The 180 Skills learning system is a comprehensive, career & technical education solution for the manufacturing industry. The company has a library of over 700 competency-based courses in 34 competency areas aimed to educate students and upskill employees. The platform also includes courses on essential nontechnical skills, such as listening, conflict resolution, relationship-building, and group dynamics, that help improve team effectiveness.

CareAcademy provides an online education platform that home care agencies can use to train domestic caregivers to fill in-demand home health roles. The company’s track record proves that mobile (and blended) learning can increase access to employment opportunities in one of the fastest-growing segments of the U.S. economy—health care.

Cell-Ed proves that mobile learning is an effective means of giving people access to instructional materials. The company offers a tool that allows users to listen to lessons on a flip phone anywhere and at any time, giving millions of adults an opportunity to learn new skills even if they aren’t able to participate in traditional classes.

Chargerhelp! is the first and only on demand repair app for electric vehicle charging stations. The clean-tech start up’s commitment is two fold: creating an innovative solution within the electric vehicle (EV) industry that encourages climate change and job creation through workforce development across the United States. The company’s motto is simple: getting EV charging stations and people back to work.

Climb Credit is a technology-driven lender expanding access to high-quality, career-focused education by providing responsible loans for training programs with high return on investment for students. By improving access to financing for high-impact training, licensing, and credentialing programs, Climb Credit opens pathways to stable, high-wage, meaningful work.

Edquity is a college financial success and emergency aid platform for students, ensuring all students have the financial means to get to college graduation. Two products, Edquity Plan and Edquity Rise, collectively support students through college financial matching, planning, financial aid award evaluation, cash-flow management and emergency resource referral.

Embodied Labs is an experiential education design company that specializes in creating and implementing empathy-based, patient-centered health curriculum.

FactoryFix is the largest online network of vetted manufacturing professionals! Our technology helps match companies to qualified candidates that have the exact skills and experience they are looking for.

Level empowers people to build and grow microbusinesses with the portable financial benefits they need to prosper. Designed for micro-entrepreneurs who are building businesses on the rails of our labor marketplace partners, Level is the financial services platform which will power our growing on-demand economy.

Major League Hacking is a B corporation that hosts weekend-long invention competitions, or ‘hackathons,’ that cultivate community and teach computer science skills. Leveraging their hackathon network, they also recruit and place a pipeline of junior development talent into meaningful project-based fellowship externships and provide mentoring and management support to fellows. These individuals range from having little to no experience to self-taught or boot camp graduates. The fully remote 12-week fellowship links talent with companies working on high-impact software, data science and digital media projects.

A web-based platform that connects educators and learners with a network of professionals who can offer real-world advice and insights, Nepris helps users stay up to date on the latest trends in the labor market, providing them with access to firsthand information about what types of jobs are available and what skills are in demand.

MentorWorks expands student access to quality education and training – from degree programs to workforce development training programs – by providing Income Sharing Agreements (ISAs) origination, servicing and funding. MentorWorks has also developed its Talent Accelerator Platform (TAP), which provides free career development resources and programming open to the public that also supports funded students in gaining job placements, thereby supporting the ISA repayment model.

NextStep is an innovative health care education and job placement company helping solve the accelerating caregiver crisis in the United States. We train and place workers displaced by automation and artificial intelligence with respected long-term care providers, benefiting both. NextStep’s blended-learning certified nursing assistant (CNA) program gives learners the opportunity to start a new, rewarding career and provides employers a solution to their critical workforce needs. We also offer continuing education courses and the National COVID-Ready Caregiver Certification, which equips caregivers with the knowledge to keep themselves and those they care for safe during the pandemic

A program of the Minnesota Literacy Council, Northstar offers an online digital literacy assessment tool and provides learners with a credential that can lead to increased employment opportunities.

PAIRIN offers a suite of online tools that people who face barriers to employment can use to assess and develop their soft skills. The company’s track record proves that soft skills and mindsets can be objectively validated, measured, and developed.

Provider Pool is a community of healthcare professionals who believe that work should not be a compromise.

Through long-term intensive program, Pursuit trains adults with the most need and potential to get their first tech jobs, advance in their careers, and become the next generation of leaders in tech. Graduates are hired by leading companies like Pinterest, Kickstarter, LinkedIn, BlackRock, and JPMorgan Chase, and increase their average annual salaries from $18,000 to over $85,000.

