Lea(R)n

LearnTrials.com equips educators and their organizations to know and manage which technology is best for their classrooms.

  • Stage Full Product Ready
  • Industry Education
  • Location Raleigh, NC, US
  • Currency USD
  • Founded February 2014
  • Employees 8
  • Website LearnTrials.com

Company Summary

US schools spend $8bn on classroom technology, but they don't know what works! LearnTrials™ is a research-backed software-as-a-service that equips state, school and district educators to know which technologies are best for their classrooms. Free for individual educators, but states, districts, IHEs and subscribe to improve instruction, student outcomes and their budgets.

Team

  • Karl Rectanus
    Founder & CEO

    International Educator & Administrator
    3-time Education Entrepreneur (eCivis, NC STEM)
    Built & sold over $25mm+ to Schools
    Senior Advisor to States & Foundations
    National speaker on education innovation
    2007 Transatlantic Leader & 2011 World Young Leader, BMW Herbert Quandt Foundation

  • Ben Gilman
    VP of Technology

    Experienced Ruby, AWS & .NET Leader
    Grew technical teams from 5-25 at Connexio Labs, including full corporate spinout.
    Founder, Tundreus & DataClenz
    Technical Lead + Wake Forest MBA
    Kaplan Techstars EdTech Accelerator graduate

  • Wesley Burt
    Sr. Product Director

    Wesley Burt is senior product director for Lea(R)n, solving problems for teams, schools and districts every day.
    - High Growth SaaS Sales to Schools, formerly technical sales and client service with IBM Analytics & eCivis Sales
    - Analyst for Chicago Public Schools, Education Pioneers
    - BS from Univ. of Southern California and MPA from Northwestern

Advisors

  • Brad Kessler
    Formal Advisor, former head of procurement and contracts for Chicago Public Schools
    Seppy Basili
    Formal Advisor, Head of K12 for Kaplan, In.
    Unconfirmed
    Graham Forman
    Advisor/Investor, Edovate Capital

Previous Investors

  • Graham Forman
    Edovate Capital, early stage edtech investments
    James Lillie
    CEO, Jarden (Fortune 350 Products Company)
    Unconfirmed
    Ash Kaluarachchi
    EdTechAccelerator
  • Sameer Shamsi
    Partner, Evercore
    Unconfirmed
    Don Burton
    Managing Director
    Adi Blum
    Partner, Energy Venture Firm & Angel
  • H&M Holdings
    NC Based Angels
    Unconfirmed
    NC IDEA
    Early Stage Grant Fund
    Unconfirmed
    Kaplan, Inc.
    $2bn+ Education Company
    Unconfirmed

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