Cape, South Africa.
Matthew Buckland was a South African Internet entrepreneur and businessman who founded and exited digital agency and publisher Creative Spark, acquired in 2015 by UK firm M&C Saatchi PLC, the holding group of M&C Saatchi. Buckland was also the founder of Burn Media, a suite of technology publishing brands which includes Memeburn, Ventureburn.com, Gearburn.com and others.
Brainly is a company based in Kraków, Poland, with headquarters in New York City. It is a social learning platform where students and educators solve their academic problems together. Brainly's mission is to inspire students to share and explore knowledge in a collaborative community. It can also be used as a forum for students, parents, and teachers to ask and answer homework questions. The platform has elements of n in the form of points and ranks. It encourages users to engage in the online community by answering other users’ questions. As of November 2020, Brainly reported having 350 million monthly users, making it the world's most popular education app.
Kahoot! is a Norwegian game-based learning platform, used as educational technology. It has learning games, also known as "kahoots", are user-generated multiple-choice quizzes that can be accessed via a web browser or the Kahoot! app. Kahoot! also includes trivia quizzes. This educational platform is similar to other technological learning tools such as Wooflash, Blooket, Quizizz, Gimkit, or Quizlet.
Phiwa Nkambule is a technology entrepreneur, technology businessperson and internet activist best known for co-founding Riovic and leading it as its CEO. He previously founded Cybatar and sat on the board of the Royal Science and Technology Park.
Riovic Capital Group, or simply Riovic, is a financial technology company and private equity holding company that provides a platform that lets private companies discover private equity funds, raise capital, manage their capitalization tables and manage shareholder and investor relations.
Preply is a language learning app and e-learning platform. The company is based in US with employees based in 30 countries across Europe, North America, South America, Africa, and Asia. Preply has 400 employees of 58 different nationalities.
Byju's is an Indian multinational educational technology company, headquartered in Bangalore, Karnataka, India. It was founded in 2011 by Byju Raveendran and Divya Gokulnath. As of March 2022, Byju's is valued at US$22 billion and the company claims to have over 115 million registered students.
Teraco Data Environments is a carrier-, cloud- and vendor-neutral data centre provider founded by Tim Parsonson and Lex van Wyk in 2008. On August 1, 2022, Digital Realty announced that it had completed the purchase of a majority stake in Teraco, previously controlled by Berkshire Partners, Permira and a group of investors.
Takealot.com is a South African e-commerce company based in Cape Town, South Africa. Is regarded as South Africa's largest online retailer, takealot.com has helped grow online shopping in South Africa, and was the first local retailer to take part in Black Friday. As of November 2019, over 2500 third-party businesses use the Takealot Marketplace platform to sell to over 1.8 million takealot.com shoppers.
Bank Zero, registered with the South African Reserve Bank in 2018, is an exclusively digital mutual bank in South Africa. It offers banking to both individuals and businesses. Bank Zero joins other new banks in South Africa, such as TymeBank and Discovery Bank. Despite an original planned soft launch at the end of 2019, the bank is as of June 2021, conducting a closed rollout with beta testing, with a proposed launch date in mid-2021.
Robert Paddock is a South African entrepreneur and co-founder of GetSmarter. In 2017, he sold his stake in GetSmarter, which was acquired by 2U for $103 million. At the time it was one of the largest exits in the history of South African startups.
Ozow, previously known as i-Pay, is a fintech company based in South Africa.
QANDA is an AI-based learning platform developed by Mathpresso Inc., a South Korea-based education technology company. It uses optical character recognition technology to scan math problems and provide step-by-step solutions.
Cybatar is a technology company of the full cycle specialized in cloud-based technology platforms and software.
Unacademy is an Indian educational technology company that provides online educational platform with its headquarters in Bangalore, Karnataka. It prepares students for various competitive exams(like JEE, NEET, UPSC, CA, GATE, UPSC NDA, CUET, Boards etc.), as well as provides content on foundational (K-12) and skill building courses.
Stitch is a fintech company operating in Africa, one of the biggest in open banking sphere. The company's headquarters are located in Cape Town, South Africa.