Signal Vine offers a two-way text messaging platform powered by artificial intelligence that educational institutions can use to engage students, staff, and employees. The system has proved to be an especially powerful tool when it is used to encourage—or “nudge”—adults with low skills to take action or pursue opportunities. Signal Vine helps increase the impact of workforce development teams

SkillSmart offers a skills-matching platform that can increase equity in hiring by helping adults find jobs or training opportunities based on all of the skills they’ve developed in life.

Upswing believes that a comprehensive solution to student success is the way of the future. Connect your own faculty, leverage outside resources, and have visibility into early alerts and analytics on student performance. You don't need to keep pushing products onto your students. You need a student success partner.

Stride is an Income Sharing Agreement (ISA) provider that partners with higher education institutions to provide access to capital for students pursuing an education in healthcare and STEM fields. To support students with program completion and job placement, Stride provides wraparound services such as study tools and interview prep.

Alison Ascher Webber develops and directs innovative projects that advance digital equity and leverage technology to increase the reach and impact of education and workforce programs. Alison co-leads Digital US, a national initiative to close digital skills gaps by 2030. She advises online learning and ICT4D initiatives including for the National Immigration Forum, UNESCO, and the Employment Technology Fund @ JFF. Previous roles include Education Director at mLearning company Cell-Ed and Associate Director at Avasant Foundation. Alison served as first Executive Director of the Leadership Training & Education Fund for janitors across California and helped form the award-winning Building Skills Partnership. Alison holds a Master’s in Education.

Joann Chen is a Senior Fund Advisory of JFF’s Employment Technology Fund (ETF@JFFLabs), which supports entrepreneurs who develop technology solutions to train and upskill low-income and lower-skill adults and connect people from underserved communities with employment opportunities.

Joann has spent her career at the intersection of business, finance, and social impact. Joann was a partner at Equal Opportunity Ventures, investing in early-stage entrepreneurs seeking to address economic and racial inequity. She was previously a member of the founding investment team at Bain Capital Double Impact, the first impact investment fund launched by a leading global investment firm. Earlier in her career, she served as investment officer at ImpactAssets and was the founding program director of Spark Ventures.

She regularly speaks about impact investing at events across the country, and she is a frequent judge at social enterprise competitions, including Harvard Business School’s New Venture Competition.

Patti Constantakis, PhD is a Director on the Economic Opportunity team for Walmart.org. She leads the Foundation’s Equitable Talent Systems portfolio that seeks to engage employers in more equitable hiring and advancement practices. She brings decades of experience working to increase economic opportunities for underserved adult learners. Previously at Digital Promise, Patti was the Director of Adult Learning and Workforce Development Initiatives where her work focused on using technology to build the literacy and numeracy skills of our lowest-skilled frontline workers. She also developed a competency-based digital skills program, backed by Facebook, for non-traditional adult learners and workers. Prior to Digital Promise, Patti was the Director of Product, Content, and Curriculum, at GreatSchools.org and was responsible for developing e-learning programs for teachers as well as apps and other electronic resources for immigrant parents. In the years prior to GreatSchools, Patti worked with several startups designing and developing products for community college students and other non-traditional adult learners.

Patti grew up on the U.S.- Mexico border and, as a Latina, is fully bilingual in Spanish and English. She earned her B.A. in Journalism and Spanish from New Mexico State University and her Ph.D. and M.A in Communications from the University of Texas, Austin.

Andrea joined Tyton Partners as a Senior Advisor in July 2015, bringing a wealth of strategic and operational executive-level experience in the for-profit and not-for-profit education worlds. She will be actively engaged in supporting existing client relationships, as well as identifying new opportunities for the Firm.

Andrea most recently worked for the College Board from 2010 to 2013, first as a consultant, then as a senior executive and key member of the leadership team where she was engaged in product strategy and go-to-market approaches, and led the US and International teams that were responsible for partnering with districts, states, foreign entities and higher education institutions to deliver College Board programs and services.

Prior to the College Board, Andrea spent nearly six years at Kaplan, Inc. in a variety of operating and strategy roles, culminating in CEO of Kaplan Financial and Real Estate, a division that delivered classroom, online and hybrid training, test prep and professional development to individuals who required certifications and continuing education to enter, practice and succeed in their professions. During her tenure, she oversaw the division’s growth and expansion strategy as well as all of its operations, leading the acquisition and integration of more than ten training companies and multiple new product initiatives, including the launch of its online education efforts.

Andrea has extensive experience working with for-profit and not-for-profit organizations on strategy and leadership engagements, and has served on and assisted both for-profit and not-for-profit Boards of Directors. She holds an AB in Social Studies, with a focus in international relations, from Harvard-Radcliffe Colleges, and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.